Lancaster Environment Centre 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).
41
researchers on the list
114
rank in United Kingdom
1,457
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beven, Keith J. | Environmental Engineering | 1 / 68,664 | 2 / 68,664 |
| Bardgett, Richard D. | Ecology | 43 / 82,882 | 16 / 82,882 |
| Walker, Gordon P. | Geography | 33 / 21,559 | 29 / 21,559 |
| Maher, Barbara A. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 168 / 108,013 | 127 / 108,013 |
| Graham, Nicholas Anthony James | Ecology | 417 / 82,882 | 254 / 82,882 |
| Stevens, Carly J. | Ecology | 722 / 82,882 | 255 / 82,882 |
| Blackburn, George Alan | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 213 / 82,760 | 242 / 82,760 |
| Young, Peter C. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 166 / 131,085 | 1,625 / 131,085 |
| Dodd, Ian C. | Plant Biology & Botany | 313 / 204,373 | 311 / 204,373 |
| Binley, A. M. | Environmental Engineering | 139 / 68,664 | 117 / 68,664 |
| Barlow, Jos B. | Ecology | 1,548 / 82,882 | 595 / 82,882 |
| Davies, Bill John | Plant Biology & Botany | 355 / 204,373 | 1,107 / 204,373 |
| Forde, Brian G. | Plant Biology & Botany | 375 / 204,373 | 509 / 204,373 |
| Withers, Paul John Anthony | Agronomy & Agriculture | 271 / 95,377 | 245 / 95,377 |
| Cleaver, Frances Dalton | Development Studies | 39 / 5,287 | 27 / 5,287 |
| Zhang, Hao | Environmental Sciences | 282 / 140,934 | 1,630 / 140,934 |
| Hicks, Christina C. | Ecology | — | 857 / 82,882 |
| Hewitt, Nick Nicholas S. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 737 / 84,638 | 1,808 / 84,638 |
| Jones, Kevin C. | Environmental Sciences | — | 1,068 / 140,934 |
| Heathwaite, A. L. | Environmental Engineering | 231 / 68,664 | 1,505 / 68,664 |
| Semple, Kirk T. | Environmental Sciences | 431 / 140,934 | 2,435 / 140,934 |
| Najman, Yanina M.R. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,647 / 108,013 | 880 / 108,013 |
| Haygarth, Philip M. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 348 / 95,377 | 642 / 95,377 |
| MacDonald, Raymond | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,227 / 108,013 | 2,311 / 108,013 |
| Wilson, Kenneth | Ecology | 1,349 / 82,882 | 1,709 / 82,882 |
| Wild, Oliver | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,377 / 84,638 | 1,936 / 84,638 |
| Quinton, John N. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 436 / 95,377 | 716 / 95,377 |
| Paul, Nigel D. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,604 / 204,373 | — |
| Parry, Martin A.J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,626 / 204,373 | 2,014 / 204,373 |
| Lea, Peter John | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,690 / 204,373 | 2,960 / 204,373 |
| Elliott, James Alex | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,054 / 54,545 | 1,061 / 54,545 |
| Armstrong, Alona | Energy | — | 4,021 / 371,959 |
| Carmo-Silva, Elizabete | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,386 / 204,373 |
| Shore, Richard F. | Environmental Sciences | 1,195 / 140,934 | — |
| Kerstiens, Gerhard | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,195 / 204,373 | — |
| Halsall, Crispin J. | Environmental Sciences | 1,267 / 140,934 | — |
| James, Michael R. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 2,109 / 108,013 |
| Sweetman, Andrew J. | Environmental Sciences | 1,623 / 140,934 | — |
| Blair, Gordon S. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,280 / 517,648 | 10,946 / 517,648 |
| Wilkinson, Sally | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,811 / 204,373 | — |
| Mcnamara, Niall P. | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 4,256 / 204,373 |
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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