More than 200 researchers from FAU are cited particularly often
216 scientists from FAU among the top two percent of most frequently cited researchers worldwide
According to a recent study, more than 200 researchers at FAU belong to the top two percent of the most frequently cited academics worldwide. The list was published by a team of researchers from Stanford University after evaluating the Scopus database, the largest database of abstracts and citations for peer-reviewed literature from the Elsevier publishing house.
In October 2023, this overview included approximately 210,000 researchers in the most frequently cited two percent. In Germany, a total of just over 10,000 scientists are listed, including 216 from FAU.
| Subject area | Number of FAU researchers |
| Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry | 1 |
| Biology | 2 |
| Biomedical Research | 16 |
| Built Environment & Design | 1 |
| Chemistry | 17 |
| Clinical Medicine | 96 |
| Communication & Textual Studies | 1 |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | 5 |
| Economics & Business | 1 |
| Enabling & Strategic Technologies | 22 |
| Engineering | 9 |
| Information & Communication Technologies | 10 |
| Mathematics & Statistics | 2 |
| Physics & Astronomy | 28 |
| Psychology & Cognitive Sciences | 4 |
| Social Sciences | 1 |
| Overall results | 216 |
FAU scientists who are among the top 50 in their areas of expertise:
| Rank in academic field | Name | Academic field |
| 4 | Georg Schett | Arthritis & Rheumatology |
| 6 | Markus F. Neurath | Gastroenterology & Hepatology |
| 9 | Abbas Agaimy | Pathology |
| 10 | Donat P. Häder | Biophysics |
| 22 | Aldo R. Boccaccini | Materials |
| 45 | Matthias Thommes | Chemical Physics |
| 47 | Yesim Erim | Psychoanalysis |
| 50 | Enrique Zuazua | General Mathematics |
All researchers from FAU who are included in the top 2 percent (according to faculty)
The links take you to the FAU research information system CRIS.
- Abele, Andrea E.
Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology - Berking, Matthias
Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Dąbrowska, Ewa
Chair of Language and Cognition (Alexander von Humboldt professorship) - Lang, Frieder R.
Chair of Psychogerontology - Lösel, Friedrich
Chair of Psychological Assessment, Quantitative Methods and Forensic Psychology - Rohleder, Nicolas
Chair of Health Psychology - Schultheiss, Oliver C.
Chair of General Psychology (Motivation, Emotion and Learning)
- Gatzert, Nadine
Chair of Insurance Economics and Risk Management
- Achenbach, Stephan
Chair of Internal Medicine II - Agaimy, Abbas
Chair of General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy - Amann, Kerstin
Department of Nephropathology at the Institute of Pathology - Atreya, Raja
Chair of Internal Medicine I - Bäuerle, Tobias
Professorship for Multi-Modal Imaging in Pre-Clinical Research - Becker, Christoph
Professorship for Molecular Gastroenterology (Prof. Dr. Becker) - Beckmann, Matthias W.
Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Belli, Renan
Chair of Dental, Oral, and Maxillofacial Medicine – especially Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Pediatric Dentistry - Behrens, Jürgen
Department of Experimental Medicine II - Berking, Carola
Chair of Skin and Venereal Diseases - Betz, Peter
Chair of Forensic Medicine - Bickelhaupt, Sebastian
Chair of Diagnostic Radiology - Blümcke, Ingmar
Chair of Neuropathology - Bogdan, Christian
Chair of Microbiology and Immunology of Infection (Prof. Dr. Bogdan) - Bosserhoff, Anja Katrin
Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (Prof. Dr. Bosserhoff) - Brabletz, Thomas
Department of Experimental Medicine I - Brandner, Sebastian
Chair of Neurosurgery - Brune, Kay
Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology - Buchfelder, Michael
Chair of Neurosurgery - Daniel, Werner G.
Chair of Internal Medicine II - Engel, Felix B.
Professorship for Experimental Kidney and Vascular Research (Prof. Dr. Engel) - Engelke, Klaus
Chair of Internal Medicine III - Erim, Yesim
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy - Franze, Kristian
Chair of Medical Physics and Microtissue Engineering - Frey, Benjamin
Chair of Radiotherapy - Fromm, Martin F.
