Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Earth & Environmental Sciences

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Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Earth & Environmental Sciences?

740 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main field is Earth & Environmental Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 4.0% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 3rd of 98 countries in the field. 495 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Oxford has the most (44), followed by University of Leeds (42) and University College London (29). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

740

4.0% of all in the United Kingdom

In the global top 100,000

495

66.9% of them

Country rank in the field

of 98 countries in Earth & Environmental Sciences

Highest-ranked

#150

Smith, Pete

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Oxford	44	28	#10	Bronk Ramsey, Christopher #1,215
2	University of Leeds	42	31	#16	Ford, James D. #7,327
3	University College London	29	20	#27	Vermeesch, Pieter #1,240
4	University of Cambridge	29	18	#28	McKenzie, Dan P. #2,021
5	Imperial College London	29	19	#30	Prentice, Iain Colin #2,389
6	University of Exeter	26	23	#36	Adger, W. Neil #378
7	University of Bristol	24	16	#51	Sparks, Stephen R.S.J. #5,265
8	The University of Edinburgh	20	17	#64	Robertson, Alastair Harry Forbes #20,911
9	Met Office	19	19	#69	Stott, Peter A. #7,716
10	University of East Anglia	18	13	#73	Nicholls, Robert James #3,471
11	University of Birmingham	18	12	#74	Harrison, Roy M. #3,671
12	University of Reading	18	17	#75	Hoskins, Brian J. #3,871
13	University of Southampton	18	13	#77	Sheffield, Justin #11,430
14	Durham University	17	8	#82	Niu, Yaoling #4,588
15	European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts	15	14	#97	Hersbach, Hans E. #1,513
16	National Oceanography Centre Southampton	15	7	#100	Horton, Alice A. #9,758
17	The Natural History Museum, London	14	8	#114	Wilkinson, Jamie J. #14,861
18	British Geological Survey	13	8	#122	Mudd, Gavin M. #6,594
19	University of Leicester	13	5	#129	Brian F. Windley, Brian #14,543
20	Royal Holloway, University of London	12	4	#139	Hall, Robert #4,061
21	The University of Manchester	12	8	#153	Lloyd, Jonathan R. #46,843
22	University of Aberdeen	11	6	#154	Smith, Pete #150
23	Cardiff University	10	4	#173	Pearce, Juliana A. #536
24	Lancaster Environment Centre	10	5	#188	Maher, Barbara A. #8,647
25	British Antarctic Survey	10	9	#191	T̀urner, John K. #13,929
26	UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	10	8	#203	Huntingford, Chris #31,786
27	University of Plymouth	9	5	#208	Turner, Andrew #1,682
28	University of York	9	7	#228	Boxall, Alistair B.A. #11,752
29	University of Liverpool	9	4	#234	Worden, Richard Henry #22,434
30	University of Portsmouth	9	3	#238	Pepin, Nick C. #31,521
31	Bangor University	8	2	#257	Woolway, Richard Iestyn #9,103
32	Faculty of Social Sciences & Health	8	5	#265	Talling, Peter J. #16,593
33	University of St Andrews	8	6	#268	Benn, Douglas I. #19,990
34	Heriot-Watt University	7	4	#285	Renforth, Phil #10,877
35	The Open University	6	3	#335	Harris, Nigel B.W. #25,580
36	University of Glasgow	6	5	#341	Westaway, Rob W.C. #33,885
37	Bullard Laboratories	5	2	#383	Jackson, James A. #13,658
38	Newcastle University	5	5	#387	Manning, David A.C. #16,247
39	Aberystwyth University	5	3	#404	Wintle, Ann G. #24,948
40	The James Hutton Institute	5	3	#430	Zhang, Zulin #55,507
41	University of Sussex	4	4	#444	Tol, Richard S.J. #2,284
42	University of Surrey	4	4	#447	Kumar, Prashant #2,638
43	Loughborough University	4	2	#452	Wilby, Robert L. #4,774
44	Queen's University Belfast	4	3	#461	Paula Reimer, Paula Jo #8,212
45	London School of Economics and Political Science	4	4	#477	Conway, Declan #21,775
46	Swansea University	4	3	#505	Junaid, Muhammad #45,932
47	The University of Sheffield	4	1	#527	Clark, Christopher D. #94,707
48	University of Nottingham	3	3	#565	Monteith, John L. #16,445
49	Rothamsted Research	3	2	#580	Semenov, Mikhail A. #23,798
50	University of Northumbria	3	3	#592	Jenkins, Adrian #26,153
51	Lancaster University	3	3	#603	Jones, Kevin C. #29,716
52	Bournemouth University	3	1	#604	Adedoyin, Festus Fatai #30,853
53	Scott Polar Research Institute	3	2	#617	GIBBARD, P. L. #36,385
54	University of Hull	3	1	#667	Bond, D. P. G. P.G. #62,005

