German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) 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).
13
researchers on the list
187
rank in Germany
3,749
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maass, Wolfgang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 160 / 517,648 | 121 / 517,648 |
| Drechsler, Rolf | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 29 / 21,014 | 24 / 21,014 |
| Feld, Michael S. | Optics | 322 / 83,504 | 939 / 83,504 |
| Phan, Huy | Biomedical Engineering | — | 309 / 74,543 |
| Fettke, Peter | Information Systems | 324 / 19,463 | 340 / 19,463 |
| Khan, Saif Ur Rehman | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,349 / 517,648 |
| Ahmed, Sheraz | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,969 / 517,648 |
| Klusch, Matthias | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,148 / 517,648 | — |
| Schröder, Marc | Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology | 159 / 13,500 | — |
| Frese, Udo | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,773 / 131,085 | — |
| Kr̈uger, Antonio | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,837 / 517,648 | — |
| Kirchner, Frank | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,450 / 131,085 | — |
| Wahlster, Wolfgang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,390 / 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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