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SLUB Dresden

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World rank, all time
#34,031
of 34,923
Rank in Germany
#1,584
of 1,603
Research works
146
▲ 57% vs 2018-21
Citations
92
0.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
96%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
SLUB Dresden

Which fields of science does SLUB Dresden work in?

In 2022-now, 83% of research at SLUB Dresden is in Social Sciences, 14% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (51%), Social Sciences (25%), Computer Science (12%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 66 fractional works · 82.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 41 fractional works · 50.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 12 fractional works · 15.0% of its workMuseology: 12 fractional works · 14.5% of its workHistory: 8 fractional works · 9.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 4.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 24.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 fractional works · 12.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 5.3% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 14.3% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 12.3% of its workInformation Systems: 8 fractional works · 10.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSLUB Dresden80fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences14%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences83%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities4150.8%
    2. Social Sciences2024.8%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting22.9%
    4. Decision Sciences22.6%
    5. Psychology11.5%
    1. Computer Science1012.3%
    2. Physics and Astronomy10.8%
    3. Engineering00.6%
    4. Environmental Science00.4%
    5. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Medicine11.6%
    2. Health Professions10.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.6%
    2. Neuroscience00.1%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does SLUB Dresden specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Arts and Humanities takes 17.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Arts and HumanitiesField · 40.9 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.59× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.37× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 17.58× its world share, 41 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.90× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.64× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.96× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 17.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities17.58×41 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.64×2 works
  3. Social Sciences1.96×20 works
  4. Computer Science1.59×10 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting0.90×2 works
  6. Psychology0.50×1 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy0.37×1 works
  8. Health Professions0.26×1 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.13×0 works
  10. Neuroscience0.08×0 works
  11. Medicine0.08×1 works
  12. Environmental Science0.07×0 works
  13. Engineering0.04×0 works
  14. Materials Science0.04×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at SLUB Dresden?

Ranked on the quality score, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Jens Bemme and Konstantin Hermann lead among researchers whose main affiliation is SLUB Dresden.

  1. 1 Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld Germany · #2,763,393 worldwide 5 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Jens Bemme Germany · #2,783,719 worldwide 69 citations · 129 works
  3. 3 Konstantin Hermann Germany · #2,933,854 worldwide 318 citations · 30 works
  4. 4 Martin Munke Germany · #2,935,766 worldwide 201 citations · 74 works
  5. 5 Robert M. Langer Germany · #3,137,842 worldwide 133 citations · 26 works
  6. 6 Thomas Bürger Germany · #3,184,212 worldwide 317 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 Sebastian Meyer Germany · #3,269,283 worldwide 44 citations · 32 works
  8. 8 Ortrun Landmann Germany · #3,406,764 worldwide 16 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 Jens Mittelbach Germany · #3,441,126 worldwide 25 citations · 131 works
  10. 10 Jens Bove Germany · #3,681,338 worldwide 19 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at SLUB Dresden

What are the most cited papers from SLUB Dresden?

The most cited paper from SLUB Dresden is "Citizen science’s transformative impact on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes" (Julia von Gönner et al., 2023), with 74 citations. Next come "VIVO: a system for research discovery" (18) and "NFDI4Ing - the National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences" (14).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Citizen science’s transformative impact on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes Julia von Gönner et al. · Socio-Ecological Practice Research Open access 12 Jan 2023 74
2 VIVO: a system for research discovery Michael S. C. Conlon et al. · The Journal of Open Source Software Open access 26 Jul 2019 18
3 NFDI4Ing - the National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences Robert Heinrich Schmitt et al. · TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt) Open access 25 Sep 2020 14
4 Reference Management Systems Antje Proske, Christina Wenzel, Manuela Barbara Queitsch Book chapterOpen access 2023 11
5 NFDI4Culture - Consortium for research data on material and immaterial cultural heritage Reinhard Altenhöner et al. · Research Ideas and Outcomes Open access 31 Jul 2020 11
All 91 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at SLUB Dresden?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Literature, History, Materiality, Exhibition, Museum, Gender, Religion and William Blake.

