Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research 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).
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researchers on the list
139
rank in Germany
2,543
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schulze-Lefert, Paul | Plant Biology & Botany | 243 / 204,373 | 498 / 204,373 |
| Hacquard, Stéphane | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,136 / 204,373 | 512 / 204,373 |
| Coupland, George M. | Plant Biology & Botany | 482 / 204,373 | 1,298 / 204,373 |
| Melkonian, Michael | Plant Biology & Botany | 602 / 204,373 | 1,907 / 204,373 |
| Parker, Jane E. | Plant Biology & Botany | 604 / 204,373 | 1,150 / 204,373 |
| Gebhardt, Christiane G. | Plant Biology & Botany | 646 / 204,373 | 3,001 / 204,373 |
| Koncz, Csaba | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,374 / 204,373 | — |
| Chandler, John William | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,742 / 204,373 | 1,650 / 204,373 |
| Somssich, Imre E. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,611 / 204,373 | 2,997 / 204,373 |
| Hahlbrock, Klaus | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,707 / 204,373 | — |
| Forkmann, Gert | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,925 / 204,373 | — |
| Mercier, Raphael | Developmental Biology | — | 2,779 / 167,121 |
| Nakagami, Hirofumi | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,657 / 204,373 | 2,609 / 204,373 |
| Saedler, Heinz | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,542 / 204,373 | — |
| Huijser, Peter | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 3,342 / 204,373 |
| Schell, Jeff | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,932 / 204,373 | — |
| Garrido-Oter, Ruben | Microbiology | — | 4,015 / 232,186 |
| Schmelzer, Elmon | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,309 / 204,373 | — |
| Kombrink, Erich | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,682 / 204,373 | — |
| Rohde, Wolfgang | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,982 / 204,373 | — |
| Schell, Jozef St | General & Internal Medicine | 6,511 / 360,081 | — |
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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