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Frobenius-Institut

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Research works
90
▲ 199% vs 2018-21
Citations
422
4.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
25%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Frobenius-Institut

Not ranked overall: Frobenius-Institut is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Frobenius-Institut work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Frobenius-Institut is in Social Sciences, 12% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (63%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (10%), Arts and Humanities (6%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 20 fractional works · 82.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 63.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 19.6% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 17.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 fractional works · 16.3% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 9.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 8.9% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 11.6% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKFrobenius-Institut24fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences82%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1563.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance29.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities16.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting13.3%
    5. Psychology00.2%
    1. Engineering15.6%
    2. Computer Science12.8%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.8%
    4. Environmental Science01.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences13.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.2%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    1. Medicine01.9%
    2. Health Professions00.3%
    3. Nursing00.3%
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: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.17× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMedicineNursing: 0.71× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.17× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.01× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.47× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.99× its world share, 15 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences4.99×15 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.47×2 works
  3. Arts and Humanities2.17×2 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.17×0 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.01×1 works
  6. Nursing0.71×0 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.64×1 works
  8. Engineering0.37×1 works
  9. Computer Science0.36×1 works
  10. Environmental Science0.27×0 works
  11. Health Professions0.13×0 works
  12. Neuroscience0.11×0 works
  13. Medicine0.10×0 works
  14. Psychology0.06×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Frobenius-Institut?

Ranked on the quality score, Susanne Fehlings, Nikolas Gestrich and Gerhard Liesegang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Frobenius-Institut.

  1. 1 Susanne Fehlings Germany · #1,655,638 worldwide 106 citations · 26 works
  2. 2 Nikolas Gestrich Germany · #1,819,481 worldwide 233 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Gerhard Liesegang Germany · #2,085,372 worldwide 178 citations · 28 works
  4. 4 Eike Haberland Germany · #2,608,366 worldwide 120 citations · 51 works
  5. 5 Sophia Thubauville Germany · #3,828,338 worldwide 66 citations · 33 works
  6. 6 Karl Heinz Striedter Germany · #3,842,983 worldwide 40 citations · 18 works
  7. 7 Beatrix Heintze Germany · #4,294,805 worldwide 450 citations · 45 works
  8. 8 Milan Kalous Germany · #4,560,516 worldwide 48 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Mark Milburn Germany · #4,896,819 worldwide 256 citations · 55 works
All ranked researchers at Frobenius-Institut

What are the most cited papers from Frobenius-Institut?

The most cited paper from Frobenius-Institut is "Tracks and shadows: Some social effects of the 1938 Frobenius Expedition to the north‑west Kimberley" (Anthony Redmond, 2017), with 89 citations. Next come "On the Margins of Ghana and Kawkaw: Four Seasons of Excavation at Tongo Maaré Diabal (AD 500-1150), Mali" (60) and "Visual improvement during psychophysical training in an adult amblyopic eye following visual loss in the contralateral eye" (38).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Tracks and shadows: Some social effects of the 1938 Frobenius Expedition to the north‑west Kimberley Anthony Redmond · ANU Press eBooks Book chapterOpen access 20 Sep 2017 89
2 On the Margins of Ghana and Kawkaw: Four Seasons of Excavation at Tongo Maaré Diabal (AD 500-1150), Mali Nikolas Gestrich, Kevin C. MacDonald · Journal of African Archaeology Open access 25 Apr 2018 60
3 Visual improvement during psychophysical training in an adult amblyopic eye following visual loss in the contralateral eye Maria Fronius, Licia Cirina, Angelika Cordey et al. · Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 27 Sep 2004 38
4 Ethnographic Appropriations: German Exploration and Fieldwork in West-Central Africa Beatrix Heintze · History in Africa 1999 34
5 Nitrogen isotope values of Pennisetum glaucum (pearl millet) grains: towards a reconstruction of past cultivation conditions in the Sahel, West Africa Amy Styring, Amadou Makhtar Diop, Amy Bogaard et al. · Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 15 Mar 2019 27
All 64 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Frobenius-Institut?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Migration, Globalization, Religion, Colonialism, Politics, Nationalism, Social Capital and Eritrea.

