Professor Reinhard Busse, Dr. med. MPH FFPH, is department head for health care management in the Faculty of Economics and Management at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is also a faculty member of Charité, Berlin's medical faculty as well as Associate Head of Research Policy and Head of the Berlin hub of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a member of several scientific advisory boards as well as a regular consultant for WHO, the EU Commission, the Worldbank, OECD and other international organizations within Europe and beyond as well as national health and research institutions. From 2006 to 2009, he served as dean of his faculty. His research focuses on methods and contents of comparative health system analysis (with a particular emphasis on the reforms in Germany, other social health insurance countries in western as well as central and eastern Europe and beyond, role of EU, financing and payment mechanisms as well as disease management), health services research including cost-effectiveness analyses, health targets, and health technology assessment (HTA). His department has been designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Health System Research and Management. His regular Master-level teaching courses at TU Berlin include “Managing and Researching Health Care Systems”, “Health Technology Assessment” (blended learning, i.e. mainly online), “Health Care Management I - Insurance Management”, “II - Provider Management”, “III - Industry Management” (pharmaceuticals and medical devices) and “IV - Tools for Evaluation”. He is the principal editor of the German text book on health care management (published with Springer, 4th edition 2017), author of a book on the German health system (4th edition 2017) as well as co-editor of German textbooks on public health (3rd edition 2012) and on HTA (2nd edition 2013). He is the director of the annual Observatory’s summer schools in Venice, which is directed at policy-makers and has covered a wide range of topics: Human Resources for Health; Hospital Reengineering; Innovation and Health Technology Assessment; EU integration and health Systems; The Ageing Crisis; Performance Assessment for Health System Improvement; Innovative Ways of Improving Population Health; and Quality of Care: Improving Effectiveness, Safety, and Responsiveness . He was the PI/coordinator of the EU-funded project “EuroDRG: Diagnosis-Related Groups in Europe: towards Efficiency and Quality” (7th Framework; 2009-2011). He has been and is also involved in several other EU-funded projects under the 7th Framework, e.g. on the relationship between nursing and patient outcome (RN4Cast; 2009-2011), mobility of health professionals (PROMetHEUS; 2009-2011), evaluating care across borders (ECAB; 2009-2013), on health care data for cross-country comparisons of efficiency and quality (EuroREACH; 2010-2013), on the impact of new roles for health professionals (Munros; 2012-2016), and on advancing and strengthening HTA (Advance_HTA; 2013-2015). Previously, he was PI/ scientific coordinator of the EU-funded project “Health Benefits and Service Costs in Europe” (HealthBASKET; 2004 – 2007). Since 2011, he is editor-in-chief of the international peer reviewed journal Health Policy. Since 2012, he is the director of the Berlin Health Economics Research Centre (overarching topic “Towards a Performance Assessment of the German Health Care System“), one of four centres in Germany funded by the Federal Ministry of Research. Between 2015 and 2018, he was speaker of the board of the newly founded inter-university Berlin School of Public Health. In 2016/17, he was President of the German Health Economics Association. Professor Busse studied medicine in Marburg/ Germany, Boston/ USA and London/ UK as well as Public Health in Hannover/ Germany. Prior to his appointment at TU Berlin in 2002, he was head of the Observatory’s hub in Madrid/ Spain (1999-2002), a senior research fellow in the Department of Epi
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Evolution over the last 10 years of activity
Aggregated career metrics
623
Total documents
10.95
Normalized Impact
178
Highly Cited Papers (10%)
22.95
International Collab. (%)
Most cited publications
Main coauthors
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Dimensions One by One
Spanning 73 diverse indicators, the dimensions considered capture a comprehensive spectrum of academic
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Activity
995
/1000
Reflects an author's research output.
Impact
976
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
Excellence
970
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
Leadership
839
/1000
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.
Cooperation
901
/1000
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.
Openness
934
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.
Community Support
207
/1000
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.
Community Recognition
0
/1000
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.
Transference
0
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.
Fundraising
0
/1000
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.
