Potsdam Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung 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
160
rank in Germany
3,173
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rahmstorf, Stefan | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 60 / 84,638 | 43 / 84,638 |
| Marwan, Norbert | Fluids & Plasmas | 157 / 58,297 | 57 / 58,297 |
| Kurths, Jürgen G. | Fluids & Plasmas | 233 / 58,297 | 95 / 58,297 |
| Minx, Jan Christoph | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 474 / 84,638 |
| Popp, Alexander | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 569 / 84,638 |
| Levermann, Anders | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,326 / 84,638 | 640 / 84,638 |
| Lange, Stefan | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 799 / 84,638 |
| Donges, F. Jonathan | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 931 / 84,638 |
| Lucht, Wolfgang Wanner | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 769 / 84,638 | 946 / 84,638 |
| Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon | Environmental Sciences | — | 1,529 / 140,934 |
| Schewe, Jacob | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,873 / 84,638 |
| Pietzcker, Robert Carl | Energy | — | 3,829 / 371,959 |
| Pahle, Michael | Energy | — | 5,608 / 371,959 |
| Krysanova, Valentina | Environmental Engineering | — | 1,400 / 68,664 |
| Kropp, Juergen P. | Environmental Sciences | 2,494 / 140,934 | — |
| Jaeger, Carlo C. | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 432 / 32,161 | — |
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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