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Swiss National Museum

In research, Swiss National Museum stands highest in Physical Sciences (#12,212 of 17,446 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#12,394 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#16,073
of 34,923
Rank in Switzerland
#186
of 378
Research works
310
▲ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.7k
18.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.13×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
58%
world 40%
International
36%
world 18%
Swiss National Museum

What is Swiss National Museum 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
Physical SciencesDomain #12,212 of 17,446 11.0%128
Social SciencesDomain #12,394 of 14,833 9.8%122

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Swiss National Museum 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 Swiss National Museum work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research at Swiss National Museum is in Social Sciences, 38% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (33%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (16%), Social Sciences (13%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 26 fractional works · 51.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 16 fractional works · 32.6% of its workArcheology: 6 fractional works · 11.6% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 12.9% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 19 fractional works · 38.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 fractional works · 16.5% of its workPaleontology: 5 fractional works · 9.4% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 10.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 4.6% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 6.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workToxicology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEquine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSwiss NationalMuseum50fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences38%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences51%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities1632.6%
    2. Social Sciences612.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting12.8%
    4. Psychology12.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences816.5%
    2. Environmental Science510.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy24.6%
    4. Computer Science13.0%
    5. Engineering12.1%
    6. Mathematics11.3%
    7. Chemistry00.3%
    8. Materials Science00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology23.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.8%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.4%
    4. Neuroscience00.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Medicine23.4%
    2. Veterinary00.4%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.09× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10.50× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.04× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.11× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.07× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksMedicineVeterinary: 2.95× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 11.27× its world share, 16 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.88× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.86× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.02× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 11.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities11.27×16 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.50×8 works
  3. Veterinary2.95×0 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy2.07×2 works
  5. Environmental Science2.04×5 works
  6. Mathematics1.11×1 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.09×0 works
  8. Social Sciences1.02×6 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.88×1 works
  10. Psychology0.86×1 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.60×2 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.59×1 works
  13. Computer Science0.38×2 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.23×0 works
  15. Chemistry0.21×0 works
  16. Medicine0.18×2 works
  17. Engineering0.14×1 works
  18. Neuroscience0.10×0 works
  19. Materials Science0.08×0 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Swiss National Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, Katharina Schmidt-Ott, Dorothea Kuhn and Vera Hubert lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Swiss National Museum.

  1. 1 Katharina Schmidt-Ott Switzerland · #2,816,250 worldwide 261 citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Dorothea Kuhn Switzerland · #2,959,246 worldwide 103 citations · 42 works
  3. 3 Vera Hubert Switzerland · #2,999,732 worldwide 260 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Tiziana Lombardo Switzerland · #3,509,964 worldwide 730 citations · 50 works
  5. 5 Bruno Mühlethaler Switzerland · #3,522,546 worldwide 121 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Der Vorstand Switzerland · #3,523,413 worldwide 3 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Toni Bürgin Switzerland · #4,055,556 worldwide 248 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Johannes Beltz Switzerland · #4,170,723 worldwide 101 citations · 27 works
  9. 9 Erwin Hildbrand Switzerland · #4,238,444 worldwide 68 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Marie Wörle Switzerland · #4,426,274 worldwide 409 citations · 45 works
All ranked researchers at Swiss National Museum

What are the most cited papers from Swiss National Museum?

The most cited paper from Swiss National Museum is "A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa" (Michel Brunet et al., 2002), with 1,079 citations. Next come "The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years" (586) and "Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age" (311).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa Michel Brunet et al. · Nature 11 Jul 2002 1,079
2 The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years Íñigo Olalde et al. · Science Open access111 authors 14 Mar 2019 586
3 Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age Wolfgang Haak, Guido Brandt, Hylke N. de Jong et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 17 Nov 2008 311
4 Climatic and biotic upheavals following the end-Permian mass extinction Carlo Romano, Nicolas Goudemand, Torsten Walter Vennemann et al. · Nature Geoscience 20 Dec 2012 277
5 Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts—A critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification Frank E. Zachos, Marco Apollonio, Eva V. Bärmann et al. · Mammalian Biology 24 Aug 2012 233
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Swiss National Museum?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Heritage, Conservation, Phylogenetic Analysis, Literature, Biogeography, Cultural Exchange, Castle Construction and Medieval Architecture.

