University of Edinburgh, Institute for Astronomy 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).
11
researchers on the list
298
rank in United Kingdom
4,213
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best, Phillip N. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 345 / 58,202 | 345 / 58,202 |
| Ivison, Robert J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 460 / 58,202 | — |
| Duncan, Kenneth J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 614 / 58,202 |
| James S. Dunlop, James S. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 564 / 58,202 | 772 / 58,202 |
| Beutler, Florian | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 664 / 58,202 |
| Koposov, Sergey E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 727 / 58,202 |
| Peñarrubia, Jorge | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,616 / 58,202 | 935 / 58,202 |
| Heymans, Catherine E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,030 / 58,202 |
| Carnall, Adam C. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,075 / 58,202 |
| Mclure, Ross J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,419 / 58,202 | 1,244 / 58,202 |
| Zuntz, Joe A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,427 / 58,202 |
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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