Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russell, Philip St John | Optics | 4 / 83,504 | 21 / 83,504 |
| Krenn, Mario | General Physics | — | 244 / 87,024 |
| Aiello, Andrea | Optics | 402 / 83,504 | 244 / 83,504 |
| Chekhova, Maria V. | Optics | 768 / 83,504 | 364 / 83,504 |
| Del’Haye, Pascal | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,372 / 140,272 | 230 / 140,272 |
| Leuchs, Gerd | Optics | 532 / 83,504 | 418 / 83,504 |
| Möckl, Leonhard | Organic Chemistry | — | 1,714 / 188,664 |
| Scott, Andrew J. | Mathematical Physics | — | 85 / 6,761 |
| Kim, Kyoohyun | Optics | — | 1,204 / 83,504 |
| Zhang, Shuangyou | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 919 / 140,272 |
| Frosz, Michael Henoch | Optics | 1,245 / 83,504 | — |
| Santiago-Cruz, Tomás | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,177 / 140,272 |
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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