The Natural History Museum, London 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).
59
researchers on the list
78
rank in United Kingdom
1,066
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purvis, Andy | Ecology | 151 / 82,882 | 252 / 82,882 |
| Stringer, Chris Brian Rian | Anthropology | 6 / 10,039 | 27 / 10,039 |
| Gooday, Andrew John | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 74 / 54,545 | 106 / 54,545 |
| Williams, Paul Hugh | Ecology | 297 / 82,882 | 745 / 82,882 |
| Wilkinson, Jamie J. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 788 / 108,013 | 210 / 108,013 |
| Smith, Andrew B. | Paleontology | 56 / 23,292 | 362 / 23,292 |
| Gale, Andrew Scott | Paleontology | 86 / 23,292 | 58 / 23,292 |
| Eggleton, Paul | Ecology | 608 / 82,882 | 632 / 82,882 |
| Wilkinson, Mark W. | Evolutionary Biology | 276 / 31,128 | — |
| Edgecombe, Gregory D. | Paleontology | 96 / 23,292 | 110 / 23,292 |
| Dean, M. Christopher | Anthropology | 27 / 10,039 | 89 / 10,039 |
| Cocks, Leonard Robin M. | Geology | 40 / 17,936 | 69 / 17,936 |
| Andrews, Peter J. | Anthropology | 30 / 10,039 | 90 / 10,039 |
| Lister, Adrian M. | Paleontology | 113 / 23,292 | 83 / 23,292 |
| Fortey, Richard A. | Paleontology | 127 / 23,292 | — |
| Taylor, Paul David | Paleontology | 129 / 23,292 | 167 / 23,292 |
| Knapp, Sandra | Evolutionary Biology | 421 / 31,128 | 250 / 31,128 |
| Twitchett, Richard J. | Paleontology | 168 / 23,292 | 198 / 23,292 |
| Downes, Hilary | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 848 / 108,013 | 1,467 / 108,013 |
| Harbach, Ralph E. | Tropical Medicine | 84 / 39,335 | 45 / 39,335 |
| Norris, Ken J. | Ecology | 900 / 82,882 | 1,908 / 82,882 |
| Parker, Andrew Richard | Evolutionary Biology | 458 / 31,128 | 487 / 31,128 |
| Bray, Rodney Alan | Mycology & Parasitology | 98 / 29,175 | 131 / 29,175 |
| Vogler, Alfried P. | Evolutionary Biology | 496 / 31,128 | — |
| Okamura, Beth | Evolutionary Biology | 507 / 31,128 | — |
| Littlewood, David Timothy J. | Mycology & Parasitology | 109 / 29,175 | 140 / 29,175 |
| Rollinson, D. | Mycology & Parasitology | 114 / 29,175 | 150 / 29,175 |
| Gower, David J. | Zoology | 15 / 19,073 | 38 / 19,073 |
| Bond, Alexander L. | Ornithology | 23 / 5,121 | 7 / 5,121 |
| Brooks, Stephen John | Paleontology | 281 / 23,292 | 320 / 23,292 |
| Arnold, Edwin Nicholas | Evolutionary Biology | 598 / 31,128 | — |
| Boxshall, Geoffrey A. | Mycology & Parasitology | 151 / 29,175 | 169 / 29,175 |
| Blackman, Roger L. | Entomology | 185 / 40,595 | 930 / 40,595 |
| Williams, Suzanne T. | Evolutionary Biology | 656 / 31,128 | 517 / 31,128 |
| Cuadros, Javier | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,061 / 108,013 | 1,105 / 108,013 |
| Kershaw, Stephen Y. | Paleontology | 370 / 23,292 | — |
| Russell, Sara S. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,240 / 108,013 |
| Kenrick, Paul R. | Evolutionary Biology | 754 / 31,128 | — |
| J. R. Hall, Martin Jonathan Richard | Tropical Medicine | 289 / 39,335 | 99 / 39,335 |
| Duckett, Jeffrey G. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,479 / 204,373 | 3,686 / 204,373 |
| Reid, David G. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 958 / 54,545 | — |
| Cox, Eileen J. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 987 / 54,545 | — |
| Williams, David M. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,089 / 54,545 | — |
| Woolley, Allan Robert | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,277 / 108,013 | — |
| Maidment, Susannah Catherine Rose | Paleontology | — | 378 / 23,292 |
| Humphrey, Louise T. | Anthropology | — | 170 / 10,039 |
| Herrington, Richard Jeremy | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,997 / 108,013 |
| Henderson, Paul | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,579 / 108,013 | — |
| Polaszek, Andrew D. | Entomology | 609 / 40,595 | 336 / 40,595 |
| Gibson, David I. | Mycology & Parasitology | 384 / 29,175 | — |
| Olson, Peter D. | Mycology & Parasitology | 386 / 29,175 | 334 / 29,175 |
| Webster, Bonnie L. | Mycology & Parasitology | — | 295 / 29,175 |
| Molleson, Theya I. | Archaeology | 273 / 21,336 | — |
| Southgate, Vaughan Robert | Mycology & Parasitology | 535 / 29,175 | — |
| Jacobi, Roger M. | Archaeology | 308 / 21,336 | — |
| Littlewood, D. Timothy J. | Mycology & Parasitology | 624 / 29,175 | — |
| Bello, Silvia M. | Archaeology | — | 331 / 21,336 |
| Martin, Jon H. | Zoology | 241 / 19,073 | 352 / 19,073 |
| Mahony, Stephen V. | Zoology | 389 / 19,073 | 172 / 19,073 |
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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