Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy 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).
15
researchers on the list
168
rank in Germany
3,348
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kramer, Michael | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 108 / 58,202 | 139 / 58,202 |
| Menten, Karlm M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 100 / 58,202 | 271 / 58,202 |
| Beck, Rainer | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 257 / 58,202 | 437 / 58,202 |
| Lobanov, Andrei P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,305 / 58,202 | 510 / 58,202 |
| Komossa, Stefanie | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 543 / 58,202 | 579 / 58,202 |
| Zensus, Anton J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 805 / 58,202 | 1,171 / 58,202 |
| Freire, Paulo C.C. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,508 / 58,202 | 952 / 58,202 |
| Saintonge, Amélie | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,028 / 58,202 |
| Wex, Norbert | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,088 / 58,202 |
| Weigelt, Gerd P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,154 / 58,202 | — |
| Biermann, Peter L. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,314 / 164,120 | — |
| Kovalev, Y. Y. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,572 / 58,202 | 1,562 / 58,202 |
| Eckart, Andreas | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,525 / 58,202 | — |
| Wilson, Thomas L. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,552 / 58,202 | — |
| Ros, Eduardo | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,509 / 164,120 |
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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