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Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Genetics & Heredity

15 institutions · Genetics & Heredity · United Kingdom

Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Genetics & Heredity?

108 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main subfield is Genetics & Heredity are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.6% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 42 countries in the subfield. 25 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Exeter has the most (7), followed by UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (5) and Wellcome Sanger Institute (5). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
108
0.6% of all in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
25
23.1% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 42 countries in Genetics & Heredity
Highest-ranked
#10,280
Dudbridge, Frank
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1University of Exeter72#12Wright, Caroline F. #86,458
2UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health52#20Rahman, Shamima #13,815
3Wellcome Sanger Institute51#23Hurles, Matthew E. #32,878
4University College London51#25Hughes, Derralynn A. #68,647
5Cardiff University School of Medicine41#38Stenson, Peter D. #81,509
6Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health41#41Dixon, Michael James #92,346
7University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division40#47Hallowell, Nina #131,713
8University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine40#50Baralle, Diana #171,965
9Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust40#51Gissen, Paul #177,091
10Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust40#52Clayton-Smith, Jill #197,062
11University of Leicester31#53Dudbridge, Frank #10,280
12Cardiff University31#56Cooper, David N. #15,235
13Newcastle University32#61Cordell, Heather Jane #33,584
14Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust31#66Ferner, Rosalie E. #65,193
15King's College London30#77Trembath, Richard C. #168,446