▲ 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. Migration6▲ 77×9 topics
  2. Globalization4▲ 9.2×6 topics
  3. Religion3▲ 25×4 topics
  4. Colonialism2▲ 22×5 topics
  5. Politics2▲ 38×2 topics
  6. Nationalism2▲ 22×5 topics
  7. Eritrea2▲ 655×1 topic
  8. Ethiopia2▲ 655×1 topic
  9. Social Capital2▲ 17×5 topics
  10. Cultural Diversity2▲ 33×2 topics
  11. Identity2▲ 9.7×3 topics
  12. Labor Market2▲ 24×2 topics
  13. Archaeology2▲ 48×4 topics
  14. Social Networks2▲ 23×2 topics
  15. Cultural Identity1▲ 12×2 topics
  16. Ethnic Minority Business1▲ 251×1 topic
  17. Ethnography1▲ 34×2 topics
  18. Immigrant Entrepreneurship1▲ 251×1 topic
  19. Neoliberalism1▲ 17×2 topics
  20. Ethnicity1▲ 14×2 topics
  21. Governance1▲ 16×3 topics
  22. Governmentality1▲ 206×1 topic
  23. Human Rights1▲ 5.5×2 topics
  24. Structural Violence1▲ 274×1 topic
  25. Occupation1▲ 80×2 topics
  26. Palestine1▲ 90×2 topics
  27. African Diaspora1▲ 120×1 topic
  28. Informal Economy1▲ 94×1 topic
  29. Islam1▲ 21×2 topics
  30. Refugees1▲ 36×2 topics
  31. Tax Evasion1▲ 99×1 topic
  32. transnational trade1▲ 740×1 topic
  33. Diaspora1▲ 73×1 topic
  34. Economic Development1▲ 5.2×2 topics
  35. Ethnic Identity1▲ 38×1 topic
  36. Hypersonic Effect1▲ 293×1 topic
  37. Israel1▲ 125×1 topic
  38. Reform1▲ 66×2 topics
  39. Transnationalism1▲ 188×1 topic
  40. Ultrasonic Perception1▲ 293×1 topic

Which research topics does Frobenius-Institut publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: African history and culture analysis, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Anthropological Studies and Insights and Taxation and Compliance Studies.

African history and cult…2African history and culture analysis: 2 fractional worksMigration, Ethnicity, an…1Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy: 1 fractional worksAnthropological Studies …1Anthropological Studies and Insights: 1 fractional worksTaxation and Compliance …1Taxation and Compliance Studies: 1 fractional worksChina's Global Influence and Migration: 1 fractional worksHuman auditory perception and evaluation: 1 fractional worksJewish and Middle Easter…1Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies: 1 fractional worksDiaspora, migration, tra…1Diaspora, migration, transnational identity: 1 fractional worksAfrican Studies and Geop…1African Studies and Geopolitics: 1 fractional worksEducational Robotics and…1Educational Robotics and Engineering: 1 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSociology and Political ScienceAnthropologyEconomics and Econometrics3 others

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

  1. 1 African history and culture analysis Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  2. 2 Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  3. 3 Anthropological Studies and Insights Anthropology 1 works
  4. 4 Taxation and Compliance Studies Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  5. 5 China's Global Influence and Migration Anthropology 1 works
  6. 6 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  8. 8 Diaspora, migration, transnational identity Demography 1 works
  9. 9 African Studies and Geopolitics Anthropology 1 works
  10. 10 Educational Robotics and Engineering Artificial Intelligence 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 available25.1%not open74.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.0%domestic only91.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Frobenius-Institut's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 199% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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 Frobenius-Institut as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00012% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Frobenius-Institut0.000097% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Frobenius-Institut over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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