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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

In research, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY stands highest in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (#7 of 263 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#507 of 12,888 worldwide) and Physics and Astronomy (#135 of 1,646 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Radiation and Physics and Astronomy — Nuclear and High Energy Physics is 80.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#828
of 28,054 · #547 all time
Rank in Germany
#40
of 1,178
Research works
8.8k
▲ 8% vs 2013–17
Citations
195k
22.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
18.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
70%
world 28%

What is Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield #7 of 263 28.9%440 #16
Physical SciencesDomain #507 of 12,888 18.6%1,619 #408
Physics and AstronomyField #135 of 1,646 25.4%819 #172
EngineeringField #1,854 of 6,636 10.8%344 #1046
Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield #128 of 443 39.6%92 #214
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield #244 of 565 15.1%141 #279
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #1,080 of 2,318 10.5%184 #688
RadiationSubfield #20 of 42 13.5%90 #45
Materials ScienceField #1,286 of 2,468 7.7%211 #869
Materials ChemistrySubfield #1,103 of 1,556 7.8%138 #1186

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Nuclear and High Energy Physics#16 #7
  2. Physical Sciences#408 #507
  3. Physics and Astronomy#172 #135
  4. Engineering#1,046 #1,854
  5. Astronomy and Astrophysics#214 #128
  6. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics#279 #244
  7. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#688 #1,080
  8. Radiation#45 #20
  9. Materials Science#869 #1,286
  10. Materials Chemistry#1,186 #1,103
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nuclear and High Energy Physics takes 80.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 439.7 works81×
  2. RadiationSubfield · 90.1 works38×
  3. Physics and AstronomyField · 819.2 works21×
  4. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 39.1 works14×
  5. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 141.0 works11×
  6. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 91.8 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.48× its world share, 44 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.54× its world share, 9 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.42× its world share, 66 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.61× its world share, 82 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.39× its world share, 38 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.01× its world share, 16 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.32× its world share, 344 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 3.48× its world share, 211 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.11× its world share, 23 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 21.24× its world share, 819 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksDentistryMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 32 worksMedicineNursing: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.68× its world share, 11 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.01× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 21.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY?

Ranked on the composite score, P.M. Zerwas, M. Turcato and Géraldine Servant lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY.

  1. 1 P.M. Zerwas Germany · #27,842 worldwide 617 citations · 74 works
  2. 2 M. Turcato Germany · #33,083 worldwide 631 citations · 35 works
  3. 3 Géraldine Servant Germany · #37,987 worldwide 668 citations · 33 works
  4. 4 Evgeni Saldin Germany · #43,931 worldwide 252 citations · 51 works
  5. 5 R. Treusch Germany · #44,926 worldwide 471 citations · 37 works
  6. 6 J. Feldhaus Germany · #45,731 worldwide 370 citations · 32 works
  7. 7 U. Tamponi Germany · #49,166 worldwide 1.1k citations · 125 works
  8. 8 S. Schreiber Germany · #53,698 worldwide 391 citations · 83 works
  9. 9 A. Gizhko Germany · #55,751 worldwide 658 citations · 60 works
  10. 10 Stefan Simrock Germany · #55,829 worldwide 316 citations · 81 works
All ranked researchers at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Which keywords describe research at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Dark Matter, Particle Physics, Higgs Boson, High-Energy Collider, X-ray Imaging, Lattice QCD, Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Dark Matter174▲ 87×4 topics
  2. Particle Physics168▲ 129×2 topics
  3. Higgs Boson123▲ 137×1 topic
  4. High-Energy Collider123▲ 137×1 topic
  5. X-ray Imaging106▲ 176×2 topics
  6. Lattice QCD103▲ 100×2 topics
  7. Cosmic Rays79▲ 91×2 topics
  8. Neutrinos79▲ 91×2 topics
  9. Synchrotron Radiation78▲ 96×3 topics
  10. Tomography71▲ 22×5 topics
  11. Photon Counting68▲ 57×3 topics
  12. Electron Acceleration65▲ 55×2 topics
  13. CMOS Technology62▲ 44×4 topics
  14. Free-Electron Lasers61▲ 303×1 topic
  15. X-Ray61▲ 303×1 topic
  16. Detector Performance60▲ 107×2 topics
  17. Particle Detectors59▲ 173×1 topic
  18. Silicon Detectors59▲ 173×1 topic
  19. Renormalization Group57▲ 59×2 topics
  20. Nonlinear Optics54▲ 28×4 topics
  21. QCD53▲ 89×1 topic
  22. charmonium53▲ 89×1 topic
  23. Galactic Center50▲ 65×2 topics
  24. Cosmology50▲ 44×3 topics
  25. Hydrodynamics50▲ 47×2 topics
  26. Heavy-Ion Collisions50▲ 114×1 topic
  27. Quark-Gluon Plasma50▲ 114×1 topic
  28. Nanoscale Imaging49▲ 32×2 topics
  29. Superconductivity48▲ 16×9 topics
  30. Phase Retrieval47▲ 179×1 topic
  31. Ptychography47▲ 179×1 topic
  32. Molecular Dynamics47▲ 16×6 topics
  33. Axions45▲ 110×1 topic
  34. WIMPs45▲ 110×1 topic
  35. Crystal Growth42▲ 8.7×12 topics
  36. Supernovae40▲ 28×2 topics
  37. High-Energy Astrophysics35▲ 75×1 topic
  38. Particle Acceleration35▲ 75×1 topic
  39. Black Holes33▲ 20×3 topics
  40. Spectroscopy32▲ 11×10 topics

Which research topics does Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers, Particle Detector Development and Performance and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions.

Particle physics theoret…123Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 123 fractional worksParticle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers: 61 fractional worksParticle Detector Develo…59Particle Detector Development and Performance: 59 fractional worksQuantum Chromodynamics a…53Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions: 53 fractional worksHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research: 50 fractional worksAdvanced X-ray Imaging Techniques: 47 fractional worksDark Matter and Cosmic P…45Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena: 45 fractional worksAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena: 35 fractional worksParticle accelerators and beam dynamics: 27 fractional worksCosmology and Gravitation Theories: 26 fractional works
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsElectrical and Electronic EngineeringRadiationAerospace Engineering1 others

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

  1. 1 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 123 works
  2. 2 Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers Electrical and Electronic Engineering 61 works
  3. 3 Particle Detector Development and Performance Nuclear and High Energy Physics 59 works
  4. 4 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Nuclear and High Energy Physics 53 works
  5. 5 High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 50 works
  6. 6 Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques Radiation 47 works
  7. 7 Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 45 works
  8. 8 Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena Nuclear and High Energy Physics 35 works
  9. 9 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics Aerospace Engineering 27 works
  10. 10 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 26 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 available69.8%not open30.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors31.1%domestic only68.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 8% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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