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DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)

In research, DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) stands highest in Health Sciences (#9,545 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions and Health Professions (General Health Professions is 17.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,307
of 22,385 · #20,541 all time
Rank in Germany
#578
of 795
Research works
239
▲ 123% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.1k
4.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
43%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)

What is DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) 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 #9,545 of 16,688 7.2%137

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) 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 DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research at DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) is in Health Sciences, 30% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (29%), Health Professions (27%), Social Sciences (11%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 56 fractional works · 56.2% of its workMedicine: 28 fractional works · 28.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 6.8% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 27 fractional works · 26.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 24 fractional works · 24.4% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 30 fractional works · 30.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 10.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife-span and Life-course Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 3.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 10.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 7.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 5 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKDAK-Gesundheit(Germany)99fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences56%Social Sciences30%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine2828.6%
    2. Health Professions2726.8%
    3. Dentistry10.7%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
    5. Nursing00.1%
    1. Social Sciences1110.7%
    2. Psychology66.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities66.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance43.7%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting33.0%
    6. Decision Sciences00.5%
    1. Environmental Science87.8%
    2. Engineering11.4%
    3. Computer Science11.3%
    4. Mathematics00.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology22.1%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.4%
    3. Neuroscience00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 17.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 24.2 works18×
  2. Health ProfessionsField · 26.6 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.56× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 1.45× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 10.15× its world share, 27 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.49× its world share, 28 worksMedicineNursing: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.82× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.11× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.93× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.71× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.07× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.84× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 10.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions10.15×27 works
  2. Arts and Humanities2.11×6 works
  3. Psychology2.07×6 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.71×4 works
  5. Environmental Science1.56×8 works
  6. Medicine1.49×28 works
  7. Dentistry1.45×1 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.93×3 works
  9. Social Sciences0.84×11 works
  10. Veterinary0.82×0 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.52×0 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.40×0 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.39×2 works
  14. Mathematics0.28×0 works
  15. Nursing0.18×0 works
  16. Neuroscience0.17×0 works
  17. Computer Science0.16×1 works
  18. Engineering0.09×1 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)?

Ranked on the quality score, Cordula Riederer, Stefanie Wobbe‐Ribinski and Heiko Friedel lead among researchers whose main affiliation is DAK-Gesundheit (Germany).

  1. 1 Cordula Riederer Germany · #2,195,558 worldwide 422 citations · 47 works
  2. 2 Stefanie Wobbe‐Ribinski Germany · #2,710,801 worldwide 132 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Heiko Friedel Germany · #3,202,163 worldwide 351 citations · 55 works
  4. 4 Holger Kilian Germany · #3,846,384 worldwide 91 citations · 15 works
  5. 5 Melanie Klein Germany · #4,255,334 worldwide 85 citations · 19 works
  6. 6 E Jäger Germany · #4,395,517 worldwide 63 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)

What are the most cited papers from DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)?

The most cited paper from DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) is "Heart failure and chronic kidney disease manifestation and mortality risk associations in type 2 diabetes: A large multinational cohort study" (Kåre I. Birkeland, Johan Bodegård, Jan W. Eriksson et al., 2020), with 232 citations. Next come "German Recommendations on Health Economic Evaluation: Third and Updated Version of the Hanover Consensus" (174) and "STandardisierte BerichtsROutine für Sekundärdaten Analysen (STROSA) – ein konsentierter Berichtsstandard für Deutschland, Version 2" (158).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Heart failure and chronic kidney disease manifestation and mortality risk associations in type 2 diabetes: A large multinational cohort study Kåre I. Birkeland, Johan Bodegård, Jan W. Eriksson et al. · Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism Open access 4 May 2020 232
2 German Recommendations on Health Economic Evaluation: Third and Updated Version of the Hanover Consensus J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg, Wolfgang Greiner, F Jost et al. · Value in Health Open access 28 Feb 2008 174
3 STandardisierte BerichtsROutine für Sekundärdaten Analysen (STROSA) – ein konsentierter Berichtsstandard für Deutschland, Version 2 Enno Swart, Eva Maria Bitzer, Holger Gothe et al. · Das Gesundheitswesen Open access 28 Jun 2016 158
4 Participation preferences of patients with acute and chronic conditions Johannes Hamann, Bruno Neuner, Jürgen Kasper et al. · Health Expectations Open access 8 Sep 2007 152
5 Post-COVID-19-associated morbidity in children, adolescents, and adults: A matched cohort study including more than 157,000 individuals with COVID-19 in Germany Martin Roessler et al. · PLoS Medicine Open access 10 Nov 2022 132
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Chronic Diseases, Healthcare Utilization, Epidemiological Study, Germany, Health Surveys, Quality of Life and Elderly Care.

