Fifteen Charité researchers among the top influencers in science

Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list published

Fifteen researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin are among the world’s most influential researchers in 2025. That is the result of an analysis by Clarivate, published today in the form of the Highly Cited Researchers list. The list identifies researchers who have had a significant and broad influence in their fields and who contribute disproportionately to extending the frontiers of knowledge.

 

 

How often a researcher’s scientific or academic work is cited by colleagues in the field is viewed as a measure of that person’s influence on their discipline. This year’s list of the researchers most frequently cited internationally comprises 6.868 people from 61 countries and regions, 363 of them from Germany.

The researchers on the list have authored multiple publications over the past eleven years that rank in the top one percent in their field(s) by number of citations. The analysis covers 21 disciplines across the fields of medicine, physical and life sciences, economics and business, and social sciences. The rankings also include a separate category for people working in multiple disciplines (“Cross-Field”). 

This year’s rankings include 15 outstanding researchers at Charité:

  • Prof. Kirsten Beyer, Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine (Cross-Field)
  • Prof. Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology (Cross-Field)
  • Dr. Victor Corman, Institute of Virology (Cross-Field)
  • Prof. Christoph U. Correll, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy (Psychiatry and Psychology)
  • Vadim Demichev, Institute of Biochemistry (Biology and Biochemistry)
  • Prof. Christian Drosten, Institute of Virology (Microbiology)
  • Prof. Christian Gaebler, Department of Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine & Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (Cross-Field)
  • Prof. Ulf Landmesser, Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité at Campus Benjamin Franklin (Clinical Medicine) 
  • Prof. Eicke Latz, German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (Immunology)
  • Prof. Marcel A. Müller, Institute of Virology (Cross-Field)
  • Prof. Stefan Mundlos, Institute of Medical and Human Genetics (Cross-Field)
  • Prof. Friedemann Paul, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (Neuroscience and Behavior)
  • Prof. Markus Ralser, Institute of Biochemistry (Biology and Biochemistry)
  • Prof. Frank Tacke, Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology (Cross-Field)
  • Prof. Margitta Worm, Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology (Immunology)

This list is based on citation data, and is further refined using other quantitative metrics, qualitative analysis and expert judgment.

 

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