Leeds Beckett University 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).
29
researchers on the list
144
rank in United Kingdom
1,953
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparkes, Andrew C. | Sport Sciences | 37 / 41,112 | 35 / 41,112 |
| Taleghani, Mohammad | Energy | 2,498 / 371,959 | 619 / 371,959 |
| Johnson, Mark I. | Anesthesiology | 168 / 59,383 | 76 / 59,383 |
| Dashper, Katherine | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | — | 187 / 11,605 |
| Pritchard, Annette | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | 135 / 11,605 | 253 / 11,605 |
| Gough, Brendan | Public Health | 576 / 82,273 | 547 / 82,273 |
| Ajayi, Saheed O. | Building & Construction | — | 519 / 56,454 |
| Tucker, Ross | Sport Sciences | 371 / 41,112 | 294 / 41,112 |
| Clegg, Sue | Education | 396 / 115,687 | 1,775 / 115,687 |
| Cooper, Chris P. | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | 151 / 11,605 | 314 / 11,605 |
| Morgan, Jamie A. | Accounting | — | 128 / 7,240 |
| Till, Kevin A. | Sport Sciences | — | 385 / 41,112 |
| Akintoye, Akintola S. | Building & Construction | 222 / 56,454 | 972 / 56,454 |
| Fatorachian, Hajar | Business & Management | — | 1,889 / 68,786 |
| Jones, Elspeth | Education | — | 1,214 / 115,687 |
| Norman, Leanne | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | — | 419 / 11,605 |
| Jones, Ben Lee | Sport Sciences | — | 451 / 41,112 |
| Boateng, Agyenim | Finance | 314 / 16,367 | 381 / 16,367 |
| Hendricks, Sharief | Sport Sciences | — | 555 / 41,112 |
| Antoniou, Grigoris | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,707 / 517,648 | 9,841 / 517,648 |
| Maher, Anthony John | Sport Sciences | — | 593 / 41,112 |
| Piggott, David | Sport Sciences | — | 668 / 41,112 |
| McKenna, Jim | Public Health | 1,467 / 82,273 | — |
| Gilthorpe, Mark S. | Dentistry | 901 / 101,728 | 994 / 101,728 |
| Jones, Georgina Louise | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | — | 959 / 105,735 |
| Smith, Deborah Roan R. | Entomology | 603 / 40,595 | — |
| Oke, Adekunle | Energy | — | 6,139 / 371,959 |
| Dulaimi, Mohammed Fadhil | Building & Construction | 841 / 56,454 | — |
| Bagnall, Anne Marie | General & Internal Medicine | — | 5,426 / 360,081 |
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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