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Grünenthal Group (Germany)

In research, Grünenthal Group (Germany) stands highest in Health Sciences (#8,966 of 16,688 worldwide), Medicine (#8,877 of 14,558 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#7,971 of 11,023 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#21,817
of 34,923
Rank in Germany
#1,070
of 1,603
Research works
454
▼ 60% vs 2018-21
Citations
12k
26.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
23%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
Grünenthal Group (Germany)

What is Grünenthal Group (Germany) 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
Health SciencesDomain #8,966 of 16,688 8.8%265
MedicineField #8,877 of 14,558 7.2%232
Life SciencesDomain #7,971 of 11,023 8.2%129

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Grünenthal Group (Germany) 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 Grünenthal Group (Germany) work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at Grünenthal Group (Germany) is in Health Sciences, 21% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (72%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (9%), Neuroscience (7%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 19 fractional works · 74.8% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 72.0% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 14.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 8.2% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 7.1% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 6.9% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 6.3% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnatomy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 20.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 9.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 7.4% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKGrünenthal Group(Germany)25fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences21%Physical Sciences2%Health Sciences75%Social Sciences2%

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. Medicine1872.0%
    2. Health Professions01.5%
    3. Nursing00.7%
    4. Veterinary00.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology29.2%
    2. Neuroscience27.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology12.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics01.6%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    1. Psychology12.1%
    2. Decision Sciences00.3%
    3. Social Sciences00.0%
    1. Chemistry00.5%
    2. Engineering00.5%
    3. Environmental Science00.4%
    4. Computer Science00.4%
    5. Mathematics00.2%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.73× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.30× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 4.58× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4.71× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.75× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 1.34× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.82× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryDecision Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 16 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary4.82×0 works
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics4.71×0 works
  3. Neuroscience4.58×2 works
  4. Medicine3.75×18 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology2.30×1 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.73×2 works
  7. Nursing1.34×0 works
  8. Psychology0.69×0 works
  9. Health Professions0.56×0 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.34×0 works
  11. Chemistry0.31×0 works
  12. Mathematics0.19×0 works
  13. Environmental Science0.09×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.05×0 works
  15. Engineering0.03×0 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Grünenthal Group (Germany)?

Ranked on the quality score, Wolfgang A. Günzler, Fritz Ötting and Ilona Steigerwald lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Grünenthal Group (Germany).

  1. 1 Wolfgang A. Günzler Germany · #706,242 worldwide 9k citations · 39 works
  2. 2 Fritz Ötting Germany · #1,014,665 worldwide 2.8k citations · 17 works
  3. 3 Ilona Steigerwald Germany · #1,076,251 worldwide 1.8k citations · 40 works
  4. 4 Rolf Terlinden Germany · #1,387,625 worldwide 1.5k citations · 36 works
  5. 5 Michael Haurand Germany · #1,392,542 worldwide 1.7k citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Norma Selve Germany · #1,447,609 worldwide 2k citations · 40 works
  7. 7 Gerd J. STEFFENS Germany · #1,567,149 worldwide 2.7k citations · 91 works
  8. 8 Wolfgang Schröder Germany · #1,586,392 worldwide 2.3k citations · 67 works
  9. 9 Werner Englberger Germany · #1,612,561 worldwide 2.2k citations · 47 works
  10. 10 Babette Y. Kögel Germany · #1,630,720 worldwide 1.8k citations · 40 works
All ranked researchers at Grünenthal Group (Germany)

What are the most cited papers from Grünenthal Group (Germany)?

