Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems 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).
27
researchers on the list
122
rank in Germany
2,081
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schölkopf, Bernhard | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 28 / 517,648 | 37 / 517,648 |
| Black, Michael Julian | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 127 / 517,648 | 197 / 517,648 |
| Brandt, Ernsth Helmut | Applied Physics | 139 / 323,282 | 905 / 323,282 |
| Hardt, Moritz | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,128 / 517,648 | 528 / 517,648 |
| Kronmüller, Helmut | Applied Physics | 333 / 323,282 | 1,307 / 323,282 |
| Rühle, Manfred | Materials | 400 / 330,896 | 7,061 / 330,896 |
| Fischer, Peer | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,264 / 177,859 | 1,134 / 177,859 |
| Hofmann, Siegfried | Applied Physics | 1,280 / 323,282 | 3,393 / 323,282 |
| Aldinger, Fritz | Materials | 739 / 330,896 | — |
| Sommer, Ferdinand | Materials | 801 / 330,896 | — |
| Keplinger, Christoph | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,370 / 177,859 |
| Gerward, Leif | Applied Physics | 1,999 / 323,282 | 4,617 / 323,282 |
| Mehrer, Helmut | Materials | 1,453 / 330,896 | — |
| Fähnle, Manfred | Applied Physics | 2,978 / 323,282 | — |
| Andriushchenko, Maksym | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,055 / 517,648 |
| Wen, Yandong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,961 / 517,648 |
| Fischmeister, Hellmut F. | Materials | 2,922 / 330,896 | — |
| Ellner, Martin | Materials | 3,038 / 330,896 | — |
| Walz, Friedrich | Applied Physics | 5,809 / 323,282 | — |
| Wilkens, Manfred | Applied Physics | 5,836 / 323,282 | — |
| Schubert, Konrad | Materials | 4,393 / 330,896 | — |
| Warlimont, Hans | Materials | 5,288 / 330,896 | — |
| Gerold, Volkmar | Materials | 5,363 / 330,896 | — |
| Weller, Manfred | Materials | 5,992 / 330,896 | — |
| Wagner, Thomas A. | Materials | 6,122 / 330,896 | — |
| Brunner, Dieter | Materials | 6,593 / 330,896 | — |
| Fromm, Eckehard | Materials | 7,502 / 330,896 | — |
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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