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Mercator Research Center Ruhr

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Research works
7
▼ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
53
7.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
16%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Mercator Research Center Ruhr 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 5.13× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceMedicine: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7.76× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 11.68× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 1.98× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 11.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which research topics does Mercator Research Center Ruhr publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Business, Innovation, and Economy, Diverse Applied Research Studies, Educational and Organizational Development and Gut microbiota and health.

Business, Innovation, an…0Business, Innovation, and Economy: 0 fractional worksDiverse Applied Research…0Diverse Applied Research Studies: 0 fractional worksEducational and Organiza…0Educational and Organizational Development: 0 fractional worksGut microbiota and health: 0 fractional worksDermatology and Skin Diseases: 0 fractional worksTryptophan and brain dis…0Tryptophan and brain disorders: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsSociology and Political ScienceOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementMolecular Biology2 others

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

  1. 1 Business, Innovation, and Economy Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  2. 2 Diverse Applied Research Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Educational and Organizational Development Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 0 works
  4. 4 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 0 works
  5. 5 Dermatology and Skin Diseases Dermatology 0 works
  6. 6 Tryptophan and brain disorders Biological Psychiatry 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 available15.7%not open84.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors47.1%domestic only52.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Mercator Research Center Ruhr's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% lower than in 2013–2017.

20152020
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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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