Field size as a predictor of “excellence.” The selection of subject fields in Germany’s Excellence Initiative

• Thomas Heinze ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: theinze@uni-wuppertal.de

  Affiliation Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4611-4591

  ⨯
• Isabel Maria Habicht,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  ⨯
• Paul Eberhardt,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  ⨯
• Dirk Tunger

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Project Management, Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany

  ⨯