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MetraLabs (Germany)

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Research works
16
▲ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
429
26.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.3%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
20%
world 40%
International
11%
world 18%
MetraLabs (Germany)

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

In all years, 79% of research at MetraLabs (Germany) is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (44%), Computer Science (34%), Medicine (10%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 13 fractional works · 79.2% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 44.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 14.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 33.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 22.8% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.4% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 10.4% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAnatomy: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMetraLabs(Germany)16fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences79%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences7%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering744.2%
    2. Computer Science533.7%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.7%
    4. Environmental Science00.7%
    1. Medicine210.4%
    1. Psychology16.6%
    2. Social Sciences00.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.0%
    2. Neuroscience01.1%
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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.38× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 2.27× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.45× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 3.45× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 1.02× its world share, 1 worksMedicinePsychology: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksPsychology1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.45×2 works
  2. Neuroscience2.27×0 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.56×0 works
  4. Computer Science1.45×0 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.38×0 works
  6. Medicine1.02×1 works
  7. Environmental Science0.49×0 works
  8. Psychology0.48×0 works

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

The most cited paper from MetraLabs (Germany) is "TOOMAS: Interactive Shopping Guide robots in everyday use - final implementation and experiences from long-term field trials" (H.-M. Gross, H.-J. Boehme, Ch. Schroeter et al., 2009), with 161 citations. Next come "Realization and user evaluation of a companion robot for people with mild cognitive impairments" (120) and "ShopBot: Progress in developing an interactive mobile shopping assistant for everyday use" (96).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 TOOMAS: Interactive Shopping Guide robots in everyday use - final implementation and experiences from long-term field trials H.-M. Gross, H.-J. Boehme, Ch. Schroeter et al. Conference paper Oct 2009 161
2 Realization and user evaluation of a companion robot for people with mild cognitive impairments Ch. Schroeter, Steffen Mueller, Michael Volkhardt et al. Conference paper May 2013 120
3 ShopBot: Progress in developing an interactive mobile shopping assistant for everyday use H.-M. Gross, H.-J. Boehme, C. Schroeter et al. · Conference proceedings/Conference proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference paper Oct 2008 96
4 ROREAS: robot coach for walking and orientation training in clinical post-stroke rehabilitation—prototype implementation and evaluation in field trials Horst–Michael Groß, Andrea Scheidig, Klaus Debes et al. · Autonomous Robots 24 Feb 2016 70
5 Further progress towards a home robot companion for people with mild cognitive impairment H.-M. Gross, Ch. Schroeter, Steffen Mueller et al. Conference paper Oct 2012 70
All 38 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

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

By volume in 2022-now: Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization and solar cell performance optimization.

Indoor and Outdoor Local…0Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Technol…0Advanced Battery Technologies Research: 0 fractional worksRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization: 0 fractional workssolar cell performance o…0solar cell performance optimization: 0 fractional worksMolecular Biology Techni…0Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional worksBiological Stains and Phytochemicals: 0 fractional worksMedical and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional worksSilicon and Solar Cell T…0Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies: 0 fractional worksMicrowave Imaging and Scattering Analysis: 0 fractional worksTactile and Sensory Interactions: 0 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringAutomotive EngineeringAerospace EngineeringMolecular Biology4 others

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

  1. 1 Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 solar cell performance optimization Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications Molecular Biology 0 works
  6. 6 Biological Stains and Phytochemicals Pharmacology 0 works
  7. 7 Medical and Biological Sciences Anatomy 0 works
  8. 8 Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Tactile and Sensory Interactions Cognitive Neuroscience 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 available19.9%not open80.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.1%domestic only88.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher 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 MetraLabs (Germany) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000025% in 2023.

still counting0.000025%0.000050%0.000075%MetraLabs (Germany)0.000037% in 202520102020

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

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