The James Hutton 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).
63
researchers on the list
71
rank in United Kingdom
992
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
Share it with your department
The full list, with each person's rank, subfield, c-score, h-index and citations, in a file for Excel.
Click a name to see the full record. The columns give each person’s rank in their subfield on each list.
| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raven, John A. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3 / 204,373 | 21 / 204,373 |
| White, Philip J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 22 / 204,373 | 13 / 204,373 |
| Christie, William W. | Nutrition & Dietetics | 203 / 59,506 | 1,241 / 59,506 |
| Brooker, Rob W. | Ecology | 952 / 82,882 | 765 / 82,882 |
| Pakeman, Robin J. | Ecology | 711 / 82,882 | 805 / 82,882 |
| Sutherland, Lee Ann M. | Geography | 412 / 21,559 | 187 / 21,559 |
| Stewart, Derek | Food Science | 195 / 107,913 | 944 / 107,913 |
| Ørskov, Egil Robert | Dairy & Animal Science | 89 / 78,455 | 571 / 78,455 |
| McDougall, Gordon James M. | Food Science | 255 / 107,913 | — |
| James, Euan Kevin | Plant Biology & Botany | 700 / 204,373 | 1,380 / 204,373 |
| Taylor, Mark A. | Plant Biology & Botany | 712 / 204,373 | 2,509 / 204,373 |
| George, Timothy S. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,557 / 95,377 | 419 / 95,377 |
| Zhang, Zulin | Environmental Sciences | 1,971 / 140,934 | 1,315 / 140,934 |
| Hillier, Stephen J. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 367 / 95,377 | 625 / 95,377 |
| Mayo, Michael A. | Virology | 545 / 79,508 | — |
| Blackstock, Kirsty Louise | Environmental Sciences | 1,163 / 140,934 | 1,665 / 140,934 |
| Brown, John W.S. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,102 / 204,373 | — |
| Rhind, Stewart M. | Dairy & Animal Science | 201 / 78,455 | — |
| Harrison, Bryan D. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,162 / 204,373 | — |
| Paterson, Eric S. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 434 / 95,377 | 784 / 95,377 |
| Farmer, Victor C. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 443 / 95,377 | — |
| Cock, Peter J.A. | Bioinformatics | — | 242 / 24,357 |
| Ure, Allan M. | Analytical Chemistry | 742 / 137,328 | — |
| Bradshaw, John E. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,834 / 204,373 | 1,691 / 204,373 |
| Newton, Adrian C. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,567 / 204,373 | 2,669 / 204,373 |
| Trudgill, David L. | Zoology | 61 / 19,073 | 259 / 19,073 |
| Birch, Paul R.J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,862 / 204,373 | 2,403 / 204,373 |
| Hough, Rupert Lloyd | Environmental Sciences | 2,052 / 140,934 | 2,940 / 140,934 |
| Chapman, Stephen James | Agronomy & Agriculture | 711 / 95,377 | 1,924 / 95,377 |
| Scrimgeour, Charles Mc | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,922 / 204,373 | — |
| Davies, H. V. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,958 / 204,373 | — |
| Waugh, Robbie | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,986 / 204,373 | — |
| Jones, John T. | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,364 / 204,373 |
| Edwards, Anthony C. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 817 / 95,377 | — |
| Hackett, Christine Anne | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,271 / 204,373 | — |
| MacFarlane, Stuart A. | Virology | 1,255 / 79,508 | — |
| Boag, Brian | Mycology & Parasitology | 367 / 29,175 | — |
| Stutter, Marc I. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,188 / 95,377 | 1,275 / 95,377 |
| Morrison, Ian M. | Food Science | 1,041 / 107,913 | — |
| Russel, A. J.F. | Dairy & Animal Science | 564 / 78,455 | — |
| Torrance, Lesley | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,861 / 204,373 | — |
| Pérombelon, Michael C.M. | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,916 / 204,373 | — |
| Quinn, Paul Francis | Environmental Engineering | 1,108 / 68,664 | — |
| Thomas, William T.B. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,034 / 204,373 | — |
| Cooke, David Edward Llewelyn | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,115 / 204,373 | — |
| Blok, Vivian Carol | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,140 / 204,373 | — |
| Squire, Geoffrey R. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,204 / 204,373 | — |
| Ryabov, Eugene V. | Virology | — | 820 / 79,508 |
| Boevink, Petra C. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,475 / 204,373 | — |
| Aitkenhead, Matthew J. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,417 / 95,377 | — |
| Wheatley, Ronald E. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,421 / 95,377 | — |
| Campbell, C. D. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,443 / 95,377 | — |
| Barker, Hugh | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,804 / 204,373 | — |
| Griffiths, D. Wynne | Food Science | 1,627 / 107,913 | — |
| Slee, Bill J. | Forestry | 417 / 36,413 | 473 / 36,413 |
| Hancock, Robert D. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,864 / 204,373 | — |
| Dobson, Gary | Food Science | 1,687 / 107,913 | — |
| Williamson, Brian | Plant Biology & Botany | 4,132 / 204,373 | — |
| Thornton, Barry | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,658 / 95,377 | — |
| Polhill, J. G. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,740 / 517,648 | — |
| Cheshire, Martin V. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,868 / 95,377 | — |
| Lumsdon, David G. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,895 / 95,377 | — |
| Allwood, James William | Analytical Chemistry | — | 2,880 / 137,328 |
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
Explore Labs is not affiliated with Stanford University or Elsevier. This tool is free.