Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials 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).
12
researchers on the list
194
rank in Germany
3,968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neugebauer, Jörg | Applied Physics | 248 / 323,282 | 275 / 323,282 |
| Zaefferer, Stefan | Materials | 424 / 330,896 | 264 / 330,896 |
| Roters, Franz | Materials | 840 / 330,896 | 589 / 330,896 |
| Dehm, Gerhard | Materials | 614 / 330,896 | 794 / 330,896 |
| Ponge, Dirk | Materials | 4,146 / 330,896 | 1,046 / 330,896 |
| Freysoldt, Christoph | Applied Physics | 6,071 / 323,282 | 1,499 / 323,282 |
| Scheu, Christina | Materials | 2,438 / 330,896 | 3,514 / 330,896 |
| Bitzek, Erik | Materials | — | 5,264 / 330,896 |
| Fischer, Alfons | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 1,639 / 157,792 | — |
| Shi, Hao | Materials | — | 5,493 / 330,896 |
| Souza Filho, I. R. | Materials | — | 5,895 / 330,896 |
| Liebscher, Christian H. | Materials | — | 6,544 / 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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