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Social and Demographic Issues in Germany

Social and Demographic Issues in Germany is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the challenges and implications of an aging population, including topics such as elderly care, demographic transition, migrant health, healthcare workforce management, dementia management, social policy, family caregiving, healthcare innovation, and intergenerational justice.

  • Elderly Care
  • Demographic Transition
  • Migrant Health
  • Healthcare Workforce
  • Dementia Management
  • Social Policy
  • Aging Population
  • Family Caregiving
  • Healthcare Innovation
  • Intergenerational Justice
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
80% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social and Demographic Issues in Germany

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Social and Demographic Issues in Germany research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (1.4k and 126 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 1.4k works
  2. 2 Austria 126 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 85 works
  4. 4 United States 67 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 21 works
  6. 6 Netherlands 12 works
  7. 7 Estonia 11 works
  8. 8 Poland 10 works
  9. 9 Italy 9 works
  10. 10 ?? 9 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Germany: 79.6%Austria: 7.3%Switzerland: 4.9%United States: 3.9%6 others listed: 4.2%80%largest
Germany1,365 · 79.6%Austria126 · 7.3%Switzerland85 · 4.9%United States67 · 3.9%6 others listed72 · 4.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Social and Demographic Issues in Germany research?

By volume in 2022-now, Berufsgenossenschaft für Gesundheitsdienst und Wohlfahrtspflege publishes the most Social and Demographic Issues in Germany research, followed by Leibniz Association and Heidelberg University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Berufsgenossenschaft für Gesundheitsdienst und WohlfahrtspflegeGermany 41 works
  2. 2 Leibniz AssociationGermany 25 works
  3. 3 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 24 works
  4. 4 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 24 works
  5. 5 München KlinikGermany 23 works
  6. 6 Universität HamburgGermany 23 works
  7. 7 Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 22 works
  8. 8 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany 21 works
  9. 9 Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany 17 works
  10. 10 University of BremenGermany 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social and Demographic Issues in Germany?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social and Demographic Issues in Germany include Hermann Brenner, Martin McKee and Florian Fischer.

  1. 1 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  2. 2 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  3. 3 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  4. 4 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  5. 5 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  6. 6 Michael Weller Switzerland 172k citations
  7. 7 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  8. 8 J. -P. Meyer United Kingdom 136k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Social and Demographic Issues in Germany?

The most cited paper in Social and Demographic Issues in Germany is "Intergenerational Ambivalence: A New Approach to the Study of Parent-Child Relations in Later Life" (Kurt Luescher, Karl Andrew Pillemer, 1998), with 855 citations. Next come "Human Capital Policy" (671) and "Die Berliner Altersstudie" (546).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Intergenerational Ambivalence: A New Approach to the Study of Parent-Child Relations in Later Life Kurt Luescher, Karl Andrew Pillemer · Journal of Marriage and the Family Open access May 1998 855
2 Human Capital Policy Pedro Manuel Carneiro, James J. Heckman · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2003 671
3 Die Berliner Altersstudie Ulman Lindenberger, Jacqui Smith, Karl Ulrich Mayer et al. 2010 546
4 PISA 2003: Der Bildungsstand der Jugendlichen in Deutschland - Ergebnisse des zweiten internationalen Vergleichs Manfred Prenzel, Jürgen Baumert, Werner Friedrich Blum et al. 2004 466
5 Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) Jens Kreuter · Voluntaris Zeitschrift für Freiwilligendienste Open access 2013 328
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Where is Social and Demographic Issues in Germany research done?

The largest centres of Social and Demographic Issues in Germany research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), Munich (Germany) and Vienna (Austria).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 134 works
  2. 2 HamburgGermany 103 works
  3. 3 MunichGermany 79 works
  4. 4 ViennaAustria 65 works
  5. 5 CologneGermany 49 works
  6. 6 Frankfurt am MainGermany 45 works
  7. 7 HeidelbergGermany 35 works
  8. 8 HanoverGermany 33 works
  9. 9 StuttgartGermany 32 works
  10. 10 MünsterGermany 31 works
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Where is the best place to study Social and Demographic Issues in Germany?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Bremen, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of BremenGermany 74.521.2%41.3×15 -13.8%
2Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany 71.915.4%54.6×22 +110.9%
3Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 70.211.1%17.7×24 +10.6%
4Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 66.824.4%15.0×13 +1.2%
5Heidelberg UniversityGermany 66.28.5%20.1×24 +0.7%
6Witten/Herdecke UniversityGermany 64.812.7%122.3×17 -7.3%
7University of CologneGermany 61.526.2%18.6×12 -56.6%
8Universität HamburgGermany 59.97.0%20.6×23 -12.9%
9Carl von Ossietzky Universität OldenburgGermany 53.815.9%38.4×9 +47.1%
10University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 49.520.9%16.2×10 -57.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Social and Demographic Issues in Germany, country by country

Is Social and Demographic Issues in Germany research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 Social and Demographic Issues in Germany as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Social and Demographic Issues in Germany over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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