Research in Frankfurt am Main
Science Explorer records 124 research institutions in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.
- Research institutions
- 124 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 132k ▼ 11% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 2.9M 21.9 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 20.7% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
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 Frankfurt am Main?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goethe University FrankfurtUniversity | 77,506 | #194 | |
| 2 | European Central BankGovernment institution | 3,910 | #7,028 | |
| 3 | GesundheitsamtGovernment institution | 3,129 | #6,237 | |
| 4 | Cardiovascular Center FrankfurtResearch facility | 2,064 | #6,704 | |
| 5 | Klinikum Frankfurt HöchstHospital / health system | 2,059 | #20,649 | |
| 6 | Frankfurt University of Applied SciencesUniversity | 1,970 | #4,828 | |
| 7 | Deutsche BundesbankInstitution | 1,901 | #12,177 | |
| 8 | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced StudiesResearch facility | 1,583 | #4,191 | |
| 9 | Frankfurt School of Finance & ManagementUniversity | 1,553 | #5,891 | |
| 10 | Industrial Union of MetalworkersInstitution | 1,151 | #19,242 | |
| 11 | Society for Chemical Engineering and BiotechnologyNonprofit | 1,120 | #19,466 | |
| 12 | Krankenhaus NordwestHospital / health system | 982 | #21,748 | |
| 13 | Research Association for Combustion EnginesNonprofit | 939 | #17,383 all time | |
| 14 | Institute for Sports MedicineInstitution | 925 | #10,658 | |
| 15 | Agaplesion Markus HospitalHospital / health system | 853 | #16,509 | |
| 16 | Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Frankfurt am MainHospital / health system | 815 | #20,556 | |
| 17 | Deutsche Bank (Germany)Company | 760 | #12,224 all time | |
| 18 | General Electric (Germany)Company | 714 | #15,836 all time | |
| 19 | Battelle-Institut evResearch facility | 707 | #23,557 all time | |
| 20 | Deutsche NationalbibliothekArchive | 646 | #15,861 | |
| 21 | Hospital zum Heiligen GeistHospital / health system | 602 | #20,706 | |
| 22 | Institute for New MediaInstitution | 528 | #19,728 | |
| 23 | Georg Speyer HausResearch facility | 496 | #14,440 all time | |
| 24 | AugensternResearch facility | 432 | #20,364 | |
| 25 | Beilstein-InstitutNonprofit | 415 | #16,673 all time | |
| 26 | Sigmund Freud InstitutInstitution | 388 | #20,767 | |
| 27 | Orthopaedic University Hospital FriedrichsheimHospital / health system | 380 | #17,237 all time | |
| 28 | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Information und WissenInstitution | 358 | #14,062 all time | |
| 29 | Federal Agency for Cartography and GeodesyGovernment institution | 349 | #13,775 all time | |
| 30 | Technicolor (Germany)Company | 340 | #16,326 all time | |
| 31 | Cardiovascular Center BethanienResearch facility | 339 | #21,851 | |
| 32 | TechnipFMC (Germany)Company | 334 | #19,108 all time | |
| 33 | Krankenhaus SachsenhausenHospital / health system | 331 | #19,019 all time | |
| 34 | Agilent Technologies (Germany)Company | 327 | #22,587 all time | |
| 35 | Bürgerhospital Frankfurt am MainHospital / health system | 308 | #20,626 all time | |
| 36 | Institut für Sozialarbeit und SozialpädagogikNonprofit | 305 | #27,078 all time | |
| 37 | Frankfurt Zoological SocietyArchive | 303 | #18,840 all time | |
| 38 | Frankfurt Cancer InstituteNonprofit | 303 | #13,405 | |
| 39 | Kreditanstalt für WiederaufbauInstitution | 272 | #18,593 all time | |
| 40 | Society of Paediatric Oncology and HaematologyNonprofit | 271 | #24,620 all time | |
| 41 | Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und AnlagenbauInstitution | 270 | #16,480 | |
| 42 | Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and TheologyUniversity | 238 | #29,392 all time | |
| 43 | Institute for Social-Ecological ResearchNonprofit | 216 | #21,055 | |
| 44 | Verband der Chemischen IndustrieInstitution | 207 | #23,329 all time | |
| 45 | Institute of Clinical Cancer ResearchResearch facility | 206 | #28,376 all time | |
| 46 | Clariant (Germany)Company | 202 | #25,204 all time | |
| 47 | Merz (Germany)Company | 191 | #29,741 all time | |
| 48 | St. Elisabethen-Krankenhaus FrankfurtHospital / health system | 172 | #30,914 all time | |
| 49 | Individual Development and Adaptive EducationResearch facility | 164 | #26,056 all time | |
| 50 | German Organ Transplantation FoundationNonprofit | 160 | #33,574 all time | |
| 51 | Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie KlinikenHospital / health system | 153 | #31,875 all time | |
| 52 | Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (Germany)Company | 143 | #31,457 all time | |
| 53 | LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity GenomicsResearch facility | 121 | #18,785 | |
| 54 | MBN Research CenterResearch facility | 104 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (Germany)Company | 103 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Hertie FoundationNonprofit | 93 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Chemetall (Germany)Company | 91 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Frobenius-InstitutResearch facility | 90 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Frankfurt University of Music and Performing ArtsUniversity | 89 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Association for Supply Chain Management, Procurement and LogisticsInstitution | 86 | not ranked |
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.
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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Frankfurt am Main work in?