All indicators
Performance
Activity
Reflects an author's research output.
| Documents | 623 | Count of all document types. |
|---|---|---|
| Docs/Year | 12.71 | Average of documents published by author per year. |
| Citable docs | 445 | Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews. |
| Journal Articles | 403 | Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed. |
| Conferences | 4 | Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium. |
| Reviews | 38 | Review papers authored by the researcher. |
| Patents | 0 | Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. |
| Theses | 0 | Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings |
| Books | 27 | A whole monograph or the entire book. |
| Book Chapters | 0 | Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator. |
| Datasets | 1 | Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation. |
| Editorials | 22 | Papers where the author contributed editorial content. |
| Reports | 0 | Research reports or white papers authored. |
| Grants | 0 | Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author. |
| Pre-Prints | 20 | Number of publications freely available in pre-print format. |
| Clinical Trials | N/A | Number of clinical trials where the author has participated. |
| Other types | 0 | Other type of documents. |
Impact
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
| Citations | 56662 | Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types). |
|---|---|---|
| Self Citations | 661 | Citations where the author references their own previous work. |
| Self Citation Rate | 1.167 | Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count. |
| Non Self Citation Rate | 98.833 | Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations. |
| Hot Citations | 4523 | Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months. |
| Citations/Document | 90.95 | Average of citations recieved per document. |
| % Not Cited | 0.0 | Percentage of documents with no citations recieved. |
| Relative Citation Index | 10.954 | Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications. |
| Journal Relative Citation Index | 4.27 | Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications. |
| H Index | 69 | Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times. |
| G Index | 227 | Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times. |
| i10 Index | 226 | Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved. |
Excellence
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.
| Citation Score | 0.607 | Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th. |
|---|---|---|
| Citation Normalized Percentile | 0.587 | Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex. |
| Higly Cited Papers (top 10%) | 178 | Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Relative Higly Cited Papers | 2.857 | Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents. |
| Outstanding Papers (top 1%) | 46 | Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Relative Outstanding Papers | 7.384 | Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents. |
| Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%) | 22 | Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
| Hot Papers | 50 | Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline. |
Interaction within community
Leadership
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.
| Docs Leadership | 395 | Number of documents lead by the author. |
|---|---|---|
| % Leadership | 63.4 | Percentage of documents lead by the author. |
| Docs International Leadership | 53 | Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author. |
| % International Leadership | 8.51 | Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author. |
| Principal Investigator | N/A | Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project. |
| Associations Founded | N/A | Number of associations founded by the author. |
| Societies Founded | N/A | Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author. |
| Foundations Founded | N/A | Number of research-related foundations established by the author. |
| Councils | N/A | Number of councils founded by author. |
Cooperation
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.
| Authors/Paper | 44.21 | Average number of authors per document. |
|---|---|---|
| % Highly Authored Papers | 6.74 | Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors. |
| Countries/Paper | 1.53 | Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document. |
| Docs International Collaboration | 143 | Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line. |
| % International Collaboration | 22.95 | Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line. |
Community Support
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.
| Peer Review Counts | 1 | Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications. |
|---|---|---|
| Society Membership | N/A | Number of societies of wich the author is a member. |
| Society Memberships | N/A | Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies. |
| Editorial Board Memberships | N/A | Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board. |
| Panelists | N/A | Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls. |
Community Recognition
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.
| Distinctions | 0 | Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career. |
|---|---|---|
| Invitations | N/A | Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations. |
| Talks | N/A | Number of times the author has been invited to talks. |
| Professorships | N/A | Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips. |
| Commissioned Reports | N/A | Commissioned reports done by the author. |
Interaction with society
Openness
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.
| Open Access Documents | 245 | Number of documents in Open Access mode. |
|---|---|---|
| % Open Access Documents | 39.33 | Percentage of documents in Open Access mode. |
| Open Access Gold | 56 | Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ. |
| Open Access Green | 49 | Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository. |
| Open Access Hybrid | 73 | Free under an open license in a toll-access journal. |
| Open Access Bronze | 59 | Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license. |
| Open Access Closed | 378 | Non Open Access documents. |
Transference
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.
| Patents | 0 | Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. |
|---|---|---|
| Advisory Boards | N/A | Number of advisory boards of which the author is member. |
| Companies | N/A | Number of companies created or founded by the author. |
Fundraising
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.
| Funding Counts | N/A | Number of activities reported as funding recieved. |
|---|---|---|
| ERC Grantees | N/A | Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council. |