Max Planck Institute for Brain Research 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).
9
researchers on the list
223
rank in Germany
4,872
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singer, Wolf J. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 90 / 379,830 | 311 / 379,830 |
| Hossmann, Konstantin Alexander | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 600 / 379,830 | 6,712 / 379,830 |
| Wässle, Heinz | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 782 / 379,830 | 3,996 / 379,830 |
| Schuman, Erin Margaret | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,062 / 379,830 | 2,299 / 379,830 |
| Michel, Hartmut | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 650 / 216,826 | 3,439 / 216,826 |
| Laurent, Gilles J. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,305 / 379,830 | 2,395 / 379,830 |
| Kleihues, Paul | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,252 / 379,830 | 5,095 / 379,830 |
| Helmstaedter, Moritz | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 6,831 / 379,830 | 6,169 / 379,830 |
| Peichl, Leo | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 6,926 / 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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