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Kisters (Germany)

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Research works
14
▼ 38% vs 2018-21
Citations
80
5.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Kisters (Germany)

Not ranked overall: Kisters (Germany) 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 Kisters (Germany) work in?

In all years, 75% of research at Kisters (Germany) is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (26%), Engineering (23%), Computer Science (15%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 74.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 26.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 15.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 9.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 23.1% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 14.9% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.4% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 7.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 5.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workALL ITS WORKKisters (Germany)14fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences75%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences9%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science426.0%
    2. Engineering323.1%
    3. Computer Science214.9%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences18.5%
    5. Energy02.3%
    1. Medicine17.1%
    2. Health Professions02.3%
    1. Decision Sciences17.4%
    2. Social Sciences01.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting00.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences15.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.2%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Kisters (Germany)?

The most cited paper from Kisters (Germany) is "AGDISTIS - Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Data" (Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Michael Röder et al., 2014), with 186 citations. Next come "Application of a geographic information system for conceptual rainfall–runoff modeling" (60) and "EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe" (50).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 AGDISTIS - Graph-Based Disambiguation of Named Entities Using Linked Data Ricardo Usbeck, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Michael Röder et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2014 186
2 Application of a geographic information system for conceptual rainfall–runoff modeling Andreas H. Schumann, R. Funke, Gert A. Schultz · Journal of Hydrology Dec 2000 60
3 EMO-5: a high-resolution multi-variable gridded meteorological dataset for Europe Vera Thiemig, Goncalo Gomes, Jon Olav Skøien et al. · Earth system science data Open access 15 Jul 2022 50
4 Real-Time Flood Control by Tree-Based Model Predictive Control Including Forecast Uncertainty: A Case Study Reservoir in Turkey Gökçen Uysal, Rodolfo Alvarado-Montero, Dirk Schwanenberg et al. · Water Open access 19 Mar 2018 28
5 Short Term Optimal Operation of Water Supply Reservoir under Flood Control Stress using Model Predictive Control Gökçen Uysal, Dirk Schwanenberg, Rodolfo Alvarado-Montero et al. · Water Resources Management 14 Oct 2017 25
All 32 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Kisters (Germany) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Water Systems and Optimization, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Embedded Systems Design Techniques and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Water Systems and Optimi…0Water Systems and Optimization: 0 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel…0Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 0 fractional worksEmbedded Systems Design …0Embedded Systems Design Techniques: 0 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed …0Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 0 fractional worksReal-time simulation and…0Real-time simulation and control systems: 0 fractional worksPrecipitation Measurement and Analysis: 0 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 0 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 0 fractional worksWater Quality and Pollution Assessment: 0 fractional worksUrban Stormwater Management Solutions: 0 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringComputer Networks and CommunicationsHardware and ArchitectureWater Science and Technology4 others

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

  1. 1 Water Systems and Optimization Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 0 works
  3. 3 Embedded Systems Design Techniques Hardware and Architecture 0 works
  4. 4 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 0 works
  5. 5 Real-time simulation and control systems Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Precipitation Measurement and Analysis Atmospheric Science 0 works
  7. 7 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 0 works
  8. 8 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  9. 9 Water Quality and Pollution Assessment Water Science and Technology 0 works
  10. 10 Urban Stormwater Management Solutions Environmental Engineering 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 available26.8%not open73.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.5%domestic only70.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kisters (Germany)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 38% 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 Kisters (Germany) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000086% in 2022.

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Fractional works of Kisters (Germany) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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