BirdLife International in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
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researchers on the list
391
rank in United Kingdom
6,287
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butchart, Stuart H.M. | Ecology | 444 / 82,882 | 213 / 82,882 |
| Croxall, John P. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 86 / 54,545 | 519 / 54,545 |
| Donald, Paul F. | Ecology | 676 / 82,882 | 790 / 82,882 |
| Plumptre, Andrew J. | Ecology | 1,381 / 82,882 | 1,740 / 82,882 |
| Collar, Nigel J. | Ornithology | 83 / 5,121 | 93 / 5,121 |
| Bibby, Colin J. | Ornithology | 119 / 5,121 | — |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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