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Medela (Switzerland)

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Research works
16
▲ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
399
25.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
39%
world 40%
International
66%
world 18%
Medela (Switzerland)

Not ranked overall: Medela (Switzerland) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Medela (Switzerland) work in?

In all years, 77% of research at Medela (Switzerland) is in Health Sciences, 13% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (43%), Nursing (18%), Health Professions (14%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 12 fractional works · 76.5% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 43.1% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 20.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 18.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 18.4% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 13.6% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 13.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workALL ITS WORKMedela(Switzerland)16fractional works, all years
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences77%Social Sciences13%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine743.1%
    2. Nursing318.4%
    3. Health Professions213.6%
    4. Dentistry01.4%
    1. Arts and Humanities16.4%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance15.3%
    3. Social Sciences01.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.7%
    1. Mathematics02.1%
    2. Engineering01.6%
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: 0.87× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.87× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Mathematics: 7.90× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.76× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.15× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 17.91× its world share, 0 worksNursingEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10.86× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 17.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing17.91×0 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.86×1 works
  3. Mathematics7.90×0 works
  4. Medicine2.15×2 works
  5. Health Professions1.76×0 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.87×0 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.87×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.31×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Medela (Switzerland)?

The most cited paper from Medela (Switzerland) is "Tongue movement and intra-oral vacuum in breastfeeding infants" (Donna Tracy Geddes, Jacqueline Coral Kent, Leon R. Mitoulas et al., 2008), with 217 citations. Next come "Identification of nestin-positive putative mammary stem cells in human breastmilk" (167) and "25 Years of Research in Human Lactation: From Discovery to Translation" (91).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Tongue movement and intra-oral vacuum in breastfeeding infants Donna Tracy Geddes, Jacqueline Coral Kent, Leon R. Mitoulas et al. · Early Human Development 13 Feb 2008 217
2 Identification of nestin-positive putative mammary stem cells in human breastmilk Mark D. Cregan, Yiping Fan, Amber Appelbee et al. · Cell and Tissue Research 18 Apr 2007 167
3 25 Years of Research in Human Lactation: From Discovery to Translation Donna Tracy Geddes, Zoya Gridneva, Sharon Lisa Perrella et al. · Nutrients Open access 31 Aug 2021 91
4 Importance of Vacuum for Breastmilk Expression Jacqueline Coral Kent, Leon R. Mitoulas, Mark D. Cregan et al. · Breastfeeding Medicine Mar 2008 78
5 Infants of mothers with persistent nipple pain exert strong sucking vacuums HL McClellan, Donna Tracy Geddes, JC Kent et al. · Acta Paediatrica 16 May 2008 56
All 38 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Medela (Switzerland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Breastfeeding Practices and Influences, Infant Nutrition and Health and Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials.

Health Systems, Economic…0Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 0 fractional worksBreastfeeding Practices …0Breastfeeding Practices and Influences: 0 fractional worksInfant Nutrition and Hea…0Infant Nutrition and Health: 0 fractional worksStatistical Methods in C…0Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials: 0 fractional worksBiomedical Ethics and Regulation: 0 fractional worksEconomic and Financial Impacts of Cancer: 0 fractional worksPressure Ulcer Preventio…0Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management: 0 fractional worksPharmaceutical Economics and Policy: 0 fractional worksInfant Development and Preterm Care: 0 fractional worksSurgical site infection …0Surgical site infection prevention: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsEpidemiologyNutrition and DieteticsStatistics and Probability4 others

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

  1. 1 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  2. 2 Breastfeeding Practices and Influences Epidemiology 0 works
  3. 3 Infant Nutrition and Health Nutrition and Dietetics 0 works
  4. 4 Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials Statistics and Probability 0 works
  5. 5 Biomedical Ethics and Regulation Physiology 0 works
  6. 6 Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  7. 7 Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management Occupational Therapy 0 works
  8. 8 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  9. 9 Infant Development and Preterm Care Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  10. 10 Surgical site infection prevention Surgery 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 available38.6%not open61.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors66.3%domestic only33.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Medela (Switzerland)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Medela (Switzerland) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000024% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Medela (Switzerland)0.0000085% in 20251990200020102020

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

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