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German Federal Archives

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Research works
36
▼ 48% vs 2018-21
Citations
18
0.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
43%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
German Federal Archives

Not ranked overall: German Federal Archives is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does German Federal Archives work in?

In all years, 85% of research at German Federal Archives is in Social Sciences, 12% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (34%), Social Sciences (33%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (18%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 30 fractional works · 84.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 12 fractional works · 34.2% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 11.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 9.2% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 32.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 16.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 10.9% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 17.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 17.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 11.9% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 8.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKGerman FederalArchives36fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences12%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences85%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities1234.2%
    2. Social Sciences1232.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance617.8%
    1. Computer Science38.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.9%
    3. Engineering00.9%
    4. Environmental Science00.9%
    5. Mathematics00.3%
    1. Neuroscience01.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.7%
    1. Medicine01.2%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 1.61× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.90× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 1.29× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 14.80× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.77× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.77× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 14.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities14.80×3 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.90×0 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.77×0 works
  4. Social Sciences1.77×2 works
  5. Computer Science1.61×1 works
  6. Mathematics1.29×0 works
  7. Environmental Science0.46×0 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.43×0 works
  9. Health Professions0.43×0 works
  10. Medicine0.24×0 works
  11. Engineering0.15×0 works

Who are the top researchers at German Federal Archives?

Ranked on the quality score, Adelheid Heftberger, Friedrich P. Kahlenberg and Christian Hänger lead among researchers whose main affiliation is German Federal Archives.

  1. 1 Adelheid Heftberger Germany · #2,710,466 worldwide 136 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Friedrich P. Kahlenberg Germany · #3,587,897 worldwide 49 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Christian Hänger Germany · #4,932,593 worldwide 35 citations · 35 works
All ranked researchers at German Federal Archives

What are the most cited papers from German Federal Archives?

The most cited paper from German Federal Archives is "Kollision der Kader: Dziga Vertovs Filme, die Visualisierung ihrer Strukturen und die Digital Humanities" (Adelheid Heftberger, 2016), with 12 citations. Next come "Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata" (6) and "Maarif Nezareti Müşaviri Franz Schmidt”in Anadolu Mekteplerine Dair Raporu (21 Mayıs - 6 Haziran 1915)" (4).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Kollision der Kader: Dziga Vertovs Filme, die Visualisierung ihrer Strukturen und die Digital Humanities Adelheid Heftberger Open access 2016 12
2 Opening up Research Data in Film Studies by Using the Structured Knowledge Base Wikidata Adelheid Heftberger, Jakob Höper, Claudia Müller-Birn et al. Book chapter 21 Jun 2019 6
3 Maarif Nezareti Müşaviri Franz Schmidt”in Anadolu Mekteplerine Dair Raporu (21 Mayıs - 6 Haziran 1915) Ömer Faruk DEMİREL · Vakanüvis uluslararası tarih araştırmaları dergisi/Vakanüvis-uluslararası tarih araştırmaları dergisi Open access 7 Oct 2022 4
4 'Tourists Mainly Appear as Politically Conscious Citizens of Our State': East Germans in the Giant Mountains, 1945-70 Mateusz J. Hartwich · Soudobé dějiny Open access Sep 2010 4
5 Dziga Vertov’s Films Adelheid Heftberger · Quantitative methods in the humanities and social sciences Book chapter 2018 3
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at German Federal Archives?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Identity, Gender, Box Office, Film Industry, Cultural Studies, Occupation, Nazi Propaganda and Sexuality.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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 38 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 38 words, with their numbers
  1. Identity8▲ 30×8 topics
  2. Gender8▲ 38×6 topics
  3. Box Office6▲ 728×1 topic
  4. Film Industry6▲ 728×1 topic
  5. Cultural Studies6▲ 42×4 topics
  6. Occupation5▲ 162×2 topics
  7. Nazi Propaganda4▲ 455×1 topic
  8. Sexuality4▲ 168×1 topic
  9. Cold War4▲ 144×2 topics
  10. East German Memory4▲ 1126×1 topic
  11. Ostalgie4▲ 1126×1 topic
  12. Literature3▲ 16×8 topics
  13. Nationalism2▲ 10×5 topics
  14. Colonialism2▲ 11×3 topics
  15. History2▲ 6.5×4 topics
  16. Narrative2▲ 37×3 topics
  17. Autorschaft2▲ 216×1 topic
  18. Bildung2▲ 145×1 topic
  19. Human Rights2▲ 5.2×3 topics
  20. Art1▲ 49×2 topics
  21. Digital Repositories1▲ 149×2 topics
  22. Semantic Web1▲ 26×3 topics
  23. Bibliographic Framework1▲ 343×1 topic
  24. Cultural Heritage1▲ 7.9×6 topics
  25. Exhibition1▲ 381×1 topic
  26. Imperialism1▲ 31×2 topics
  27. Linked Data1▲ 47×2 topics
  28. Memory1▲ 13×2 topics
  29. Museum1▲ 381×1 topic
  30. Resource Description and Access1▲ 343×1 topic
  31. Archives1▲ 231×1 topic
  32. Digital Preservation1▲ 199×1 topic
  33. Post-Communist1▲ 140×1 topic
  34. Social Movements1▲ 10×2 topics
  35. Transition1▲ 33×1 topic
  36. African History1▲ 96×1 topic
  37. Post-Colonial Africa1▲ 96×1 topic
  38. Social Impact1▲ 11×2 topics

Which research topics does German Federal Archives publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: European history and politics, German History and Society, Libraries and Information Services and Communism, Protests, Social Movements.

European history and politics: 1 fractional worksGerman History and Society: 1 fractional worksLibraries and Informatio…0Libraries and Information Services: 0 fractional worksCommunism, Protests, Soc…0Communism, Protests, Social Movements: 0 fractional worksMedieval European History and Architecture: 0 fractional worksDiverse Scientific and Economic Studies: 0 fractional worksMemory, History, Trauma,…0Memory, History, Trauma, Identity: 0 fractional worksArchaeological Research …0Archaeological Research and Protection: 0 fractional worksImage Processing and 3D …0Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction: 0 fractional worksEuropean Political Histo…0European Political History Analysis: 0 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsHistoryMuseologySociology and Political Science5 others

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

  1. 1 European history and politics Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  2. 2 German History and Society History 1 works
  3. 3 Libraries and Information Services Museology 0 works
  4. 4 Communism, Protests, Social Movements Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Medieval European History and Architecture Archeology 0 works
  6. 6 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  7. 7 Memory, History, Trauma, Identity Philosophy 0 works
  8. 8 Archaeological Research and Protection Space and Planetary Science 0 works
  9. 9 Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0 works
  10. 10 European Political History Analysis History 0 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 available43.4%not open56.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.0%domestic only92.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has German Federal Archives's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% lower 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 German Federal Archives as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000090% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%German Federal Archives0.000013% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of German Federal Archives over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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