Leibniz-Gemeinschaft 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).
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researchers on the list
231
rank in Germany
5,247
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockström, Johan | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 29 / 84,638 | 6 / 84,638 |
| Müller, Christoph | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,168 / 84,638 | 286 / 84,638 |
| Melchers, Fritz Georg | Immunology | 932 / 176,292 | — |
| Kriegler, Elmar | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,592 / 84,638 | 777 / 84,638 |
| Reyer, Christopher P.O. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,034 / 84,638 |
| Ganopolski, Andrey V. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,583 / 84,638 | 1,076 / 84,638 |
| Lotze-Campen, Hermann | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,147 / 84,638 |
| Feulner, Georg | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,661 / 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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