Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology 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
212
rank in Germany
4,523
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conrad, Ralf | Microbiology | 16 / 232,186 | 37 / 232,186 |
| Thauer, Rudolf Kurt | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 165 / 216,826 | 109 / 216,826 |
| Sourjik, Victor | Microbiology | 1,172 / 232,186 | 686 / 232,186 |
| Bode, Helge Björn | Organic Chemistry | 834 / 188,664 | 1,049 / 188,664 |
| Kahmann, Régine | Developmental Biology | 2,188 / 167,121 | — |
| Hedderich, Reiner | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 4,330 / 216,826 | — |
| Wang, Liyun | Biomedical Engineering | 903 / 74,543 | 569 / 74,543 |
| Shima, Seigo | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 2,039 / 216,826 |
| Liesack, Werner | Microbiology | 3,653 / 232,186 | 3,190 / 232,186 |
| Søgaard-Andersen, Lotte | Microbiology | 3,981 / 232,186 | — |
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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