Chair of Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Toxicology - Gaipl, Udo S.
Chair of Radiotherapy - Galler, Kerstin M.
Chair of Dental, Oral, and Maxillofacial Medicine – especially Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Pediatric Dentistry - Gefeller, Olaf
Chair of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology - Gräßel, Elmar
Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Grützmann, Robert
Chair of General and Abdominal Surgery - Haller, Florian
Professorship for Diagnostic Molecularpathology - Hamer, Hajo M.
Chair of Neurology - Hellerbrand, Claus
Professorship for Biochemistry and Molecular Pathobiology (Prof. Dr. Hellerbrand) - Heppt, Markus
Chair of Skin and Venereal Diseases - Herrmann-Lerdon, Harald
Chair of Neuropathology (Prof. Dr. Blümcke) - Herrmann, Martin
Chair of Internal Medicine III - Hilz, Max
Heisenberg Professorship for Neuroimmunology - Hohenberger, Werner
Chair of General and Abdominal Surgery - Horch, Raymund E.
Professorship for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery - Iro, Heinrich
Chair of Otorhinolaryngology - Kalender, Willi A.
Chair of Medical Physics and Microtissue Engineering - Kemmler, Wolfgang
Chair of Medical Physics and Microtissue Engineering - Koch, Michael
Chair of Otorhinolaryngology - König, Jörg
Chair of Clinical Pharmacology and Clinical Toxicology - Kornhuber, Johannes
Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - Krappmann, Sven
Professorship for Microbiology and Immunology - Kruse, Friedrich E.
Chair of Ophthalmology - Kuwert, Torsten
Chair of Clinical Nuclear Medicine - Lang, Roland
Chair of Microbiology and Infection Immunology - Lohbauer, Ulrich
Chair of Dental, Oral, and Maxillofacial Medicine – especially Operative Dentistry, Periodontology and Pediatric Dentistry - Lütjen-Drecoll, Elke
Chair of Functional and Clinical Anatomy (Prof. Dr. Paulsen) - Mackensen, Andreas
Chair of Hematology and Oncology - Maihöfner, Christian
Chair of Neurology - Müller, Sarina
Chair of Otorhinolaryngology - Marschall, Manfred
Chair of Clinical and Molecular Virology - Marwan, Mohammed
Chair of Internal Medicine II - Matzel, Klaus E.
Chair of General and Abdominal Surgery - Merkel, Susanne
Chair of General and Abdominal Surgery - Messlinger, Karl
Professorship for Physiology - Muñoz, Luis E.
Chair of Internal Medicine III - Nagel, Armin M.
Professorship for Metabolic and Functional MR Imaging - Naumann, Gottfried O.H.
- Neurath, Markus F.
Chair of Internal Medicine I - Paulsen, Friedrich
Chair of Functional and Clinical Anatomy (Prof. Dr. Paulsen) - Pavel, Marianne E.
Professorship for Endocrinology (Prof. Dr. Pavel) - Prokosch, Hans Ulrich
Chair of Medical Informatics - Rascher, Wolfgang
Chair of Pediatrics - Rauh, Manfred
Chair of Pediatrics - Reeh, Peter W.
Professorship for Physiology - Rothhammer, Veit
Chair of Neurology - Sauer, Rolf
Comprehensive Cancer Center Erlangen-EMN - Schett, Georg
Chair of Internal Medicine III - Schiffer, Mario
Chair of Internal Medicine IV - Schlötzer-Schrehardt, Ursula
Chair of Ophthalmology - Schmieder, Roland E.
Chair of Internal Medicine IV - Schöffl, Volker
Chair of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery - Schuler, Gerold
Chair of Skin and Venereal Diseases - Schüttler, Jürgen
Chair of Anesthesiology - Stefan, Hermann
Chair of Neurology - Stemmler, Marc
Department of Experimental Medicine I - Sticherling, Michael
Chair of Skin and Venereal Diseases - Strobel, Deike
Chair of Internal Medicine I - Uter, Wolfgang
Chair of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology - Vieth, Michael
Professorship for General Pathology - Voehringer, David
Department of Infection Biology (Prof. Dr. Vöhringer) - Volkert, Dorothee
Chair of Internal Medicine - von der Mark, Klaus
Chair of Experimental Medicine I (Molecular Pathogenesis Research) - Wach, Sven
Chair of Urology - Waldner, Maximilian
Chair of Internal Medicine I - Wegner, Michael
Chair of Biochemistry and Pathobiology (Prof. Dr. Wegner) - Weber, Georg F.