▲ 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. Cultural Heritage6▲ 21×8 topics
  2. Conservation4▲ 17×11 topics
  3. Literature3▲ 10×5 topics
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis3▲ 18×7 topics
  5. Biogeography3▲ 19×8 topics
  6. Climate Change3▲ 2.0×18 topics
  7. Castle Construction2▲ 578×1 topic
  8. Cultural Exchange2▲ 40×4 topics
  9. Medieval Architecture2▲ 260×1 topic
  10. Population Dynamics2▲ 19×7 topics
  11. Evolution2▲ 16×5 topics
  12. Art2▲ 47×2 topics
  13. History2▲ 5.9×4 topics
  14. Molecular Phylogeny2▲ 24×4 topics
  15. Morphology2▲ 20×3 topics
  16. Identity2▲ 4.6×4 topics
  17. Materiality2▲ 90×2 topics
  18. Migration2▲ 9.8×2 topics
  19. Exhibition2▲ 273×1 topic
  20. Museum2▲ 273×1 topic
  21. Archaeology2▲ 23×4 topics
  22. Dinosaur2▲ 211×1 topic
  23. Paleontology2▲ 211×1 topic
  24. Paleoproductivity2▲ 95×1 topic
  25. Paleoredox2▲ 95×1 topic
  26. Solar System Abundances2▲ 63×1 topic
  27. Terrestrial Planets2▲ 63×1 topic
  28. Fisheries1▲ 62×2 topics
  29. Mammal Evolution1▲ 136×1 topic
  30. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis1▲ 136×1 topic
  31. Ecology1▲ 15×2 topics
  32. Late Antiquity1▲ 53×2 topics
  33. Organizational Change1▲ 34×1 topic
  34. Gender Equality1▲ 8.3×2 topics
  35. Mediterranean1▲ 27×4 topics
  36. Middle Ages1▲ 112×2 topics
  37. Archaeological Evidence1▲ 48×2 topics
  38. Bronze Age1▲ 57×3 topics
  39. Marine Ecosystems1▲ 39×2 topics
  40. Phylogeny1▲ 14×3 topics

Which research topics does Swiss National Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Medieval European History and Architecture, Libraries and Information Services, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Medieval European Histor…2Medieval European History and Architecture: 2 fractional worksLibraries and Informatio…2Libraries and Information Services: 2 fractional worksPaleontology and Evolutionary Biology: 2 fractional worksPaleontology and Stratig…2Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils: 2 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Scie…2Astro and Planetary Science: 2 fractional worksEvolution and Paleontology Studies: 1 fractional worksCorporate Management and Leadership: 1 fractional worksEcology, Conservation, a…1Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies: 1 fractional worksGlobal Maritime and Colonial Histories: 1 fractional worksMental Health and Psychiatry: 1 fractional works
ArcheologyMuseologyPaleontologyAstronomy and Astrophysics4 others

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

  1. 1 Medieval European History and Architecture Archeology 2 works
  2. 2 Libraries and Information Services Museology 2 works
  3. 3 Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Paleontology 2 works
  4. 4 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Paleontology 2 works
  5. 5 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 works
  6. 6 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 1 works
  7. 7 Corporate Management and Leadership Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 1 works
  8. 8 Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  9. 9 Global Maritime and Colonial Histories Anthropology 1 works
  10. 10 Mental Health and Psychiatry Philosophy 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 available57.7%not open42.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.7%domestic only64.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Swiss National Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% 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 Swiss National Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00026% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Swiss National Museum0.00017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Swiss National Museum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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