Faculty of Mathematics 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).
63
researchers on the list
71
rank in United Kingdom
992
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cates, Michael E. | Fluids & Plasmas | 20 / 58,297 | 22 / 58,297 |
| Barrow, John D. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 30 / 164,120 | 98 / 164,120 |
| Gibbons, Gary William | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 43 / 164,120 | 91 / 164,120 |
| Batchelor, George K. | Fluids & Plasmas | 39 / 58,297 | 42 / 58,297 |
| Lauga, Eric | Fluids & Plasmas | 76 / 58,297 | 36 / 58,297 |
| Townsend, Paul Kingsley | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 101 / 164,120 | 842 / 164,120 |
| Verstraete, Frank | General Physics | 204 / 87,024 | 83 / 87,024 |
| Hudson, John A. | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 47 / 82,760 | 212 / 82,760 |
| Jozsa, Richard | General Physics | 200 / 87,024 | 118 / 87,024 |
| Green, Michael B. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 253 / 164,120 | 1,465 / 164,120 |
| Goldstein, Raymond E. | Fluids & Plasmas | 149 / 58,297 | 114 / 58,297 |
| Hartnoll, Sean A. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 295 / 164,120 | 391 / 164,120 |
| Bollobas, Bela | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 55 / 20,721 | 81 / 20,721 |
| Linden, Paul F. | Fluids & Plasmas | 222 / 58,297 | 289 / 58,297 |
| Kerswell, Richard R. | Fluids & Plasmas | 336 / 58,297 | 180 / 58,297 |
| HINCH, E. John | Fluids & Plasmas | 231 / 58,297 | 436 / 58,297 |
| Ogilvie, Gordon I. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 439 / 58,202 | 479 / 58,202 |
| Manton, Nicholas S. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 478 / 164,120 | 957 / 164,120 |
| Pedley, Timothy J. | Fluids & Plasmas | 259 / 58,297 | 236 / 58,297 |
| Wall, Aron C. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,640 / 164,120 | 450 / 164,120 |
| Rafikov, Roman R. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 458 / 58,202 | 537 / 58,202 |
| Papaloizou, John C.B. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 497 / 58,202 | 1,724 / 58,202 |
| Challinor, Anthony D. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 740 / 58,202 | 671 / 58,202 |
| Bollobás, Béla E. | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 102 / 20,721 | 73 / 20,721 |
| Grant, I. P. | General Physics | 252 / 87,024 | 798 / 87,024 |
| Lister, John R. | Fluids & Plasmas | 371 / 58,297 | 569 / 58,297 |
| Lighthill, M. James | Fluids & Plasmas | 569 / 58,297 | 300 / 58,297 |
| Quevedo, Fernando | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 793 / 164,120 | 2,157 / 164,120 |
| Iserles, Arieh | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 68 / 17,431 | 83 / 17,431 |
| Osborn, Hugh | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 819 / 164,120 | 1,332 / 164,120 |
| Tong, David T. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 880 / 164,120 | 1,380 / 164,120 |
| Reall, Harvey S. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,020 / 164,120 | 1,067 / 164,120 |
| Haynes, Peter H. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 991 / 84,638 | — |
| Shellard, E. Paul S. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,151 / 164,120 | 925 / 164,120 |
| Wadhams, Peter | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,050 / 84,638 | — |
| Datta, Nilanjana | Mathematical Physics | 73 / 6,761 | 33 / 6,761 |
| Powell, M. J.D. | Operations Research | 225 / 31,951 | 343 / 31,951 |
| Pajer, Enrico | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,465 / 164,120 | 1,106 / 164,120 |
| Moffatt, Henry Keith | Fluids & Plasmas | 701 / 58,297 | 596 / 58,297 |
| Moffatt, H. Keith | Fluids & Plasmas | 721 / 58,297 | — |
| Jack, Robert L. | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 523 / 58,297 |
| Sherwood, John D. | Fluids & Plasmas | 734 / 58,297 | — |
| Taylor, John Ryan | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 529 / 58,297 |
| Colbrook, Matthew J. | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | — | 125 / 17,431 |
| Thompson, John Michael T. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 585 / 157,792 | 896 / 157,792 |
| Caulfield, C. P. | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,146 / 58,297 | 543 / 58,297 |
| Gavassino, Lorenzo | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,254 / 164,120 |
| Crighton, David G. | Fluids & Plasmas | 829 / 58,297 | 1,371 / 58,297 |
| Dorey, Nick | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,558 / 164,120 | — |
| Rallison, John M. | Polymers | 832 / 133,253 | — |
| Gross, Mark | General Mathematics | 1,043 / 76,268 | 524 / 76,268 |
| Sperhake, Ulrich | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,020 / 164,120 | 1,596 / 164,120 |
| Thomason, Andrew G. | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 306 / 20,721 | 208 / 20,721 |
| Proctor, Michael R.E. | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,141 / 58,297 | — |
| Jenkins, Alexander C. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,844 / 164,120 |
| Berloff, Natalia G. | General Physics | 888 / 87,024 | 1,031 / 87,024 |
| Schönlieb', Carola Bibiane | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,127 / 517,648 |
| Eloy, Christophe | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,374 / 58,297 | 994 / 58,297 |
| Eames, Ken T.D. | Bioinformatics | 343 / 24,357 | — |
| Hewitt, Duncan R. | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 1,043 / 58,297 |
| Sherwin, Blake D. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,383 / 164,120 |
| Raphaël, Pierre | General Mathematics | 1,506 / 76,268 | 1,352 / 76,268 |
| Ayton, Lorna J. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 1,116 / 66,382 | 582 / 66,382 |
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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