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Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene

In research, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,121 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#6,307 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#6,399 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Infectious Diseases and Immunology and Microbiology — Infectious Diseases is 19.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,550
of 28,054 · #1,862 all time
Rank in Germany
#235
of 1,178
Research works
3.6k
▼ 21% vs 2013–17
Citations
151k
42.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
19.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
39%
world 28%

What is Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Life SciencesDomain #2,121 of 7,800 20.6%90 #560
Health SciencesDomain #6,307 of 11,982 18.5%126 #2246
MedicineField #6,399 of 10,443 18.2%117 #1848

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Life Sciences#560 #2,121
  2. Health Sciences#2,246 #6,307
  3. Medicine#1,848 #6,399
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Infectious Diseases takes 19.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 31.5 works19×
  2. Immunology and MicrobiologyField · 32.0 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.85× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3.56× its world share, 46 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 13.23× its world share, 32 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.94× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.55× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEnergy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.75× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 2.90× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.51× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.53× its world share, 117 worksMedicineNursing: 1.79× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.36× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 13.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene?

Ranked on the composite score, Carsten J. Kirschning, Klaus Heeg and Dirk H. Busch lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene.

  1. 1 Carsten J. Kirschning Germany · #39,069 worldwide 540 citations · 34 works
  2. 2 Klaus Heeg Germany · #85,654 worldwide 191 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Dirk H. Busch Germany · #123,455 worldwide 177 citations · 45 works
  4. 4 Hermann Wagner Germany · #159,430 worldwide 454 citations · 191 works
  5. 5 J Teisinger Germany · #222,405 worldwide 51 citations · 29 works
  6. 6 Mathias Herrmann Germany · #239,482 worldwide 142 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 W Bredt Germany · #260,420 worldwide 73 citations · 27 works
  8. 8 V. Preac‐Mursic Germany · #286,633 worldwide 139 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Silke Peter Germany · #404,468 worldwide 225 citations · 36 works
  10. 10 Udo Reischl Germany · #649,894 worldwide 46 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene

Which keywords describe research at Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Vaccine, SARS-CoV-2, Immune Response, Pathogenesis, Antibiotic Resistance, Immunity and ACE2 Receptor.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology57▲ 6.0×85 topics
  2. Vaccine20▲ 20×10 topics
  3. SARS-CoV-216▲ 21×6 topics
  4. Immune Response16▲ 11×18 topics
  5. Pathogenesis15▲ 13×21 topics
  6. Antibiotic Resistance14▲ 16×13 topics
  7. Pandemic14▲ 5.6×7 topics
  8. Immunity13▲ 13×10 topics
  9. ACE2 Receptor13▲ 22×3 topics
  10. Inflammation12▲ 2.4×42 topics
  11. Healthcare-Associated Infections12▲ 40×5 topics
  12. Antimicrobial Resistance11▲ 23×9 topics
  13. Diagnosis10▲ 4.7×26 topics
  14. Virulence Factors9▲ 26×8 topics
  15. Treatment9▲ 3.2×28 topics
  16. Public Health9▲ 2.6×27 topics
  17. COVID-198▲ 2.6×15 topics
  18. Viral Transmission8▲ 24×3 topics
  19. Coronavirus8▲ 17×2 topics
  20. Mutation8▲ 17×4 topics
  21. Infection7▲ 12×7 topics
  22. antibody7▲ 29×1 topic
  23. spike protein7▲ 29×1 topic
  24. Infectious Diseases7▲ 8.8×7 topics
  25. Innate Immunity7▲ 8.9×9 topics
  26. Microbial Communities7▲ 6.6×4 topics
  27. Bacteremia6▲ 37×3 topics
  28. Cancer Immunotherapy6▲ 17×3 topics
  29. Thrombosis6▲ 8.8×5 topics
  30. Vaccine Development6▲ 9.8×11 topics
  31. Gut Microbiota5▲ 6.4×6 topics
  32. Inflammatory Diseases5▲ 12×4 topics
  33. Clinical Management5▲ 13×4 topics
  34. Molecular Diagnosis5▲ 63×2 topics
  35. Pathophysiology5▲ 7.1×3 topics
  36. Clinical Characteristics5▲ 16×1 topic
  37. Cytokine Storm5▲ 19×1 topic
  38. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry5▲ 70×1 topic
  39. Microorganism Identification5▲ 70×1 topic
  40. Zoonotic Transmission5▲ 28×5 topics

Which research topics does Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing and Gut microbiota and health.

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …7SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 7 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Resear…5COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 5 fractional worksBacterial Identification…5Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing: 5 fractional worksGut microbiota and health4Gut microbiota and health: 4 fractional worksAntimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus: 4 fractional worksAntibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: 4 fractional worksImmune Cell Function and…4Immune Cell Function and Interaction: 4 fractional worksCAR-T cell therapy resea…3CAR-T cell therapy research: 3 fractional worksT-cell and B-cell Immuno…3T-cell and B-cell Immunology: 3 fractional worksClostridium difficile an…3Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research: 3 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesClinical BiochemistryMolecular BiologyMolecular Medicine2 others

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

  1. 1 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 7 works
  2. 2 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 5 works
  3. 3 Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing Clinical Biochemistry 5 works
  4. 4 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 4 works
  5. 5 Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus Infectious Diseases 4 works
  6. 6 Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Molecular Medicine 4 works
  7. 7 Immune Cell Function and Interaction Immunology 4 works
  8. 8 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 3 works
  9. 9 T-cell and B-cell Immunology Immunology 3 works
  10. 10 Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research Infectious Diseases 3 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 available39.4%not open60.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors26.0%domestic only74.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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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