Top institutions in Germany for Engineering

Which institutions in Germany have the most top-cited scientists in Engineering?

497 researchers in Germany whose main field is Engineering are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 4.5% of all listed authors in Germany, and 8th of 103 countries in the field. 180 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Technische Universität München has the most (42), followed by Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) (28) and Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (26). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.