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Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum

In research, Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,834 of 14,833 worldwide), Health Sciences (#5,821 of 16,688 worldwide) and General Health Professions (#732 of 1,886 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#8,134
of 34,923
Rank in Switzerland
#91
of 378
Research works
742
▼ 73% vs 2018-21
Citations
324
0.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
96%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum

What is Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum 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
Social SciencesDomain #4,834 of 14,833 5.9%308
Health SciencesDomain #5,821 of 16,688 6.0%375
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #732 of 1,886 6.1%199
Health ProfessionsField #1,393 of 3,315 6.3%225
MedicineField #8,222 of 14,558 5.4%149
Social SciencesField #5,566 of 9,330 4.8%147

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum 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 Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum work in?

In 2022-now, 44% of research at Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum is in Health Sciences, 40% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Health Professions (28%), Social Sciences (27%), Medicine (16%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 20 fractional works · 44.2% of its workHealth Professions: 13 fractional works · 28.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 13 fractional works · 27.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 15.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 7.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 40.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 27.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 12.9% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 10.9% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Energy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKFoederatioMedicorum…45fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences44%Social Sciences40%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Health Professions1328.4%
    2. Medicine715.7%
    3. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Social Sciences1227.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance25.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities23.7%
    4. Psychology12.8%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting11.5%
    1. Mathematics23.3%
    2. Engineering13.2%
    3. Computer Science12.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.1%
    5. Energy00.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences23.5%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.7%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.73× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.09× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringMathematics: 2.81× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 10.79× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.82× its world share, 7 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.27× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.49× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.93× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.15× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 10.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions10.79×13 works
  2. Mathematics2.81×2 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.49×2 works
  4. Social Sciences2.15×12 works
  5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.09×0 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.27×2 works
  7. Psychology0.93×1 works
  8. Medicine0.82×7 works
  9. Energy0.80×0 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.73×2 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.70×0 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.46×1 works
  13. Veterinary0.39×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.33×1 works
  15. Engineering0.21×2 works
  16. Neuroscience0.11×0 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum?

Ranked on the quality score, Nora Wille, Francine Rosenbaum and Anne-Geneviève Bütikofer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum.

  1. 1 Nora Wille Switzerland · #1,047,702 worldwide 4.5k citations · 100 works
  2. 2 Francine Rosenbaum Switzerland · #4,125,606 worldwide 23 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Anne-Geneviève Bütikofer Switzerland · #4,525,765 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Maximiliano Wepfer Switzerland · #4,765,413 worldwide 0 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Jürg Schlup Switzerland · #4,906,476 worldwide 1 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Charlotte Schweizer Switzerland · #4,919,486 worldwide 0 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Jeanine Glarner Switzerland · #5,137,850 worldwide 0 citations · 27 works
  8. 8 Christian Oeschger Switzerland · #5,389,688 worldwide 1 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Jrg Schlup Switzerland · #5,390,766 worldwide 14 citations · 35 works
  10. 10 Ursina Pally Hofmann Switzerland · #5,448,873 worldwide 1 citations · 32 works
All ranked researchers at Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum

What are the most cited papers from Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum?

The most cited paper from Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum is "Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Consensus Group (MSTCG): position statement on disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis (white paper)" (Heinz Wiendl et al., 2021), with 197 citations. Next come "Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care testing for acute coronary syndromes, heart failure and thromboembolic events in primary care: a cluster-randomised controlled trial" (49) and "The Course of Chronic Subdural Hematomas After Burr-Hole Craniostomy with and without Closed-System Drainage" (41).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Consensus Group (MSTCG): position statement on disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis (white paper) Heinz Wiendl et al. · Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders Open access 2021 197
2 Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care testing for acute coronary syndromes, heart failure and thromboembolic events in primary care: a cluster-randomised controlled trial Yuki Tomonaga, Félix Gutzwiller, Thomas Felix Lüscher et al. · BMC Family Practice Open access 24 Mar 2011 49
3 The Course of Chronic Subdural Hematomas After Burr-Hole Craniostomy with and without Closed-System Drainage Thomas-Marc Markwalder · Neurosurgery Clinics of North America Jul 2000 41
4 Natural anti-FcεRIα autoantibodies may interfere with diagnostic tests for autoimmune urticaria Jana M Pachlopnik, Michael Peter Horn, Michaela Fux et al. · Journal of Autoimmunity Open access 11 Nov 2003 34
5 Pupil size reveals arousal level fluctuations in human sleep Manuel Carro‐Domínguez, Stephanie Huwiler, Stella Oberlin et al. · Nature Communications Open access 28 Feb 2025 32
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, Medical Ethics, Germany, Health Surveys, End-of-Life Care, Patient Rights and Public Policy.

