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Covance (Germany)

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Research works
113
▼ 80% vs 2018-21
Citations
2k
17.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
33%
world 18%
Covance (Germany)

Not ranked overall: Covance (Germany) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Covance (Germany) work in?

In all years, 44% of research at Covance (Germany) is in Health Sciences, 34% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Immunology and Microbiology (12%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (10%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Health Sciences: 50 fractional works · 44.2% of its workMedicine: 43 fractional works · 38.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 6 fractional works · 5.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 5 fractional works · 4.8% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOphthalmology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 5 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSmall Animals: 5 fractional works · 4.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 39 fractional works · 34.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 13 fractional works · 11.8% of its workImmunology: 12 fractional works · 10.8% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 fractional works · 10.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 6.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 10 fractional works · 9.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 4.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 13 fractional works · 11.3% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 7 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 12 fractional works · 10.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 3.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCovance (Germany)113fractional works, all years
Life Sciences34%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences44%Social Sciences11%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine4338.3%
    2. Veterinary54.3%
    3. Health Professions10.9%
    4. Dentistry10.6%
    5. Nursing00.1%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology1311.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1210.4%
    3. Neuroscience109.1%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences32.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.7%
    1. Psychology75.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance43.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting21.7%
    4. Decision Sciences00.3%
    5. Social Sciences00.3%
    1. Environmental Science43.9%
    2. Engineering43.1%
    3. Computer Science22.0%
    4. Materials Science10.5%
    5. Mathematics00.3%
    6. Chemistry00.2%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
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.

Neuroscience: 3.56× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.23× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 2.18× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.97× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.87× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 4.39× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsVeterinary: 28.36× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.59× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 11.17× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.63× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 28.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary28.36×0 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.17×1 works
  3. Health Professions4.39×0 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting3.59×0 works
  5. Neuroscience3.56×0 works
  6. Engineering2.18×1 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.23×0 works
  8. Environmental Science0.97×0 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.87×0 works
  10. Psychology0.63×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Covance (Germany)?

Ranked on the quality score, Werner Frings, Craig Marc Luetjens and Marc O. Niehoff lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Covance (Germany).

  1. 1 Werner Frings Germany · #2,043,025 worldwide 563 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Craig Marc Luetjens Germany · #2,682,652 worldwide 3.4k citations · 91 works
  3. 3 Marc O. Niehoff Germany · #3,414,293 worldwide 244 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Gerhard F. Weinbauer Germany · #3,440,023 worldwide 6.1k citations · 192 works
  5. 5 Sven Korte Germany · #3,589,762 worldwide 303 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Gunnar Habermann Germany · #3,715,448 worldwide 312 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Lars Mecklenburg Germany · #3,868,582 worldwide 2.4k citations · 70 works
  8. 8 Antje Fuchs Germany · #4,017,529 worldwide 433 citations · 39 works
  9. 9 Birgit Niggemann Germany · #4,039,438 worldwide 335 citations · 36 works
  10. 10 Friedhelm Vogel Germany · #4,149,618 worldwide 171 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Covance (Germany)

What are the most cited papers from Covance (Germany)?

