Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Universität Leipzig Highly Cited Researchers Citation Natural Sciences Rankings 2025
Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) and the list of the most cited and influential researchers cover a wide range of scientific fields, spanning 197 main and sub-disciplines, as well as the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings, offering a unique service. Additionally, the list without CERN, Statistical Data, etc., provided exclusively by “AD Scientific Index”, is part of our effort to balance the situation created by CERN and researchers with statistical data, who have an advantage over others, especially those in the social and humanities fields. There should be new regulations for multi-author and CERN papers. Citation lists also reveal many rule violations and unethical practices. See also for more specific citation analyses: 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
Bioinformatics
Discrete Mathematics
Complex Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,602
32,353
0.396
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
biodiversity
ecosystem functioning
functional plant ecology
fire ecology
forest ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,450
19,251
0.593
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Cancer research
RNA folding
Bioinformatics
Epigenetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,740
17,082
0.639
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Visualization
Visual Analytics
Topology
Cliffordalgebra
Digital Humanities
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,454
14,207
0.606
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Biophysics
Physics of Cancer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,497
5,976
0.323
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Solid State Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,130
3,160
0.224
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
NMR
Physical-Organic Chemistry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,849
1,710
0.123
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Theoretical Physics
Statistical Physics
Computational Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,915
2,835
0.220
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Climate- and Biodiversity Change
Clouds and Climate
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,807
7,840
0.664
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Bioinformatics
Systems Biomedicine
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,280
6,026
0.534
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Structural Biology
Protein Crystallography
Biocatalysis
Purinergic Signalling
Metalloenzymes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,686
3,545
0.332
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Clinical Genetics
Molecular Genetics
Medicine
Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,549
5,147
0.539
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Bioinformatics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,537
4,106
0.431
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Catalysis
Porous Materials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,740
4,785
0.547
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Genomics
Human genetics
Bioinformatics
Computational biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,300
6,118
0.737
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Organische Chemie
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,365
3,195
0.434
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Physical Chemistry
Laser Spectroscopy
Gas Phase Clusters
Nanoparticle Mass Spectrometry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,224
2,720
0.377
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Evolutionary Biology
Phylogeny
Genomics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,122
4,026
0.565
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Soft Mesoscopics
Nonequilibrium Brownian Dynamics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,527
2,098
0.321
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Urban studies
Gentrification
Displacement
Housing
Financialization
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,493
3,446
0.531
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Computational Chemistry
Surface chemistry
Density functional theory
Chemical Bonding
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,397
2,853
0.446
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Physics of Cancer
Biological Physics
Mechanobiology
Cell Mechanics
Cell Migration
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,654
2,673
0.473
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Lab-on-a-chip
Separation Science
Mass spectrometry
Photonics
flow-chemistry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,335
2,006
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,965
2,123
0.428
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Evolution
Populationsgenetik
Ökologie
Zoologie
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,713
2,578
0.547
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,311
154
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Peter F Stadler
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,602
32,353
0.396
Bioinformatics
Discrete Mathematics
Complex Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,097
847
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Christian Wirth
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,450
19,251
0.593
biodiversity
ecosystem functioning
functional plant ecology
fire ecology
forest ecology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,823
1,137
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Stephan Bernhart
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,740
17,082
0.639
Cancer research
RNA folding
Bioinformatics
Epigenetics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,377
1,352
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Gerik Scheuermann
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,454
14,207
0.606
Visualization
Visual Analytics
Topology
Cliffordalgebra
Digital Humanities
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
43,707
1,881
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Josef Käs
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,497
5,976
0.323
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
62,613
2,750
29
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Pablo Esquinazi
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,130
3,160
0.224
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
64,337
2,831
32
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Stefan Berger
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,849
1,710
0.123
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
70,406
3,098
37
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Wolfhard Janke
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,915
2,835
0.220
Theoretical Physics
Statistical Physics
Computational Physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
78,589
3,454
39
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Johannes Quaas
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,807
7,840
0.664
Climate- and Biodiversity Change
Clouds and Climate
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
83,066
3,637
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Hans Binder
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,280
6,026
0.534
Bioinformatics
Systems Biomedicine
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
88,617
3,893
45
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Norbert Sträter
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,686
3,545
0.332
Structural Biology
Protein Crystallography
Biocatalysis
Purinergic Signalling
Metalloenzymes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
100,858
4,411
48
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Abou Jamra Rami
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,549
5,147
0.539
Clinical Genetics
Molecular Genetics
Medicine
Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
101,021
4,418
50
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Zasha Weinberg
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,537
4,106
0.431
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
111,565
4,852
55
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Roger Glaeser
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,740
4,785
0.547
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
118,286
5,104
60
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Frank Jühling
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,300
6,118
0.737
Genomics
Human genetics
Bioinformatics
Computational biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
134,856
5,739
65
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
christoph schneider
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,365
3,195
0.434
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
137,706
5,847
66
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Knut R. Asmis
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,224
2,720
0.377
Physical Chemistry
Laser Spectroscopy
Gas Phase Clusters
Nanoparticle Mass Spectrometry
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
139,782
5,945
68
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Christoph Bleidorn
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,122
4,026
0.565
Evolutionary Biology
Phylogeny
Genomics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
153,184
6,459
74
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Klaus Kroy
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,527
2,098
0.321
Soft Mesoscopics
Nonequilibrium Brownian Dynamics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
154,013
6,496
75
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Michael Janoschka
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,493
3,446
0.531
Urban studies
Gentrification
Displacement
Housing
Financialization
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
156,375
6,599
76
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Ralf Tonner
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,397
2,853
0.446
Computational Chemistry
Surface chemistry
Density functional theory
Chemical Bonding
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
177,059
7,407
80
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Claudia Tanja Mierke
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,654
2,673
0.473
Physics of Cancer
Biological Physics
Mechanobiology
Cell Mechanics
Cell Migration
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
187,353
7,775
85
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Detlev Belder
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,335
2,006
0.376
Lab-on-a-chip
Separation Science
Mass spectrometry
Photonics
flow-chemistry
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
200,905
8,221
93
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Juergen Haase
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,965
2,123
0.428
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
211,223
8,601
99
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Sebastian Steinfartz
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,713
2,578
0.547
Evolution
Populationsgenetik
Ökologie
Zoologie