Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences 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).
12
researchers on the list
194
rank in Germany
3,968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friederici, Angela D. | Experimental Psychology | 14 / 37,808 | 47 / 37,808 |
| Turner, Robert | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 673 / 379,830 | 799 / 379,830 |
| Villringer, Arno M.d. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,151 / 379,830 | 1,193 / 379,830 |
| Prinz, Wolfgang | Experimental Psychology | 247 / 37,808 | 602 / 37,808 |
| Schmidt, Richard A. | Experimental Psychology | 371 / 37,808 | 693 / 37,808 |
| Weiskopf, Nikolaus | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,258 / 379,830 | 1,447 / 379,830 |
| Kiselev, Valerij Gennadevic | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 756 / 129,561 | 669 / 129,561 |
| Helms, Gunther | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 970 / 129,561 | 1,855 / 129,561 |
| Geyer, Stefan | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 7,554 / 379,830 | — |
| Hebart, Martin N. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 5,976 / 379,830 |
| Nikulin, Vadim V. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 5,986 / 379,830 |
| Möller, Harald E. | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 2,147 / 129,561 | 1,545 / 129,561 |
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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