Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Natural Sciences / Biological Science Highly Cited Researchers Citation in Germany Rankings 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
biology
computational biology
systems biology
bioinformatics
evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
392,172
189,701
0.484
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Bioimage Informatics
Bioinformatics
String Algorithms
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
284,282
78,406
0.276
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Molecular genetics
cancer
pathomechanisms
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
119,316
46,147
0.387
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Algorithms
Parallel Computing
Bioinformatics
Phylogenetics
Evolutionary Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
101,278
54,347
0.537
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Protein folding
molecular chaperones
protein aggregation
neurodegenerative disease
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91,237
24,672
0.270
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Ecophysiology
Molecular to physiological bases of ecological processes. Role of climate factors (temperature
carbon dioxide
o
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
89,546
51,624
0.577
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
stellar populations
star clusters
galaxy evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
86,012
35,720
0.415
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83,717
41,890
0.500
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
evolutionary biology
developmental biology
imaging
image analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,648
58,754
0.729
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Mass spectrometry
Lipidomics
Proteomics
Archaeometry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76,681
18,974
0.247
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Systems Biology
Developmental Biology
Gene Regulation
Genomics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76,014
36,738
0.483
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Evolutionary biology
evolutionary genetics
comparative genomics
Molecular Evolution
Zoology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
69,445
21,673
0.312
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Plant biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,188
20,090
0.308
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Gravitational waves
LIGO
LISA
Black hole formation and evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62,627
56,196
0.897
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Developmental Biology
Genetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,188
23,558
0.391
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Infection
Microbiology
Cancer
Helicobacter
Chlamydia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,184
19,708
0.327
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,034
14,437
0.240
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
clinical neurobiology
neurotrophic factors
axonal RNA metabolism
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,702
18,545
0.327
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Germline
Stem Cells
Pluripotency
Reprogramming
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,573
12,957
0.233
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Landscape Ecology
Nature Conservation
Pollination Ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,422
31,541
0.569
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,489
12,092
0.222
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
nuclear medicine
tracer development
oncology
biotechnology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,132
30,981
0.583
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Computational biology
systems medicine
host-microbiome interaction
antibiotics
data science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,015
33,210
0.626
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
biological invasions
climate change impacts
urban ecology
spatial analyses
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,846
30,559
0.578
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Antibiotikaresistenz
Wirt-Pathogen-Interaktionen
Listerien
Bioinformatik
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,837
19,353
0.366
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
75
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Peer Bork
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
392,172
189,701
0.484
biology
computational biology
systems biology
bioinformatics
evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
262
10
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Gene Myers
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
284,282
78,406
0.276
Bioimage Informatics
Bioinformatics
String Algorithms
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,200
58
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Peter Lichter
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
119,316
46,147
0.387
Molecular genetics
cancer
pathomechanisms
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,039
96
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Alexandros Stamatakis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
101,278
54,347
0.537
Algorithms
Parallel Computing
Bioinformatics
Phylogenetics
Evolutionary Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,714
125
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Ulrich Hartl
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91,237
24,672
0.270
Protein folding
molecular chaperones
protein aggregation
neurodegenerative disease
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,838
132
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Hans Poertner
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
89,546
51,624
0.577
Ecophysiology
Molecular to physiological bases of ecological processes. Role of climate factors (temperature
carbon dioxide
o
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,106
143
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Eva K Grebel
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
86,012
35,720
0.415
stellar populations
star clusters
galaxy evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,281
150
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Aa Hyman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83,717
41,890
0.500
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,569
165
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Pavel Tomancak
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,648
58,754
0.729
evolutionary biology
developmental biology
imaging
image analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,031
183
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Andrej Shevchenko
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76,681
18,974
0.247
Mass spectrometry
Lipidomics
Proteomics
Archaeometry
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,093
189
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Nikolaus Rajewsky
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76,014
36,738
0.483
Systems Biology
Developmental Biology
Gene Regulation
Genomics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,902
227
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Axel Meyer
Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
69,445
21,673
0.312
Evolutionary biology
evolutionary genetics
comparative genomics
Molecular Evolution
Zoology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,512
253
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Ian T Baldwin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,188
20,090
0.308
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,965
275
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Bhooshan Gadre|Bhooshan Uday Gadre, B. U. Gadre
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62,627
56,196
0.897
Gravitational waves
LIGO
LISA
Black hole formation and evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,417
300
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Didier Stainier
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Bad Nauheim, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,188
23,558
0.391
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,418
301
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Thomas F. Meyer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,184
19,708
0.327
Infection
Microbiology
Cancer
Helicobacter
Chlamydia
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,450
302
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Alfred Pühler
Universität Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,034
14,437
0.240
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,164
329
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Michael Sendtner
Universität Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,702
18,545
0.327
clinical neurobiology
neurotrophic factors
axonal RNA metabolism
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,460
338
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Hans Schöler
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,573
12,957
0.233
Germline
Stem Cells
Pluripotency
Reprogramming
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,502
341
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Alexandra Maria Klein
Universität Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,422
31,541
0.569
Landscape Ecology
Nature Conservation
Pollination Ecology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,731
347
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Marino Zerial
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,489
12,092
0.222
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,089
367
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Uwe Haberkorn
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,132
30,981
0.583
nuclear medicine
tracer development
oncology
biotechnology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,122
368
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Sofia K. Forslund
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,015
33,210
0.626
Computational biology
systems medicine
host-microbiome interaction
antibiotics
data science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,163
369
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Ingolf Kühn
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,846
30,559
0.578
biological invasions
climate change impacts
urban ecology
spatial analyses
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,164
370
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Trinad Chakraborty
Justus Liebig Universität Giessen
Giessen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,837
19,353
0.366
Antibiotikaresistenz
Wirt-Pathogen-Interaktionen
Listerien
Bioinformatik