Chair of General and Abdominal Surgery - Winner, Beate
Department of Stem Cell Biology (SB) - Wirtz, Stefan
Department of Medicine 1– Gastroenterology, Pneumology and Endocrinology - Zaiss, Mario M.
Professorship for Immune Tolerance and Autoimmunity - Zaiß, Moritz
Department of Neuroradiology at the Institute of Radiology - Zierk, Jakob
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
- Achtziger, Wolfgang
Professorship for Applied Mathematics - Anton, Gisela
Chair of Experimental Astroparticle Physics - Backert, Steffen
Chair of Microbiology (Prof. Dr. Backert) - Böckmann, Rainer A.
Professorship for Computational Biology (Prof. Dr. Böckmann) - Bräuning, Achim
Chair of Geography (Physical Geography) - Burkovski, Andreas
Professorship for Microbiology - Buettner, Andrea
Chair of Aroma and Smell Research (Prof. Dr. Büttner) - Clark, Timothy
Computer Chemistry Center (CCC) - Dube, Henry
Chair of Organic Chemistry I - Eckstein, Martin
Chair of Theoretical Solid State Physics - Fabry, Ben
Chair of Biophysics - Fischer, Dagmar
Chair of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy - Fuhrmann, Gregor
Chair of Pharmaceutical Biology - Funk, Stefan
Chair of Physics - Fürsich, Franz
Chair of Palaeoenvironmental Research - Gasteiger, Johann
Computer Chemistry Center (CCC) - Genes, Claudiu
Chair of Theoretical Physics - Gillen, Roland
Chair of Experimental Physics - Goldmann, Wolfgang H.
Chair of Biophysics - Görling, Andreas
Chair of Theoretical Chemistry - Guldi, Dirk M.
Chair of Physical Chemistry I - Häder, Donat-Peter
Chair of Cell Biology - Harder, Sjoerd
Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry - Hartmann, Arndt
Chair of Theoretical Physics - Hartmann, Michael J.
Chair of Theoretical Physics - Heber, Ulrich
Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg, Astronomical Institute of FAU - Higuchi, Takuya
Chair of Laser Physics - Hirsch, Andreas
Chair of Organic Chemistry II - Hommelhoff, Peter
Chair of Laser Physics - Joachimski, Michael M.
Chair of Geology - Keller, Gerhard
Professorship for Applied Mathematics (Applied Analysis) - Khusniyarov, Marat M.
Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry - Kiessling, Wolfgang
Chair of Palaeoenvironmental Research - Kisch, Horst
Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry - Klemd, Reiner
Professorship for Geochemistry and Economic Geology - Leuchs, Gerd
Chair of Experimental Physics - Ley, Lothar
Chair of Laser Physics - Lohmann, Adolf W.
- Maultzsch, Janina
Chair of Experimental Physics - Meyer, Bernd
Professorship for Computational Chemistry - Meyer, Karsten
Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry - Nimmerjahn, Falk
Chair of Genetics - Nitschke, Lars
Professorship for Genetics - Reinhard, Paul-Gerhard
Professorship for Theoretical Physics - Ristein, Jürgen
Chair of Laser Physics - Sauer, Norbert
Chair of Molecular Plant Physiology - Schnetz, Oliver
Chair of Mathematics (Algebra and Geometry) - Sandoghdar, Vahid
Chair of Experimental Physics - Sonnewald, Uwe
Chair of Biochemistry - Steinrück, Hans Peter
Chair of Physical Chemistry II - Thiemann, Thomas
Chair of Theoretical Physics - Tsogoeva, Svetlana B.
