Question 1

What is Max Planck Society known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Max Planck Society stands highest in Life Sciences (#4 of 6,403 worldwide), Social Sciences (#9 of 9,585 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#7 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Structural Biology, Instrumentation and Astronomy and Astrophysics (Structural Biology is 14.2× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Max Planck Society rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Max Planck Society ranks #7 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#5 all time), and #1 of 795 in Germany.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Max Planck Society?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, L. van der Schaaf, N. Aggarwal and K. Holt lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Max Planck Society.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Max Planck Society?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Max Planck Society is "Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2" (Michael I. Love, Wolfgang K. Huber, Simon Anders, 2014), with 104,335 citations. Next come "Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis" (73,171) and "Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data" (71,819).

Question 5

Which research topics does Max Planck Society publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Military Technology and Strategies, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies and Magnetic confinement fusion research.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Max Planck Society?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Legal Regulation, Economic Security, Human Rights, Social Influence, Science, Ethnicity, International Trade Law and Public Oversight.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Max Planck Society work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 51% of research at Max Planck Society is in Physical Sciences, 25% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (15%), Social Sciences (15%), Engineering (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Which institutions have research most like Max Planck Society's?

Accepted Answer

Princeton University has the research profile closest to Max Planck Society's (similarity 0.91 on a scale to 1), with both strong in Physics and Astronomy, followed by University of California, Santa Barbara and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Question 9

Is Max Planck Society's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% lower than in 2018-2021.