The Pirbright 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).
26
researchers on the list
158
rank in United Kingdom
2,133
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cavanagh, David R. | Virology | 121 / 79,508 | 183 / 79,508 |
| Mellor, Philip S. | Veterinary Sciences | 22 / 72,388 | 145 / 72,388 |
| Dixon, Linda K. | Virology | 790 / 79,508 | 84 / 79,508 |
| Brown, Ian H. | Veterinary Sciences | 58 / 72,388 | 67 / 72,388 |
| Paton, D. J. | Veterinary Sciences | 80 / 72,388 | 317 / 72,388 |
| Fraser, Hugh | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 4,779 / 379,830 | — |
| Knowles, Nick James | Virology | 666 / 79,508 | 431 / 79,508 |
| Howard, Christopher John | Veterinary Sciences | 226 / 72,388 | — |
| Taylor, David M. | Veterinary Sciences | 234 / 72,388 | — |
| Barrett, Thomas | Virology | 786 / 79,508 | — |
| Taylor, Geraldine | Virology | 936 / 79,508 | 846 / 79,508 |
| Donaldson, Alex I. | Veterinary Sciences | 381 / 72,388 | 1,185 / 72,388 |
| Shirley, Martin W. | Mycology & Parasitology | 296 / 29,175 | — |
| Dickinson, Alan G. | Veterinary Sciences | 458 / 72,388 | — |
| King, Andrew M.Q. | Virology | 1,250 / 79,508 | — |
| Payne, Laurence N. | Veterinary Sciences | 597 / 72,388 | — |
| Gubbins, Simon | Veterinary Sciences | 684 / 72,388 | 237 / 72,388 |
| Rose, M. Elaine | Mycology & Parasitology | 455 / 29,175 | — |
| Bumstead, Nat | Dairy & Animal Science | 723 / 78,455 | — |
| Carpenter, Simon T. | Veterinary Sciences | 1,146 / 72,388 | 647 / 72,388 |
| King, Donald P. | Veterinary Sciences | 1,368 / 72,388 | 569 / 72,388 |
| Sellers, Robert F. | Veterinary Sciences | 1,332 / 72,388 | — |
| Plowright, W. | Veterinary Sciences | 1,440 / 72,388 | — |
| Netherton, Christopher L. | Virology | — | 1,382 / 79,508 |
| Boorman, John P.T. | Tropical Medicine | 831 / 39,335 | — |
| Beard, Philippa M. | Veterinary Sciences | — | 677 / 72,388 |
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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