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Hamburger Fern-Hochschule

In research, Hamburger Fern-Hochschule stands highest in Social Sciences (#6,302 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,621
of 22,385 · #14,713 all time
Rank in Germany
#591
of 795
Research works
518
▲ 38% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.6k
16.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
45%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
Hamburger Fern-Hochschule

What is Hamburger Fern-Hochschule known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #6,302 of 9,585 6.4%75 #10517

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Hamburger Fern-Hochschule 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 Hamburger Fern-Hochschule work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at Hamburger Fern-Hochschule is in Social Sciences, 17% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (33%), Business, Management and Accounting (18%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (10%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 79 fractional works · 75.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 34 fractional works · 32.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 18 fractional works · 17.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 19 fractional works · 18.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 8 fractional works · 7.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 5 fractional works · 4.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 fractional works · 10.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 5.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 9 fractional works · 9.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 4.5% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 18 fractional works · 17.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 10 fractional works · 10.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 fractional works · 7.7% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 3.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 7.0% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMedicine: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKHamburgerFern-Hochschule105fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences75%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3432.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting1918.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1110.3%
    4. Psychology99.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities54.5%
    1. Physics and Astronomy1010.0%
    2. Computer Science43.9%
    3. Environmental Science11.4%
    4. Engineering11.0%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.6%
    6. Materials Science00.1%
    7. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Health Professions43.4%
    2. Medicine33.1%
    3. Nursing00.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.2%
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: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.50× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 4.51× its world share, 10 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.30× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 3 worksMedicineNursing: 0.97× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.54× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.73× its world share, 19 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.82× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.95× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.59× its world share, 34 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 5.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting5.73×19 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.82×11 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy4.51×10 works
  4. Psychology2.95×9 works
  5. Social Sciences2.59×34 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.54×5 works
  7. Health Professions1.30×4 works
  8. Nursing0.97×0 works
  9. Computer Science0.50×4 works
  10. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.39×1 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.32×0 works
  12. Environmental Science0.28×1 works
  13. Medicine0.16×3 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×0 works
  15. Engineering0.07×1 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.04×0 works
  17. Chemistry0.02×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Hamburger Fern-Hochschule?

Ranked on the quality score, Ronald Deckert, Soeren Witte and Lars J. Jansen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hamburger Fern-Hochschule.

  1. 1 Ronald Deckert Germany · #1,599,429 worldwide 269 citations · 69 works
  2. 2 Soeren Witte Germany · #1,671,433 worldwide 1.2k citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Lars J. Jansen Germany · #2,274,104 worldwide 308 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Joachim Diercks Germany · #2,886,374 worldwide 60 citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Kristof Kupka Germany · #2,977,210 worldwide 47 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 R. Kayser Germany · #3,030,448 worldwide 541 citations · 63 works
  7. 7 Kasimir Graff Germany · #3,135,964 worldwide 9 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Claus Muchna Germany · #3,157,008 worldwide 37 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 Maren Metz Germany · #3,242,927 worldwide 42 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Johannes Wolf Germany · #3,714,296 worldwide 29 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Hamburger Fern-Hochschule

What are the most cited papers from Hamburger Fern-Hochschule?

The most cited paper from Hamburger Fern-Hochschule is "The Gaia mission" (T. Prusti et al., 2016), with 7,118 citations. Next come "Gaia Data Release 1" (2,113) and "A new extensive library of PHOENIX stellar atmospheres and synthetic spectra" (1,986).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Gaia mission T. Prusti et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access625 authors 15 Sep 2016 7,118
2 Gaia Data Release 1 A. G. A. Brown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access591 authors 15 Sep 2016 2,113
3 A new extensive library of PHOENIX stellar atmospheres and synthetic spectra Tim-Oliver Husser, S. Berg, S. Dreizler et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access 23 Mar 2013 1,986
4 Low‐Temperature Opacities Jason W. Ferguson, D. R. Alexander, France C. Allard et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 10 Apr 2005 1,342
5 Evolutionary models for cool brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets. The case of HD 209458 I. Baraffe, Gilles Chabrier, Travis Barman et al. · Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) Open access 14 Apr 2003 947
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hamburger Fern-Hochschule?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Digital Transformation, Sustainable Development, Globalization, Leadership, Criminal Law, Prison System, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.

