The Francis Crick Institute 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).
81
researchers on the list
54
rank in United Kingdom
821
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downward, Julian | Developmental Biology | 64 / 167,121 | 288 / 167,121 |
| Vousden, Karen | Developmental Biology | 76 / 167,121 | 119 / 167,121 |
| Lindahl, Tomas | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 83 / 216,826 | 153 / 216,826 |
| Nurse, Paul | Developmental Biology | 127 / 167,121 | 586 / 167,121 |
| Swanton, Charles | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 166 / 377,791 | 56 / 377,791 |
| O’Garra, Anne | Immunology | 128 / 176,292 | 294 / 176,292 |
| Papayannopoulos, Venizelos | Immunology | 1,286 / 176,292 | 106 / 176,292 |
| Reis E Sousa, Caetano E. | Immunology | 236 / 176,292 | 203 / 176,292 |
| West, Stephen C. | Developmental Biology | 308 / 167,121 | 1,304 / 167,121 |
| Evan, Gérard I. | Developmental Biology | 388 / 167,121 | 1,277 / 167,121 |
| Treisman, Richard H. | Developmental Biology | 410 / 167,121 | — |
| Sahai, Erik A. | Developmental Biology | 497 / 167,121 | 259 / 167,121 |
| Guillemot, François | Developmental Biology | 439 / 167,121 | 1,318 / 167,121 |
| Ralser, Markus | Developmental Biology | 1,669 / 167,121 | 273 / 167,121 |
| Diffley, John F.X. | Developmental Biology | 643 / 167,121 | 2,190 / 167,121 |
| Heard, Édith | Developmental Biology | 677 / 167,121 | 687 / 167,121 |
| Bliss, Timothy V.P. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,374 / 379,830 | 2,047 / 379,830 |
| Smith, James C. | Developmental Biology | 713 / 167,121 | — |
| Parker, Peter J. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 860 / 216,826 | — |
| Wilkinson, David G. | Developmental Biology | 780 / 167,121 | — |
| Tooze, Sharon A. | Developmental Biology | 788 / 167,121 | 955 / 167,121 |
| Stockinger, Brigitta | Immunology | 746 / 176,292 | 586 / 176,292 |
| Hill, Caroline S. | Developmental Biology | 835 / 167,121 | 1,287 / 167,121 |
| Young, Douglas Brownlee | Microbiology | 581 / 232,186 | 4,917 / 232,186 |
| Lovell-Badge, Robin H. | Developmental Biology | 852 / 167,121 | 1,305 / 167,121 |
| Bonnet, Dominique A. | Immunology | 769 / 176,292 | 1,375 / 176,292 |
| Briscoe, James | Developmental Biology | 868 / 167,121 | 718 / 167,121 |
| Skehel, John J. | Virology | 158 / 79,508 | 521 / 79,508 |
| Uhlmann, Frank | Developmental Biology | 960 / 167,121 | 1,324 / 167,121 |
| Lewis, Julian H. | Developmental Biology | 991 / 167,121 | — |
| Holder, Anthony A. | Mycology & Parasitology | 54 / 29,175 | 716 / 29,175 |
| Tybulewicz, Victor L.J. | Immunology | 986 / 176,292 | 1,880 / 176,292 |
| Karran, Peter | Developmental Biology | 1,137 / 167,121 | — |
| Elósegui-Artola, Alberto | Developmental Biology | — | 744 / 167,121 |
| Kassiotis, George | Immunology | 2,194 / 176,292 | 631 / 176,292 |
| Boulton, Simon J. | Developmental Biology | 1,209 / 167,121 | 1,132 / 167,121 |
| Wilkinson, Robert John | Microbiology | 1,099 / 232,186 | 932 / 232,186 |
| Ule, Jernej | Developmental Biology | 1,624 / 167,121 | 926 / 167,121 |
| Stoye, Jonathan Paul | Virology | 355 / 79,508 | 715 / 79,508 |
| Cherepanov, Peter P. | Developmental Biology | 1,723 / 167,121 | 2,817 / 167,121 |
| Vinuesa, Carola G. | Immunology | 1,609 / 176,292 | 1,135 / 176,292 |
| Turajlic, Samra | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 7,865 / 377,791 | 1,799 / 377,791 |
| Patani, Rickie | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 2,964 / 379,830 |
| Gutiérrez, Maximiliano Gabriel | Microbiology | 2,441 / 232,186 | 1,316 / 232,186 |
| Langhorne, Jean | Immunology | 1,889 / 176,292 | — |
| Matthews, Prof Philippa C. | Microbiology | — | 1,450 / 232,186 |
| Ang, Siew Lan | Developmental Biology | 2,209 / 167,121 | — |
| Skoglund, Pontus | Developmental Biology | — | 1,574 / 167,121 |
| MARTIN, Stephen R. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,194 / 216,826 | — |
| Turner, James M.A. | Developmental Biology | 2,471 / 167,121 | 2,246 / 167,121 |
| Webb, Martin R. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,412 / 216,826 | — |
| Li, Vivian S.w. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,936 / 167,121 |
| Way, Michael J. | Developmental Biology | 2,669 / 167,121 | — |
| Luscombe, Nicholas M. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,997 / 167,121 |
| Hay, Alan J. | Virology | 831 / 79,508 | 1,581 / 79,508 |
| Kerr, Ian M. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 4,080 / 216,826 | — |
| Birdsall, Nigel J.M. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 1,074 / 166,116 | — |
| Gamblin, Steven J. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 1,863 / 216,826 |
| Athauda, Dilan S. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 5,561 / 379,830 |
| Gupta, Latika | Arthritis & Rheumatology | — | 632 / 45,980 |
| Cheung, Eric C. | Developmental Biology | — | 2,852 / 167,121 |
| Hansen, D. Flemming | Biophysics | 294 / 21,025 | 108 / 21,025 |
| Gandhi, Sonia | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 5,928 / 379,830 |
| Booth, Thomas James | Archaeology | — | 152 / 21,336 |
| Wack, Andreas | Immunology | — | 2,532 / 176,292 |
| Buck, Michael D. | Immunology | — | 2,595 / 176,292 |
| Rosenthal, Peter B. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 2,283 / 216,826 |
| Kinsler, Veronica A. | Dermatology & Venereal Diseases | — | 556 / 64,751 |
| Sanderson, Theo | Microbiology | — | 3,284 / 232,186 |
| Diebold, Joachim | Pathology | 460 / 26,003 | — |
| Di Antonio, Marco | Organic Chemistry | — | 2,327 / 188,664 |
| Pich, Oriol | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 5,631 / 377,791 |
| Wan, Jonathan Chee Ming | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 5,893 / 377,791 |
| Tate, Edward W. | Organic Chemistry | 3,647 / 188,664 | 4,169 / 188,664 |
| Rosenthal, Rachel | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 6,712 / 377,791 |
| Bates, Paul A. | Bioinformatics | 496 / 24,357 | — |
| Neil, Mark A.A. | Optics | 1,071 / 83,504 | 1,968 / 83,504 |
| Black, James R.M. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 7,495 / 377,791 |
| Hill, William | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 7,526 / 377,791 |
| Lewis, Nicola Sarah | Virology | — | 984 / 79,508 |
| Ng, Kevin W. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 7,756 / 377,791 |
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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