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Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Historical Studies?

326 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main field is Historical Studies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.8% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 48 countries in the field. 49 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Cambridge has the most (34), followed by University of Oxford (28) and University College London (17). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

326

1.8% of all in the United Kingdom

In the global top 100,000

15.0% of them

Country rank in the field

of 48 countries in Historical Studies

Highest-ranked

#433

Ingold, Tim

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Cambridge	34	8	#1	Robbins, Joel #24,227
2	University of Oxford	28	5	#2	Lee-Thorp, Julia A. #22,713
3	University College London	17	7	#5	Fuller, Dorian Q. #3,885
4	University of Exeter	15	1	#9	Outram, Alan K. #57,190
5	London School of Economics and Political Science	11	2	#14	Bear, Laura #52,935
6	University of Bristol	10	2	#16	Evershed, Richard P. #6,948
7	University of Warwick	9	2	#21	Alfani, Guido #34,384
8	The University of Manchester	9	1	#22	Buckley, Michael #85,070
9	University of Glasgow	9	0	#23	Hardy, Karen #136,139
10	University of York	8	1	#27	Bailey, Geoff N. #80,134
11	Durham University	8	1	#28	Abram, Simone A. #94,849
12	University of St Andrews	8	0	#29	Knight, Daniel Martyn #150,715
13	University of Leicester	8	0	#30	van der Veen, Marijke #152,513
14	Queen Mary University of London	8	0	#31	Dixon, Thomas #374,631
15	Oxford Social Sciences Division	7	2	#35	Hedges, Robert E.M. #22,878
16	The University of Edinburgh	7	1	#37	Mays, Simon A. #52,917
17	All Souls College	6	2	#46	Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. #53,799
18	University of Liverpool	6	0	#50	Gowlett, John A.J. #133,255
19	Birkbeck, University of London	5	1	#55	Hobsbawm, Eric J.E. #14,801
20	The Natural History Museum, London	5	3	#58	Stringer, Chris Brian Rian #32,787
21	University of Aberdeen	4	1	#67	Ingold, Tim #433
22	University of Southampton	4	1	#73	Shennan, Stephen J. #30,145
23	Faculty of Social Sciences & Health	4	2	#79	Montgomery, Janet #65,981
24	King's College London	4	0	#88	Gowing, Laura #184,791
25	University of Reading	3	1	#108	Lewis, Mary E. #93,736
26	The University of Sheffield	3	0	#111	Halstead, Paul #110,315
27	University of Stirling	3	0	#115	Jones, Siân #127,869
28	Oxford Brookes University	3	0	#120	O'Brien, Patrick Karl #190,766
29	Faculty of History	3	0	#121	Warde, Paul #199,516
30	Royal Holloway, University of London	3	0	#124	Horden, Peregrine #263,104

