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Hochschul Informations System

Research works
62
▼ 68% vs 2018-21
Citations
457
7.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%

Not ranked overall: Hochschul Informations System 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 Hochschul Informations System work in?

In all years, 88% of research at Hochschul Informations System is in Social Sciences, 8% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (50%), Arts and Humanities (22%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (10%). It does 3.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 55 fractional works · 88.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 50.4% of its workEducation: 9 fractional works · 15.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 fractional works · 14.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 10.2% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 14 fractional works · 22.4% of its workHistory: 7 fractional works · 10.8% of its workClassics: 4 fractional works · 7.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Arts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 9.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 8.9% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 8.3% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 7.1% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKHochschulInformations…62fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences88%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3150.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities1422.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance69.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting23.7%
    5. Decision Sciences11.9%
    6. Psychology00.3%
    1. Computer Science47.1%
    2. Engineering00.6%
    3. Mathematics00.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology23.2%
    1. Health Professions00.1%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Hochschul Informations System?

Ranked on the quality score, Karl‐Heinz Minks and Edgar Frackmann lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Hochschul Informations System.

  1. 1 Karl‐Heinz Minks Germany · #3,405,249 worldwide 162 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Edgar Frackmann Germany · #3,412,652 worldwide 72 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Hochschul Informations System

What are the most cited papers from Hochschul Informations System?

The most cited paper from Hochschul Informations System is "Mechanisms of Social Inequality Development: Primary and Secondary Effects in the Transition to Tertiary Education Between 1976 and 2005" (Steffen Schindler, Markus Lörz, 2011), with 125 citations. Next come "Gender inequalities in higher education: extent, development and mechanisms of gender differences in enrolment and field of study choice" (80) and "Performance‐based funding as an instrument of competition in German higher education" (75).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mechanisms of Social Inequality Development: Primary and Secondary Effects in the Transition to Tertiary Education Between 1976 and 2005 Steffen Schindler, Markus Lörz · European Sociological Review 21 Apr 2011 125
2 Gender inequalities in higher education: extent, development and mechanisms of gender differences in enrolment and field of study choice Markus Lörz, Steffen Schindler, Jessica Gabriele Walter · Irish Educational Studies Jun 2011 80
3 Performance‐based funding as an instrument of competition in German higher education Dominic Orr, Michael Jaeger, Astrid Schwarzenberger · Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management Mar 2007 75
4 Development of competencies and teaching–learning arrangements in higher education: findings from Germany Hildegard Schaeper · Studies in Higher Education 20 Aug 2009 50
5 Quality in the Performing Arts: Aggregating and Rationalizing Expert Opinion Stefan Tobias · Journal of Cultural Economics 15 Mar 2004 39
All 65 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Hochschul Informations System?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Religion, Medieval, Trade, Higher Education, Inequality, Quality Assurance and Economic Growth.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Globalization11▲ 9.5×7 topics
  2. Religion8▲ 21×3 topics
  3. Medieval7▲ 235×2 topics
  4. Trade7▲ 133×2 topics
  5. Higher Education7▲ 28×5 topics
  6. Inequality5▲ 35×3 topics
  7. Quality Assurance5▲ 42×3 topics
  8. Economic Growth5▲ 10×2 topics
  9. Literature5▲ 15×3 topics
  10. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse5▲ 186×2 topics
  11. Cultural History4▲ 51×5 topics
  12. Neoliberalism4▲ 20×2 topics
  13. Education4▲ 5.3×5 topics
  14. History4▲ 8.8×2 topics
  15. Internationalization4▲ 107×2 topics
  16. Academic Identity4▲ 201×1 topic
  17. University Rankings4▲ 201×1 topic
  18. Manuscripts4▲ 212×1 topic
  19. Society4▲ 29×1 topic
  20. Health4▲ 17×2 topics
  21. Height4▲ 183×1 topic
  22. Wages4▲ 183×1 topic
  23. Scandinavia3▲ 271×1 topic
  24. Viking Age3▲ 271×1 topic
  25. E-Learning3▲ 9.0×3 topics
  26. Teacher Education3▲ 49×3 topics
  27. Social Media3▲ 5.8×2 topics
  28. Governance3▲ 14×2 topics
  29. Income Inequality3▲ 31×3 topics
  30. Learning3▲ 22×2 topics
  31. Teaching3▲ 59×2 topics
  32. Curriculum2▲ 44×2 topics
  33. Bildungsungleichheit2▲ 130×1 topic
  34. Competence2▲ 321×1 topic
  35. Didactics2▲ 65×1 topic
  36. Ethnografisches Schreiben2▲ 130×1 topic
  37. Labor Market2▲ 15×3 topics
  38. Digital Images2▲ 474×1 topic
  39. Photography2▲ 87×1 topic
  40. Public Opinion2▲ 18×2 topics

Which research topics does Hochschul Informations System publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms, Academic Publishing and Open Access, Genomics and Rare Diseases and Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling.

  1. 1 Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms Cancer Research 1 works
  2. 2 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 1 works
  3. 3 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 1 works
  4. 4 Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling Molecular Biology 1 works
  5. 5 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 0 works
  6. 6 Digital Humanities and Scholarship Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  7. 7 Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing Computational Theory and Mathematics 0 works
  8. 8 Library Science and Information Systems Information Systems 0 works
  9. 9 Advanced Data Processing Techniques Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 E-Learning and Knowledge Management Computer Science Applications 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 available23.6%not open76.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.1%domestic only92.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Hochschul Informations System's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 68% 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 Hochschul Informations System as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000019% in 2022.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Hochschul Informations System0.000068% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hochschul Informations System over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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