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Pfizer (Germany)

In research, Pfizer (Germany) stands highest in Health Sciences (#9,683 of 20,462 worldwide) and Medicine (#9,744 of 17,978 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#16,182
of 28,054 · #19,346 all time
Rank in Germany
#632
of 1,178
Research works
319
▲ 23% vs 2013–17
Citations
7.2k
22.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
21.9%
record average 16.5%
Open access
44%
world 28%

What is Pfizer (Germany) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #9,683 of 20,462 16.3%197
MedicineField #9,744 of 17,978 16.7%182

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Pfizer (Germany) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

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: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.94× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 8.77× its world share, 7 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.99× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.92× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.93× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.80× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.56× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.44× its world share, 36 worksMedicineVeterinary: 4.79× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.92× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.38× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 8.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Pfizer (Germany)?

Ranked on the composite score, Djork-Arné Clevert, Christof von Eiff and J. Schiffner‐Rohe lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Pfizer (Germany).

  1. 1 Djork-Arné Clevert Germany · #135,421 worldwide 273 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Christof von Eiff Germany · #357,602 worldwide 129 citations · 33 works
  3. 3 J. Schiffner‐Rohe Germany · #699,235 worldwide 59 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Friedhelm Leverkus Germany · #1,353,034 worldwide 45 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Pfizer (Germany)

Which keywords describe research at Pfizer (Germany)?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Machine Learning, Vaccine Development, Human Metapneumovirus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Pathogenesis, Public Health and Vaccine.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology19▲ 6.1×37 topics
  2. Machine Learning8▲ 3.0×10 topics
  3. Public Health5▲ 4.2×10 topics
  4. Vaccine Development5▲ 24×3 topics
  5. Human Metapneumovirus4▲ 115×1 topic
  6. Respiratory Syncytial Virus4▲ 115×1 topic
  7. Pathogenesis4▲ 10×10 topics
  8. Quality of Life3▲ 3.1×8 topics
  9. Clinical Practice Guidelines3▲ 7.6×5 topics
  10. Healthcare3▲ 3.7×9 topics
  11. Vaccine3▲ 10×6 topics
  12. Artificial Intelligence3▲ 2.9×4 topics
  13. Antimicrobial Resistance3▲ 18×2 topics
  14. Medical Imaging3▲ 7.0×3 topics
  15. Medicinal Chemistry3▲ 13×2 topics
  16. Pandemic3▲ 3.2×5 topics
  17. Respiratory Infections3▲ 30×2 topics
  18. Community-Acquired Pneumonia3▲ 100×1 topic
  19. Molecular Docking3▲ 27×1 topic
  20. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine3▲ 100×1 topic
  21. Virtual Screening3▲ 36×1 topic
  22. Cost-effectiveness Analysis2▲ 37×1 topic
  23. Health Utility Measures2▲ 37×1 topic
  24. Immune Response2▲ 5.5×8 topics
  25. Pathogen Transmission2▲ 44×2 topics
  26. Immunity2▲ 7.0×4 topics
  27. Guidelines2▲ 6.0×6 topics
  28. Precision Medicine2▲ 5.9×6 topics
  29. COVID-19 Vaccine2▲ 36×1 topic
  30. Vaccine Hesitancy2▲ 39×1 topic
  31. Clinical Management2▲ 14×2 topics
  32. Health Equity2▲ 9.3×3 topics
  33. SARS-CoV-22▲ 7.5×4 topics
  34. Infectious Diseases2▲ 7.0×4 topics
  35. Bacterial Meningitis2▲ 111×1 topic
  36. Gene Therapy2▲ 11×5 topics
  37. Molecular Characterization2▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Neisseria meningitidis2▲ 111×1 topic
  39. Clinical Decision Support2▲ 16×1 topic
  40. Neoadjuvant Therapy2▲ 9.1×3 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Respiratory viral infections research, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Computational Drug Discovery Methods and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life.

Respiratory viral infections research: 4 fractional worksPneumonia and Respiratory Infections: 3 fractional worksComputational Drug Disco…3Computational Drug Discovery Methods: 3 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic…2Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 2 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 2 fractional worksBacterial Infections and Vaccines: 2 fractional worksVector-borne infectious …2Vector-borne infectious diseases: 2 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 2 fractional worksBladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments: 1 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 1 fractional works
EpidemiologyComputational Theory and MathematicsEconomics and EconometricsHealth5 others

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

  1. 1 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 4 works
  2. 2 Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections Epidemiology 3 works
  3. 3 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 3 works
  4. 4 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  5. 5 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 2 works
  6. 6 Bacterial Infections and Vaccines Microbiology 2 works
  7. 7 Vector-borne infectious diseases Parasitology 2 works
  8. 8 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 2 works
  9. 9 Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments Surgery 1 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 1 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 available43.6%not open56.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors41.1%domestic only58.9%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 23% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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