The top 100 in Earth & Environmental Sciences in the United Kingdom, in order

1
Smith, Pete
University of Aberdeen
2
Adger, W. Neil
University of Exeter
3
Osman, Ahmed I.
Canterbury Christ Church University
4
Pearce, Juliana A.
Cardiff University
5
Lenton, Timothy M.
University of Exeter
6
Bronk Ramsey, Christopher
University of Oxford
7
Friedlingstein, Pierre
University of Exeter
8
Vermeesch, Pieter
University College London
9
Galloway, Tamara S.
University of Exeter
10
Hersbach, Hans E.
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
11
Turner, Andrew
University of Plymouth
12
McKenzie, Dan P.
University of Cambridge
13
Whitmarsh, Lorraine E.
University of Bath
14
Tol, Richard S.J.
University of Sussex
15
Prentice, Iain Colin
Imperial College London
16
Kumar, Prashant
University of Surrey
17
Hilson, Gavin M.
Surrey Business School
18
Creutzig, Felix
University of Sussex
19
Nicholls, Robert James
University of East Anglia
20
Azapagic, Adisa
Department of Chemical Engineering
21
Harrison, Roy M.
University of Birmingham
22
Jenkyns, Hugh C.
University of Oxford
23
Allen, Myles R.
University of Oxford
24
Hoskins, Brian J.
University of Reading
25
Palmer, Tim N.
University of Oxford
26
Hall, Robert
Royal Holloway, University of London
27
Cole, Matthew
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
28
Niu, Yaoling
Durham University
29
Hulme, Mike
University of Cambridge
30
Wilby, Robert L.
Loughborough University
31
Sparks, Stephen R.S.J.
University of Bristol
32
Benton, Michael J.
University of Bristol
33
Arnell, Nigel W.
University of Reading
34
Rogelj, Joeri
Imperial College London
35
Shepherd, Theodore G.
University of Reading
36
Screen, James A.
University of Exeter
37
Jackson, Tim James
University of Surrey
38
Mudd, Gavin M.
British Geological Survey
39
Ford, James D.
University of Leeds
40
Jones, Philip D.
University of East Anglia
41
Boers, Niklas
University of Exeter
42
Searle, Michael P.
University of Exeter
43
Stott, Peter A.
Met Office
44
Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara A.
University of Bath, Department of Chemistry
45
Sillitoe, Richard H.
27 West Hill Park
46
Paula Reimer, Paula Jo
Queen's University Belfast
47
Garnett, Tara
University of Oxford
48
Birks, Hillary John Betteley
University College London
49
Wignall, Paul B.
University of Leeds
50
Hooper, Andrew J.
University of Leeds
51
Maher, Barbara A.
Lancaster Environment Centre
52
Woolway, Richard Iestyn
Bangor University
53
Shan, Yuli
University of Birmingham
54
Le Quéré, Corinne
University of East Anglia
55
Horton, Alice A.
National Oceanography Centre Southampton
56
Otto, Friederike E.L.
Imperial College London
57
Poulton, Simon W.
University of Leeds
58
Pirajno, Franco M.
University of Bristol
59
Grimmond, Sue
University of Reading
60
Vitart, Frédéric
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
61
Allan, Richard P.
University of Reading
62
Betts, Richard A.
Met Office
63
Voulvoulis, Nikolaos
Imperial College London
64
Pierrehumbert, Raymound T.
University of Oxford
65
Forster, Piers M.De F.
University of Leeds
66
Renforth, Phil
Heriot-Watt University
67
Fankhauser, Samuel
University of Oxford
68
Meharg, Andrew A.
Queen's University Belfast
69
Ambraseys, Nicholas N.
Imperial College London
70
Sheffield, Justin
University of Southampton
71
Boxall, Alistair B.A.
University of York
72
Holland, Tim J.B.
University of Cambridge
73
Blundy, Jon D.
University of Oxford
74
Rickard, David
Cardiff University
75
Raiswell, Robert W.
University of Leeds
76
Stringer, L. C.
University of York
77
Jackson, James A.
Bullard Laboratories
78
T̀urner, John K.
British Antarctic Survey
79
Elderfield, Henry E.
University of Cambridge
80
Middleton, Nick J.
University of Oxford
81
Büntgen, Ulf
University of Cambridge
82
Sitch, Stephen A.
University of Exeter
83
Brian F. Windley, Brian
University of Leicester
84
Wright, Stephanie L.
MRC Centre for Environment and Health
85
Marshall, Gareth J.
British Antarctic Survey
86
Foster, Gavin L.
University of Southampton
87
Wilkinson, Jamie J.
The Natural History Museum, London
88
Scott, Andrew C.
Royal Holloway, University of London
89
Vallis, Geoffrey K.
University of Exeter
90
Gudmundsson, Ágúst I.
Royal Holloway, University of London
91
Manning, David A.C.
Newcastle University
92
Monteith, John L.
University of Nottingham
93
Talling, Peter J.
Faculty of Social Sciences & Health
94
Cullen, Jonathan M.
University of Cambridge
95
Shields, Graham A.
University College London
96
Velis, Costas A.
Imperial College London
97
Shackleton, Nicholas John
University of Cambridge
98
Cox, Peter M.
University of Exeter
99
Maslin, M. A.
University College London
100
O'Neill, Saffron J.
University of Exeter

740 listed scientists in Earth & Environmental Sciences in the United Kingdom

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