Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics 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).
18
researchers on the list
147
rank in Germany
2,890
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cirac, J. Ignacio | General Physics | 13 / 87,024 | 17 / 87,024 |
| Hänsch, Theodor W. | Optics | 19 / 83,504 | 40 / 83,504 |
| Krausz, Ferenc | Optics | 32 / 83,504 | 35 / 83,504 |
| Walther, Herbert | General Physics | 127 / 87,024 | 828 / 87,024 |
| Bañuls, Mari Carmen | General Physics | 961 / 87,024 | 178 / 87,024 |
| Rempe, Gerhard | General Physics | 219 / 87,024 | 326 / 87,024 |
| Reiserer, Andreas | General Physics | 1,951 / 87,024 | 269 / 87,024 |
| Meyer-Ter-Vehn, Juergen | Fluids & Plasmas | 529 / 58,297 | — |
| Aidelsburger, Monika | General Physics | 1,446 / 87,024 | 393 / 87,024 |
| Údem, Th | Optics | 298 / 83,504 | 430 / 83,504 |
| van den Nest, Maarten | General Physics | 1,330 / 87,024 | 699 / 87,024 |
| Picqué, Nathalie | Optics | 875 / 83,504 | 498 / 83,504 |
| Halimeh, Jad C. | Applied Physics | — | 2,395 / 323,282 |
| Maiti, Kiran Sankar | Chemical Physics | — | 1,962 / 121,889 |
| Eidmann, Klaus | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 884 / 140,272 | — |
| Fill, Ernst E. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 930 / 140,272 | — |
| Karpowicz, Nicholas E. | Optics | 1,397 / 83,504 | 1,093 / 83,504 |
| Yakovlev, Vladislav S. | Optics | 1,640 / 83,504 | 1,558 / 83,504 |
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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