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931 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main field is Engineering are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 5.1% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 3rd of 103 countries in the field. 349 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Imperial College London has the most (78), followed by University of Nottingham (37) and The University of Sheffield (33). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

931

5.1% of all in the United Kingdom

In the global top 100,000

349

37.5% of them

Country rank in the field

of 103 countries in Engineering

Highest-ranked

#477

Choi, Tsan Ming

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Imperial College London	78	34	#21	Gardner, Leroy #926
2	University of Nottingham	37	13	#68	Foody, Giles M. #1,148
3	The University of Sheffield	33	8	#84	de Borst, René Borst #9,564
4	University of Southampton	31	10	#98	Wood, Robert James Knoyle #12,384
5	University of Oxford	30	15	#107	Houlsby, Guy T. #8,211
6	University of Bristol	30	6	#110	Lepora, Nathan F. #25,416
7	Cranfield University	28	6	#121	Ghadge, Abhijeet #17,776
8	Department of Engineering	27	14	#126	Johnson, Kenneth L. #4,568
9	University of Leeds	27	10	#129	Holden, Joseph #16,547
10	University of Cambridge	27	12	#131	Evans, Steve A. #19,176
11	University College London	26	12	#134	Haklay, Mordechai (Muki) #10,248
12	The University of Manchester	26	8	#135	Ding, Zhengtao #12,072
13	University of Strathclyde	26	7	#138	Inglezakis, Vassilis J. #20,332
14	University of Glasgow	22	13	#163	Ogden, Raymond W. #8,759
15	University of Birmingham	20	8	#181	Baker, C. J. #10,316
16	Newcastle University	20	7	#188	Sareh, Pooya #35,789
17	The University of Edinburgh	16	3	#243	Brandani, Stefano B. #47,427
18	University of Liverpool	14	6	#284	Yang, Chenguang #13,841
19	Loughborough University	13	6	#295	Chen, Wenhua #3,428
20	University of Exeter	13	9	#299	Walling, Desmond E. #7,199
21	University of Surrey	13	2	#311	Sadhukhan, Jhuma #45,384
22	Cardiff University	13	5	#315	Jin, Fei #57,851
23	University of Warwick	13	2	#316	Li, Rui #68,586
24	King's College London	11	4	#358	Dai, Jian S. #9,973
25	Brunel University London	11	5	#366	Wang, Zidong #14,554
26	University of Bath	10	4	#412	Rees, D. Andrew S. #44,530
27	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine	8	1	#488	Hessel, Volker #12,266
28	City, University of London	8	3	#497	Curran, Paul J. #31,081
29	Heriot-Watt University	8	4	#513	Melchels, Ferry P.W. #45,833
30	Queen Mary University of London	8	3	#518	Livingston, Andrew G. #58,066
31	University of Reading	8	0	#533	Cloke, Hannah L. #100,805
32	University of Aberdeen	7	5	#568	McMeeking, Robert Maxwell #29,529
33	Queen's University Belfast	6	1	#649	Van, Mien #27,227
34	University of Hertfordshire	6	1	#698	Sun, Yichuang #74,692
35	Lancaster Environment Centre	5	3	#712	Beven, Keith J. #752
36	Fathom	5	2	#719	Bates, Paul D. #3,170
37	Swansea University	5	3	#728	Hilal, Nidal #10,070
38	University of Northumbria	5	2	#729	Gao, Zhiwei #10,302
39	Liverpool John Moores University	5	3	#731	Levi, Emil #11,963
40	University of Leicester	5	2	#736	Archard, J. F. #17,589
41	University of Hull	5	2	#760	Iqbal, Jamshed #30,837
42	University of Dundee	4	3	#865	Muir Wood, David #10,648
43	Nottingham Trent University	4	1	#866	Petley, David N. #11,753
44	University of Bradford	4	2	#871	Ashour, Ashraf Fawzy #14,596
45	Faculty of Mathematics	4	2	#875	Hudson, John A. #16,373
46	University of Salford	4	3	#880	Zdravkovich, Momchilo M. #19,879
47	University of Portsmouth	4	1	#899	Nichol, Janet Elizabeth #30,744
48	City St George's, University of London	4	2	#902	Banerjee, Jnan Ranjan #32,982
49	University of Plymouth	4	2	#925	Li, Long Yuan #45,944
50	University of Sussex	4	2	#938	Subramanian, Nachiappan (Nachi) #51,772
51	University of Huddersfield	4	3	#942	Jiang, Xiangqian (Jane) #55,542
52	UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	4	2	#949	Acreman, Michael C. #61,191
53	Department of Engineering, Lancaster University	4	0	#1,015	Ma, Xiandong #156,088
54	Aston University	3	1	#1,063	Thornton, Colin #9,822
55	Coventry University	3	2	#1,091	Allen, John #21,679
56	European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts	3	1	#1,102	Muñoz-Sabater, Joaquín #25,193
57	Cardiff Business School	3	1	#1,146	Demir, Emrah #50,667
58	University of Essex	3	1	#1,160	Gu, Dongbing #59,864
59	Aberystwyth University	3	1	#1,195	Lucas, Richard M. #84,995
60	University of Derby	3	1	#1,201	Rehman, Zia Ur #86,540
61	University of the West of England	3	0	#1,227	Zhu, Quanmin #105,448
62	Department of Chemical Engineering	3	0	#1,246	Niasar, Vahid #125,457

