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Institut Input

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Research works
51
▲ 724% vs 2018-21
Citations
608
12.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
42%
world 18%
Institut Input

Not ranked overall: Institut Input 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 Institut Input work in?

In all years, 80% of research at Institut Input is in Physical Sciences, 11% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (33%), Engineering (24%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 40 fractional works · 79.7% of its workComputer Science: 17 fractional works · 32.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 9 fractional works · 17.1% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 6.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 4.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEngineering: 12 fractional works · 24.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 7 fractional works · 13.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 5.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 fractional works · 21.0% of its workGeophysics: 8 fractional works · 16.2% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 11.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitut Input51fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences11%

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 16 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science1732.7%
    2. Engineering1224.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences1121.0%
    4. Physics and Astronomy00.8%
    5. Mathematics00.5%
    6. Environmental Science00.2%
    1. Social Sciences24.2%
    2. Psychology12.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting11.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.8%
    5. Decision Sciences11.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.2%
    1. Medicine24.3%
    2. Health Professions11.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.3%
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: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Computer Science: 8.01× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringMathematics: 1.15× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsMedicine: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.72× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.12× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.13× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.89× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.66× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 8.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 11 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science8.01×12 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.12×1 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.13×1 works
  4. Mathematics1.15×0 works
  5. Psychology0.89×0 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting0.72×0 works
  7. Social Sciences0.66×2 works
  8. Medicine0.42×2 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.38×0 works
  10. Engineering0.24×1 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.17×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Institut Input?

Ranked on the quality score, Donald N. Burch and Julio Alcaide Inchausti lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Institut Input.

  1. 1 Donald N. Burch Germany · #4,424,097 worldwide 120 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Julio Alcaide Inchausti Germany · #7,415,540 worldwide 210 citations · 160 works
All ranked researchers at Institut Input

What are the most cited papers from Institut Input?

The most cited paper from Institut Input is "Annual Report 2008" (Jan Oosterhaven, Norbert Rainer, Thijs ten Raa et al., 2009), with 866 citations. Next come "Future Monitors in Optimistic Rollups" (36) and "4-C/4-D at Teal South" (27).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Annual Report 2008 Jan Oosterhaven, Norbert Rainer, Thijs ten Raa et al. · Economic Systems Research Dec 2009 866
2 Future Monitors in Optimistic Rollups Capretto, Margarita, Ceresa, Martín, Sánchez, César · DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) Open access 2025 36
3 4-C/4-D at Teal South Dan A. Ebrom, Paul M. Krail, Dave Ridyard et al. · The Leading Edge Oct 1998 27
4 Students’ experiences of managing type 1 diabetes Valerie Wilson · Nursing Children and Young People 7 Dec 2010 27
5 Lightweight Virtual Payment Channels Maxim Jourenko, Mario Larangeira, Keisuke Tanaka · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2020 21
All 94 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Institut Input?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Geophysical Imaging, Machine Learning, Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Seismic Noise, Tomography, Internet of Things and Optimization.

▲ 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. Machine Learning6▲ 5.3×12 topics
  2. Geophysical Imaging5▲ 135×2 topics
  3. Full-Waveform Tomography5▲ 202×1 topic
  4. Seismic Waveform Inversion5▲ 202×1 topic
  5. Internet of Things3▲ 11×2 topics
  6. Optimization3▲ 10×2 topics
  7. Seismic Noise3▲ 118×1 topic
  8. Tomography3▲ 21×1 topic
  9. Healthcare3▲ 7.8×2 topics
  10. Security3▲ 13×3 topics
  11. Privacy3▲ 30×2 topics
  12. Blockchain2▲ 55×1 topic
  13. Data Assimilation2▲ 27×1 topic
  14. Ensemble Kalman Filter2▲ 43×1 topic
  15. Smart Contracts2▲ 84×1 topic
  16. Earthquake Detection2▲ 185×1 topic
  17. Homomorphic Encryption2▲ 100×1 topic
  18. Identity-Based Encryption2▲ 100×1 topic
  19. Ring Laser Gyroscope2▲ 159×1 topic
  20. Rotational Seismology2▲ 159×1 topic
  21. Seismic Signals2▲ 185×1 topic
  22. Side-Channel Attacks2▲ 65×2 topics
  23. Fault Tolerance1▲ 14×2 topics
  24. Vibration Analysis1▲ 9.3×2 topics
  25. Agriculture1▲ 10×2 topics
  26. Policy1▲ 15×2 topics
  27. Acoustic Techniques1▲ 58×1 topic
  28. Deep Neural Networks1▲ 36×2 topics
  29. Distributed Systems1▲ 9.7×2 topics
  30. Failure Analysis1▲ 17×2 topics
  31. Finite Element Model1▲ 76×2 topics
  32. Seafloor Mapping1▲ 58×1 topic
  33. Consistency1▲ 54×1 topic
  34. Drilling Fluids1▲ 42×1 topic
  35. Mechanism Design1▲ 42×2 topics
  36. Security Analysis1▲ 18×3 topics
  37. Transactional Memory1▲ 54×1 topic
  38. Well Integrity1▲ 42×1 topic
  39. Acoustic Modeling1▲ 62×1 topic
  40. Control-Flow Integrity1▲ 108×1 topic

Which research topics does Institut Input publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Cryptography and Data Security, Distributed systems and fault tolerance and Security and Verification in Computing.

Blockchain Technology Ap…2Blockchain Technology Applications and Security: 2 fractional worksCryptography and Data Security: 2 fractional worksDistributed systems and fault tolerance: 1 fractional worksSecurity and Verification in Computing: 1 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 1 fractional worksInternet Traffic Analysi…1Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting: 1 fractional worksAuction Theory and Applications: 1 fractional worksCryptographic Implementations and Security: 0 fractional worksECG Monitoring and Analysis: 0 fractional worksSoftware Reliability and Analysis Research: 0 fractional works
Information SystemsArtificial IntelligenceComputer Networks and CommunicationsManagement Science and Operations Research2 others

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

  1. 1 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 2 works
  2. 2 Cryptography and Data Security Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  3. 3 Distributed systems and fault tolerance Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  4. 4 Security and Verification in Computing Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  5. 5 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  6. 6 Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  7. 7 Auction Theory and Applications Management Science and Operations Research 1 works
  8. 8 Cryptographic Implementations and Security Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  9. 9 ECG Monitoring and Analysis Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  10. 10 Software Reliability and Analysis Research Software 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 available28.2%not open71.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors41.9%domestic only58.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Institut Input's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 724% 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 Institut Input as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000094% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Institut Input0.00013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Institut Input over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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