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Goethe University Frankfurt

In research, Goethe University Frankfurt stands highest in Social Sciences (#203 of 10,521 worldwide), Health Sciences (#402 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#262 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Classics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Finance — Classics is 5.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#367
of 28,054 · #188 all time
Rank in Germany
#20
of 1,178
Research works
71k
▲ 12% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.7M
23.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
20.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
30%
world 28%

What is Goethe University Frankfurt known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #203 of 10,521 20.3%3,271 #234
Health SciencesDomain #402 of 11,982 17.7%1,893 #177
Life SciencesDomain #262 of 7,800 22.9%1,078 #157
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #44 of 1,201 22.6%352 #83
MedicineField #389 of 10,443 17.2%1,616 #167
Social SciencesField #240 of 6,365 22.8%1,629 #240
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #139 of 3,579 22.9%608 #111
Physical SciencesDomain #646 of 12,888 21.3%1,955 #229
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #149 of 2,578 20.2%719 #197
Arts and HumanitiesField #126 of 1,998 13.8%679 #178

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Goethe University Frankfurt 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).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#234 #203
  2. Health Sciences#177 #402
  3. Life Sciences#157 #262
  4. Political Science and International Relations#83 #44
  5. Medicine#167 #389
  6. Social Sciences#240 #240
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#111 #139
  8. Physical Sciences#229 #646
  9. Sociology and Political Science#197 #149
  10. Arts and Humanities#178 #126
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Goethe University Frankfurt specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Classics takes 5.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. ClassicsSubfield · 28.5 works5.8×
  2. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 140.7 works5.5×
  3. FinanceSubfield · 91.3 works3.7×
  4. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 45.7 works3.6×
  5. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 156.8 works3.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.30× its world share, 118 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.39× its world share, 608 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.22× its world share, 100 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.72× its world share, 228 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.81× its world share, 24 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.80× its world share, 103 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.61× its world share, 391 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.45× its world share, 186 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.22× its world share, 16 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.32× its world share, 390 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.58× its world share, 238 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.35× its world share, 100 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.29× its world share, 124 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.21× its world share, 403 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.48× its world share, 59 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.91× its world share, 197 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.03× its world share, 1,616 worksMedicineNursing: 0.35× its world share, 14 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.59× its world share, 7 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.87× its world share, 680 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.94× its world share, 247 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 62 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.53× its world share, 268 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.54× its world share, 385 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.57× its world share, 1,629 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 2.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt?

Ranked on the composite score, Axel Honneth, Heiko Braak and Andreas M. Zeiher lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Goethe University Frankfurt.

  1. 1 Axel Honneth Germany · #1,014 worldwide 1k citations · 100 works
  2. 2 Heiko Braak Germany · #1,274 worldwide 2.9k citations · 90 works
  3. 3 Andreas M. Zeiher Germany · #5,125 worldwide 1.3k citations · 152 works
  4. 4 Claus Rödel Germany · #5,323 worldwide 853 citations · 64 works
  5. 5 Simone Fulda Germany · #5,415 worldwide 1.2k citations · 72 works
  6. 6 Alan R. Templeton Germany · #5,498 worldwide 1.1k citations · 104 works
  7. 7 Günther Teubner Germany · #5,716 worldwide 465 citations · 65 works
  8. 8 Petra Döll Germany · #9,433 worldwide 1.2k citations · 57 works
  9. 9 Stefan H. Hohnloser Germany · #9,480 worldwide 717 citations · 79 works
  10. 10 Hans Wilhelm Doerr Germany · #9,708 worldwide 634 citations · 52 works
All ranked researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt

Which keywords describe research at Goethe University Frankfurt?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Identity, Governance, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Gender, Globalization, Neoliberalism, Bildungsungleichheit and Ethnografisches Schreiben.

▲ 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. Epidemiology300◆ 0.92×127 topics
  2. Globalization266▲ 1.66×117 topics
  3. Identity228▲ 3.8×61 topics
  4. Inflammation180◆ 1.05×83 topics
  5. Governance172▲ 6.4×17 topics
  6. Gender171▲ 3.9×43 topics
  7. Climate Change168▼ 0.76×91 topics
  8. History153▲ 2.7×47 topics
  9. Human Rights149▲ 1.77×55 topics
  10. Literature146▲ 3.3×45 topics
  11. Nationalism136▲ 3.6×29 topics
  12. Neoliberalism136▲ 4.6×26 topics
  13. Ethics127▲ 3.2×46 topics
  14. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse124▲ 37×2 topics
  15. Bildungsungleichheit104▲ 43×1 topic
  16. Ethnografisches Schreiben104▲ 43×1 topic
  17. Philosophy100▲ 2.8×36 topics
  18. Religion94▲ 2.4×36 topics
  19. Colonialism86▲ 2.2×41 topics
  20. Cultural Studies82▲ 2.6×29 topics
  21. Lattice QCD82▲ 17×2 topics
  22. Narrative70▲ 5.3×14 topics
  23. Bildung68▲ 26×3 topics
  24. Imperialism62▲ 9.5×7 topics
  25. Income Inequality61▲ 5.2×7 topics
  26. Social Innovation57▲ 4.5×8 topics
  27. Class Struggle55▲ 19×2 topics
  28. Autorschaft54▲ 31×1 topic
  29. Literaturkritik54▲ 31×1 topic
  30. Sociology54▲ 4.9×21 topics
  31. Social History54▲ 7.8×8 topics
  32. Cultural Sociology52▲ 47×2 topics
  33. Capitalism49▲ 9.0×6 topics
  34. Social Theory49▲ 22×3 topics
  35. Art46▲ 6.6×13 topics
  36. Cultural Memory46▲ 11×4 topics
  37. Renormalization Group45▲ 9.9×2 topics
  38. Hydrodynamics44▲ 8.7×3 topics
  39. Heavy-Ion Collisions43▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Quark-Gluon Plasma43▲ 21×1 topic

Which research topics does Goethe University Frankfurt publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Sociology and Education Studies, German Literature and Culture Studies, High-Energy Particle Collisions Research and Physics and Engineering Research Articles.

Sociology and Education …104Sociology and Education Studies: 104 fractional worksGerman Literature and Culture Studies: 54 fractional worksHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research: 43 fractional worksPhysics and Engineering Research Articles: 40 fractional worksQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions: 39 fractional worksEconomic and Social Issues: 39 fractional worksEuropean history and pol…33European history and politics: 33 fractional worksGerman Social Sciences and History: 31 fractional worksParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies: 28 fractional worksRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms: 27 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceLiterature and Literary TheoryNuclear and High Energy PhysicsComputational Mechanics2 others

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

  1. 1 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 104 works
  2. 2 German Literature and Culture Studies Literature and Literary Theory 54 works
  3. 3 High-Energy Particle Collisions Research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 43 works
  4. 4 Physics and Engineering Research Articles Computational Mechanics 40 works
  5. 5 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Nuclear and High Energy Physics 39 works
  6. 6 Economic and Social Issues Sociology and Political Science 39 works
  7. 7 European history and politics Political Science and International Relations 33 works
  8. 8 German Social Sciences and History Sociology and Political Science 31 works
  9. 9 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 28 works
  10. 10 RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Molecular Biology 27 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 available30.3%not open69.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.3%domestic only78.7%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Goethe University Frankfurt's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% higher 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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