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Goethe Institut

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World rank, all time
#12,992
of 34,923
Rank in Germany
#647
of 1,603
Research works
376
▼ 12% vs 2018-21
Citations
11k
29.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.09×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Goethe Institut

Which fields of science does Goethe Institut work in?

In 2022-now, 35% of research at Goethe Institut is in Health Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (20%), Social Sciences (12%), Dentistry (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 13 fractional works · 34.6% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 20.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 3 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 4 fractional works · 11.6% of its workOrthodontics: 2 fractional works · 5.8% of its workOral Surgery: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPeriodontics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 31.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 12.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 11.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 7 fractional works · 19.4% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 7.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 5.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 14.8% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKGoethe Institut38fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences35%Social Sciences31%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine820.4%
    2. Dentistry411.6%
    3. Health Professions12.3%
    4. Nursing00.2%
    1. Social Sciences512.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities411.5%
    3. Psychology13.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting01.3%
    6. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Computer Science37.1%
    2. Engineering25.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy12.6%
    4. Environmental Science12.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.0%
    6. Mathematics00.5%
    7. Chemistry00.4%
    8. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology25.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24.7%
    3. Neuroscience24.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.4%
    5. Agricultural and Biological 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: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.87× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.98× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.73× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.13× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.91× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.18× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 23.82× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.89× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.06× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 3.98× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.99× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.26× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.96× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 23.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Dentistry23.82×4 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology4.98×2 works
  3. Arts and Humanities3.98×4 works
  4. Neuroscience2.73×2 works
  5. Psychology1.26×2 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy1.18×1 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.13×0 works
  8. Medicine1.06×8 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.99×1 works
  10. Social Sciences0.96×5 works
  11. Computer Science0.91×3 works
  12. Health Professions0.89×1 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.87×2 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.62×0 works
  15. Environmental Science0.46×1 works
  16. Nursing0.44×0 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.40×0 works
  18. Mathematics0.39×0 works
  19. Engineering0.36×2 works
  20. Decision Sciences0.28×0 works
  21. Chemistry0.25×0 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Goethe Institut?

Ranked on the quality score, Peter Waszkewitz lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Goethe Institut.

  1. 1 Peter Waszkewitz Germany · #3,096,458 worldwide 112 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at Goethe Institut

What are the most cited papers from Goethe Institut?

The most cited paper from Goethe Institut is "Monkeypox Virus Infection in Humans across 16 Countries — April–June 2022" (John Patrick Thornhill et al., 2022), with 2,219 citations. Next come "Requirement for hsp70 in the mitochondrial matrix for translocation and folding of precursor proteins" (765) and "Strong convergence of an explicit numerical method for SDEs with nonglobally Lipschitz continuous coefficients" (446).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Monkeypox Virus Infection in Humans across 16 Countries — April–June 2022 John Patrick Thornhill et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 21 Jul 2022 2,219
2 Requirement for hsp70 in the mitochondrial matrix for translocation and folding of precursor proteins Pil-Jung Kang, Joachim Ostermann, Jeffery Shilling et al. · Nature Nov 1990 765
3 Strong convergence of an explicit numerical method for SDEs with nonglobally Lipschitz continuous coefficients Martin Hutzenthaler, Arnulf Jentzen, Peter E. Kloeden · The Annals of Applied Probability Open access Aug 2012 446
4 Physical properties and gap formation of light-cured composites with and without ‘softstart-polymerization’ Albert C. Mehl, Reinhard Hickel, Karl‐Heinz Kunzelmann · Journal of Dentistry May 1997 353
5 Tolerance to lipopolysaccharide involves mobilization of nuclear factor kappa B with predominance of p50 homodimers. HW Ziegler-Heitbrock, Angela Wedel, W. Schraut et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Jun 1994 311
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Which keywords describe research at Goethe Institut?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Antiretroviral Therapy, HIV Transmission, Immune Response, Viral Load, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Stigma and Discrimination, Vaccine and Quality of Life.

▲ 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 29 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 29 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiretroviral Therapy4▲ 64×4 topics
  2. Epidemiology2▲ 1.59×17 topics
  3. Quality of Life2▲ 3.6×8 topics
  4. HIV Transmission2▲ 58×2 topics
  5. Immune Response2▲ 7.6×7 topics
  6. Viral Load2▲ 53×2 topics
  7. Preexposure Prophylaxis2▲ 82×1 topic
  8. Stigma and Discrimination2▲ 82×1 topic
  9. Vaccine2▲ 9.5×5 topics
  10. Clinical Trials1▲ 5.2×2 topics
  11. Dental Materials1▲ 62×1 topic
  12. Education1▲ 1.93×5 topics
  13. Globalization1▲ 1.73×9 topics
  14. Restorative Dentistry1▲ 62×1 topic
  15. AIDS1▲ 126×1 topic
  16. Antibodies1▲ 57×1 topic
  17. HIV1▲ 39×2 topics
  18. HIV Infection1▲ 31×2 topics
  19. Inflammation1▲ 1.43×9 topics
  20. Deep Learning1▼ 0.81×8 topics
  21. Drug Resistance1▲ 10×1 topic
  22. Health Disparities1▲ 11×2 topics
  23. Immigrant1▲ 41×2 topics
  24. Integrase Inhibitors1▲ 141×1 topic
  25. Mental Health1▲ 2.0×2 topics
  26. Cultural Hermeneutics1▲ 195×1 topic
  27. Literary Theory1▲ 104×1 topic
  28. Refugee1▲ 48×1 topic
  29. Trauma1▲ 13×1 topic

Which research topics does Goethe Institut publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Dental materials and restorations, HIV Research and Treatment and HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment.

HIV/AIDS Research and In…2HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 2 fractional worksDental materials and res…1Dental materials and restorations: 1 fractional worksHIV Research and Treatment1HIV Research and Treatment: 1 fractional worksHIV/AIDS drug developmen…1HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment: 1 fractional worksLiterary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics: 1 fractional worksMigration, Health and Trauma: 1 fractional worksOrthodontics and Dentofa…1Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics: 1 fractional worksEndodontics and Root Canal Treatments: 1 fractional worksLibraries and Information Services: 1 fractional worksTemporomandibular Joint Disorders: 0 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesOrthodonticsVirologyLiterature and Literary Theory4 others

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

  1. 1 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 2 works
  2. 2 Dental materials and restorations Orthodontics 1 works
  3. 3 HIV Research and Treatment Virology 1 works
  4. 4 HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment Infectious Diseases 1 works
  5. 5 Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics Literature and Literary Theory 1 works
  6. 6 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 1 works
  7. 7 Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Orthodontics 1 works
  8. 8 Endodontics and Root Canal Treatments Oral Surgery 1 works
  9. 9 Libraries and Information Services Museology 1 works
  10. 10 Temporomandibular Joint Disorders Complementary and Manual Therapy 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 available26.6%not open73.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.9%domestic only80.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Goethe Institut's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% 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 Goethe Institut as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00016% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Goethe Institut0.00016% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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