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Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Neurology & Neurosurgery

46 institutions · Neurology & Neurosurgery · United Kingdom

Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Neurology & Neurosurgery?

662 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main subfield is Neurology & Neurosurgery are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.6% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 77 countries in the subfield. 377 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology has the most (60), followed by University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division (54) and King's College London (50). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
662
3.6% of all in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
377
56.9% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 77 countries in Neurology & Neurosurgery
Highest-ranked
#23
Friston, K. J.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology6042#4Friston, K. J. #23
2University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division5435#7Smith, Stephen M. #103
3King's College London5023#9Goadsby, Peter James #1,556
4University College London4928#10Burnstock, Geoffrey #2,316
5University of Oxford2519#30Brown, Peter T. #4,262
6The University of Edinburgh2316#34Deary, Ian J. #1,110
7University of Cambridge2213#35Schultz, Wolfram #1,144
8Newcastle University2011#47Kalaria, Rajes H.N. #4,883
9Department of Clinical Neurosciences1611#79Markus, Hugh Stephen #4,209
10Imperial College London168#83Glover, Vivette A.S. #12,496
11National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery115#144Collinge, John C. #17,986
12University of Nottingham115#146Bath, Philip M. #19,354
13University of Birmingham115#151Miall, R. Chris #46,540
14Edinburgh Medical School95#173Morris, Richard G.M. #4,188
15University of Glasgow97#175Langhorne, Peter #6,465
16Department of Psychiatry75#117Bullmore, Edward T. #1,689
17Cardiff University74#229Jones, Derek K. #12,176
18The University of Sheffield74#241Reuber, Markus #23,627
19Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health66#262Verkhratsky, A. N. #1,965
20The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology54#318Goedert, Michel #1,237
21Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry52#324Giovannoni, Gavin #4,304
22University of Exeter Medical School54#326Ballard, Clive G. #5,320
23College of Biomedical and Life Sciences53#329Sudlow, Cathie L.M. #7,031
24College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences54#353Muir, Keith W. #21,090
25The University of Manchester52#368Snowden, Julie Sarah #36,222
26UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health50#391Kirkham, Fenella Jane #117,422
27University of Surrey42#408Dijk, Derk Jan #6,746
28University of Southampton42#411Perry, Victor Hugh #7,728
29University of Liverpool43#412Solomon, Tom #8,254
30School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing44#415Brodie, Martin J. #9,260
31Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust42#425Cross, Judith Helen #14,403
32University of Sussex41#428Land, Michael F. #15,431
33King's College Hospital41#430Al-Chalabi, Ammar #17,146
34University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine42#436Galea, Ian #22,247
35University of Exeter41#445Zeman, Adam Z.J. #32,855
36The Francis Crick Institute42#460Bliss, Timothy V.P. #40,715
37The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust42#474Rochester, Lynn #48,986
38Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging32#504Frith, Chris D. #618
39UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience33#544Walsh, Vincent Y. #19,403
40University of Bristol31#548Love, Seth #21,459
41University of Leicester32#571Claassen, Jurgen A.H.R. #30,855
42Cerca Magnetics Limited31#587Brookes, Matthew J. #40,278
43The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust31#605Jacoby, Ann #53,852
44MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit31#610Hauk, Olaf #55,310
45Queen's University Belfast31#612Mofatteh, Mohammad Hadi #56,217
46Royal Holloway, University of London32#648Langdon, Dawn Wendy #86,465

