Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 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
305
rank in Germany
7,046
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daston, Lorraine J. | History of Science, Technology & Medicine | 2 / 3,157 | 1 / 3,157 |
| Rheinberger, Hans Jörg | History of Science, Technology & Medicine | 8 / 3,157 | 35 / 3,157 |
| Renn, Jürgen | History of Science, Technology & Medicine | 59 / 3,157 | 20 / 3,157 |
| Ahlers, Anna L. | Cultural Studies | — | 104 / 8,723 |
| Klein, Ursula | History of Science, Technology & Medicine | 58 / 3,157 | — |
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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