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Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung

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World rank, all time
#22,632
of 34,923
Rank in Germany
#1,112
of 1,603
Research works
167
▲ 74% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.2k
19.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
43%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung

Which fields of science does Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung work in?

In 2022-now, 39% of research at Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung is in Health Sciences, 38% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (35%), Engineering (20%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 23 fractional works · 39.5% of its workMedicine: 21 fractional works · 35.4% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 6.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 5.0% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 22 fractional works · 38.2% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 20.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 18.5% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 10.4% of its workBiomaterials: 4 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAcoustics and Ultrasonics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBioengineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 17.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 11.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKElseKröner-Fresenius-Stiftung59fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences38%Health Sciences39%Social Sciences5%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine2135.4%
    2. Health Professions22.6%
    3. Nursing00.9%
    4. Dentistry00.3%
    5. Veterinary00.3%
    1. Engineering1220.0%
    2. Materials Science610.4%
    3. Computer Science24.0%
    4. Physics and Astronomy11.8%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.8%
    6. Environmental Science00.6%
    7. Chemistry00.4%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology711.9%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology23.1%
    3. Neuroscience11.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.5%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    1. Arts and Humanities11.9%
    2. Psychology11.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting11.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.7%
    5. Social Sciences00.4%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
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: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.23× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.05× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.48× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.52× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.33× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.97× its world share, 6 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.80× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.84× its world share, 21 worksMedicineNursing: 1.73× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.09× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.66× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.35× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology3.05×2 works
  2. Materials Science2.97×6 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.23×7 works
  4. Veterinary2.09×0 works
  5. Medicine1.84×21 works
  6. Nursing1.73×0 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.48×0 works
  8. Engineering1.33×12 works
  9. Health Professions1.00×2 works
  10. Neuroscience0.81×1 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.80×1 works
  12. Dentistry0.68×0 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.66×1 works
  14. Chemical Engineering0.59×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.52×2 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.48×0 works
  17. Psychology0.35×1 works
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.33×0 works
  19. Business, Management and Accounting0.30×1 works
  20. Decision Sciences0.26×0 works
  21. Chemistry0.24×0 works
  22. Energy0.15×0 works
  23. Environmental Science0.12×0 works
  24. Social Sciences0.04×0 works
  25. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung?

Ranked on the quality score, Claudia Ruffert and Eveline Schreiber lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung.

  1. 1 Claudia Ruffert Germany · #1,635,292 worldwide 873 citations · 38 works
  2. 2 Eveline Schreiber Germany · #2,539,002 worldwide 768 citations · 38 works
All ranked researchers at Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung

What are the most cited papers from Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung?

The most cited paper from Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung is "Animal models of obesity and diabetes mellitus" (Maximilian Kleinert, Christoffer Clemmensen, Susanna M. Hofmann et al., 2018), with 867 citations. Next come "Magnetic nanoparticle-based drug delivery for cancer therapy" (425) and "Dynamics of human adipose lipid turnover in health and metabolic disease" (403).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Animal models of obesity and diabetes mellitus Maximilian Kleinert, Christoffer Clemmensen, Susanna M. Hofmann et al. · Nature Reviews Endocrinology ReviewOpen access 19 Jan 2018 867
2 Magnetic nanoparticle-based drug delivery for cancer therapy Rainer Tietze, Jan Zaloga, Harald Unterweger et al. · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 10 Aug 2015 425
3 Dynamics of human adipose lipid turnover in health and metabolic disease Peter Arner, Samuel Bernard, Mehran Salehpour et al. · Nature Open access 23 Sep 2011 403
4 Variants in CPA1 are strongly associated with early onset chronic pancreatitis Heiko Witt et al. · Nature Genetics Open access 18 Aug 2013 306
5 Comparison of proliferation and differentiation capacity of human adipocyte precursor cells from the omental and subcutaneous adipose tissue depot of obese subjects Vanessa van Harmelen, Karin Röhrig, Hans Hauner · Metabolism 23 Apr 2004 279
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Which keywords describe research at Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biomedical Applications, Nanoparticles, Drug Delivery, Cancer Therapy, Biosensors, Tumor Targeting, Imaging and Inflammation.

▲ 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. Biomedical Applications11▲ 15×12 topics
  2. Nanoparticles9▲ 12×12 topics
  3. Drug Delivery5▲ 16×6 topics
  4. Cancer Therapy5▲ 16×5 topics
  5. Inflammation5▲ 3.8×25 topics
  6. Biosensors4▲ 15×5 topics
  7. Machine Learning4▲ 2.1×11 topics
  8. Tumor Targeting4▲ 36×3 topics
  9. Imaging4▲ 26×2 topics
  10. Nanomedicine3▲ 75×2 topics
  11. Ferrofluids3▲ 428×1 topic
  12. Magnetic Particle Imaging3▲ 428×1 topic
  13. Nanocarriers3▲ 96×1 topic
  14. Precision Medicine3▲ 11×4 topics
  15. Surface Engineering3▲ 59×1 topic
  16. Metabolic Syndrome3▲ 6.6×8 topics
  17. Tissue Engineering3▲ 7.5×6 topics
  18. Medical Imaging2▲ 8.0×4 topics
  19. Immunotherapy2▲ 5.4×9 topics
  20. Insulin Resistance2▲ 8.0×6 topics
  21. Nanomaterials2▲ 3.3×4 topics
  22. Obesity2▲ 4.4×12 topics
  23. Weight Loss2▲ 19×3 topics
  24. In Vivo Imaging2▲ 35×2 topics
  25. Predictive Modeling2▲ 9.7×2 topics
  26. Regenerative Medicine2▲ 11×5 topics
  27. Feature Extraction2▲ 5.8×3 topics
  28. Toxicity1▲ 5.6×2 topics
  29. Chronic Diseases1▲ 8.6×4 topics
  30. Exercise1▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Ketogenic Diet1▲ 24×1 topic
  32. Low-Carbohydrate Diet1▲ 27×1 topic
  33. Metabolic Regulation1▲ 14×3 topics
  34. Mitochondrial Dysfunction1▲ 7.4×2 topics
  35. Lab-on-a-Chip1▲ 17×3 topics
  36. Quantitative Analysis1▲ 10×1 topic
  37. Radiomics1▲ 18×1 topic
  38. Brown Adipose Tissue1▲ 39×1 topic
  39. Ethical Challenges1▲ 9.0×2 topics
  40. Thermogenesis1▲ 39×1 topic

Which research topics does Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery, Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles, Diet and metabolism studies and Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging.

Nanoparticle-Based Drug …3Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery: 3 fractional worksCharacterization and App…3Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles: 3 fractional worksDiet and metabolism studies: 1 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 1 fractional worksAdipose Tissue and Metabolism: 1 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 1 fractional worksOptical Coherence Tomography Applications: 1 fractional worksPhotoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging: 1 fractional worksPancreatitis Pathology and Treatment: 1 fractional worksAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases: 1 fractional works
BiomaterialsBiomedical EngineeringPhysiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging3 others

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

  1. 1 Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery Biomaterials 3 works
  2. 2 Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles Biomedical Engineering 3 works
  3. 3 Diet and metabolism studies Physiology 1 works
  4. 4 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 works
  5. 5 Adipose Tissue and Metabolism Physiology 1 works
  6. 6 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 1 works
  7. 7 Optical Coherence Tomography Applications Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  8. 8 Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  9. 9 Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment Surgery 1 works
  10. 10 Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases Epidemiology 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 available43.1%not open56.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.4%domestic only79.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 74% 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 Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00020% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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