The academic platform Research.com has published the 2022 edition of its scientist rankings. Accordingly, the L3S members Prof. Wolfgang Nejdl and Prof. Sören Auer are among the 1000 best computer scientists in the world; in Germany, they have ranked 22nd and 84th, respectively.
The ranking is based on the H-index metric provided by Microsoft Academic. It includes only leading scientists with an H-index of at least 30 for academic publications made in computer science.
The full world ranking is available here: research.com/scientists-rankings/computer-science
The full ranking for Germany is available here: research.com/scientists-rankings/computer-science/de