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

137 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main subfield is Environmental Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 4th of 87 countries in the subfield. 116 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Imperial College London has the most (8), followed by University of Birmingham (7) and University College London (6). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
137
0.7% of all in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
116
84.7% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#4
of 87 countries in Environmental Sciences
Highest-ranked
#378
Adger, W. Neil
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Imperial College London88#43Voulvoulis, Nikolaos #10,704
2University of Birmingham75#52Shan, Yuli #9,626
3University College London66#71Ekins, Paul W. #6,177
4University of Leeds66#78Paavola, Jouni #24,237
5University of Oxford53#93Garnett, Tara #8,364
6UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology54#107Evans, Chris D. #44,677
7University of York44#125Boxall, Alistair B.A. #11,752
8The University of Edinburgh43#129Mašek, Ondřej #15,154
9University of Exeter33#160Adger, W. Neil #378
10University of Plymouth33#162Turner, Andrew #1,682
11University of Surrey33#166Kumar, Prashant #2,638
12Heriot-Watt University33#183Renforth, Phil #10,877
13University of Glasgow33#192Lim, Ming K. #17,367
14Cranfield University33#217Parra-Saldivar, Roberto #33,948
15Lancaster Environment Centre32#235Jones, Kevin C. #49,578
16The James Hutton Institute32#240Zhang, Zulin #55,507
17The University of Manchester32#249Gallego-Schmid, Alejandro #69,258