The most cited paper from Grünenthal Group (Germany) is "REVIEW ON CPP: Measuring reward with the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm: update of the last decade" (Thomas Tzschentke, 2007), with 1,360 citations. Next come "Pharmacology and behavioral pharmacology of the mesocortical dopamine system" (480) and "Characterization of the mouse cold‐menthol receptor TRPM8 and vanilloid receptor type‐1 VR1 using a fluorometric imaging plate reader (FLIPR) assay" (459).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 REVIEW ON CPP: Measuring reward with the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm: update of the last decade Thomas Tzschentke · Addiction Biology 30 Jul 2007 1,360
2 Pharmacology and behavioral pharmacology of the mesocortical dopamine system Thomas Tzschentke · Progress in Neurobiology Feb 2001 480
3 Characterization of the mouse cold‐menthol receptor TRPM8 and vanilloid receptor type‐1 VR1 using a fluorometric imaging plate reader (FLIPR) assay H‐J Behrendt, Tieno Germann, Clemens Gillen et al. · British Journal of Pharmacology Open access Feb 2004 459
4 Thalidomide in the Treatment of the Mucocutaneous Lesions of the Behcet Syndrome Vedat Hamuryudan, Cem Mat, Sebahattin Saip et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine 15 Mar 1998 457
5 (–)-(1 R,2 R)-3-(3-Dimethylamino-1-ethyl-2-methyl-propyl)-phenol Hydrochloride (Tapentadol HCl): a Novel μ-Opioid Receptor Agonist/Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor with Broad-Spectrum Analgesic Properties Thomas Tzschentke, Thomas Christoph, Babette Y. Kögel et al. · Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 26 Jul 2007 397
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Which keywords describe research at Grünenthal Group (Germany)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chronic Pain, Nociception, Neuropathic Pain, Neuronal Plasticity, Neuroinflammation, Central Sensitization, Pain Modulation and Pain Management.

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

All 31 words, with their numbers
  1. Chronic Pain5▲ 83×4 topics
  2. Nociception4▲ 348×2 topics
  3. Neuropathic Pain4▲ 213×3 topics
  4. Neuronal Plasticity4▲ 242×2 topics
  5. Central Sensitization3▲ 213×1 topic
  6. Neuroinflammation3▲ 47×2 topics
  7. Pain Modulation3▲ 381×1 topic
  8. Pain Management3▲ 48×5 topics
  9. Inflammation3▲ 4.7×8 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Risk2▲ 28×3 topics
  11. Quality of Life2▲ 5.9×5 topics
  12. Treatment2▲ 5.5×6 topics
  13. Ion Channels2▲ 56×4 topics
  14. Neurotoxicity2▲ 51×3 topics
  15. Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy2▲ 191×1 topic
  16. Diabetes2▲ 12×3 topics
  17. Taxanes2▲ 191×1 topic
  18. Postoperative Pain1▲ 60×3 topics
  19. Epidemiology1▲ 1.27×11 topics
  20. Metabolic Syndrome1▲ 6.5×2 topics
  21. Neurological Disorders1▲ 9.2×3 topics
  22. Botulinum Toxin1▲ 78×2 topics
  23. Neurotoxins1▲ 117×2 topics
  24. Spasticity1▲ 131×1 topic
  25. Stroke1▲ 24×1 topic
  26. Toxicology1▲ 26×2 topics
  27. Calcium Signaling1▲ 53×2 topics
  28. Clinical Trials1▲ 5.9×4 topics
  29. Hormone Therapy1▲ 46×1 topic
  30. Muscle Strength1▲ 37×2 topics
  31. Testosterone1▲ 92×1 topic

Which research topics does Grünenthal Group (Germany) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology, Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders and Hormonal and reproductive studies.

Pain Mechanisms and Trea…3Pain Mechanisms and Treatments: 3 fractional worksCancer Treatment and Pha…2Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology: 2 fractional worksBotulinum Toxin and Rela…1Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders: 1 fractional worksHormonal and reproductive studies: 1 fractional worksOsteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms: 1 fractional worksIon Channels and Receptors: 1 fractional worksInflammatory mediators and NSAID effects: 1 fractional worksAnesthesia and Pain Management: 1 fractional worksMuscle metabolism and nutrition: 1 fractional worksPharmacology and Obesity Treatment: 1 fractional works
PhysiologyOncologyNeurologyEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism5 others

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

  1. 1 Pain Mechanisms and Treatments Physiology 3 works
  2. 2 Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology Oncology 2 works
  3. 3 Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders Neurology 1 works
  4. 4 Hormonal and reproductive studies Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 1 works
  5. 5 Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Rheumatology 1 works
  6. 6 Ion Channels and Receptors Sensory Systems 1 works
  7. 7 Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects Pharmacology 1 works
  8. 8 Anesthesia and Pain Management Surgery 1 works
  9. 9 Muscle metabolism and nutrition Cell Biology 1 works
  10. 10 Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment Pharmacology 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 available22.6%not open77.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.4%domestic only74.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Grünenthal Group (Germany)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 60% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Grünenthal Group (Germany) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000068% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Grünenthal Group (Germany)0.000063% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Grünenthal Group (Germany) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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