The top 100 in Engineering in the United Kingdom, in order

1
Choi, Tsan Ming
University of Liverpool Management School
2
Hill, Rodney J.
Gonville and Caius College
3
Beven, Keith J.
Lancaster Environment Centre
4
Gardner, Leroy
Imperial College London
5
Foody, Giles M.
University of Nottingham
6
Bates, Paul D.
Fathom
7
Bogue, Robert W.
Consultant
8
Chen, Wenhua
Loughborough University
9
Farina, Dario
Imperial College London
10
Johnson, Kenneth L.
Department of Engineering
11
Atkinson, Peter M.
Lancaster University
12
Mayne, David Q.
Imperial College London
13
Fleck, Norman A.
Department of Engineering
14
Walling, Desmond E.
University of Exeter
15
Shah, Nilay G.
Imperial College London
16
Mingers, John C.
Warwick Business School
17
Houlsby, Guy T.
University of Oxford
18
Ogden, Raymond W.
University of Glasgow
19
Bolton, Malcolm D.
Department of Engineering
20
Spikes, Hugh A.
Imperial College London
21
Zimmerman, Robert W.
Imperial College London
22
de Borst, René Borst
The University of Sheffield
23
Bearman, Peter W.
Imperial College London
24
Thornton, Colin
Aston University
25
Dai, Jian S.
King's College London
26
Hilal, Nidal
Swansea University
27
Haklay, Mordechai (Muki)
University College London
28
Gao, Zhiwei
University of Northumbria
29
Baker, C. J.
University of Birmingham
30
Jones, Julian R.
Imperial College London
31
Muir Wood, David
University of Dundee
32
Martínez-Pañeda, Emilio
University of Oxford
33
Hall, Jim W.
University of Oxford
34
Petley, David N.
Nottingham Trent University
35
Hutchings, Ian Michael
St. John's College Cambridge
36
Wheeler, Patrick William W.
University of Nottingham
37
Levi, Emil
Liverpool John Moores University
38
Kaewunruen, Sakdirat
University of Birmingham
39
Ding, Zhengtao
The University of Manchester
40
Cao, Dongpu
Lancaster University
41
Hessel, Volker
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine
42
Sodhi, ManMohan S.
Bayes Business School, City University of London
43
Wood, Robert James Knoyle
University of Southampton
44
Launder, Brian E.
School of Engineering
45
Al-Tabbaa, Abir
Department of Engineering
46
Yang, Chenguang
University of Liverpool
47
Wang, Zidong
Brunel University London
48
Ashour, Ashraf Fawzy
University of Bradford
49
Adhikari, Sondipon M.
University of Glasgow
50
Hudson, John A.
Faculty of Mathematics
51
Holden, Joseph
University of Leeds
52
Coop, Matthew Richard
University College London
53
Judd, Simon J.
Cranfield University, College Rd
54
Emrouznejad, Ali
Surrey Business School
55
Giles, Michael B.
University of Oxford
56
Ehrgott, Matthias
Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School
57
Archard, J. F.
University of Leicester
58
Ghadge, Abhijeet
Cranfield University
59
Greenwood, James Anthony
Department of Engineering
60
Fu, Guangtao
University of Exeter
61
Susmel, Luca
Sheffield Hallam University
62
Blackburn, George Alan
Lancaster Environment Centre
63
Leach, Richard K.
University of Nottingham
64
Evans, Steve A.
University of Cambridge
65
Rein, Guillermo
Imperial College London
66
Yu, Hai Sui
University of Leeds
67
Smith, Malcolm Clive
Department of Engineering
68
Zdravkovich, Momchilo M.
University of Salford
69
Brownjohn, James M.W.
University of Exeter
70
Yan, Yuying
University of Nottingham
71
Inglezakis, Vassilis J.
University of Strathclyde
72
Beasley, J. E.
Brunel University London
73
Skempton, Alec Westley
Imperial College London
74
Kee Paik, Jeom Kee
University College London
75
Denton, John D.
Department of Engineering
76
Currey, John D.
University of York
77
Bektaş, Tolga
University of Liverpool
78
Li, Qingming
The University of Manchester
79
Axinte, Dragos A.
University of Nottingham
80
Gregory, John
UCL Engineering
81
Allen, John
Coventry University
82
Astolfi, Alessandro
Imperial College London
83
Tortajada, Cecilia
University of Glasgow
84
Sepulchre, R. J.
University of Cambridge
85
McDowell, Glenn R.
University of Nottingham
86
Jin, Wang E.
Liverpool John Moores University
87
Jiang, Jingchao
University of Exeter
88
Salonitis, Konstantinos
Cranfield University
89
Binley, A. M.
Lancaster Environment Centre
90
Spalding, Dudley Brian
Heat and Momentum Limited
91
Stevenson, Mark
Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School
92
Pickering, Steve J.
Tata Steel Europe Limited
93
Yang, Jun
Loughborough University
94
Cloude, Shane Robert
AEL Consultants
95
Arshad, Adeel
University of Exeter
96
Muñoz-Sabater, Joaquín
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
97
Lepora, Nathan F.
University of Bristol
98
Issa, Raad I.
Imperial College London
99
Deshpande, Vikram S.
Department of Engineering
100
Van, Mien
Queen's University Belfast

931 listed scientists in Engineering in the United Kingdom

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