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Hertz Foundation

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Research works
13
▼ 76% vs 2018-21
Citations
260
20.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
39.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Hertz Foundation

Not ranked overall: Hertz Foundation 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 Hertz Foundation work in?

In all years, 65% of research at Hertz Foundation is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (34%), Engineering (19%), Social Sciences (18%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 65.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 33.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 12.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 18.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workElectrochemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 26.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 18.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKHertz Foundation13fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences65%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences27%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy433.8%
    2. Engineering218.9%
    3. Chemistry15.2%
    4. Computer Science14.3%
    5. Materials Science01.3%
    6. Mathematics01.3%
    7. Environmental Science00.2%
    1. Social Sciences218.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities15.2%
    3. Psychology03.3%
    1. Medicine14.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.6%
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.

Immunology and Microbiology: 17.17× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Environmental Science: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 4.44× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksMedicinePsychology: 6.48× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.12× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 17.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Immunology and Microbiology17.17×0 works
  2. Psychology6.48×0 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy4.44×0 works
  4. Social Sciences3.12×0 works
  5. Environmental Science0.99×0 works
  6. Medicine0.45×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Hertz Foundation?

The most cited paper from Hertz Foundation is "A Robust Determination of the Time Delay in 0957+561A, B and a Measurement of the Global Value of Hubble's Constant" (Tomislav Kundić, Edwin L. Turner, Wesley N. Colley et al., 1997), with 300 citations. Next come "OCULAR TORSION ON EARTH AND IN WEIGHTLESSNESS*" (162) and "Unlensing Multiple Arcs in 0024+1654: Reconstruction of the Source Image" (66).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Robust Determination of the Time Delay in 0957+561A, B and a Measurement of the Global Value of Hubble's Constant Tomislav Kundić, Edwin L. Turner, Wesley N. Colley et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 10 Jun 1997 300
2 OCULAR TORSION ON EARTH AND IN WEIGHTLESSNESS* Laurence R. Young, Byron K. Lichtenberg, Anthony P. Arrott et al. · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Nov 1981 162
3 Unlensing Multiple Arcs in 0024+1654: Reconstruction of the Source Image Wesley N. Colley, J. A. Tyson, Edwin L. Turner · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 20 Apr 1996 66
4 Are Hubble Deep Field Galaxy Counts Whole Numbers? Wesley N. Colley, James E. Rhoads, Jeremiah P. Ostriker et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 20 Dec 1996 48
5 Competition-Induced Preferential Attachment NICOLAS J. A. BERGER, Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2004 47
All 30 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Hertz Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Science Education and Perceptions, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Career Development and Diversity and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers.

Science Education and Pe…0Science Education and Perceptions: 0 fractional worksClimate Change Communica…0Climate Change Communication and Perception: 0 fractional worksCareer Development and D…0Career Development and Diversity: 0 fractional works
Developmental and Educational PsychologySociology and Political ScienceSafety Research

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

  1. 1 Science Education and Perceptions Developmental and Educational Psychology 0 works
  2. 2 Climate Change Communication and Perception Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Career Development and Diversity Safety Research 0 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 0 works
  5. 5 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 0 works
  6. 6 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 0 works
  7. 7 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  8. 8 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  9. 9 Isotope Analysis in Ecology Ecology 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 available26.9%not open73.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.8%domestic only91.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hertz Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 76% 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 Hertz Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000050% in 2023.

0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Hertz Foundation0.0000038% in 202419801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hertz Foundation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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