In 2022-now, 39% of research in Frankfurt am Main is in Social Sciences, 25% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (21%), Social Sciences (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.
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
- Social Sciences7,59239.4%
- Social Sciences3,35417.4%
- Arts and Humanities1,2486.5%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1,2176.3%
- Psychology8084.2%
- Business, Management and Accounting7814.0%
- Decision Sciences1841.0%
- Health Sciences4,80424.9%
- Medicine4,09221.2%
- Health Professions5753.0%
- Dentistry820.4%
- Nursing380.2%
- Veterinary170.1%
- Physical Sciences4,25822.1%
- Engineering1,0005.2%
- Computer Science8584.5%
- Environmental Science6783.5%
- Physics and Astronomy6293.3%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences4412.3%
- Materials Science1951.0%
- Mathematics1951.0%
- Chemistry1800.9%
- Energy640.3%
- Chemical Engineering190.1%
- Life Sciences2,62813.6%
What is Frankfurt am Main strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Frankfurt am Main is most concentrated in Finance, Classics and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance (8.9× the world share in Finance).
- FinanceSubfield · 460.4 works8.9×
- ClassicsSubfield · 43.5 works4.3×
- General Economics, Econometrics and FinanceSubfield · 174.3 works4.1×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 193.2 works3.6×
- MuseologySubfield · 72.7 works3.5×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.17×1,154 works
- Arts and Humanities2.29×1,127 works
- Neuroscience1.74×480 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.51×570 works
- Social Sciences1.43×3,091 works
- Psychology1.35×703 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.33×228 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.31×718 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.28×1,166 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.24×331 works
- Health Professions1.12×504 works
- Medicine1.08×3,521 works
- Decision Sciences0.99×164 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.90×54 works
- Mathematics0.88×176 works
- Dentistry0.85×70 works
- Environmental Science0.66×561 works
- Veterinary0.66×15 works
- Chemistry0.59×158 works
- Computer Science0.56×743 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.40×327 works
- Nursing0.40×33 works
- Energy0.37×59 works
- Engineering0.35×894 works
- Materials Science0.28×167 works
- Chemical Engineering0.27×16 works
Which keywords describe research in Frankfurt am Main?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Governance, Monetary Policy, Bildungsungleichheit, Ethnografisches Schreiben, Epidemiology, Identity and Gender.
- Bildung
- Banking
- Didactics
- Germany
- Data Collection
- Healthcare Utilization
- Curriculum
- Epidemiological Study
- Liquidity
- Neoliberalism
- Ethics
- Literature
- Ethnografisches Schreiben
- Human Rights
- Economic Growth
- Sustainable Development
- Education
- Inflammation
- Governance
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
- Monetary Policy
- Identity
- Public Health
- Gender
- Bildungsungleichheit
- History
- Regulation
- Nationalism
- Fiscal Policy
- Capital Flows
- Teacher Education
- Socioeconomic Status
- Teaching
- Structural Change
- Health Surveys
- Competence
- Credit
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
- Epidemiology761◆ 0.99×135 topics
- Climate Change499◆ 0.95×107 topics
- Globalization481▲ 1.27×146 topics
- Governance458▲ 7.3×17 topics
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse443▲ 59×2 topics
- Inflammation412◆ 1.00×83 topics
- Monetary Policy400▲ 8.8×13 topics
- Education383▲ 1.16×108 topics
- Identity372▲ 2.7×66 topics
- Sustainable Development348◆ 1.15×78 topics
- Public Health340▲ 1.21×63 topics
- Economic Growth329▲ 2.1×30 topics
- Gender321▲ 3.1×47 topics
- Human Rights312▲ 1.58×69 topics
- Bildungsungleichheit310▲ 59×1 topic
- Ethnografisches Schreiben310▲ 59×1 topic
- History297▲ 2.2×56 topics
- Literature263▲ 2.5×54 topics
- Regulation247▲ 2.4×26 topics
- Ethics242▲ 2.5×52 topics
- Nationalism230▲ 2.6×31 topics
- Neoliberalism229▲ 3.3×29 topics
- Fiscal Policy223▲ 5.7×8 topics
- Liquidity198▲ 14×3 topics
- Capital Flows168▲ 25×2 topics
- Epidemiological Study157▲ 12×4 topics
- Teacher Education154▲ 6.2×7 topics
- Curriculum154▲ 7.8×8 topics
- Socioeconomic Status152▲ 15×3 topics
- Healthcare Utilization146▲ 9.4×3 topics
- Teaching142▲ 5.6×7 topics
- Data Collection141▲ 26×3 topics
- Structural Change138▲ 11×2 topics
- Germany138▲ 38×1 topic
- Health Surveys138▲ 38×1 topic
- Didactics135▲ 7.4×3 topics
- Competence133▲ 60×1 topic
- Banking130▲ 16×1 topic
- Credit130▲ 16×1 topic
- Bildung122▲ 20×3 topics
What research is done in Frankfurt am Main?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 302 works
- 2 Education Methods and Technologies Education 126 works
- 3 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 126 works
- 4 Health and Medical Studies General Health Professions 124 works
- 5 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 112 works
- 6 Monetary Policy and Economic Impact General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 91 works
- 7 German Literature and Culture Studies Literature and Literary Theory 88 works
- 8 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 73 works
- 9 Linguistic Education and Pedagogy Language and Linguistics 72 works
- 10 Economic and Social Issues Sociology and Political Science 66 works
Research output over time
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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.5% in 2016.
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