Research in Delft
Science Explorer records 36 research institutions in Delft, Netherlands. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Delft University of Technology, QuTech and Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.
- Research institutions
- 36 7 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 106k ▲ 9% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 24.7% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Delft?
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
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What is Delft strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Delft is most concentrated in Earth-Surface Processes, Architecture and Environmental Engineering (8.9× the world share in Earth-Surface Processes).
- Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 171.3 works8.9×
- ArchitectureSubfield · 30.9 works4.9×
- Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 352.5 works4.0×
- Computational MechanicsSubfield · 373.3 works4.0×
- Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 333.9 works4.0×
- SoftwareSubfield · 40.7 works3.9×
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.
Which keywords describe research in Delft?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Remote Sensing, Sediment Transport and Large-Eddy Simulation.
- Coastal Dynamics
- Offshore Wind Farms
- Boundary Layer
- Aerodynamics
- Driver Behavior
- Nonlinear Systems
- Risk Perception
- CFD Simulation
- Turbulent Flow
- Sea-Level Rise
- Air Quality
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Hydrological Modeling
- Large-Eddy Simulation
- Big Data
- Heat Transfer
- Environmental Impact
- Remote Sensing
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Renewable Energy
- Neural Networks
- Energy Efficiency
- Mechanical Properties
- Optimization
- Sediment Transport
- Security
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Smart Grid
- Model Predictive Control
- Power Electronics
- Numerical Simulation
- Collision Avoidance
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Wave Modeling
- Entanglement
- Human Factors
- Flow Control
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
- Climate Change811▲ 1.87×102 topics
- Deep Learning782▲ 1.42×81 topics
- Machine Learning773▲ 1.47×88 topics
- Sustainability680▲ 1.73×95 topics
- Renewable Energy559▲ 2.4×50 topics
- Remote Sensing448▲ 2.3×35 topics
- Neural Networks406▲ 1.64×39 topics
- Environmental Impact387▲ 1.41×66 topics
- Energy Efficiency258▲ 1.71×40 topics
- Heat Transfer240▲ 3.0×18 topics
- Mechanical Properties237▲ 1.52×39 topics
- Big Data224▲ 1.53×29 topics
- Optimization214▲ 2.9×26 topics
- Large-Eddy Simulation212▲ 6.9×5 topics
- Sediment Transport207▲ 8.0×6 topics
- Hydrological Modeling207▲ 5.5×5 topics
- Security199▲ 1.90×24 topics
- Artificial Neural Networks193▲ 2.5×9 topics
- Autonomous Vehicles181▲ 5.4×5 topics
- Air Quality172▲ 5.8×6 topics
- Smart Grid170▲ 2.8×10 topics
- Sea-Level Rise168▲ 9.2×5 topics
- Model Predictive Control168▲ 4.0×6 topics
- Turbulent Flow165▲ 8.6×4 topics
- Power Electronics159▲ 3.0×8 topics
- CFD Simulation152▲ 8.2×5 topics
- Numerical Simulation146▲ 3.1×14 topics
- Risk Perception141▲ 3.2×7 topics
- Collision Avoidance141▲ 4.8×4 topics
- Nonlinear Systems140▲ 4.1×8 topics
- Fluid-Structure Interaction138▲ 5.6×6 topics
- Driver Behavior131▲ 10×2 topics
- Wave Modeling125▲ 15×2 topics
- Aerodynamics124▲ 11×3 topics
- Entanglement122▲ 5.1×4 topics
- Boundary Layer110▲ 5.5×4 topics
- Human Factors104▲ 8.3×3 topics
- Offshore Wind Farms98▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Flow Control96▲ 11×2 topics
- Coastal Dynamics92▲ 20×1 topic
What research is done in Delft?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Coastal and Marine Dynamics Earth-Surface Processes 92 works
- 2 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 88 works
- 3 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 80 works
- 4 Transportation Planning and Optimization Transportation 75 works
- 5 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 72 works
- 6 Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows Computational Mechanics 70 works
- 7 Wind Energy Research and Development Aerospace Engineering 68 works
- 8 Transportation and Mobility Innovations Automotive Engineering 65 works
- 9 Urban Transport and Accessibility Transportation 65 works
- 10 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 62 works
Research output over time
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