National Physical Laboratory 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).
31
researchers on the list
136
rank in United Kingdom
1,847
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seah, Martin P. | Applied Physics | 610 / 323,282 | 1,110 / 323,282 |
| Brown, Richard James Christopher | Analytical Chemistry | 513 / 137,328 | 164 / 137,328 |
| Turnbull, Alan | Materials | 502 / 330,896 | 1,044 / 330,896 |
| Shard, Alexander G. | Applied Physics | 1,744 / 323,282 | 977 / 323,282 |
| Seah, M. P. | Applied Physics | 1,526 / 323,282 | 2,098 / 323,282 |
| McCartney, L. Neil | Materials | 1,291 / 330,896 | — |
| Cox, Maurice G. | Optics | 466 / 83,504 | 375 / 83,504 |
| Hinds, Gareth | Energy | 3,430 / 371,959 | 3,380 / 371,959 |
| Gee, Mark G. | Materials | 1,729 / 330,896 | — |
| Gill, Patrick | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 447 / 140,272 | 1,102 / 140,272 |
| Gilmore, Ian S. | Applied Physics | 3,642 / 323,282 | 3,676 / 323,282 |
| Roebuck, Brayan | Materials | 2,112 / 330,896 | 5,021 / 330,896 |
| Naftaly, Mira | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,632 / 228,312 | 1,744 / 228,312 |
| Fox, Nigel P. | Optics | 706 / 83,504 | — |
| Fletcher, John Dexter | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,686 / 204,373 | — |
| Ryadnov, Maxim G. | Organic Chemistry | 3,655 / 188,664 | — |
| Humphrey, Victor F. | Acoustics | 617 / 38,987 | — |
| Margolis, Helen S. | Optics | 1,027 / 83,504 | 1,478 / 83,504 |
| Keene, Brian J. | Materials | 3,916 / 330,896 | — |
| MacHin, Graham | Optics | 1,152 / 83,504 | — |
| Duane, Simon | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 2,435 / 129,561 | 2,922 / 129,561 |
| Robinson, Ian A. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,025 / 133,072 | — |
| Forbes, Alistair Barrie | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,553 / 131,085 | — |
| Hondros, Ernest D. | Materials | 6,380 / 330,896 | — |
| Ridler, Nick M. | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,150 / 228,312 | — |
| Birch, Keith P. | Optics | 1,689 / 83,504 | — |
| Wright, Paul S. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 2,220 / 133,072 | 2,493 / 133,072 |
| Stiles, Walter S. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,751 / 140,272 | — |
| Robinson, David W. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,783 / 140,272 | — |
| Fatadin, Irshaad | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,812 / 140,272 | 2,481 / 140,272 |
| Noble, James E. | General Clinical Medicine | 466 / 24,038 | 259 / 24,038 |
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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