Professorship for Organic Chemistry - van Eldik, Rudi
Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry - Wilms, Jörn
Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg, Astronomical Institute of FAU - Zahn, Dirk
Professorship for Theoretical Chemistry - Zuazua, Enrique
Chair of Dynamics, Control and Numerics (Alexander von Humboldt professorship)
- Blum, Wolfgang
Chair of Materials Science (General Material Properties) - Boccaccini, Aldo R.
Chair of Materials Science (Biomaterials) - Brabec, Christoph J.
Chair of Materials Science (Materials in Electronics and Energy Technology) - Budday, Silvia
Chair of Applied Mechanics (LTM) - Castellini, Claudio
Professorship for Assistive Intelligent Robotics - Christlein, Vincent
Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition) - Detsch, Rainer
Chair of Materials Science (Biomaterials) - Drummer, Dietmar
Chair of Polymer Technology (LKT) - Engel, Michael
Professorship for Modeling Self-Organization Processes - Eskofier, Bjoern M.
Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab - Franke, Jörg
Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems - Friedrich, Oliver
Chair of Medical Biotechnology (MBT) - Fröba, Andreas P.
Advanced Optical Technologies – Thermophysical Properties - Göken, Mathias
Chair of Materials Science (General Material Properties) - Greil, Peter
Chair of Materials Science (Glass and Ceramics) - Habets, Emanuël A.P.
Professorship for Perceptual Spatial Audio Signal Processing (AudioLabs) - Hartmann, Martin
Professorship for Catalysis - Heiss, Wolfgang
Chair of Materials Science (Materials in Electronics and Energy Technology) - Höppel, Heinz Werner
Chair of Materials Science (General Material Properties) - Hornegger, Joachim
Chair of Computer Science 14 (Image and Language Processing) - Hornung, Andreas
Chair of High-Temperature Process Technology - Karl, Jürgen
Chair of Energy Process Engineering - Kasian, Olga
Chair of Materials Science (Materials in Electronics and Energy Technology) - Kellermann, Walter
Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing - Knoll, Florian
Chair of Medical Procedures, Processes and Interventions - Körner, Carolin
Chair of Materials Science and Engineering for Metals - Maier, Andreas
Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition) - Merklein, Marion
Chair of Manufacturing Technology (LFT) - Mughrabi, Hael
Chair of Materials Science (General Material Properties) - Müller, Ralf R.
Professorship for Data Transmission - Müller, Meinard
Chair of Semantic Audio Signal Processing (AudioLabs) - Najafi, Marzieh
Chair of Digital Communications - Neumeier, Steffen
Chair of Materials Science (General Material Properties) - Peukert, Wolfgang
Chair of Particle Technology (LFG) - Schmidt, Michael
Chair of Photonic Technologies - Schmuki, Patrik
Chair of Materials Science (Corrosion and Surface Technology) - Schober, Robert
Chair of Digital Communications - Schubert, Dirk W.
Chair of Materials Science (Polymer Materials) - Schwieger, Wilhelm
Chair of Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRT) - Singer, Robert F.
Chair of Materials Science and Engineering for Metals - Steinmann, Paul
Chair of Applied Mechanics - Teich, Jürgen
Chair of Computer Science 12 (Hardware/Software Co-Design) - Thiele, Simon
Professorship of Electrocatalytic Interface Engineering HI ERN - Thommes, Matthias
Chair of Thermal Process Technology (TVT) - Travitzky, Nahum
Chair of Materials Science (Glass and Ceramics) - Virtanen, Sannakaisa
Chair of Materials Science (Corrosion and Surface Technology) - Vogel, Nicolas
Chair of Particle Technology (LFG) - Wasserscheid, Peter
Chair of Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRT) - Wartzack, Sandro
Chair of Engineering Design (KTmfk) - Webber, Kyle G.
Chair of Materials Science (Glass and Ceramics) - Weigel, Robert
Chair of Electronics Engineering - Wellein, Gerhard
Professorship for High Performance Computing - Wellmann, Peter
Chair of Materials Science (Materials in Electronics and Energy Technology) - Zaiser, Michael
Chair of Materials Simulation - Zhou, Gui
Chair of Digital Communications
Methodology
The publication data on which the study is based were extracted from Scopus in October 2023 and refer to the citation year 2022. 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. Further information is available on the Elsevier website.