▲ 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 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. Public Health21▲ 15×19 topics
  2. Chronic Diseases12▲ 48×3 topics
  3. Healthcare Utilization11▲ 143×2 topics
  4. Epidemiological Study11▲ 166×2 topics
  5. Germany11▲ 604×1 topic
  6. Health Surveys11▲ 604×1 topic
  7. Quality of Life8▲ 5.3×16 topics
  8. Climate Change7▲ 2.6×12 topics
  9. Epidemiology6▲ 1.63×33 topics
  10. Elderly Care5▲ 31×2 topics
  11. Global Warming5▲ 11×3 topics
  12. Infectious Diseases4▲ 13×4 topics
  13. Mortality4▲ 7.6×2 topics
  14. Human Health4▲ 26×2 topics
  15. Heat Waves4▲ 65×1 topic
  16. Temperature4▲ 38×1 topic
  17. Vulnerability4▲ 18×2 topics
  18. Medical Ethics4▲ 29×4 topics
  19. Telemedicine3▲ 23×3 topics
  20. Health-related Quality of Life3▲ 13×3 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome3▲ 3.6×7 topics
  22. Aging and Health Policy3▲ 625×1 topic
  23. Digital Technologies in Nursing Care3▲ 625×1 topic
  24. Primary Care3▲ 7.5×8 topics
  25. Health Promotion3▲ 8.7×4 topics
  26. Well-being3▲ 6.7×3 topics
  27. Workplace3▲ 29×3 topics
  28. End-of-Life Care2▲ 23×2 topics
  29. Patient Rights2▲ 37×2 topics
  30. Genetic Testing2▲ 21×2 topics
  31. Healthcare Law2▲ 178×1 topic
  32. Informed Consent2▲ 32×2 topics
  33. Pain Management2▲ 9.9×5 topics
  34. Reproductive Medicine2▲ 178×1 topic
  35. Stress Management2▲ 22×2 topics
  36. Chronic Disease Management2▲ 11×3 topics
  37. Salutogenesis2▲ 104×1 topic
  38. Sense of Coherence2▲ 104×1 topic
  39. Professional Development2▲ 10×2 topics
  40. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse2▲ 53×2 topics

Which research topics does DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health and Medical Studies, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Social Policies and Healthcare Reform and Medical and Health Sciences Research.

Health and Medical Studies11Health and Medical Studies: 11 fractional worksClimate Change and Healt…4Climate Change and Health Impacts: 4 fractional worksSocial Policies and Heal…3Social Policies and Healthcare Reform: 3 fractional worksMedical and Health Scien…2Medical and Health Sciences Research: 2 fractional worksHealth, psychology, and …2Health, psychology, and well-being: 2 fractional worksSocial and Demographic I…2Social and Demographic Issues in Germany: 2 fractional worksPsychology, Coaching, and Therapy: 2 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 2 fractional worksPharmaceutical Economics and Policy: 2 fractional worksReligion, Theology, and Education: 1 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSocial Psychology2 others

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

  1. 1 Health and Medical Studies General Health Professions 11 works
  2. 2 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 4 works
  3. 3 Social Policies and Healthcare Reform General Health Professions 3 works
  4. 4 Medical and Health Sciences Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  5. 5 Health, psychology, and well-being General Health Professions 2 works
  6. 6 Social and Demographic Issues in Germany General Health Professions 2 works
  7. 7 Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy Social Psychology 2 works
  8. 8 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  9. 9 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  10. 10 Religion, Theology, and Education Religious studies 1 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 available42.7%not open57.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.1%domestic only84.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 123% higher 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 DAK-Gesundheit (Germany) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00037% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)0.00057% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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