University of the West of Scotland 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).
17
researchers on the list
226
rank in United Kingdom
3,014
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowland, Thomas W. | Sport Sciences | 105 / 41,112 | — |
| Aǧar, Osman | Applied Physics | 6,188 / 323,282 | 1,119 / 323,282 |
| Sloman, Katherine A. | Fisheries | 238 / 47,614 | 399 / 47,614 |
| Quinn, Brian | Environmental Sciences | 2,433 / 140,934 | 2,562 / 140,934 |
| Menzies, Fiona Mhairi | Developmental Biology | — | 2,501 / 167,121 |
| Lawrence, Jonathan | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 459 / 140,272 | 1,213 / 140,272 |
| Dello Iacono, Antonio | Sport Sciences | — | 688 / 41,112 |
| Hall, Peter J. | Energy | 2,308 / 371,959 | — |
| Carless, David | Sport Sciences | 666 / 41,112 | 740 / 41,112 |
| Ramzan, Naeem | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,982 / 517,648 |
| Hursthouse, Andrew S. | Environmental Sciences | 1,503 / 140,934 | — |
| Fyfe, Colin | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,971 / 517,648 | — |
| Desmond R. Gibson, Des R. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,010 / 140,272 | 672 / 140,272 |
| Abbas, Qaisar | Energy | — | 7,738 / 371,959 |
| Tolson, Debbie T. | Nursing | 1,005 / 73,697 | — |
| Ferguson, Iain | Social Work | 205 / 9,659 | — |
| Ahmed, Sabbir | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 1,956 / 120,621 | — |
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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