According to the 2026 Stanford List, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Aldo R. Boccaccini of the Chair of Biomaterials and Prof. Dr. Matthias Thommes of the Chair of Separation Science and Technology at FAU are once again among the top 2 percent of the most-cited researchers worldwide. Within their respective fields, they rank among the top 50.
The ranking considered a total of 249,310 researchers for this year’s publication. A total of 10,939 were from Germany.
| Name | Discipline | Rank in discipline |
|---|---|---|
| Boccaccini, Aldo R. | Enabling & Strategic Sciences | 31 |
| Thommes, Matthias | Physics & Astronomy | 41 |
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. For more information, visit: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/9
You can read the FAU press release about all FAU researchers on the 2026 Stanford List here: www.fau.eu/2026/10/news/most-highly-cited-2026-fau-researchers-are-among-the-top-two-percent/