Max Planck Society

107.1k papers and 5.7M indexed citations i.

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In recent decades, authors affiliated with Max Planck Society have published 107.1k papers, which have received a total of 5.7M indexed citations. Scholars at this organization have produced 20.4k papers in Molecular Biology, 14.7k papers in Materials Chemistry and 14.3k papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics on the topics of Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (3.2k papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (2.9k papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (2.6k papers). Their work is cited by papers focused on Molecular Biology (1.4M citations), Materials Chemistry (737.9k citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (544.5k citations). Authors at Max Planck Society collaborate with scholars in Germany, United States and United Kingdom and have published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and Cell. Some of Max Planck Society's most productive authors include Markus Antonietti, Wolfgang Kabsch, Matthias Mann, Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, Alois Fürstner, Ferdi Schüth, Ernst Helmut Brandt, Kläus Müllen and Michael Tomasello.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published by authors at Max Planck Society

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers affiliated with Max Planck Society at the time of their publication. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers affiliated with Max Planck Society at the time of their publication.

Countries citing scholars working at Max Planck Society

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This map shows the geographic impact of research produced by authors working at Max Planck Society. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers produced at Max Planck Society with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Max Planck Society more than expected).

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