Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics 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).
23
researchers on the list
131
rank in Germany
2,348
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buchner, Johannes | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,226 / 58,202 | 47 / 58,202 |
| Burkert, Andreas | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 61 / 58,202 | 123 / 58,202 |
| Genzel, Reinhardt | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 162 / 58,202 | 210 / 58,202 |
| Merloni, Andrea | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 513 / 58,202 | 249 / 58,202 |
| Caselli, Paola P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 414 / 58,202 | 353 / 58,202 |
| Gerhard, Ortwin E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 432 / 58,202 | 985 / 58,202 |
| Strong, Andrew W. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 433 / 58,202 | 659 / 58,202 |
| Kormendy, John | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 462 / 58,202 | 673 / 58,202 |
| Nandra, Kirpaul P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 479 / 58,202 | 733 / 58,202 |
| Davies, Richard I. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 791 / 58,202 | 645 / 58,202 |
| Lutz, Dieter | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 565 / 58,202 | 1,224 / 58,202 |
| Erwin, Peter | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,433 / 58,202 | 661 / 58,202 |
| Tacconi, Linda J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,532 / 58,202 | 717 / 58,202 |
| Salvato, Mara | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 839 / 58,202 |
| Übler, Hannah | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 906 / 58,202 |
| Haberl, Frank W. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 872 / 58,202 | — |
| Sanders, J. S. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 962 / 58,202 | 996 / 58,202 |
| Förster-Schreiber, Natascha M.F. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 934 / 58,202 | 1,095 / 58,202 |
| Voges, Wolfgang H. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,269 / 58,202 | — |
| Bruderer, Simon | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,609 / 58,202 |
| Scholer, Manfred | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,550 / 84,638 | — |
| Ivlev, Alexei V. | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,084 / 58,297 | 892 / 58,297 |
| Meidinger, Norbert | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,291 / 140,272 | 2,554 / 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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