Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 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).
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researchers on the list
162
rank in United Kingdom
2,195
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antonelli, Alexandre E. | Ecology | 445 / 82,882 | 71 / 82,882 |
| Chase, Mark W. | Evolutionary Biology | 61 / 31,128 | 97 / 31,128 |
| Rudall, Paula J. | Evolutionary Biology | 215 / 31,128 | 319 / 31,128 |
| Fay, Michael F. | Evolutionary Biology | 248 / 31,128 | 211 / 31,128 |
| Bennett, Michael D. | Plant Biology & Botany | 364 / 204,373 | 1,992 / 204,373 |
| Simmonds, Monique S.J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 409 / 204,373 | 661 / 204,373 |
| Baker, William J. | Evolutionary Biology | — | 258 / 31,128 |
| Veitch, Nigel C. | Plant Biology & Botany | 527 / 204,373 | 1,105 / 204,373 |
| Stevenson, Philip C. | Entomology | 240 / 40,595 | 93 / 40,595 |
| Christenhusz, Maarten J.M. | Evolutionary Biology | — | 348 / 31,128 |
| Leitch, Ilia J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 823 / 204,373 | 1,136 / 204,373 |
| Howes, Melanie Jayne R. | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 564 / 120,621 | 251 / 120,621 |
| Pritchard, Hugh W. | Plant Biology & Botany | 909 / 204,373 | 1,362 / 204,373 |
| Kersey, Paul Julian | Developmental Biology | 2,566 / 167,121 | 1,370 / 167,121 |
| Forest, Félix | Evolutionary Biology | 696 / 31,128 | 396 / 31,128 |
| Prance, Ghillean Tolmie | Evolutionary Biology | 714 / 31,128 | — |
| Govaerts, Rafaël H.A. | Evolutionary Biology | — | 516 / 31,128 |
| Bachman, Steven P. | Ecology | — | 2,016 / 82,882 |
| Davis, Aaron P. | Evolutionary Biology | — | 596 / 31,128 |
| Cannon, Paul F. | Mycology & Parasitology | 417 / 29,175 | 279 / 29,175 |
| Niskanen, Tuula | Mycology & Parasitology | — | 284 / 29,175 |
| Gasson, Peter E. | Forestry | 323 / 36,413 | 321 / 36,413 |
| Way, Michael J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,235 / 204,373 | — |
| Furse, Samuel | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 3,260 / 216,826 |
| Liimatainen, Kare | Mycology & Parasitology | — | 452 / 29,175 |
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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