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Blindeninstitutsstiftung

In research, Blindeninstitutsstiftung stands highest in Health Sciences (#12,094 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#26,133
of 34,923
Rank in Germany
#1,273
of 1,603
Research works
198
▼ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.5k
7.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Blindeninstitutsstiftung

What is Blindeninstitutsstiftung known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #12,094 of 16,688 4.2%126

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Blindeninstitutsstiftung sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Blindeninstitutsstiftung work in?

In 2022-now, 63% of research at Blindeninstitutsstiftung is in Health Sciences, 20% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (61%), Arts and Humanities (11%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 18 fractional works · 62.7% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 60.9% of its workOphthalmology: 7 fractional works · 23.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 11.2% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 20.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 10.5% of its workClassics: 2 fractional works · 6.0% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 7.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 10.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 7.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBlindeninstitutsstiftung29fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences63%Social Sciences20%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1860.9%
    2. Health Professions01.6%
    3. Veterinary00.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities310.5%
    2. Social Sciences27.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting00.8%
    4. Psychology00.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.4%
    1. Engineering14.1%
    2. Computer Science12.1%
    3. Materials Science11.9%
    4. Environmental Science01.5%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology25.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.17× its world share, 18 worksMedicineVeterinary: 1.68× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.65× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities3.65×3 works
  2. Medicine3.17×18 works
  3. Veterinary1.68×0 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.00×2 works
  5. Social Sciences0.61×2 works
  6. Health Professions0.59×0 works
  7. Materials Science0.54×1 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.36×0 works
  9. Environmental Science0.31×0 works
  10. Engineering0.28×1 works
  11. Computer Science0.27×1 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.24×0 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.23×0 works
  14. Psychology0.23×0 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.18×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Blindeninstitutsstiftung?

Ranked on the quality score, Markus J. Pfeiffer, Georges Henri Parent and Peter Distelmaier lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Blindeninstitutsstiftung.

  1. 1 Markus J. Pfeiffer Germany · #3,723,398 worldwide 309 citations · 29 works
  2. 2 Georges Henri Parent Germany · #4,771,715 worldwide 9 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Peter Distelmaier Germany · #5,318,428 worldwide 143 citations · 31 works
  4. 4 Carl‐Ludwig Schönfeld Germany · #5,970,402 worldwide 411 citations · 63 works
  5. 5 Manfred Akermann Germany · #6,983,853 worldwide 0 citations · 80 works
All ranked researchers at Blindeninstitutsstiftung

What are the most cited papers from Blindeninstitutsstiftung?

The most cited paper from Blindeninstitutsstiftung is "Optical coherence tomography-based consensus definition for lamellar macular hole" (Jean‐Pierre Hubschman, Andrea Govetto, Richard F. Spaide et al., 2020), with 178 citations. Next come "Comparison of Ciprofloxacin Ophthalmic Solution 0.3% to Fortified Tobramycin-Cefazolin in Treating Bacterial Corneal Ulcers" (156) and "Stereotactic fractionated irradiation of optic nerve sheath meningioma: a new treatment alternative" (136).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Optical coherence tomography-based consensus definition for lamellar macular hole Jean‐Pierre Hubschman, Andrea Govetto, Richard F. Spaide et al. · British Journal of Ophthalmology Open access 27 Feb 2020 178
2 Comparison of Ciprofloxacin Ophthalmic Solution 0.3% to Fortified Tobramycin-Cefazolin in Treating Bacterial Corneal Ulcers Robert A. Hyndiuk et al. · Ophthalmology Nov 1996 156
3 Stereotactic fractionated irradiation of optic nerve sheath meningioma: a new treatment alternative S. Pitz, G. Becker, Ulrich Schiefer et al. · British Journal of Ophthalmology Open access 18 Oct 2002 136
4 Multi-Level Context Ultra-Aggregation for Stereo Matching Guang-Yu Nie, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu et al. Conference paper Jun 2019 126
5 Bestrophin 1 is indispensable for volume regulation in human retinal pigment epithelium cells Andrea Milenkovic, Caroline Brandl, Vladimir M. Milenkovic et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 4 May 2015 123
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Which keywords describe research at Blindeninstitutsstiftung?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, Intravitreal Injection, Macular Degeneration, Myopia, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy and Choroidal Thickness.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 24 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Inflammation4▲ 5.8×6 topics
  2. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor3▲ 113×2 topics
  3. Intravitreal Injection3▲ 131×2 topics
  4. Macular Degeneration3▲ 74×3 topics
  5. Oxidative Stress3▲ 5.5×3 topics
  6. Diabetic Retinopathy3▲ 87×2 topics
  7. Epidemiology3▲ 2.2×11 topics
  8. Glaucoma3▲ 60×3 topics
  9. Myopia3▲ 133×2 topics
  10. Choroidal Thickness2▲ 152×1 topic
  11. Cultural History2▲ 69×3 topics
  12. Retinal Pigment Epithelium2▲ 152×1 topic
  13. OCT Imaging2▲ 266×2 topics
  14. Macular Hole2▲ 308×1 topic
  15. Vitreoretinal Surgery2▲ 308×1 topic
  16. Intraocular Pressure2▲ 78×2 topics
  17. Optical Coherence Tomography2▲ 67×2 topics
  18. Genetic Mutations2▲ 14×5 topics
  19. Medieval Literature2▲ 326×1 topic
  20. Religious Practices2▲ 143×1 topic
  21. Optic Nerve2▲ 59×2 topics
  22. Ocular Hypertension2▲ 103×1 topic
  23. Retinal Ganglion Cells2▲ 48×1 topic
  24. Prognostic Factors1▲ 8.4×2 topics

Which research topics does Blindeninstitutsstiftung publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Retinal and Macular Surgery, Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies and Glaucoma and retinal disorders.

Retinal Diseases and Treatments: 2 fractional worksRetinal and Macular Surgery: 2 fractional worksHistorical, Literary, and Cultural Studies: 2 fractional worksGlaucoma and retinal disorders: 2 fractional worksIntraocular Surgery and Lenses: 1 fractional worksOcular Oncology and Trea…1Ocular Oncology and Treatments: 1 fractional worksOcular Surface and Contact Lens: 1 fractional worksRetinopathy of Prematurity Studies: 0 fractional worksHistorical Legal Studies and Society: 0 fractional worksNanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery: 0 fractional works
OphthalmologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingClassicsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Retinal Diseases and Treatments Ophthalmology 2 works
  2. 2 Retinal and Macular Surgery Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 2 works
  3. 3 Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies Classics 2 works
  4. 4 Glaucoma and retinal disorders Ophthalmology 2 works
  5. 5 Intraocular Surgery and Lenses Ophthalmology 1 works
  6. 6 Ocular Oncology and Treatments Ophthalmology 1 works
  7. 7 Ocular Surface and Contact Lens Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  8. 8 Retinopathy of Prematurity Studies Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  9. 9 Historical Legal Studies and Society Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  10. 10 Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery Biomaterials 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available30.9%not open69.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.1%domestic only79.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Blindeninstitutsstiftung's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Blindeninstitutsstiftung as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000085% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Blindeninstitutsstiftung0.00011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Blindeninstitutsstiftung over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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