Max Planck Institute for Astronomy 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).
21
researchers on the list
139
rank in Germany
2,543
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailer-Jones, Coryn A.L. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 212 / 58,202 | 73 / 58,202 |
| Henning, Thomas K. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 51 / 58,202 | 83 / 58,202 |
| Aerts, Conny | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 366 / 58,202 | 92 / 58,202 |
| Kreidberg, Laura | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 942 / 58,202 | 95 / 58,202 |
| Rix, Hans Walter R. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 452 / 58,202 | 150 / 58,202 |
| Pillepich, Annalisa | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 253 / 58,202 |
| Cantat-Gaudin, T. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 308 / 58,202 |
| Walter, Fabian | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 344 / 58,202 | 356 / 58,202 |
| Bergemann, Maria | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 670 / 58,202 |
| Schinnerer, Eva | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 815 / 58,202 |
| Bañados, Eduardo | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,049 / 58,202 |
| Mollière, Paul | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,326 / 58,202 |
| Davies, Frederick B. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,390 / 58,202 |
| Andrae, René | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,406 / 58,202 |
| Martin, Nicolas F. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,492 / 58,202 |
| Klahr, Hubert Hubertus | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,434 / 58,202 | 1,596 / 58,202 |
| Neumayer, Nadine | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,623 / 58,202 |
| Beuther, Henrik | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,530 / 58,202 | — |
| de Graaff, Anna | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,676 / 58,202 |
| Benisty, Myriam | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,703 / 58,202 |
| Herbst, Thomas M. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,030 / 140,272 | — |
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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