Stanford List ranking published
According to the Stanford List 2026, 233 researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are among the top two percent of most highly cited researchers in the world. Eight FAU researchers have been ranked among the top 50 within their scientific discipline. The ranking considered a total of 249,310 researchers for this year’s publication. A total of 10,939 were from Germany.
The following researchers are among the top 50 in their discipline:
| Name | Discipline | Rank in discipline |
|---|---|---|
| Schett, Georg Andreas | Clinical Medicine | 2 |
| Neurath, Markus Friedrich | Clinical Medicine | 4 |
| Häder, Donat Peter | Biomedical Research | 6 |
| Agaimy, Abbas | Clinical Medicine | 8 |
| Boccaccini, Aldo R. | Enabling & Strategic Sciences | 31 |
| Kiessling, Wolfgang | Earth & Environmental Sciences | 31 |
| Thommes, Matthias | Physics & Astronomy | 41 |
| Rauh, Manfred | Clinical Medicine | 46 |
These most highly cited researchers from FAU belong to the following disciplines:
Methodology
The publication data on which the study is based were extracted from Scopus in August 2026 and refer to the citation year 2025. The database with the most frequently cited two percent of researchers was created in Scopus based on factors including citations, the h-index and citations of publications with various author positions. The database was created for the first time in 2019 by Prof. Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis from Stanford University and colleagues and has been updated annually since.
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