Rothamsted Research 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).
60
researchers on the list
75
rank in United Kingdom
1,049
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shewry, Peter Robert | Food Science | 9 / 107,913 | 21 / 107,913 |
| McGrath, Steve P. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 24 / 95,377 | 143 / 95,377 |
| Hawkesford, Malcolm John | Plant Biology & Botany | 210 / 204,373 | 91 / 204,373 |
| Jenkinson, David S. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 32 / 95,377 | 87 / 95,377 |
| Webster, Richard M. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 38 / 95,377 | 112 / 95,377 |
| Goulding, Keith W.T. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 99 / 95,377 | 81 / 95,377 |
| Powlson, David S. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 80 / 95,377 | 132 / 95,377 |
| Semenov, Mikhail A. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 419 / 84,638 | 486 / 84,638 |
| Lawlor, David W. | Plant Biology & Botany | 380 / 204,373 | 569 / 204,373 |
| Napier, Johnathan A. | Plant Biology & Botany | 426 / 204,373 | 1,313 / 204,373 |
| Reynolds, Andrew Michael | Fluids & Plasmas | 323 / 58,297 | 528 / 58,297 |
| Broadley, Martin R. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,537 / 204,373 | 545 / 204,373 |
| Halford, Nigel G. | Plant Biology & Botany | 495 / 204,373 | 671 / 204,373 |
| Paul, Matthew J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 848 / 204,373 | 629 / 204,373 |
| Quirk, James P. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 257 / 95,377 | — |
| Eastmond, Peter J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 980 / 204,373 | 838 / 204,373 |
| Whitmore, Andrew Peter | Agronomy & Agriculture | 329 / 95,377 | 926 / 95,377 |
| Storkey, Jonathan | Agronomy & Agriculture | 693 / 95,377 | 506 / 95,377 |
| Hirsch, Penny | Microbiology | 1,810 / 232,186 | 1,915 / 232,186 |
| Devonshire, Alan L. | Entomology | 189 / 40,595 | — |
| Penman, H. L. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 387 / 95,377 | 788 / 95,377 |
| Field, Linda Mary | Entomology | 200 / 40,595 | 211 / 40,595 |
| Neve, Paul B. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 634 / 95,377 | 687 / 95,377 |
| Whalley, Richard Richard | Agronomy & Agriculture | 514 / 95,377 | 873 / 95,377 |
| Harris, P. | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 1,257 / 82,760 | 1,161 / 82,760 |
| Karp, Angelas | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,452 / 204,373 | — |
| Hammond-Kosack, Kim Elizabeth | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,839 / 204,373 | 1,686 / 204,373 |
| Taylor, L. R. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,485 / 204,373 | — |
| Kerry, Brian R. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,533 / 204,373 | — |
| Lacey, John | Microbiology | 2,723 / 232,186 | — |
| Watson, D. J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,123 / 204,373 | 1,961 / 204,373 |
| Leigh, Roger Allen | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,783 / 204,373 | — |
| Thompson, Robin | Dairy & Animal Science | 347 / 78,455 | 1,121 / 78,455 |
| Addiscott, Thomas M. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 700 / 95,377 | — |
| Misselbrook, Tom Henry | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,156 / 95,377 | 970 / 95,377 |
| Poulton, Paul Richard | Agronomy & Agriculture | 718 / 95,377 | 1,580 / 95,377 |
| Bailey, Lesley | Entomology | 443 / 40,595 | — |
| Lucas, John Alexander | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,096 / 204,373 | 2,793 / 204,373 |
| Collins, Andrian L. | Environmental Engineering | 876 / 68,664 | 884 / 68,664 |
| Theodoulou, Frederica L. | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,212 / 204,373 | 2,866 / 204,373 |
| Haefele, Stephan M. | Agronomy & Agriculture | — | 1,174 / 95,377 |
| Barraclough, Peter B. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 905 / 95,377 | — |
| Harrington, Richard | Entomology | 549 / 40,595 | — |
| Phillips, Andrew L. | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,470 / 204,373 | — |
| Tinker, P. Bernard H. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 964 / 95,377 | — |
| Neal, Andrew L. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,035 / 95,377 | 1,329 / 95,377 |
| Beale, Michael Henry | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,638 / 204,373 | — |
| Williamson, Martin S. | Entomology | 856 / 40,595 | 431 / 40,595 |
| Riley, Joseph R. | Entomology | 626 / 40,595 | — |
| Powell, Wilf | Entomology | 657 / 40,595 | — |
| Wadhams, Lester J. | Entomology | 767 / 40,595 | — |
| Thomas, Stephen G. | Plant Biology & Botany | 4,045 / 204,373 | 3,882 / 204,373 |
| Nekrasov, Vladimir | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 4,153 / 204,373 |
| McCartney, H. Alastair | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,615 / 204,373 | — |
| Davies, Thomas G.Emyr | Entomology | — | 614 / 40,595 |
| Hirst, J. M. | Plant Biology & Botany | 4,184 / 204,373 | — |
| Pierpoint, William S. | Plant Biology & Botany | 4,321 / 204,373 | — |
| Birkett, Michael Alexander | Entomology | — | 722 / 40,595 |
| Hooper, David J. | Zoology | 382 / 19,073 | — |
| Butler, Colin G. | General & Internal Medicine | 7,581 / 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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