Wellcome Sanger 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).
37
researchers on the list
123
rank in United Kingdom
1,600
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blaxter, Mark L. | Developmental Biology | 264 / 167,121 | 98 / 167,121 |
| Campbell, Peter J. | Developmental Biology | 433 / 167,121 | 109 / 167,121 |
| Kwiatkowski, Dominic P. | Tropical Medicine | 10 / 39,335 | 33 / 39,335 |
| Martincorena, Iñigo | Developmental Biology | 1,847 / 167,121 | 236 / 167,121 |
| Bradley, Allan | Developmental Biology | 491 / 167,121 | 1,526 / 167,121 |
| Daněček, Petr | Developmental Biology | — | 318 / 167,121 |
| Hurles, Matthew E. | Genetics & Heredity | 104 / 42,273 | 57 / 42,273 |
| Carter, Nigel P. | Genetics & Heredity | 142 / 42,273 | 534 / 42,273 |
| Bentley, Stephen D. | Microbiology | 901 / 232,186 | 1,318 / 232,186 |
| Tyler-Smith, Chris | Genetics & Heredity | 188 / 42,273 | 272 / 42,273 |
| Cortes-Ciriano, Isidro | Developmental Biology | — | 822 / 167,121 |
| Stemple, Derek L. | Developmental Biology | 1,365 / 167,121 | 2,405 / 167,121 |
| Lotfollahi, Mohammad | Developmental Biology | — | 948 / 167,121 |
| Vento-Tormo, Roser | Developmental Biology | — | 958 / 167,121 |
| Garnett, Mathew J. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 6,769 / 377,791 | 1,501 / 377,791 |
| Howe, Kerstin L. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,075 / 167,121 |
| Lawley, Trevor D. | Microbiology | 4,360 / 232,186 | 1,010 / 232,186 |
| Abascal, Federico | Developmental Biology | — | 1,090 / 167,121 |
| Soranzo, Nicole | Developmental Biology | 1,925 / 167,121 | 1,243 / 167,121 |
| Berriman, Matthew | Developmental Biology | 1,908 / 167,121 | 1,511 / 167,121 |
| Adams, David James | Developmental Biology | — | 1,307 / 167,121 |
| Thomson, Nicholas Robert | Microbiology | 3,261 / 232,186 | 1,478 / 232,186 |
| Wooster, Richard W. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 3,090 / 377,791 | — |
| Bonfield, James K. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,610 / 167,121 |
| Vassiliou, George S. | Immunology | — | 1,518 / 176,292 |
| McCarthy, Shane A. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,910 / 167,121 |
| Potter, Simon C. | Developmental Biology | — | 2,140 / 167,121 |
| Howe, Kevin Lee | Developmental Biology | — | 2,304 / 167,121 |
| Lawniczak, Mara K.N. | Developmental Biology | — | 2,385 / 167,121 |
| Yates, Lucy R. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 3,809 / 377,791 |
| Tonkin-Hill, Gerry Q. | Microbiology | — | 2,396 / 232,186 |
| Tarpey, Patrick S. | Developmental Biology | — | 2,890 / 167,121 |
| Schwartzentruber, Jeremy A. | Genetics & Heredity | — | 354 / 42,273 |
| Polański, Krzysztof | Immunology | — | 2,686 / 176,292 |
| Doyle, Stephen R. | Mycology & Parasitology | — | 282 / 29,175 |
| Xue, Yali | Genetics & Heredity | — | 439 / 42,273 |
| Browne, Hilary P. | Microbiology | — | 4,152 / 232,186 |
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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