Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics 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).
13
researchers on the list
187
rank in Germany
3,749
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meissner, Alexander | Developmental Biology | 571 / 167,121 | 390 / 167,121 |
| Mundlos, Stefan | Genetics & Heredity | 60 / 42,273 | 165 / 42,273 |
| Lehrach, Hans R. | Developmental Biology | 945 / 167,121 | 2,532 / 167,121 |
| Herrmann, Bernhard G. | Developmental Biology | 1,189 / 167,121 | — |
| Vingron, Martin | Bioinformatics | 128 / 24,357 | — |
| Hnisz, Denes | Developmental Biology | — | 1,491 / 167,121 |
| Messer, Walter | Microbiology | 3,040 / 232,186 | — |
| Spielmann, Malte | Genetics & Heredity | — | 314 / 42,273 |
| Meierhofer, David J. | Developmental Biology | — | 3,311 / 167,121 |
| Amaral, Alexandra | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | — | 953 / 105,735 |
| Herwig, Ralf | Bioinformatics | 386 / 24,357 | — |
| Heller, Christoph | Analytical Chemistry | 2,227 / 137,328 | — |
| Moelling, Karin | Virology | — | 1,206 / 79,508 |
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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