Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine 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).
28
researchers on the list
117
rank in Germany
2,020
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajewsky, Klaus | Immunology | 84 / 176,292 | 420 / 176,292 |
| Luft, Friedrich C. | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 130 / 249,410 | 778 / 249,410 |
| Bader, Michael | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 525 / 249,410 | 704 / 249,410 |
| Rajewsky, Nikolaus | Developmental Biology | 464 / 167,121 | 330 / 167,121 |
| Birchmeier, Walter | Developmental Biology | 544 / 167,121 | 1,600 / 167,121 |
| Sattentau, Quentin James | Virology | 139 / 79,508 | 680 / 79,508 |
| Birchmeier, Carmen | Developmental Biology | 842 / 167,121 | 2,057 / 167,121 |
| Pischon, Tobias | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 1,244 / 377,791 | 1,077 / 377,791 |
| Lewin, Gary R. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,685 / 379,830 | — |
| Forslund, Sofia Kirke | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | — | 1,292 / 249,410 |
| Scheidereit, Claus | Developmental Biology | 1,494 / 167,121 | 3,068 / 167,121 |
| Wanker, Erich E. | Developmental Biology | 1,569 / 167,121 | 2,565 / 167,121 |
| Wallukat, Gerd | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 1,847 / 249,410 | 3,440 / 249,410 |
| Simon, Anna Katharina | Immunology | — | 1,018 / 176,292 |
| Blankenstein, Thomas J.F. | Immunology | 1,659 / 176,292 | — |
| Heinemann, Udo | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,116 / 216,826 | — |
| Daniel, Peter Ted | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 3,441 / 377,791 | — |
| Falcke, Martin | Fluids & Plasmas | 930 / 58,297 | — |
| Stein, Ulrike S. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 3,788 / 377,791 | — |
| Sauer, Sascha | Developmental Biology | 2,867 / 167,121 | 2,679 / 167,121 |
| Kühn, Ralf | Developmental Biology | 3,075 / 167,121 | 3,341 / 167,121 |
| Niendorf, Thoralf | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 1,112 / 129,561 | 1,736 / 129,561 |
| Dietz, Rainer H. | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 4,098 / 249,410 | — |
| Akalin, Altuna | Developmental Biology | — | 2,819 / 167,121 |
| Wolf, Susanne A. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 6,567 / 379,830 |
| Landthaler, Markus | Developmental Biology | — | 3,292 / 167,121 |
| Kirwan, J. A. | Analytical Chemistry | — | 1,438 / 137,328 |
| Daumke, Oliver | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 4,288 / 216,826 |
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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