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Hans-Dieter Daniel

Hans-Dieter Daniel

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
10817
World Ranking
4063
National Ranking
33

Hans-Dieter Daniel publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hans-Dieter Daniel sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 138 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Hans-Dieter Daniel D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hans-Dieter Daniel sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hans-Dieter Daniel is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple subfields and topics related to cognitive neuroscience, reproductive medicine, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and information systems and management.

The scientist's recent publication record includes works focused on funding and evaluation in scientific research, as well as issues of academic career impact and peer review processes. Their publications are found in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Zeitschrift für Evaluation, Quality & Quantity, and Scientometrics.

Notable papers authored or coauthored by Hans-Dieter Daniel include:

  • Funding Programmes for Internationally Mobile Postdocs: Perceived Impacts on Individuals, Institutions and Society. - An exploratory study (2022), published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific analysis of data on proposals and the decision-making procedure of the FWF with particular focus on the programme "Stand-Alone Projects" in the years 2010-2019 (2022), published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Sollten Förderentscheidungen partiell durch Lotterien ersetzt werden? (2023), published in Zeitschrift für Evaluation
  • How to assess the impact of fellowships on academic careers? Latent transition analyses for funding programmes of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2024), published in Quality & Quantity
  • Scientific publishing without gatekeeping: an empirical investigation of eLife's new peer review process (2025), published in Scientometrics

Hans-Dieter Daniel frequently collaborates with several researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Rüdiger Mutz
  • Jana Bobokova
  • Tobias Wolbring
  • Lutz Bornmann

The main research topics covered in Daniel's work include:

  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Science, Research, and Medicine
  • Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
  • Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Best Publications

  • What do citation counts measure? A review of studies on citing behavior

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • What do we know about the h index

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Are there better indices for evaluation purposes than the h index? A comparison of nine different variants of the h index using data from biomedicine

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Does the h-index for ranking of scientists really work?

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • The state of h index research. Is the h index the ideal way to measure research performance

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans‐Dieter Daniel;Hans‐Dieter Daniel

  • Citation counts for research evaluation: standards of good practice for analyzing bibliometric data and presenting and interpreting results

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Christoph Neuhaus;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Gender differences in grant peer review: A meta-analysis

    Lutz Bornmann;Ruediger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • A multilevel meta-analysis of studies reporting correlations between the h index and 37 different h index variants

    Lutz Bornmann;Ruediger Mutz;Sven E. Hug;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • What factors determine citation counts of publications in chemistry besides their quality

    Lutz Bornmann;Hermann Schier;Werner Marx;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • A reliability-generalization study of journal peer reviews: a multilevel meta-analysis of inter-rater reliability and its determinants.

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Are there better indices for evaluation purposes than the h index? A comparison of nine different variants of the h index using data from biomedicine

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  • Gender Effects in the Peer Reviews of Grant Proposals: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Comparing Traditional and Multilevel Approaches

    Herbert W. Marsh;Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Data sources for performing citation analysis: an overview

    Christoph Neuhaus;Hans‐Dieter Daniel

  • Guardians of Science: Fairness and Reliability of Peer Review

    Hans-Dieter Daniel;William E. Russey

  • Selection of research fellowship recipients by committee peer review. Reliability, fairness and predictive validity of Board of Trustees' decisions

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Selecting scientific excellence through committee peer review - A citation analysis of publications previously published to approval or rejection of post -doctoral research fellowship applicants

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry—Citation counts for papers that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition or rejected but published elsewhere, using Google Scholar, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts

    Lutz Bornmann;Werner Marx;Hermann Schier;Erhard Rahm

  • Selecting manuscripts for a high-impact journal through peer review: A citation analysis of communications that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition, or rejected but published elsewhere

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Criteria for assessing research quality in the humanities: a Delphi study among scholars of English literature, German literature and art history

    Sven E. Hug;Michael Ochsner;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • Multiple publication on a single research study: Does it pay? The influence of number of research articles on total citation counts in biomedicine

    Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel

  • The h index research output measurement: Two approaches to enhance its accuracy

    Lutz Bornmann;Rüdiger Mutz;Hans-Dieter Daniel;Hans-Dieter Daniel

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Bornmann
Lutz Bornmann Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Hans-Peter Blossfeld University of Bamberg
Olaf Köller
Olaf Köller Leibniz Association
Tina Seidel
Tina Seidel Technical University of Munich
Werner Marx
Werner Marx Max Planck Society
Nele McElvany
Nele McElvany TU Dortmund University
Manfred Prenzel
Manfred Prenzel Technical University of Munich
Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Erhard Rahm
Erhard Rahm Leipzig University

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