The top 100 in Neurology & Neurosurgery in the United Kingdom, in order

  1. 1
    Friston, K. J.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  2. 2
    Smith, Stephen M.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  3. 3
    Rolls, Edmund T.
    University of Warwick
  4. 4
    Hardy, John Anthony
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  5. 5
    Frith, Chris D.
    Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
  6. 6
    Rothwell, Peter M.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  7. 7
    Deary, Ian J.
    The University of Edinburgh
  8. 8
    Ashburner, John T.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  9. 9
    Schultz, Wolfram
    University of Cambridge
  10. 10
    Goedert, Michel
    The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
  11. 11
    Wardlaw, Joanna M.
    The University of Edinburgh
  12. 12
    Goadsby, Peter James
    King's College London
  13. 13
    Bullmore, Edward T.
    Department of Psychiatry
  14. 14
    Schapira, Anthony HV V.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  15. 15
    Aarsland, Dag
    King's College London
  16. 16
    Critchley, Hugo D.
    Brighton and Sussex Medical School
  17. 17
    Verkhratsky, A. N.
    Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
  18. 18
    De Strooper, B.
    UK Dementia Research Institute
  19. 19
    Burnstock, Geoffrey
    University College London
  20. 20
    ARMSTRONG, R. A.
    Aston University
  21. 21
    Duncan, John S.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  22. 22
    Barkhof, Frederik
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  23. 23
    Brayne, Carol E.G.
    University of Cambridge
  24. 24
    Morris, Richard G.M.
    Edinburgh Medical School
  25. 25
    Markus, Hugh Stephen
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences
  26. 26
    Brown, Peter T.
    University of Oxford
  27. 27
    Giovannoni, Gavin
    Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
  28. 28
    Lees, Andrew John L.
    Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies
  29. 29
    Kringelbach, M. L.
    University of Oxford
  30. 30
    Burgess, Neil
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  31. 31
    Abbott, N. Joan
    King's College London
  32. 32
    Kalaria, Rajes H.N.
    Newcastle University
  33. 33
    Wolfe, Charles David Alexander
    King's College London
  34. 34
    Steiner, T. J.
    Chelsea College of Arts
  35. 35
    Nichols, Thomas E.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  36. 36
    Husain, Masud
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  37. 37
    Ballard, Clive G.
    University of Exeter Medical School
  38. 38
    Chaudhuri, K. R.
    King's College London
  39. 39
    Rothwell, John Christine C.D.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  40. 40
    Schrag, Anette Eleonore
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  41. 41
    Price, Cathy J.
    University College London
  42. 42
    Langhorne, Peter
    University of Glasgow
  43. 43
    Petzold, Axel
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  44. 44
    Dijk, Derk Jan
    University of Surrey
  45. 45
    Beckmann, Christian Friedrich
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  46. 46
    Brooks, David J.
    Newcastle University
  47. 47
    Sudlow, Cathie L.M.
    College of Biomedical and Life Sciences
  48. 48
    O'Keefe, John M.
    University College LondonNobel laureate
  49. 49
    Ben-Shlomo, Yoav
    Bristol Medical School
  50. 50
    Mckeith, Ian G.
    Newcastle University
  51. 51
    Quinn, Terry J.
    University of Glasgow
  52. 52
    Henson, Richard N.
    Department of Psychiatry
  53. 53
    Perry, Victor Hugh
    University of Southampton
  54. 54
    Woolrich, M. W.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  55. 55
    Franklin, Robin J.M.
    University of Cambridge
  56. 56
    Solomon, Tom
    University of Liverpool
  57. 57
    O'Brien, John T.
    Department of Psychiatry
  58. 58
    Sander, Josemir W.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  59. 59
    Brodie, Martin J.
    School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing
  60. 60
    Wolf, Philip A.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  61. 61
  62. 62
    Cole, James H.
    University College London
  63. 63
    Thompson, Alan James
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  64. 64
    Tournier, J. Donald
    King's College London
  65. 65
    Stone, Jon
    The University of Edinburgh
  66. 66
    Matthews, Paul Mcmahan
    The Rosalind Franklin Institute
  67. 67
    Newton, Charles R.J.C.
    John Radcliffe Hospital
  68. 68
    Bhatia, Kailash P.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  69. 69
    Menon, David K.
    Department of Medicine
  70. 70
    Maguire, Eleanor A.
    University College London
  71. 71
    Tracey, Irene M.C.
    University of Oxford
  72. 72
    Behrens, Timothy E. J.
    Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
  73. 73
    Jensen, Ole Riis
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  74. 74
    Jenner, Peter G.
    Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
  75. 75
    Marsden, Charles David
    Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
  76. 76
    Foster, Russell G.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  77. 77
    Jones, Derek K.
    Cardiff University
  78. 78
    Glover, Vivette A.S.
    Imperial College London
  79. 79
    Andersson, Jesper L.R.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  80. 80
    Chinnery, Patrick Francis
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences
  81. 81
    Hughes, Richard A.C.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  82. 82
    Sandercock, Peter A.G.
    Edinburgh Medical School
  83. 83
    Sisodiya, Sanjay M.
    UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
  84. 84
    Edison, Paul
    Cardiff University School of Medicine
  85. 85
    Cross, Judith Helen
    Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
  86. 86
    Spillantini, Maria Grazia
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences
  87. 87
    MacLeod, Malcolm Robert
    The University of Edinburgh
  88. 88
    Al-Shahi Salman, Rustam
    The University of Edinburgh
  89. 89
    Howard, Robert J.M.W.
    University College London
  90. 90
    Marín, Óscar
    King's College London
  91. 91
    Land, Michael F.
    University of Sussex
  92. 92
    Carandini, Matteo
    UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
  93. 93
    Compston, Alastair D.
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences
  94. 94
    Alexander, Daniel C.
    University College London
  95. 95
    Fox, Nick C.
    University of London
  96. 96
    Attwell, David A.
    University College London
  97. 97
    Al-Chalabi, Ammar
    King's College Hospital
  98. 98
    Zeki, Semir M.
    University College London
  99. 99
    Turner, Martin R.
    University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  100. 100
    Collinge, John C.
    National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

662 listed scientists in Neurology & Neurosurgery 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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