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

  1. 1
    Adger, W. Neil
    University of Exeter
  2. 2
    Osman, Ahmed I.
    Canterbury Christ Church University
  3. 3
    Galloway, Tamara S.
    University of Exeter
  4. 4
    Turner, Andrew
    University of Plymouth
  5. 5
    Whitmarsh, Lorraine E.
    University of Bath
  6. 6
    Kumar, Prashant
    University of Surrey
  7. 7
    Hilson, Gavin M.
    Surrey Business School
  8. 8
    Kelly, Frank J.
    King's College London
  9. 9
    Azapagic, Adisa
    Department of Chemical Engineering
  10. 10
    Cole, Matthew
    Plymouth Marine Laboratory
  11. 11
    Ekins, Paul W.
    University College London
  12. 12
    Mudd, Gavin M.
    British Geological Survey
  13. 13
    Kopnina, Helen
    University of Northumbria
  14. 14
    Pidgeon, Nick F.
    College of Biomedical and Life Sciences
  15. 15
    Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara A.
    University of Bath, Department of Chemistry
  16. 16
    Garnett, Tara
    University of Oxford
  17. 17
    Allwood, Julian M.
    Department of Engineering
  18. 18
    Shan, Yuli
    University of Birmingham
  19. 19
    Horton, Alice A.
    National Oceanography Centre Southampton
  20. 20
    Voulvoulis, Nikolaos
    Imperial College London
  21. 21
    Renforth, Phil
    Heriot-Watt University
  22. 22
    Fankhauser, Samuel
    University of Oxford
  23. 23
    Meharg, Andrew A.
    Queen's University Belfast
  24. 24
    Boxall, Alistair B.A.
    University of York
  25. 25
    Stringer, L. C.
    University of York
  26. 26
    Wright, Stephanie L.
    MRC Centre for Environment and Health
  27. 27
    Mašek, Ondřej
    The University of Edinburgh
  28. 28
    Lynch, Iseult
    University of Birmingham
  29. 29
    Cullen, Jonathan M.
    University of Cambridge
  30. 30
    Lim, Ming K.
    University of Glasgow
  31. 31
    Velis, Costas A.
    Imperial College London
  32. 32
    Alloway, Brian John
    University College London
  33. 33
    Mi, Zhifu
    University College London
  34. 34
    Sicard, Pierre
    ARGANS Ltd
  35. 35
    Green, Dannielle Senga
    Anglia Ruskin University
  36. 36
    Harrad, Stuart J.
    University of Birmingham
  37. 37
    Yang, Hong
    University of Reading
  38. 38
    Paavola, Jouni
    University of Leeds
  39. 39
    Bao, Zhikang
    Heriot-Watt University
  40. 40
    Werkneh, Adhena Ayaliew
    University of Northumbria
  41. 41
    Bhat, Mansoor Ahmad
    Loughborough University
  42. 42
    Berkhout, Frans G.H.
    King's College London
  43. 43
    Abdallah, Mohamed Abou Elwafa
    University of Birmingham
  44. 44
    Foteinis, Spyros
    Heriot-Watt University
  45. 45
    Wilson, David C.
    Imperial College London
  46. 46
    Jones, Kevin C.
    Lancaster University
  47. 47
    Adedoyin, Festus Fatai
    Bournemouth University
  48. 48
    Alcamo, Joseph M.
    University of Sussex
  49. 49
    O’Neill, Daniel W.
    University of Leeds
  50. 50
    Parra-Saldivar, Roberto
    Cranfield University
  51. 51
    Velenturf, Anne P.M.
    University of Leeds
  52. 52
    Bleischwitz, Raimund
    University College London
  53. 53
    Clark, Michael A.
    Oxford Social Sciences Division
  54. 54
    Okereke, Chukwumerije
    University of Bristol
  55. 55
    Charef, Rabia
    Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
  56. 56
    Zhang, Peng
    University of Birmingham
  57. 57
    Tyler, Charles R.
    University of Exeter
  58. 58
    Gouin, Todd
    Sharnbrook
  59. 59
    Sumpter, John P.
    Brunel University London
  60. 60
    Boons, Frank A.A.
    Alliance Manchester Business School
  61. 61
    Evans, Chris D.
    UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  62. 62
    Meng, Jing
    University College London
  63. 63
    Wells, Peter E.
    Cardiff University
  64. 64
    Junaid, Muhammad
    Swansea University
  65. 65
    Davison, William
    Lancaster University
  66. 66
    Hodson, Mark E.
    University of York
  67. 67
    Morse, Stephen
    University of Surrey
  68. 68
    O'Connor, D.
    Royal Agricultural University
  69. 69
    de Angelis, Roberta
    Cardiff Business School
  70. 70
    Jones, Kevin C.
    Lancaster Environment Centre
  71. 71
    Myers, Rupert J.
    Imperial College London
  72. 72
    Iacovidou, Eleni
    Brunel University London
  73. 73
    Smith, Stephen R.
    Imperial College London
  74. 74
    Johnson, Andrew C.
    UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  75. 75
    Tipping, Edward W.
    UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  76. 76
    Napper, Imogen Ellen
    University of Plymouth
  77. 77
    Heidrich, Oliver
    Newcastle University
  78. 78
    Zhang, Zulin
    The James Hutton Institute
  79. 79
    Cheeseman, Christopher Robert
    Imperial College London
  80. 80
    Banwart, Steven A.
    University of Leeds
  81. 81
    Lead, Jamie R.
    University of Plymouth
  82. 82
    Williams, Ian D.
    University of Southampton
  83. 83
  84. 84
    Petrie, Bruce
    Robert Gordon University
  85. 85
    Dimitroulopoulou, Sani
    UK Health Security Agency
  86. 86
    Blackstock, Kirsty Louise
    The James Hutton Institute
  87. 87
    Cooper, Tim
    Nottingham Trent University
  88. 88
    Gallego-Schmid, Alejandro
    The University of Manchester
  89. 89
    Jeswani, Harish Kumar
    The University of Manchester
  90. 90
    Zhang, Hao
    Lancaster Environment Centre
  91. 91
    Garrett, Rachael D.
    University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute
  92. 92
    Morton, John F.
    Natural Resources Institute
  93. 93
    Hooda, Peter S.
    Kingston University
  94. 94
    Renaud, Fabrice G.
    University of Glasgow
  95. 95
    Alexander, Peter
    The University of Edinburgh
  96. 96
    Zheng, Heran
    The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
  97. 97
    Briggs, David J.
    Imperial College London
  98. 98
    Graham, David W.
    Newcastle University
  99. 99
    Soares, A. M.E.
    Cranfield University
  100. 100
    Beesley, Luke
    University of Salford

137 listed scientists in Environmental Sciences in the United Kingdom

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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