Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Information & Communication Technologies

Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Information & Communication Technologies?

1,007 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main field is Information & Communication Technologies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 5.5% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 3rd of 107 countries in the field. 421 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Google DeepMind has the most (98), followed by DeepMind Technologies Limited (75) and University of Oxford (56). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
1,007
5.5% of all in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
421
41.8% of them
Country rank in the field
#3
of 107 countries in Information & Communication Technologies
Highest-ranked
#207
Yang, Xin She
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Google DeepMind9851#3Le, Quocviet #284
2DeepMind Technologies Limited7546#18Vinyals, Oriol #2,786
3University of Oxford5630#31Torr, Philip H.S. #2,325
4University College London3919#60Julier, Simon J. #6,269
5Imperial College London3821#62Schuller, Björn W. #1,172
6University of Cambridge3317#75Ghahramani, Zoubin #1,273
7Queen Mary University of London287#93Liu, Yuanwei #2,536
8The University of Edinburgh2811#99Hospedales, Timothy M. #12,354
9University of Surrey248#122Kittler, Josef V. #4,534
10University of Glasgow247#126Chen, Zhenghua #25,584
11Queen's University Belfast186#186Rana, Nripendra P. #4,093
12King's College London176#202Lam, Hak Keung #7,281
13Cardiff University156#236Li, Shancang #26,599
14University of Southampton147#248Hanzo, Lajos #5,732
15University of Birmingham141#258Li, Miqing #72,230
16The University of Manchester135#263Heeks, Richard B. #7,308
17University of York131#273Banerjee, Snehasish #40,106
18The University of Sheffield124#292Gope, Prosanta #28,320
19University of Bristol117#316Wu, Yulei #15,077
20Brunel University London115#320Nandi, Asoke Kumar #20,182
21University of Exeter113#326Zhang, Xingchen #28,061
22Lancaster University103#349Liu, Jun #12,299
23University of Leeds104#370Everingham, Mark #41,142
24University of Liverpool104#372Huang, Yi #48,112
25University of Essex102#379Hagras, Hani A. #64,378
26Durham University100#382Effie Law, Effie Lai Chong #116,174
27University of Nottingham93#390Stahl, Bernd Carsten #4,672
28Loughborough University91#406Jennings, Nicholas R. #15,512
29University of Warwick92#418Maple, Carsten R. #33,734
30Heriot-Watt University83#483Hong, Jiasheng #45,400
31Birmingham City University81#494Saeed, Faisal Abdulkarem #93,456
32University of Huddersfield72#507Hussain, Muhammad Abid #4,576
33University of Northumbria72#555Wang, Kezhi #52,244
34Edinburgh Napier University63#599Ojaroudi Parchin, Naser #10,145
35Department of Computer Science and Technology63#607Daugman, John G. #17,780
36Manchester Metropolitan University62#617Bashir, Ali Kashif #25,239
37UCL Engineering63#632Steed, Anthony J. #34,453
38University of Bradford63#640Irani, Z. #40,892
39University of Strathclyde52#694Haas, Harald #4,457
40Newcastle University52#730Papagiannidis, Savvas #23,672
41University of Sussex52#757Du Boulay, Benedict #46,683
42Anglia Ruskin University52#758Ahmed, Imran #46,989
43University of the West of England52#761Adamatzky, Andrew I. #50,053
44University of Kent51#765Wang, Jiangzhou #57,348
45Swansea University52#781Dennehy, Denis #72,405
46Ulster University51#786Siddique, Nazmul Haque #77,085
47University of Salford42#840Salloum, Said A. #7,951
48De Montfort University42#847Yang, Shengxiang #11,521
49Nottingham Trent University41#857Mumtaz, Shahid #17,275
50Alliance Manchester Business School41#859Yang, Jian-Bo #17,736
51Microsoft Research Cambridge42#867Fitzgibbon, Andrew W. #21,627
52Wayve44#880Kendall, Alex #25,781
53Faculty of Mathematics42#907Bollobás, Béla E. #39,693
54University of Aberdeen44#924Islam, S. M.Riazul #52,336
55Samsung AI Center - Cambridge41#948Tzimiropoulos, Georgios Yorgos #71,921
56University of Plymouth41#949Bleakley, Alan #72,308
57The Open University40#979Mancini, Clara #104,101
58Aberystwyth University40#1,003Shen, Qiang #154,199
59Middlesex University31#1,017Yang, Xin She #207
60Royal Holloway, University of London32#1,031Vovk, Vladimir G. #3,480
61School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University32#1,061Angelov, Plamen Parvanov #13,662
62UCL32#892Riedel, Sebastian #30,734
63University of Leicester32#1,108Zhou, Huiyu #30,974
64Cranfield University32#1,126Guo, Weisi #37,815
65Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine31#1,141Zheng, Gan #43,552
66University of Hertfordshire31#1,147Papazafeiropoulos, Anastasios K. #45,901
67Department of Engineering30#1,261Tewari, Ayush #114,922
68Abertay University30#1,304Coventry, Lynne M. #152,816
69University of Portsmouth30#1,321Ju, Zhaojie #175,790
70City St George's, University of London30#1,340Jimeńez-Ruiz, Ernesto #207,105
71Coventry University30#1,342Palade, Vasile #216,858

