MRC Human Genetics Unit 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).
14
researchers on the list
256
rank in United Kingdom
3,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ponting, Chris Paul | Developmental Biology | 61 / 167,121 | 164 / 167,121 |
| Hastie, Nicholas Dixon | Developmental Biology | 891 / 167,121 | 1,504 / 167,121 |
| Bickmore, Wendy Anne | Developmental Biology | 932 / 167,121 | 1,112 / 167,121 |
| Wright, Alan F. | Genetics & Heredity | 149 / 42,273 | 211 / 42,273 |
| Dunlop, Malcolm G. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 1,224 / 377,791 | 6,013 / 377,791 |
| Jackson, Ian James | Developmental Biology | 1,147 / 167,121 | — |
| Marsh, Joseph Arthur | Developmental Biology | 3,244 / 167,121 | 1,072 / 167,121 |
| Fitzpatrick, David R. | Genetics & Heredity | 330 / 42,273 | 292 / 42,273 |
| Van Heyningen, Veronica | Genetics & Heredity | 341 / 42,273 | — |
| Cooke, Howard J. | Developmental Biology | 2,115 / 167,121 | — |
| Cáceres, Javier F. | Developmental Biology | 2,444 / 167,121 | — |
| Hill, Robert E. | Developmental Biology | 2,783 / 167,121 | — |
| Patton, E. Elizabeth | Developmental Biology | — | 2,692 / 167,121 |
| Piper, Jim | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 11,488 / 517,648 | — |
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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