Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr 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).

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Political Science and International Relations takes 25.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 31.0 works25×
2. Social SciencesField · 57.8 works5.5×

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

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.

• Arts and Humanities 6.6×
• Social Sciences 5.5×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2.2×
• Psychology 0.6×
• Business, Management and Accounting 0.6×
• Health Professions 0.1×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.1×
• Environmental Science 0.1×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.1×
• Engineering 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, Gerhard Kümmel, Michael Epkenhans and Heiko Biehl lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr.

1. 1 🇩🇪 Gerhard Kümmel Germany · #212,175 worldwide 54 citations · 41 works
2. 2 🇩🇪 Michael Epkenhans Germany · #468,383 worldwide 1 citations · 53 works
3. 3 🇩🇪 Heiko Biehl Germany · #677,718 worldwide 8 citations · 16 works
4. 4 🇩🇪 Martin Rink Germany · #681,262 worldwide 3 citations · 20 works
5. 5 🇩🇪 Martin Elbe Germany · #699,031 worldwide 10 citations · 29 works
6. 6 🇩🇪 Nina Leonhard Germany · #740,404 worldwide 14 citations · 17 works
7. 7 🇩🇪 Markus Steinbrecher Germany · #1,247,590 worldwide 34 citations · 27 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gender, International Relations, European Union, Identity, Security, Social History, Decolonization and Peacebuilding.

By volume in 2022–2025: European history and politics, Gender, Security, and Conflict, Communism, Protests, Social Movements and Military History and Strategy.

1. 1 European history and politics Political Science and International Relations 6 works
2. 2 Gender, Security, and Conflict Gender Studies 6 works
3. 3 Communism, Protests, Social Movements Sociology and Political Science 5 works
4. 4 Military History and Strategy Political Science and International Relations 5 works
5. 5 German Security and Defense Policies Political Science and International Relations 4 works
6. 6 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 3 works
7. 7 German History and Society History 3 works
8. 8 Defense, Military, and Policy Studies Economics and Econometrics 3 works
9. 9 European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies Political Science and International Relations 2 works
10. 10 Public Administration and Political Analysis Political Science and International Relations 2 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% higher than in 2013–2017.

• University of Potsdam
• GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
• Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
• Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
• Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
• Hasso Plattner Institute
• German Institute of Human Nutrition