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Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility

In research, Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility stands highest in Physics and Astronomy (#1,446 of 2,917 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#11,052 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#30,412
of 34,923
Rank in Germany
#1,453
of 1,603
Research works
202
▲ 295% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.8k
28.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.09×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
56%
world 18%
Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility

What is Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility 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
Physics and AstronomyField #1,446 of 2,917 8.0%143
Physical SciencesDomain #11,052 of 17,446 8.0%194

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility work in?

In all years, 96% of research at Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (71%), Engineering (11%), Computer Science (10%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 194 fractional works · 95.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 143 fractional works · 70.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 93 fractional works · 45.8% of its workInstrumentation: 32 fractional works · 15.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 10 fractional works · 4.9% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 22 fractional works · 10.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 9 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 20 fractional works · 10.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSpace TelescopeEuropean…202fractional works, all years
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences96%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences3%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy14370.6%
    2. Engineering2210.8%
    3. Computer Science2010.0%
    4. Chemistry31.7%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.1%
    6. Mathematics21.1%
    7. Environmental Science10.4%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Social Sciences21.0%
    2. Decision Sciences20.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities10.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    6. Psychology00.0%
    1. Medicine20.8%
    2. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    2. Neuroscience00.0%
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 Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility?

Ranked on the quality score, R. A. E. Fosbury, R. Hes and R. N. Hook lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility.

  1. 1 R. A. E. Fosbury Germany · #1,032,554 worldwide 8.6k citations · 356 works
  2. 2 R. Hes Germany · #3,859,666 worldwide 206 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 R. N. Hook Germany · #4,013,094 worldwide 3.9k citations · 176 works
  4. 4 Giuseppe P. Russo Germany · #4,445,984 worldwide 103 citations · 31 works
  5. 5 M. R. Rosa Germany · #4,835,835 worldwide 52 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 R. Albrecht Germany · #5,167,374 worldwide 1.3k citations · 185 works
  7. 7 M. R. Rosa Germany · #6,460,163 worldwide 1k citations · 145 works
  8. 8 A. Micol Germany · #7,120,524 worldwide 340 citations · 141 works
All ranked researchers at Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility

What are the most cited papers from Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility?

The most cited paper from Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility is "The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results from Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging" (Mauro Giavalisco et al., 2004), with 1,718 citations. Next come "The SAURON project--IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies" (1,145) and "The ATLAS3D project - I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria" (1,141).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Initial Results from Optical and Near-Infrared Imaging Mauro Giavalisco et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 9 Jan 2004 1,718
2 The SAURON project--IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies Michele Cappellari, Roland M. Bacon, Martin Bureau et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 3 Feb 2006 1,145
3 The ATLAS3D project - I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria Michele Cappellari et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access 4 Mar 2011 1,141
4 Multilayer perceptrons for classification and regression Fionn D. Murtagh · Neurocomputing Jul 1991 1,011
5 Measuring and modelling the redshift evolution of clustering: the Hubble Deep Field North Stéphane Arnouts, S. Cristiani, Lauro Moscardini et al. · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Open access Dec 1999 988
All 57 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Star Formation, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Black Holes, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Cosmology and Dark Matter.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Star Formation41▲ 217×2 topics
  2. Astronomical Instrumentation32▲ 305×1 topic
  3. Spectrograph32▲ 305×1 topic
  4. Black Holes30▲ 102×2 topics
  5. Exoplanets27▲ 181×1 topic
  6. Stellar Astrophysics27▲ 181×1 topic
  7. Cosmology26▲ 139×2 topics
  8. Dark Matter26▲ 68×2 topics
  9. Galaxies26▲ 288×1 topic
  10. Stellar Populations26▲ 288×1 topic
  11. Accretion Disks19▲ 116×2 topics
  12. Magnetic Fields19▲ 91×2 topics
  13. Turbulence15▲ 51×2 topics
  14. Molecular Clouds15▲ 152×1 topic
  15. Protoplanetary Disks15▲ 152×1 topic
  16. Optical 3D Laser Measurement8▲ 215×1 topic
  17. Position-Sensitive Detector8▲ 215×1 topic
  18. Adaptive Optics7▲ 169×1 topic
  19. Wavefront Sensing7▲ 169×1 topic
  20. Supernovae7▲ 32×2 topics
  21. Gravitational Waves6▲ 49×2 topics
  22. Gamma-Ray Bursts6▲ 85×1 topic
  23. Neutron Stars6▲ 85×1 topic
  24. Radio Astronomy6▲ 79×2 topics
  25. Spectroscopy6▲ 8.7×6 topics
  26. Cosmic Rays5▲ 37×2 topics
  27. Neutrinos5▲ 37×2 topics
  28. High-Energy Astrophysics5▲ 62×1 topic
  29. Particle Acceleration5▲ 62×1 topic
  30. Galactic Center4▲ 35×2 topics
  31. X-Ray Spectroscopy4▲ 28×2 topics
  32. Event Horizon Telescope4▲ 62×1 topic
  33. X-Ray Astronomy4▲ 62×1 topic
  34. Principal Component Analysis4▲ 12×3 topics
  35. Solar System Abundances4▲ 20×1 topic
  36. Terrestrial Planets4▲ 20×1 topic
  37. Epoch of Reionization3▲ 89×1 topic
  38. Low-Frequency Telescopes3▲ 89×1 topic
  39. High-Resolution Imaging3▲ 23×1 topic
  40. Transits of Venus3▲ 71×1 topic

Which research topics does Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life, Astro and Planetary Science, Space Exploration and Technology and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

Space Science and Extrat…0Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life: 0 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Scie…0Astro and Planetary Science: 0 fractional worksSpace Exploration and Te…0Space Exploration and Technology: 0 fractional worksStellar, planetary, and …0Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies: 0 fractional worksSoil Mechanics and Vehic…0Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics: 0 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Ex…0Planetary Science and Exploration: 0 fractional worksSpectroscopy and Laser Applications: 0 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Climate: 0 fractional worksCalibration and Measurement Techniques: 0 fractional works
Astronomy and AstrophysicsAerospace EngineeringCivil and Structural EngineeringSpectroscopy1 others

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

  1. 1 Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  2. 2 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  3. 3 Space Exploration and Technology Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  5. 5 Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 0 works
  7. 7 Spectroscopy and Laser Applications Spectroscopy 0 works
  8. 8 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 0 works
  9. 9 Calibration and Measurement Techniques Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Spaceflight effects on biology Physiology 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 available47.3%not open52.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors56.3%domestic only43.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 295% 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 Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000017% in 2022.

0.0010%0.0020%Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility0.000013% in 20241990200020102020

Fractional works of Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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