Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik 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
126
rank in Germany
2,195
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aharonian, F. A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 15 / 58,202 | 82 / 58,202 |
| Rodejohann, Werner | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 405 / 164,120 | 757 / 164,120 |
| Keitel, Christoph H. | General Physics | 173 / 87,024 | 730 / 87,024 |
| Lindner, Manfred | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 471 / 164,120 | 962 / 164,120 |
| Rieger, Frank M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,136 / 58,202 | 580 / 58,202 |
| Hebeler, Kai | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,941 / 164,120 | 521 / 164,120 |
| Blaum, Klaus | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 697 / 164,120 | 849 / 164,120 |
| Völk, Heinrich J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 723 / 58,202 | — |
| Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Hans Volker | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 829 / 164,120 | — |
| Hinton, James A.J.A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 969 / 58,202 | — |
| Akhmedov, Evgeny Kh | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,108 / 164,120 | 3,155 / 164,120 |
| Schwenk, Achim | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,294 / 164,120 | 990 / 164,120 |
| Weidenmüller, Hans A. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,243 / 164,120 | — |
| Arnold, Finland Frank | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,281 / 84,638 | — |
| Kirk, John G. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,574 / 58,202 | — |
| Krätschmer, Wolfgang | Applied Physics | 2,548 / 323,282 | — |
| Jahnke, Till | General Physics | 813 / 87,024 | 630 / 87,024 |
| Heusser, Gerd | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,683 / 164,120 | — |
| Schmelling, Michael | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,864 / 164,120 | 3,048 / 164,120 |
| Hofmann, Werner | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,983 / 164,120 | — |
| Wolf, Andreas | General Physics | 1,203 / 87,024 | — |
| Povh, Bogdan | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 3,478 / 164,120 | — |
| Crespo López-Urrutia, José R. | General Physics | 1,374 / 87,024 | — |
| Moshammer, Robert | General Physics | 1,434 / 87,024 | — |
| Pfeifer, Thomas | General Physics | 1,527 / 87,024 | — |
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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