2026 Claudia Felser: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	141	228	214	12	12	1300	89688
Physics	139	419	404	33	31	1167	85524

Claudia Felser publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Claudia Felser sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 1,167 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Claudia Felser D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Claudia Felser sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 139 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2020 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the prediction and discovery of engineered quantum materials ranging from Heusler compounds to topological insulators.
2018 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Chemistry
2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For creating and understanding new Heusler materials with spintronic and energy functionalities

Overview

Claudia Felser is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields, with a strong focus on both Psychology and Physics and Astronomy.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Reading and Literacy Development
Topological Materials and Phenomena
Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
Language Development and Disorders

In terms of specialized subfields, their contributions cover:

Developmental and Educational Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Language and Linguistics
Materials Chemistry

The scientist has published in a variety of academic venues, frequently contributing to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Languages
Physical Review B
The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Glossa a journal of general linguistics

Selected recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests:

"Island effects in Spanish comprehension," 2020, Glossa a journal of general linguistics
"Observation of a phase transition within the domain walls of ferromagnetic Co3Sn2S2," 2022, Nature Communications
"Effects of chronological age on native and nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from subject-verb agreement in German," 2020, Journal of Memory and Language
"Probing the Shape of the Weyl Fermi Surface of NbP Using Transverse Electron Focusing," 2024, Physical Review Letters
"Discourse Prominence and Antecedent Mis-Retrieval during Native and Non-Native Pronoun Resolution," 2022, Discours

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Sina Bosch
Maia G. Vergniory
Ilaria De Cesare
Ulrike Demske
Vicky Hasse

Throughout their career, Claudia Felser has received several distinctions, including:

Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2020)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2020) for the prediction and discovery of engineered quantum materials ranging from Heusler compounds to topological insulators
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (2018), Chemistry
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2012), recognized for creating and understanding new Heusler materials with spintronic and energy functionalities

Best Publications

Simple rules for the understanding of Heusler compounds

Tanja Graf;Claudia Felser;Stuart S.P. Parkin

2518
Citations
Grammatical Processing in Language Learners.

Harald Clahsen;Claudia Felser

1652
Citations
Topological Materials: Weyl Semimetals

Binghai Yan;Claudia Felser

1383
Citations
Topological quantum chemistry

Barry Bradlyn;L. Elcoro;Jennifer Cano;M. G. Vergniory;M. G. Vergniory;M. G. Vergniory

1378
Citations
Weyl Semimetals as Hydrogen Evolution Catalysts

Catherine R. Rajamathi;Uttam Gupta;Nitesh Kumar;Hao Yang

1342
Citations
Negative magnetoresistance without well-defined chirality in the Weyl semimetal TaP

Frank Arnold;Chandra Shekhar;Shu-Chun Wu;Yan Sun

1336
Citations
Beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions: Unconventional quasiparticles in conventional crystals

Barry Jason Bradlyn;Jennifer Cano;Zhijun Wang;M. G. Vergniory

1289
Citations
Spintronics: a challenge for materials science and solid-state chemistry.

Claudia Felser;Gerhard H. Fecher;Benjamin Balke

1280
Citations
Electronic and magnetic phase diagram of β-Fe1.01Se with superconductivity at 36.7 K under pressure

S. Medvedev;T. M. McQueen;I. A. Troyan;T. Palasyuk

1269
Citations
Giant anomalous Hall effect in a ferromagnetic Kagomé-lattice semimetal.

Enke Liu;Enke Liu;Yan Sun;Nitesh Kumar;Lukas Muechler

1250
Citations
Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP

Chandra Shekhar;Ajaya K. Nayak;Yan Sun;Marcus Schmidt

1217
Citations
Multiple Dirac cones at the surface of the topological metal LaBi

Jayita Nayak;Shu-Chun Wu;Nitesh Kumar;Chandra Shekhar

1193
Citations
Superconductivity at 36 K in beta-Fe1.01Se with the compression of the interlayer separation under pressure

S. Medvedev;T.M. McQueen;I. Trojan;T. Palasyuk

1171
Citations
Weyl semimetal phase in the non-centrosymmetric compound TaAs

L. X. Yang;L. X. Yang;L. X. Yang;Z. K. Liu;Y. Sun;H. Peng

1053
Citations
Superconductivity in Weyl semimetal candidate MoTe2

Yanpeng Qi;Pavel G. Naumov;Mazhar N. Ali;Catherine R. Rajamathi

1012
Citations
A complete catalogue of high-quality topological materials

M. G. Vergniory;M. G. Vergniory;M. G. Vergniory;L. Elcoro;Claudia Felser;Nicolas Regnault

982
Citations
Tunable multifunctional topological insulators in ternary Heusler compounds

Stanislav Chadov;Xiaoliang Qi;Xiaoliang Qi;Jürgen Kübler;Gerhard H. Fecher

874
Citations
Extreme sensitivity of superconductivity to stoichiometry in Fe 1+δ Se

Tyrel M. McQueen;Qingzhen Huang;Vadim G. Ksenofontov;Claudia Felser

824
Citations
Calculated electronic and magnetic properties of the half-metallic, transition metal based Heusler compounds

Hem C. Kandpal;Gerhard H. Fecher;Claudia Felser

800
Citations
Giant anomalous Hall effect in a ferromagnetic Kagome-lattice semimetal

Enke Liu;Yan Sun;Nitesh Kumar;Lukas Meuchler

0
Citations