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Institute for Independent Studies Zürich

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Research works
54
▲ 102% vs 2013–17
Citations
373
6.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
85%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Institute for Independent Studies Zürich is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 6.79× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 2.31× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.39× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.81× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.63× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 3.02× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.90× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.13× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.43× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.39× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.98× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.36× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.93× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 6.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Institute for Independent Studies Zürich?

Ranked on the composite score, Karlo Beyer and Sonnet 4.6 Claude lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Institute for Independent Studies Zürich.

  1. 1 Karlo Beyer Switzerland · #1,484,318 worldwide 0 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Sonnet 4.6 Claude Switzerland · #1,633,874 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Institute for Independent Studies Zürich

Which keywords describe research at Institute for Independent Studies Zürich?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Social Cognition, Culture, Embodied Cognition, History, Predictive Brain Theory, Social, Support Vector Machines and Architecture.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 14 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 14 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Cognition2▲ 55×2 topics
  2. Culture2▲ 15×3 topics
  3. Sustainability1▲ 2.7×4 topics
  4. Embodied Cognition1▲ 599×1 topic
  5. History1▲ 8.8×2 topics
  6. Predictive Brain Theory1▲ 599×1 topic
  7. Machine Learning1▲ 1.65×5 topics
  8. Neural Networks1▲ 3.6×6 topics
  9. Healthcare1▲ 4.5×5 topics
  10. Architecture1▲ 377×1 topic
  11. Ensemble Methods1▲ 62×2 topics
  12. Social1▲ 126×2 topics
  13. Support Vector Machines1▲ 14×3 topics
  14. Urbanism1▲ 124×1 topic

Which research topics does Institute for Independent Studies Zürich publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Embodied and Extended Cognition, Architecture, Modernity, and Design, Face and Expression Recognition and Quantum Mechanics and Applications.

Embodied and Extended Cognition: 1 fractional worksArchitecture, Modernity, and Design: 1 fractional worksFace and Expression Reco…1Face and Expression Recognition: 1 fractional worksQuantum Mechanics and Ap…1Quantum Mechanics and Applications: 1 fractional worksComplex Systems and Dyna…1Complex Systems and Dynamics: 1 fractional worksNeurobiology of Language…1Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism: 1 fractional worksAction Observation and Synchronization: 1 fractional worksPhilosophy and Theoretical Science: 0 fractional worksMigration, Ethnicity, and Economy: 0 fractional worksPhilosophical Ethics and Theory: 0 fractional works
Cognitive NeuroscienceArchitectureComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5 others

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

  1. 1 Embodied and Extended Cognition Cognitive Neuroscience 1 works
  2. 2 Architecture, Modernity, and Design Architecture 1 works
  3. 3 Face and Expression Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works
  4. 4 Quantum Mechanics and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  5. 5 Complex Systems and Dynamics Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 1 works
  6. 6 Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism Cognitive Neuroscience 1 works
  7. 7 Action Observation and Synchronization Social Psychology 1 works
  8. 8 Philosophy and Theoretical Science Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 0 works
  9. 9 Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 Philosophical Ethics and Theory Philosophy 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 available84.6%not open15.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.1%domestic only85.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Institute for Independent Studies Zürich's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 102% higher than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
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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.

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