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Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office

In research, Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#5,277 of 6,031 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#12,626 of 14,347 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#29,036
of 42,892
Rank in Switzerland
#291
of 429
Research works
326
▼ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
10k
31.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
47%
world 28%

What is Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office 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
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #5,277 of 6,031 32.4%130
Life SciencesDomain #12,626 of 14,347 29.7%185

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office 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).

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: 7.37× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.34× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.34× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.39× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceDentistry: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.98× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.65× its world share, 6 worksMedicineNursing: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 86.61× its world share, 6 worksVeterinaryBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 86.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office?

Ranked on the composite score, Beat Wechsler, J. Danuser and G Flückiger lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office.

  1. 1 Beat Wechsler Switzerland · #214,513 worldwide 125 citations · 38 works
  2. 2 J. Danuser Switzerland · #921,332 worldwide 23 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 G Flückiger Switzerland · #1,261,794 worldwide 1 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 M Coulet Switzerland · #1,374,178 worldwide 5 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office

Which keywords describe research at Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Animal Welfare, Heat Stress, Emotional State, Stress Indicators, Genetic Diversity, Probiotics, Gut Microbiota and Amino Acids.

▲ 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. Animal Welfare7▲ 165×4 topics
  2. Heat Stress5▲ 128×2 topics
  3. Emotional State5▲ 332×1 topic
  4. Stress Indicators5▲ 332×1 topic
  5. Climate Change5▲ 3.5×12 topics
  6. Genetic Diversity4▲ 17×6 topics
  7. Probiotics4▲ 32×3 topics
  8. Gut Microbiota4▲ 21×4 topics
  9. Amino Acids3▲ 67×2 topics
  10. Feed Additives3▲ 107×2 topics
  11. Antibiotic Alternatives3▲ 112×1 topic
  12. Livestock Production3▲ 65×2 topics
  13. Poultry Production3▲ 112×1 topic
  14. Health Effects3▲ 9.7×11 topics
  15. Epidemiology3▲ 1.45×23 topics
  16. Public Health3▲ 3.8×13 topics
  17. Food Safety3▲ 18×9 topics
  18. Antimicrobial Resistance2▲ 26×4 topics
  19. Environmental Impact2▲ 3.0×7 topics
  20. Dairy Cattle2▲ 85×2 topics
  21. Metabolic Adaptations2▲ 162×1 topic
  22. Physiological Responses2▲ 79×1 topic
  23. Chicken Domestication2▲ 246×1 topic
  24. Risk Assessment2▲ 5.6×5 topics
  25. Village Poultry2▲ 246×1 topic
  26. Marker-Assisted Selection2▲ 40×2 topics
  27. Virulence Factors2▲ 22×5 topics
  28. African Swine Fever2▲ 109×1 topic
  29. Foot-and-Mouth Disease2▲ 109×1 topic
  30. Genetic Characterization2▲ 67×2 topics
  31. Genomic Analysis2▲ 12×4 topics
  32. Genomic Selection2▲ 68×1 topic
  33. Milk Composition2▲ 69×2 topics
  34. Plant Breeding2▲ 31×1 topic
  35. Bovine Mastitis1▲ 181×1 topic
  36. Milk Quality1▲ 181×1 topic
  37. Genomic Sequencing1▲ 19×2 topics
  38. Host-Pathogen Interactions1▲ 28×2 topics
  39. Vaccine Development1▲ 9.0×2 topics
  40. Assurance Cases1▲ 272×1 topic

Which research topics does Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock and Livestock and Poultry Management.

Animal Behavior and Welf…5Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies: 5 fractional worksAnimal Nutrition and Physiology: 3 fractional worksEffects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock: 2 fractional worksLivestock and Poultry Management: 2 fractional worksAnimal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 2 fractional worksGenetic and phenotypic t…2Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock: 2 fractional worksMilk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows: 1 fractional worksSafety Systems Engineering in Autonomy: 1 fractional worksAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact: 1 fractional worksMicrobial infections and disease research: 1 fractional works
Small AnimalsAnimal Science and ZoologyAgronomy and Crop ScienceGenetics3 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 5 works
  2. 2 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 3 works
  3. 3 Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock Animal Science and Zoology 2 works
  4. 4 Livestock and Poultry Management Animal Science and Zoology 2 works
  5. 5 Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology Agronomy and Crop Science 2 works
  6. 6 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 2 works
  7. 7 Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows Agronomy and Crop Science 1 works
  8. 8 Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 1 works
  9. 9 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 1 works
  10. 10 Microbial infections and disease research Microbiology 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 available47.4%not open52.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.7%domestic only73.3%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% lower 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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