Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence 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).
11
researchers on the list
201
rank in Germany
4,213
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klein, Rüdiger | Developmental Biology | 347 / 167,121 | 1,083 / 167,121 |
| Sakmann, Bert | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 669 / 379,830 | 3,701 / 379,830 |
| Wekerle, Hartmut | Immunology | 448 / 176,292 | 1,709 / 176,292 |
| Kempenaers, Bart | Evolutionary Biology | 214 / 31,128 | 323 / 31,128 |
| Borst, Alexander | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,673 / 379,830 | 2,633 / 379,830 |
| Bonhoeffer, Tobias | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,057 / 379,830 | — |
| Brumm, Henrik | Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology | 161 / 13,044 | 54 / 13,044 |
| Forstmeier, Wolfgang | Evolutionary Biology | 537 / 31,128 | 414 / 31,128 |
| Baier, Herwig | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 4,257 / 379,830 | 3,970 / 379,830 |
| Gahr, Manfred L. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 4,751 / 379,830 | — |
| Rattenborg, Niels C. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 7,071 / 379,830 | 4,837 / 379,830 |
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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