The top 100 in Information & Communication Technologies in the United Kingdom, in order

  1. 1
    Yang, Xin She
    Middlesex University
  2. 2
    Le, Quocviet
    Google DeepMind
  3. 3
    Barron, Jonathan T.
    Google Deepmind
  4. 4
    Silver, David
    Google DeepMind
  5. 5
    Schuller, Björn W.
    Imperial College London
  6. 6
    Ghahramani, Zoubin
    University of Cambridge
  7. 7
    Canny, John F.
    Google DeepMind
  8. 8
    Chang, Victor I.
    Aston University
  9. 9
    Torr, Philip H.S.
    University of Oxford
  10. 10
    Liu, Yuanwei
    Queen Mary University of London
  11. 11
    Li, Geoffrey Ye Li
    Imperial College London
  12. 12
    Vinyals, Oriol
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  13. 13
    Pedregosa, Fabián
    Google DeepMind
  14. 14
    Davison, Andrew J.
    Imperial College London
  15. 15
    Vovk, Vladimir G.
    Royal Holloway, University of London
  16. 16
    Graves, Alex
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  17. 17
    Ronneberger, Olaf
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  18. 18
    Rana, Nripendra P.
    Queen's University Belfast
  19. 19
    Binns, Reuben
    University of Oxford
  20. 20
    Bartlett, Peter L.
    Google DeepMind
  21. 21
    Haas, Harald
    University of Strathclyde
  22. 22
    Kittler, Josef V.
    University of Surrey
  23. 23
    Hussain, Muhammad Abid
    University of Huddersfield
  24. 24
    Stahl, Bernd Carsten
    University of Nottingham
  25. 25
    Rasmussen, Carl Edward
    University of Cambridge
  26. 26
    Humayun, Mamoona
    University of Roehampton
  27. 27
    Simonyan, Karen
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  28. 28
    Veličkovíc, Petar
    Google DeepMind
  29. 29
    van Hasselt, Hado
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  30. 30
    Gill, Sukhpal Singh
    Queen Mary University of London
  31. 31
    Radanliev, Petar
    University of Oxford
  32. 32
    Hanzo, Lajos
    University of Southampton
  33. 33
    Clerckx, Bruno
    Imperial College London
  34. 34
    Julier, Simon J.
    University College London
  35. 35
    Vedaldi, Andrea
    University of Oxford
  36. 36
    Lam, Hak Keung
    King's College London
  37. 37
    Heeks, Richard B.
    The University of Manchester
  38. 38
    Zisserman, Andrew P.
    University of Oxford
  39. 39
    Murtagh, Fionn D.
    University of Huddersfield
  40. 40
    Salloum, Said A.
    University of Salford
  41. 41
    Wong, Kai Kit
    University College London
  42. 42
    Barnes, Stuart J.
    Newcastle University Business School, United Kingdom
  43. 43
    Riedmiller, Martin
    Google DeepMind
  44. 44
    Cukurova, Mutlu
    University College London
  45. 45
    Ojaroudi Parchin, Naser
    Edinburgh Napier University
  46. 46
    Harden, Ronald Mc G.
    Medical Teacher
  47. 47
    Chen, Ting
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  48. 48
    Gal, Yarin
    University of Oxford
  49. 49
    Yang, Shengxiang
    De Montfort University
  50. 50
    Pham, Tuan D.
    Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
  51. 51
    Houlsby, Neil M.T.
