Max Planck Institute for Informatics 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).
16
researchers on the list
160
rank in Germany
3,173
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schiele, Bernt | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 413 / 517,648 | 916 / 517,648 |
| Lengauer, Thomas | Bioinformatics | 59 / 24,357 | 108 / 24,357 |
| Weikum, Gerhard | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 600 / 517,648 | 2,171 / 517,648 |
| Pons-Moll, Gerard | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,814 / 517,648 | 1,421 / 517,648 |
| Seidel, Hans Peter | Software Engineering | 43 / 24,083 | 229 / 24,083 |
| Dai, Dengxin | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,039 / 517,648 | 1,746 / 517,648 |
| Mehlhorn, Kurt | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 103 / 20,721 | 142 / 20,721 |
| Theobalt, Christian | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,755 / 517,648 | 1,954 / 517,648 |
| Feldmann, Anja | Networking & Telecommunications | 428 / 228,312 | 4,290 / 228,312 |
| Izadi, Shahram | Human Factors | 316 / 16,381 | 296 / 16,381 |
| Ochs, Peter | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 9,085 / 517,648 | 8,176 / 517,648 |
| Habermann, Marc | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,949 / 517,648 |
| Rhodin, Helge | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,812 / 517,648 |
| Kociumaka, Tomasz | Computation Theory & Mathematics | — | 343 / 20,721 |
| Mehta, Dushyant | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 11,339 / 517,648 |
| Ganzinger, Harald | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,304 / 517,648 | — |
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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