Top-cited scientists: FAU reseachers amongst the top 2 percent

New “Stanford List” has been published

According to the Stanford List 2025, 236 scientists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are among the top two percent of the most cited researchers worldwide. Eight FAU researchers are ranked among the top 50 in their field. This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers, with 10,665 of them coming from Germany.

The following researchers are among the top 50 worldwide within their field of research:

Name	Field of research	Ranking within their field
Schett, Georg	Clinical Medicine	5
Häder, Donat-Peter	Biomedical Research	6
Agaimy, Abbas	Clinical Medicine	8
Neurath, Markus Friedrich	Clinical Medicine	8
Boccaccini, Aldo R.	Enabling & Strategic Technologies	22
Thommes, Matthias	Physics & Astronomy	36
Rauh, Manfred	Clinical Medicine	37
Kiessling, Wolfgang	Earth & Environmental Sciences	45

 

FAU’s most cited researchers work in the following fields:

About the Stanford List and the methodology

The publication data used for the study is based on a data extract from Scopus in August 2025 and refers to the citation year 2024. The criteria used to create the database of the top two percent of most-cited scientists in Scopus included citations, h-index, and citations of publications with different author positions. The database was first created in 2019 by Prof. Dr. John P. A. Ioannidis of Stanford University together with colleagues and is updated annually. Further information is available at: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8