▲ 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. Digital Transformation14▲ 25×9 topics
  2. Globalization11▲ 5.2×11 topics
  3. Sustainable Development10▲ 6.2×9 topics
  4. Leadership8▲ 16×8 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence8▲ 5.5×7 topics
  6. Criminal Law7▲ 44×1 topic
  7. Prison System7▲ 127×1 topic
  8. Big Data7▲ 6.9×5 topics
  9. Mobile Health6▲ 37×2 topics
  10. E-commerce5▲ 9.0×2 topics
  11. Economic Development5▲ 6.2×5 topics
  12. Customer Experience5▲ 30×2 topics
  13. Business Models5▲ 66×1 topic
  14. Technology Innovation5▲ 141×1 topic
  15. Social Inequality5▲ 17×4 topics
  16. Employee Engagement5▲ 24×2 topics
  17. Demographic Transition4▲ 64×2 topics
  18. Industrial Policy4▲ 37×2 topics
  19. Innovation4▲ 3.9×7 topics
  20. Neoliberalism4▲ 10×4 topics
  21. Governance4▲ 11×3 topics
  22. Environmental Sustainability4▲ 22×3 topics
  23. Information Technology4▲ 7.3×3 topics
  24. Organizational Change4▲ 43×2 topics
  25. Financial Stability4▲ 17×4 topics
  26. Employer Branding3▲ 270×1 topic
  27. Entrepreneurship3▲ 8.1×4 topics
  28. Gender3▲ 5.9×4 topics
  29. Learning Outcomes3▲ 7.7×2 topics
  30. Recruitment3▲ 270×1 topic
  31. Agility3▲ 213×1 topic
  32. Innovation Policy3▲ 32×2 topics
  33. Socio-Technical Systems3▲ 123×1 topic
  34. Digital Capital3▲ 170×1 topic
  35. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse3▲ 76×2 topics
  36. Value Chains3▲ 170×1 topic
  37. Professional Development3▲ 14×4 topics
  38. Game-Based Learning3▲ 48×1 topic
  39. Gamification3▲ 18×1 topic
  40. Elderly Care3▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does Hamburger Fern-Hochschule publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Criminal Law and Policy, Digital Innovation in Industries, Employer Branding and e-HRM and Corporate Management and Leadership.

Criminal Law and Policy7Criminal Law and Policy: 7 fractional worksDigital Innovation in Industries: 5 fractional worksEmployer Branding and e-HRM: 3 fractional worksCorporate Management and Leadership: 3 fractional worksCorporate Governance and Management: 3 fractional worksEducational Games and Gamification: 3 fractional worksEconomic and Social Issues3Economic and Social Issues: 3 fractional worksEconomic Development and Digital Transformation: 2 fractional worksPublic Administration and Political Analysis: 2 fractional worksEconomic Issues in Ukraine: 2 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceManagement of Technology and InnovationOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementStrategy and Management3 others

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

  1. 1 Criminal Law and Policy Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  2. 2 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 5 works
  3. 3 Employer Branding and e-HRM Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 3 works
  4. 4 Corporate Management and Leadership Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 3 works
  5. 5 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 3 works
  6. 6 Educational Games and Gamification Developmental and Educational Psychology 3 works
  7. 7 Economic and Social Issues Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  8. 8 Economic Development and Digital Transformation General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 works
  9. 9 Public Administration and Political Analysis Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  10. 10 Economic Issues in Ukraine General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 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 available44.6%not open55.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.1%domestic only73.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hamburger Fern-Hochschule's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% 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 Hamburger Fern-Hochschule as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00041% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Hamburger Fern-Hochschule0.00052% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hamburger Fern-Hochschule over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Hamburger Fern-Hochschule6.6% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.0% in 2021.

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