The top 100 in Historical Studies in the United Kingdom, in order

1
Ingold, Tim
University of Aberdeen
2
Fuller, Dorian Q.
University College London
3
Evershed, Richard P.
University of Bristol
4
Hobsbawm, Eric J.E.
Birkbeck, University of London
5
Lee-Thorp, Julia A.
University of Oxford
6
Hedges, Robert E.M.
Oxford Social Sciences Division
7
Mosse, David
SOAS University of London
8
Robbins, Joel
University of Cambridge
9
Decker, Stephanie
University of Birmingham
10
Shennan, Stephen J.
University of Southampton
11
Stringer, Chris Brian Rian
The Natural History Museum, London
12
Alfani, Guido
University of Warwick
13
Harrison, Rodney
University College London
14
Bogaard, Amy
Oxford Social Sciences Division
15
Humphries, Jane
University of Oxford
16
Szreter, Simon R.S.
St. John's College Cambridge
17
Bogin, Barry A.
Loughborough University
18
Wickham, Chris J.
University of Oxford
19
Tite, Michael S.
Res. Lab. for Archaeo./the H.
20
Mays, Simon A.
The University of Edinburgh
21
Bear, Laura
London School of Economics and Political Science
22
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.
All Souls College
23
Outram, Alan K.
University of Exeter
24
Montgomery, Janet
Faculty of Social Sciences & Health
25
Freestone, Ian C.
University College London
26
Andersson, Ruben
University of Oxford
27
Roberts, Charlotte Ann
Faculty of Social Sciences & Health
28
Burke, Peter F.
University of Cambridge
29
Miller, Daniel
University College London
30
Robb, John E.
University of Cambridge
31
Crema, Enrico R.
University of Cambridge
32
Bevan, Andrew H.
University College London
33
Bailey, Geoff N.
University of York
34
Dean, M. Christopher
The Natural History Museum, London
35
Andrews, Peter J.
The Natural History Museum, London
36
Walsham, Alexandra
University of Cambridge
37
Buckley, Michael
The University of Manchester
38
O'Connell, Tamsin C.
University of Cambridge
39
Strathern, Marilyn
University of Cambridge
40
Holbraad, Martin
University College London
41
Elsner, Jas̈
University of Oxford
42
Lewis, Mary E.
University of Reading
43
Abram, Simone A.
Durham University
44
Collins, Matthew J.
University of Cambridge
45
Arnold, David
University of Warwick
46
Adams, James N.
All Souls College
47
Nutton, Vivian
University College London
48
Shah, Alpa
London School of Economics and Political Science
49
Bayliss, Alex
University of Bristol
50
Stevens, Chris J.
University College London
51
Mitchell, Peter J.
University of Oxford
52
Renfrew, Colin
University of Cambridge
53
Halstead, Paul
The University of Sheffield
54
Edwards, Elizabeth
University College London
55
Wrigley, E. Anthony
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
56
Humphrey, Caroline
University of Cambridge
57
Henderson, Julian
University of Nottingham
58
Foley, Robert A.
University of Cambridge
59
Tilley, Christopher F.
University of Wales
60
Canti, Matthew G.
Historic England
61
Kallis, Aristotle A.
Keele University
62
Campbell, Bruce M.S.
Queen's University Belfast
63
Roy, Tirthankar
London School of Economics and Political Science
64
Gowland, R. L.
Durham University
65
Schaffer, Simon
Darwin College Cambridge
66
Jones, Siân
University of Stirling
67
Candea, Matei
University of Cambridge
68
Fowler, Chris
Newcastle University
69
Halliwell, Stephen
Faculty of Arts
70
Carsten, Janet
The University of Edinburgh
71
Rublack, Ulinka
University of Cambridge
72
Gowlett, John A.J.
University of Liverpool
73
Penny Harvey, Penny
The University of Manchester
74
Pollard, A. Mark
Oxford Social Sciences Division
75
Hardy, Karen
University of Glasgow
76
Iriarte, José
University of Exeter
77
Craig, Oliver Edward
University of York
78
Abrams, Lynn
University of Glasgow
79
Hendy, Jessica
University of York
80
Hillson, Simon W.
University College London
81
Riello, Giorgio
University of Warwick
82
Schulting, Rick J.
Oxford Social Sciences Division
83
Weszkalnys, Gisa
London School of Economics and Political Science
84
Berg, Maxine
University of Warwick
85
Mellars, Paul A.
University of Cambridge
86
Goldhill, Simon
King's College Cambridge
87
Reeves, Madeleine
University of Oxford
88
Humphrey, Louise T.
The Natural History Museum, London
89
West, Martin L.
All Souls College
90
Pettitt, Paul B.
Durham University
91
Gosden, Chris
Oxford Social Sciences Division
92
Knight, Daniel Martyn
University of St Andrews
93
Slavin, Philip
University of Stirling
94
Tomlinson, Jim
University of Glasgow
95
van der Veen, Marijke
University of Leicester
96
Hall, Catherine
UCL
97
Gamble, Clive S.
University of Southampton
98
Cohn, Samuel Kline
University of Glasgow
99
Mithen, Steven John
University of Reading
100
Booth, Thomas James
The Francis Crick Institute

326 listed scientists in Historical Studies in the United Kingdom

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