▲ 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-now 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. Literature21▲ 48×3 topics
  2. History12▲ 21×3 topics
  3. Materiality12▲ 386×2 topics
  4. Exhibition12▲ 1221×1 topic
  5. Museum12▲ 1221×1 topic
  6. Gender10▲ 23×3 topics
  7. Religion9▲ 25×1 topic
  8. William Blake9▲ 5443×1 topic
  9. Cultural Identity8▲ 19×3 topics
  10. Nationalism7▲ 20×2 topics
  11. Christian-Jewish Relations7▲ 1757×1 topic
  12. Religious Politics7▲ 1757×1 topic
  13. Colonialism7▲ 18×2 topics
  14. Wales7▲ 1322×1 topic
  15. Welsh literature7▲ 1322×1 topic
  16. Digital Repositories6▲ 224×2 topics
  17. Semantic Web5▲ 68×3 topics
  18. Linked Data4▲ 139×2 topics
  19. Bibliographic Framework4▲ 668×1 topic
  20. Resource Description and Access4▲ 668×1 topic
  21. Peer Review4▲ 134×3 topics
  22. Data Citation4▲ 86×2 topics
  23. Collaboration3▲ 71×2 topics
  24. Crowdsourcing3▲ 53×2 topics
  25. Social Dynamics3▲ 57×2 topics
  26. Open Access3▲ 32×2 topics
  27. Research Dissemination3▲ 142×2 topics
  28. Knowledge Management2▲ 5.6×1 topic
  29. Wikipedia2▲ 528×1 topic
  30. Scholarly Communication2▲ 92×2 topics
  31. User Engagement2▲ 59×2 topics
  32. Data Sharing2▲ 74×1 topic
  33. Scientific Data Management2▲ 89×1 topic
  34. Academic Libraries2▲ 100×2 topics
  35. Social History2▲ 28×3 topics
  36. Cultural Analysis2▲ 44×2 topics
  37. Digital Humanities2▲ 144×1 topic
  38. Ethnomusicology2▲ 53×2 topics
  39. Library 2.02▲ 286×1 topic
  40. Literary History2▲ 71×1 topic

Which research topics does SLUB Dresden publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Libraries and Information Services, Moravian Church and William Blake, Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity and Historical Studies of British Isles.

Libraries and Informatio…12Libraries and Information Services: 12 fractional worksMoravian Church and William Blake: 9 fractional worksReligion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity: 7 fractional worksHistorical Studies of Br…7Historical Studies of British Isles: 7 fractional worksLibrary Science and Info…4Library Science and Information Systems: 4 fractional worksWikis in Education and Collaboration: 2 fractional worksResearch Data Management Practices: 2 fractional worksDigital Humanities and Scholarship: 2 fractional worksWeb and Library Services: 2 fractional worksPublishing and Scholarly Communication: 2 fractional works
MuseologyLiterature and Literary TheoryPolitical Science and International RelationsHistory3 others

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

  1. 1 Libraries and Information Services Museology 12 works
  2. 2 Moravian Church and William Blake Literature and Literary Theory 9 works
  3. 3 Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity Political Science and International Relations 7 works
  4. 4 Historical Studies of British Isles History 7 works
  5. 5 Library Science and Information Systems Information Systems 4 works
  6. 6 Wikis in Education and Collaboration Communication 2 works
  7. 7 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 2 works
  8. 8 Digital Humanities and Scholarship Literature and Literary Theory 2 works
  9. 9 Web and Library Services Information Systems 2 works
  10. 10 Publishing and Scholarly Communication History and Philosophy of Science 2 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 available95.8%not open4.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.3%domestic only93.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has SLUB Dresden's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 57% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 SLUB Dresden as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00015% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%SLUB Dresden0.00045% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of SLUB Dresden over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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