Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems 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).
14
researchers on the list
177
rank in Germany
3,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grassberger, Peter | Fluids & Plasmas | 14 / 58,297 | 58 / 58,297 |
| Moessner, Roderich | Applied Physics | 343 / 323,282 | 206 / 323,282 |
| Schreiber, Thomas | Fluids & Plasmas | 171 / 58,297 | 159 / 58,297 |
| Fulde, Peter | Applied Physics | 601 / 323,282 | 3,456 / 323,282 |
| Kantz, Holger | Fluids & Plasmas | 348 / 58,297 | 598 / 58,297 |
| Rost, Jan Michael | General Physics | 363 / 87,024 | 1,721 / 87,024 |
| Rotter, Ingrid | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,216 / 164,120 | 2,375 / 164,120 |
| Bukov, Marin | General Physics | 1,530 / 87,024 | 468 / 87,024 |
| Skokos, Ch Haris | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,120 / 58,297 | 1,005 / 58,297 |
| Klich, Israel | General Physics | 1,236 / 87,024 | 844 / 87,024 |
| Lee, Soo.-Young | Applied Physics | 4,058 / 323,282 | — |
| Ziesche, Paul | Applied Physics | 5,905 / 323,282 | — |
| Cook, Ashley M. | Applied Physics | — | 4,992 / 323,282 |
| Claeys, Pieter W. | Applied Physics | — | 6,142 / 323,282 |
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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