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  52. 52
    Teh, Yee Whye
    University of Oxford
  53. 53
    Liu, Jun
    Lancaster University
  54. 54
    Hospedales, Timothy M.
    The University of Edinburgh
  55. 55
    Bronstein, Michael M.
    University of Oxford
  56. 56
    Williams, Christopher Kj I.
    The University of Edinburgh
  57. 57
    Pantic, Maja
    NatWest Group
  58. 58
    Harman, Mark
    University College London
  59. 59
    Williams, Michael D.
    School of Management
  60. 60
    Angelov, Plamen Parvanov
    School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University
  61. 61
    Cipolla, R.
    University of Cambridge
  62. 62
    Cormode, Graham
    University of Oxford
  63. 63
    Lillicrap, Timothy P.
    Google DeepMind
  64. 64
    Salimans, Tim
    Google DeepMind
  65. 65
    Mandić, Danilo P.D.
    Imperial College London
  66. 66
    Wu, Yulei
    University of Bristol
  67. 67
    David J C MacKay, David J.C.
    University of Cambridge
  68. 68
    Deng, Jiankang
    Imperial College London
  69. 69
    Jennings, Nicholas R.
    Loughborough University
  70. 70
    Chen, Yunfei
    University of Warwick, School of Engineering
  71. 71
    Kitchenham, Barbara Ann
    Keele University
  72. 72
    Luckin, Rosemary
    University College London
  73. 73
    Gündüz, Deniz
    Imperial College London
  74. 74
    Zafeiriou, Stefanos P.
    Imperial College London
  75. 75
    Wang, Yichuan
    Sheffield University Management School
  76. 76
    Bishop, Christopher M.
    The Royal Society of Edinburgh
  77. 77
    Seymour, Paul D.
    University of Oxford
  78. 78
    Walsham, Geoff
    University of Cambridge
  79. 79
    Mumtaz, Shahid
    Nottingham Trent University
  80. 80
    Mnih, Volodymyr
    Google DeepMind
  81. 81
    Yang, Jian-Bo
    Alliance Manchester Business School
  82. 82
    Daugman, John G.
    Department of Computer Science and Technology
  83. 83
    Gretton, Arthur
    University College London
  84. 84
    Mu, Xidong
    Queen's University Belfast
  85. 85
    Tipping, Michael E.
    University of Bath
  86. 86
    Kipf, Thomas N.
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  87. 87
    Furber, Steve B.
    The University of Manchester
  88. 88
    Gabriel, Iason
    Google DeepMind
  89. 89
    Shazeer, Noam M.
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  90. 90
    Kuncheva, Ludmila Ilieva
    Bangor University
  91. 91
    Kumar, Akshi
    Goldsmiths, University of London
  92. 92
    Knowles, Joshua D.
    Schlumberger Cambridge Research
  93. 93
    Kollias, Dimitrios
    Queen Mary University of London
  94. 94
    Nandi, Asoke Kumar
    Brunel University London
  95. 95
    Ngo, Hienquoc
    Queen's University Belfast
  96. 96
    Toutanova, Kristina
    Google DeepMind
  97. 97
    Glocker, Ben
    Imperial College London
  98. 98
    Neyshabur, Behnam
    DeepMind Technologies Limited
  99. 99
    Wang, Jun
    UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence
  100. 100
    Tay, Yi
    Google DeepMind

1,007 listed scientists in Information & Communication Technologies in the United Kingdom

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