Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics 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
142
rank in Germany
2,653
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springel, Volker | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1 / 58,202 | 1 / 58,202 |
| Janka, Hans Thomas H. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 34 / 58,202 | 24 / 58,202 |
| Kauffmann, Guinevere | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 54 / 58,202 | 116 / 58,202 |
| Beloborodov, Andrei M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 137 / 58,202 | 91 / 58,202 |
| Komatsu, Eiichiro | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 120 / 58,202 | 112 / 58,202 |
| Pakmor, R̈udiger | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 233 / 58,202 |
| Spruit, Hendrik C. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 219 / 58,202 | 758 / 58,202 |
| Sunyaev, Rashid A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 546 / 58,202 | 297 / 58,202 |
| Schmidt, Fabian | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 712 / 164,120 | 282 / 164,120 |
| Ensslin, Torsten A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 280 / 58,202 | 330 / 58,202 |
| Mazzali, Paolo A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 350 / 58,202 | — |
| de Mink, Selma E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 533 / 58,202 |
| Naab, Thorsten | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,356 / 58,202 | 596 / 58,202 |
| Suyu, Sherry H. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 899 / 58,202 |
| Gil’fanov, Marat R. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,015 / 58,202 | 1,494 / 58,202 |
| Hillebrandt, Wolfgang | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,050 / 58,202 | — |
| Gronke, Max B. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,355 / 58,202 |
| Banerjee, Sambaran | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,387 / 58,202 |
| Justham, Stephen | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,756 / 58,202 |
| KoŁos, WŁodzimierz | Chemical Physics | 2,320 / 121,889 | — |
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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