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Research in Birmensdorf

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Birmensdorf, Switzerland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
4k
▼ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
190k
48.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
38.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1961-2026
66 years on the record
Birmensdorf

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Birmensdorf?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ResearchResearch facility 3,964 #1,788

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which fields of science does Birmensdorf work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research in Birmensdorf is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (47%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 543 fractional works · 68.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 376 fractional works · 47.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 110 fractional works · 13.9% of its workEcology: 82 fractional works · 10.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 68 fractional works · 8.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 29 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 27 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEcological Modeling: 23 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 14 fractional works · 1.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 13 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 108 fractional works · 13.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 86 fractional works · 10.9% of its workGeophysics: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 43 fractional works · 5.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 194 fractional works · 24.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 155 fractional works · 19.6% of its workPlant Science: 58 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 35 fractional works · 4.4% of its workInsect Science: 27 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSoil Science: 21 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workForestry: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 36 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGenetics: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCell Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 44 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 11 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKBirmensdorf792fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences24%Physical Sciences69%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences6%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science37647.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences10813.6%
    3. Engineering435.4%
    4. Computer Science60.8%
    5. Energy30.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.3%
    7. Materials Science20.3%
    8. Chemistry10.1%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences15519.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology364.5%
    3. Neuroscience20.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences243.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance60.7%
    3. Psychology50.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting50.6%
    5. Decision Sciences20.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    1. Medicine91.1%
    2. Health Professions20.3%
    3. Veterinary10.1%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Birmensdorf strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Birmensdorf is most concentrated in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change (37.8× the world share in Nature and Landscape Conservation).

  1. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 59.1 works38×
  2. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 66.2 works23×
  3. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 91.6 works18×
  4. Insect ScienceSubfield · 23.5 works13×
  5. EcologySubfield · 64.6 works13×
  6. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 31.6 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4.21× its world share, 131 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.91× its world share, 32 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8.13× its world share, 84 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.37× its world share, 36 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.48× its world share, 309 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.41× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.18× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 21 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.48×309 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences8.13×84 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.21×131 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.91×32 works
  5. Veterinary0.53×0 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.41×6 works
  7. Energy0.40×2 works
  8. Engineering0.37×36 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.34×2 works
  10. Social Sciences0.25×21 works
  11. Neuroscience0.23×2 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.20×4 works
  13. Psychology0.18×4 works
  14. Chemical Engineering0.17×0 works
  15. Health Professions0.12×2 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.11×2 works
  17. Materials Science0.10×2 works
  18. Chemistry0.09×1 works
  19. Computer Science0.09×4 works
  20. Nursing0.07×0 works
  21. Medicine0.06×8 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×0 works
  23. Mathematics0.05×0 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.04×1 works
  25. Dentistry0.03×0 works
  26. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Birmensdorf?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Biodiversity Conservation, Global Change, Conservation and Ecosystem Resilience.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change281▲ 13×82 topics
  2. Biodiversity96▲ 16×25 topics
  3. Remote Sensing96▲ 9.9×29 topics
  4. Invasive Species77▲ 23×19 topics
  5. Biodiversity Conservation74▲ 25×13 topics
  6. Global Change64▲ 30×7 topics
  7. Conservation62▲ 18×18 topics
  8. Ecosystem Resilience55▲ 45×5 topics
  9. Habitat Fragmentation55▲ 32×5 topics
  10. Global Warming49▲ 15×12 topics
  11. Ecosystem Services48▲ 16×11 topics
  12. Ecosystem Functioning48▲ 29×7 topics
  13. Biological Invasions45▲ 63×3 topics
  14. Hydrology43▲ 42×4 topics
  15. Biomass Estimation42▲ 34×3 topics
  16. Drought41▲ 52×3 topics
  17. Evapotranspiration40▲ 63×2 topics
  18. Paleoclimatology40▲ 61×2 topics
  19. Ecosystem39▲ 47×4 topics
  20. Carbon Balance38▲ 98×1 topic
  21. Tree Mortality38▲ 98×1 topic
  22. Species Richness36▲ 70×2 topics
  23. Community Ecology35▲ 52×2 topics
  24. Functional Diversity35▲ 81×1 topic
  25. Land Use Change35▲ 15×7 topics
  26. Extreme Events33▲ 45×2 topics
  27. Model Evaluation32▲ 32×2 topics
  28. Aboveground Biomass30▲ 44×2 topics
  29. Forest Management30▲ 62×4 topics
  30. Temperature Variability28▲ 199×1 topic
  31. Tree Rings28▲ 199×1 topic
  32. Conservation Biology26▲ 30×4 topics
  33. Sea Level Rise25▲ 25×3 topics
  34. Citizen Science24▲ 30×3 topics
  35. Glacier24▲ 69×1 topic
  36. Water Availability24▲ 69×1 topic
  37. Ecological Niche22▲ 48×1 topic
  38. Species Distribution Modeling22▲ 48×1 topic
  39. Dead Wood20▲ 148×1 topic
  40. Saproxylic Beetles20▲ 148×1 topic

What research is done in Birmensdorf?

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 31 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 30 fractional worksTree-ring climate responses: 21 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 19 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 18 fractional worksForest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies: 17 fractional worksForest Management and Po…17Forest Management and Policy: 17 fractional worksForest ecology and management: 16 fractional worksLandslides and related hazards: 16 fractional worksPlant and animal studies14Plant and animal studies: 14 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeNature and Landscape ConservationAtmospheric ScienceEcological Modeling3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 31 works
  2. 2 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 30 works
  3. 3 Tree-ring climate responses Atmospheric Science 21 works
  4. 4 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 19 works
  5. 5 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 18 works
  6. 6 Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies Insect Science 17 works
  7. 7 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 17 works
  8. 8 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 16 works
  9. 9 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 16 works
  10. 10 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 14 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%60%Birmensdorf33.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 59.3% in 2013.

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