The top 100 in Genetics & Heredity in the United Kingdom, in order

  1. 1
    Dudbridge, Frank
    University of Leicester
  2. 2
    Rahman, Shamima
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
  3. 3
    Mäher, Eamonn Richard
    Aston Medical School
  4. 4
    Cooper, David N.
    Cardiff University
  5. 5
  6. 6
    Wilkie, Andrew O.M.
    MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
  7. 7
    Bentley, David R.
    Illumina Solutions Center
  8. 8
    Hurles, Matthew E.
    Wellcome Sanger Institute
  9. 9
    Cordell, Heather Jane
    Newcastle University
  10. 10
    Kaye, Jane S.
    University of Oxford
  11. 11
    Gaunt, Tom R.
    MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
  12. 12
    Plagnol, Vincent
    Genomics Ltd
  13. 13
    Ferner, Rosalie E.
    Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  14. 14
    Hughes, Derralynn A.
    University College London
  15. 15
    Clayton, Peter T.
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
  16. 16
    Caulfield, Mark J.
    Queen Mary University of London
  17. 17
    Stenson, Peter D.
    Cardiff University School of Medicine
  18. 18
    Wright, Caroline F.
    University of Exeter
  19. 19
    Dixon, Michael James
    Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
  20. 20
    Tyrrell, Jessica S.
    University of Exeter
  21. 21
    Wright, Alan F.
    MRC Human Genetics Unit
  22. 22
    Rosser, Elisabeth M.
    UCL Division of Medicine
  23. 23
    Cox, Timothy Martin
    University of Cambridge
  24. 24
    Burn, John Lance
    Newcastle University
  25. 25
    Woods, Christopher Geoffrey
    Academic Department of Medical Genetics
  26. 26
    Firth, Helen V.
    Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  27. 27
    Capon, Francesca
    St John's Institute of Dermatology
  28. 28
    Tyler-Smith, Chris
    Wellcome Sanger Institute
  29. 29
    Fitzpatrick, David R.
    MRC Human Genetics Unit
  30. 30
    Price, George R.
    University College London
  31. 31
    Hallowell, Nina
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  32. 32
    Clarke, Angus John
    Cardiff University
  33. 33
    Beales, Philip L.Philip L.
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
  34. 34
    Gibbons, Richard J.
    MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
  35. 35
    Schwartzentruber, Jeremy A.
    Wellcome Sanger Institute
  36. 36
    Emery, Alan E.H.
    Green Templeton College
  37. 37
    Bruford, Elspeth A.
    Department of Haematology
  38. 38
    Sampson, Julian R.
    Cardiff University School of Medicine
  39. 39
    Lachmann, Robin H.L.
    National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
  40. 40
    Veltman, Joris A.
    Newcastle University
  41. 41
    Smith, Miriam Jane
    Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
  42. 42
    Monk, David
    University of East Anglia
  43. 43
    Middleton, Anna
    University of Cambridge
  44. 44
    Scott, Richard H.
    Genomics England Limited
  45. 45
    Davies, Kay Elizabeth
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  46. 46
    Trembath, Richard C.
    King's College London
  47. 47
    Baralle, Diana
    University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine
  48. 48
    Gissen, Paul
    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
  49. 49
    Wraith, James Edmond
    St Mary's Hospital
  50. 50
    Weale, Michael E.
    Genomics Ltd
  51. 51
    Morris, Andrew A.M.
    Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
  52. 52
    Scambler, Peter James
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
  53. 53
    Lucassen, A. M.
    Nuffield Department of Medicine
  54. 54
    Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm Andrew
    Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics
  55. 55
    Jacobs, Patricia Ann
    University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine
  56. 56
    Xue, Yali
    Wellcome Sanger Institute
  57. 57
    Carter, Nigel P.
    Wellcome Sanger Institute
  58. 58
    Jobling, Mark A.
    University of Leicester
  59. 59
    Clayton-Smith, Jill
    Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
  60. 60
    Black, Graeme C. M.
    Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
  61. 61
    Harper, Peter S.
    Cardiff University School of Medicine
  62. 62
    Whiffin, Nicola
    The Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
  63. 63
    Day, Ian N.M.
    University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine
  64. 64
    Turner, Claire Louise Susan
    University of Exeter
  65. 65
    Shihab, Hashem A.
    University of Bristol
  66. 66
    Cheetham, Michael E.
    UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
  67. 67
    Farrall, Martin
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  68. 68
    Grünewald, Stephanie
    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
  69. 69
    Deegan, Patrick B.
    Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  70. 70
    Baruteau, Julien
    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
  71. 71
    Simpson, Michael A.
    King's College London
  72. 72
    Upadhyaya, Meena
    Cardiff University
  73. 73
    Wakeling, Emma L.
    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
  74. 74
    Mastana, Sarabjit Singh
    Loughborough University
  75. 75
    Ramaswami, Uma
    University College London
  76. 76
    Banka, Siddharth
    The University of Manchester
  77. 77
    Kini, Usha S.
    Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  78. 78
    Bick, David P.
    Genomics England Limited
  79. 79
    Shaw-Smith, Charles J.
    University of Exeter
  80. 80
    Mathew, Christopher G.
    King's College London
  81. 81
    Huson, Susan Mary
    The University of Manchester
  82. 82
    Morris‑Rosendahl, Deborah J.
    Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  83. 83
    Pembrey, Marcus E.
    Bristol Medical School
  84. 84
    Richards, Martin B.
    University of Huddersfield
  85. 85
    Turnpenny, Peter D.
    University of Exeter
  86. 86
    Swallow, Dallas M.
    University College London
  87. 87
    Ennis, Sarah
    University of Southampton
  88. 88
    Haworth, Claire M.A.
    University of Bristol
  89. 89
    Beaumont, Robin N.
    University of Exeter
  90. 90
    Luciano, Michelle
    The University of Edinburgh
  91. 91
    Stȩpień, Karolina Maria
    Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
  92. 92
    Chandler, Kate E.
    Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
  93. 93
    Lee, Phillip J.
    National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
  94. 94
    Flinter, Frances A.
    Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  95. 95
    Pagnamenta, Alistair T.
    University of Exeter
  96. 96
    Bitner-Glindzicz, Maria A.K.
    UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
  97. 97
    Johnson, Colin A.
    University of Leeds, School of Medicine
  98. 98
    Lewis, Celine
    University College London
  99. 99
    Jeffreys, Alec J.
    University of Leicester
  100. 100
    Mort, Matthew E.
    Cardiff University School of Medicine

108 listed scientists in Genetics & Heredity 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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