The most cited paper from Covance (Germany) is "Endocrine control of spermatogenesis: Role of FSH and LH/ testosterone" (Suresh Ramaswamy, Gerhard F. Weinbauer, 2014), with 407 citations. Next come "Penetration of Bevacizumab through the Retina after Intravitreal Injection in the Monkey" (255) and "Pesticides in Surface Water, Sediment, and Rainfall of the Northeastern Pantanal Basin, Brazil" (252).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Endocrine control of spermatogenesis: Role of FSH and LH/ testosterone Suresh Ramaswamy, Gerhard F. Weinbauer · Spermatogenesis Open access 4 Mar 2014 407
2 Penetration of Bevacizumab through the Retina after Intravitreal Injection in the Monkey Peter Heiduschka, Heike Fietz, Sabine Hofmeister et al. · Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 25 May 2007 255
3 Pesticides in Surface Water, Sediment, and Rainfall of the Northeastern Pantanal Basin, Brazil Volker Laabs, Wulf Amelung, Alício A. Pinto et al. · Journal of Environmental Quality Sep 2002 252
4 Safety and immunotoxicity assessment of immunomodulatory monoclonal antibodies Frank R. Brennan, Laura Dill Morton, Sebastian Spindeldreher et al. · mAbs Open access May 2010 246
5 New horizons for in vitro spermatogenesis? An update on novel three-dimensional culture systems as tools for meiotic and post-meiotic differentiation of testicular germ cells Jan‐Bernd Stukenborg, Stefan Schlatt, Manuela Simoni et al. · Molecular Human Reproduction Open access 27 Jun 2009 189
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Covance (Germany)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Social Behavior, Oxidative Stress, Neurotoxicity, Toxicology, Immune System, Evolution, Histopathology and Immunotoxicity.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Oxidative Stress8▲ 4.0×14 topics
  2. Social Behavior6▲ 63×2 topics
  3. Neurotoxicity6▲ 27×4 topics
  4. Toxicology5▲ 23×3 topics
  5. Evolution5▲ 16×2 topics
  6. Immune System5▲ 15×3 topics
  7. Histopathology5▲ 183×1 topic
  8. Immunotoxicity5▲ 560×1 topic
  9. Cognition5▲ 29×2 topics
  10. Intelligence5▲ 81×1 topic
  11. Primates5▲ 170×1 topic
  12. Publication Bias4▲ 70×2 topics
  13. ARRIVE Guidelines4▲ 218×1 topic
  14. Animal Research Reporting4▲ 218×1 topic
  15. Cancer4▲ 2.3×7 topics
  16. Monoclonal Antibodies4▲ 23×2 topics
  17. Neurological Disorders4▲ 4.7×5 topics
  18. Quality of Life4▲ 2.4×6 topics
  19. Androgen Receptor3▲ 29×2 topics
  20. Macular Degeneration3▲ 21×2 topics
  21. Pharmacokinetics3▲ 9.8×4 topics
  22. Sperm DNA Fragmentation3▲ 54×1 topic
  23. Spermatogonial Stem Cells3▲ 54×1 topic
  24. Neurodegeneration3▲ 8.0×4 topics
  25. Metabolic Regulation2▲ 7.9×4 topics
  26. Biosimilars2▲ 140×1 topic
  27. Immunogenicity2▲ 41×1 topic
  28. Cost-effectiveness Analysis2▲ 26×1 topic
  29. Gene Therapy2▲ 7.8×2 topics
  30. Health Utility Measures2▲ 26×1 topic
  31. Regulatory T Cells2▲ 18×2 topics
  32. Decidual NK Cells2▲ 45×1 topic
  33. Fertility2▲ 23×2 topics
  34. Fetal-Maternal Interface2▲ 45×1 topic
  35. Retinal Stem Cells2▲ 48×1 topic
  36. Retinitis Pigmentosa2▲ 48×1 topic
  37. Adverse Drug Reactions2▲ 28×2 topics
  38. Functional Connectivity2▲ 15×2 topics
  39. PET/CT2▲ 23×1 topic
  40. Default Mode Network2▲ 31×1 topic

Which research topics does Covance (Germany) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Health and Medical Studies, Power Systems and Technologies and Advanced Optical Network Technologies.

Health Systems, Economic…1Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 1 fractional worksHealth and Medical Studies: 0 fractional worksPower Systems and Technologies: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Optical Network Technologies: 0 fractional worksPharmaceutical Economics and Policy: 0 fractional works3D Printing in Biomedical Research: 0 fractional worksMetal Forming Simulation…0Metal Forming Simulation Techniques: 0 fractional worksAluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties: 0 fractional worksChemistry and Chemical Engineering: 0 fractional worksCorporate Social Responsibility Reporting: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsGeneral Health ProfessionsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringBiomedical Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  2. 2 Health and Medical Studies General Health Professions 0 works
  3. 3 Power Systems and Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Advanced Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  6. 6 3D Printing in Biomedical Research Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Metal Forming Simulation Techniques Mechanical Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  10. 10 Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Strategy and Management 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 available17.6%not open82.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.3%domestic only66.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Covance (Germany)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 80% lower than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Covance (Germany) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000023% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Covance (Germany)0.0000085% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Covance (Germany) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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