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Museum Folkwang

Research works
8
fractional, all time
Citations
4
0.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
81%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%

Not ranked overall: Museum Folkwang 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 Museum Folkwang work in?

In all years, 87% of research at Museum Folkwang is in Social Sciences, 8% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (55%), Social Sciences (22%), Engineering (5%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 7 fractional works · 86.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 54.9% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 18.7% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 10.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 8.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 22.4% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 14.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workALL ITS WORKMuseum Folkwang8fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences87%

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. Arts and Humanities454.9%
    2. Social Sciences222.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance05.5%
    4. Decision Sciences04.1%
    1. Engineering05.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences02.1%
    1. Medicine05.5%
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.

Engineering: 0.60× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMedicine: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 19.34× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 9.32× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.21× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 19.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities19.34×2 works
  2. Decision Sciences9.32×0 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.21×0 works
  4. Social Sciences0.64×0 works
  5. Engineering0.60×0 works
  6. Medicine0.47×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Museum Folkwang?

Ranked on the quality score, Werner Schmalenbach and Ute Eskildsen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Museum Folkwang.

  1. 1 Werner Schmalenbach Germany · #2,969,324 worldwide 10 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Ute Eskildsen Germany · #3,193,365 worldwide 37 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Museum Folkwang

What are the most cited papers from Museum Folkwang?

The most cited paper from Museum Folkwang is "The Inference of Perceived Usability From Beauty" (Marc Hassenzahl, Andrew F. Monk, 2010), with 331 citations. Next come "Geography and the Founding of Open-air Museums in Wales and Ireland" (0) and "Der wissenschaftliche Ort des Editorischen. Disziplinäre, interdisziplinäre und transdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Editionswissenschaft(en). Tagung an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, 25.–27. Februar 2025" (0).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Inference of Perceived Usability From Beauty Marc Hassenzahl, Andrew F. Monk · Human-Computer Interaction Jul 2010 331
2 Geography and the Founding of Open-air Museums in Wales and Ireland Kazuhito Kawashima · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) Open access Nov 2018 0
3 Der wissenschaftliche Ort des Editorischen. Disziplinäre, interdisziplinäre und transdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Editionswissenschaft(en). Tagung an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, 25.–27. Februar 2025 Marcus Feldbrügge · editio - International Yearbooks for Scholarly Editing / Internationales Jahrbuch für Editionswissenschaft 24 Sep 2025 0
4 Plakat und öffentlicher Raum. Ein historischer Blick René Grohnert Book chapter 2023 0
5 Soundscape of the Ruhr: Sensitive Sounds. Between Documentation, Composition and Historical Research Uta C. Schmidt · Prace Kulturoznawcze Open access 22 Jul 2022 0
All 9 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Museum Folkwang publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Linguistic research and analysis, History of Science and Medicine, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Legal Cases and Commentary.

  1. 1 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 0 works
  2. 2 History of Science and Medicine History and Philosophy of Science 0 works
  3. 3 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Legal Cases and Commentary Reproductive Medicine 0 works
  5. 5 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  6. 6 Libraries and Information Services Museology 0 works
  7. 7 Digital Humanities and Scholarship Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  8. 8 Academic Writing and Publishing History and Philosophy of Science 0 works
  9. 9 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 0 works
  10. 10 Art History and Market Analysis Visual Arts and Performing Arts 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 available81.3%not open18.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors10.4%domestic only89.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Museum Folkwang's research output changed?

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