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Misereor

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Research works
6
▼ 54% vs 2018-21
Citations
9
1.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
Misereor

Not ranked overall: Misereor 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 Misereor work in?

In all years, 75% of research at Misereor is in Social Sciences, 17% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (41%), Business, Management and Accounting (21%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (17%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 74.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 40.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 29.6% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 20.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 16.9% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 11.5% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 6.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 16.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 16.9% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 8.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 8.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKMisereor6fractional works, all years
Life Sciences17%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences75%

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 3 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences240.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting120.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities111.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences116.9%
    1. Health Professions04.2%
    2. Medicine04.2%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Misereor?

Ranked on the quality score, Fabian Scholtes lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Misereor.

  1. 1 Fabian Scholtes Germany · #2,415,179 worldwide 198 citations · 41 works
All ranked researchers at Misereor

What are the most cited papers from Misereor?

The most cited paper from Misereor is "Seeking Balanced Ownership in Changing Development Cooperation Relationships" (Niels Keijzer, Stephan Klingebiel, Charlotte Oernemark et al., 2019), with 16 citations. Next come "Global poverty and the cost of a healthy diet" (9) and "Agricultural Trade and the Human Right to Food: The Case of Small Rice Producers in Ghana, Honduras, and Indonesia" (2).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Seeking Balanced Ownership in Changing Development Cooperation Relationships Niels Keijzer, Stephan Klingebiel, Charlotte Oernemark et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 5 Jan 2019 16
2 Global poverty and the cost of a healthy diet Jonas Stehl, Lutz Depenbusch, Sebastián Vollmer · Food Policy Open access 21 Mar 2025 9
3 Agricultural Trade and the Human Right to Food: The Case of Small Rice Producers in Ghana, Honduras, and Indonesia Armin Paasch, Frank Garbers, Thomas Hirsch · Food Ethics Book chapter 2010 2
4 THE ROLE AND SOURCES OF AGENCY AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT OVER THE LIFE COURSE: MICRO-ENTREPRENEURS IN KAMPALA, UGANDA Fabian Scholtes, Daniel F. Neff, Florian Lampe · Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship Dec 2018 1
5 Nachhaltige Lieferketten Armin Paasch Book chapter 2026 0
All 12 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Misereor publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Classical Philosophy and Thought, Trauma Management and Diagnosis, Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries and Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade.

Classical Philosophy and Thought: 0 fractional worksTrauma Management and Diagnosis: 0 fractional worksTraumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries: 0 fractional worksPericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade: 0 fractional worksClassical Antiquity Studies: 0 fractional works
PhilosophySurgeryOphthalmologyCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine1 others

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

  1. 1 Classical Philosophy and Thought Philosophy 0 works
  2. 2 Trauma Management and Diagnosis Surgery 0 works
  3. 3 Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries Ophthalmology 0 works
  4. 4 Pericarditis and Cardiac Tamponade Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  5. 5 Classical Antiquity Studies Anthropology 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 available32.4%not open67.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.3%domestic only75.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Misereor's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% lower than in 2018-2021.

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