CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security 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).
15
researchers on the list
168
rank in Germany
3,348
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stich, Sebastian Urban | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,004 / 517,648 | 676 / 517,648 |
| Zeller, Andreas | Software Engineering | 20 / 24,083 | 46 / 24,083 |
| Backes, Michael | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,180 / 517,648 | 1,319 / 517,648 |
| Marx, Dániel | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 76 / 20,721 | 45 / 20,721 |
| Cremers, Cas J.F. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,883 / 517,648 | 1,452 / 517,648 |
| Joux, Antoine | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,268 / 517,648 | 6,147 / 517,648 |
| Finkbeiner, Bernd | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,824 / 517,648 | 3,036 / 517,648 |
| Zhang, Yang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,193 / 517,648 | 3,506 / 517,648 |
| Rossow, Christian | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,318 / 517,648 | 3,611 / 517,648 |
| Fritz, Mario | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,220 / 517,648 | 4,629 / 517,648 |
| Schwarz, Michael | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,315 / 517,648 |
| Tippenhauer, Nils Ole | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,577 / 517,648 | 7,455 / 517,648 |
| Muandet, Krikamol | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,800 / 517,648 |
| Brandt, Sebastian | Computation Theory & Mathematics | — | 393 / 20,721 |
| Vreeken, Jilles | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,002 / 517,648 | — |
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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