▲ 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 Health7▲ 11×4 topics
  2. Social Determinants of Health6▲ 61×2 topics
  3. Medical Ethics5▲ 81×4 topics
  4. End-of-Life Care4▲ 77×2 topics
  5. Germany4▲ 466×1 topic
  6. Health Surveys4▲ 466×1 topic
  7. Patient Rights4▲ 125×2 topics
  8. Public Policy4▲ 18×2 topics
  9. Primary Care4▲ 21×4 topics
  10. Community Development3▲ 40×2 topics
  11. Community Engagement3▲ 21×2 topics
  12. Territorial Governance3▲ 61×2 topics
  13. Digital Health3▲ 61×2 topics
  14. Healthcare Policy3▲ 76×1 topic
  15. Inequalities3▲ 211×1 topic
  16. Family Support Policies3▲ 417×1 topic
  17. Inequality3▲ 27×1 topic
  18. Palliative Care3▲ 40×3 topics
  19. Cooperatives3▲ 80×2 topics
  20. Solidarity Economy3▲ 104×2 topics
  21. Aging2▲ 10×2 topics
  22. Economic Development2▲ 6.9×2 topics
  23. Mental Health2▲ 3.6×2 topics
  24. Sustainability2▲ 2.1×5 topics
  25. Institutionalization2▲ 52×1 topic
  26. Social Innovation2▲ 31×1 topic
  27. Caregiving2▲ 64×1 topic
  28. Elderly2▲ 18×1 topic
  29. Ethical Practices2▲ 72×1 topic
  30. Healthcare Legislation2▲ 79×1 topic
  31. Healthcare Law2▲ 321×1 topic
  32. Reproductive Medicine2▲ 321×1 topic
  33. Smallholder Farmers2▲ 16×2 topics
  34. Global Development Goals1▲ 243×1 topic
  35. Tunisian Revolution1▲ 243×1 topic
  36. Adaptation1▲ 8.6×1 topic
  37. ECB's Rescue Facility1▲ 390×1 topic
  38. Livestock Farming1▲ 43×1 topic
  39. TARGET2 Balances1▲ 390×1 topic
  40. Argumentation1▲ 78×1 topic

Which research topics does Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health and Medical Studies, Healthcare Systems and Practices, Social Policies and Family and Social Sciences and Governance.

Health and Medical Studies: 4 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Practices: 3 fractional worksSocial Policies and Family3Social Policies and Family: 3 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Gove…2Social Sciences and Governance: 2 fractional worksAging, Elder Care, and Social Issues: 2 fractional worksHealth, Medicine and Society: 2 fractional worksMedical and Health Scien…2Medical and Health Sciences Research: 2 fractional worksPolitical and Social Issues: 1 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural Development Research: 1 fractional worksEuropean Monetary and Fiscal Policies: 1 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSociology and Political ScienceUrban StudiesPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health3 others

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

  1. 1 Health and Medical Studies General Health Professions 4 works
  2. 2 Healthcare Systems and Practices General Health Professions 3 works
  3. 3 Social Policies and Family Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  4. 4 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 2 works
  5. 5 Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues General Health Professions 2 works
  6. 6 Health, Medicine and Society General Health Professions 2 works
  7. 7 Medical and Health Sciences Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  8. 8 Political and Social Issues Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  9. 9 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  10. 10 European Monetary and Fiscal Policies Finance 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 available95.6%not open4.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.4%domestic only84.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 73% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000032% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum0.000034% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

5%10%all institutions10.0% in 2022Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum3.0% in 202220102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.8% in 2007.

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