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Open access to scientific literature

The Central Library of Forschungszentrum Jülich develops and operates the Open Access Monitor (OAM) Germany, which records the publications of German academic institutions in scientific journals and monitors the shift towards open access publications. Open access will allow unrestricted and free reading of scientific articles and sustainably improve access to scientific literature for science. The conversion of scientific publishing to open access is the goal of all research funders and science organizations.

The OAM was previously based on the databases Dimensions (DigitalScience) and Web of Science (Clarivate). It can now also integrate the Scopus database, an abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed literature with content from over 27,000 journals by more than 7,000 publishers. This is possible because Elsevier, the scientific publisher owning Scopus, supports the OAM. The integration of the database expands the possibilities of the OAM as a central instrument for achieving progress in the open access transformation in Germany.

The ten journals with the most publications by Jülich researchers in 2021

Journal		Number of publications

Physical Review B		58
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics		51
Scientific Reports		39
Nature Communications		33
Physical Review Letters		33
Advanced Engineering Materials		32
Nuclear Fusion		32
NeuroImage		25
International Journal of Molecular Sciences		23
Fusion Engeneering and Design		22

Jülich publications

Jülich publications in the last five years

Year	Total	in peer-reviewed journals	of which with researchers from other institutions	Books, other publications	Doctoral theses, habilitations

2017	2,442	1,861	1,499 \| 80.5%	460	121
2018	2,319	1,714	1,351 \| 78.8%	458	147
2019	2,398	1,891	1,443 \| 76.3%	400	107
2020	2,473	1,827	1,391 \| 76.1%	533	113
2021	3,081	2,447	1,811 \| 74.0%	507	127

Jülich in the vanguard of the Nature Index

Every year, the renowned journal “Nature” ranks the leading international research institutions in its “Nature Index”. It is based on the number of an institution’s publications in 82 scientific journals selected by an independent panel. It measures Count (summing up the number of publications with at least one authorship from the institution) and Share (indicating the relative share of authorship of an institution in each article).

In the “Nature Index” 2021, the Helmholtz Association, of which Forschungszentrum Jülich is a member, ranked second among the German institutions on this performance scale behind Max Planck Society and seventh in the international ranking. Among all 18 Helmholtz Centres, Jülich ranks third. Forschungszentrum Jülich has thus maintained its position as a top-class location in the national research landscape.

Top 6 globally

(as of July 2022)
Institutions with Share¹⁾ according to “Nature Index”

Top 5 in the Helmholtz Association

Institutions with Share ¹⁾ according to “Nature Index”

1) Proportion of authorship of an institution in each article

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Jülich researchers are among the “Highly Cited Researchers”

Jülich researchers much cited

Among the most frequently cited re-searchers in the world are six Jülich scientists: Prof. Simon Eickhoff from the Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, Prof. Björn Usadel from Bioinformatics, Dr. Hendrik Poorter from Plant Sciences, Prof. Michael Saliba from Photovoltaics, Prof. Wulf Amelung from Agrosphere and Prof. Christoph Brabec from the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy. They were listed as “Highly Cited Researchers” by the Web of Science Group, which is part of Clarivate Analytics. This means that their publications are among the one per cent of the most cited papers in their field in the year of publication. Only those scientists who are involved in several of these particularly influential publications will be accepted as one of the “Highly Cited Researchers”.