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Research in Frankfurt (Oder)

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are European University Viadrina.

Research institutions
4
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
5.1k
▼ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
66k
12.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
14.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1954-2026
73 years on the record
Frankfurt (Oder)

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 (Oder)?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1European University ViadrinaUniversity 2,904 #3,364
2Institut für Solartechnologien (Germany)Company 383 #17,030 all time
3Infraserv (Germany)Company 46 not ranked
4Silicon Radar (Germany)Company 46 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.

European University Viadrina: 85.9%Institut für Solartechnologien (Germany): 11.3%Infraserv (Germany): 1.4%Silicon Radar (Germany): 1.4%86%largest
European University Viadrina2,904 · 85.9%Institut für Solartechnologien (Germany)383 · 11.3%Infraserv (Germany)46 · 1.4%Silicon Radar (Germany)46 · 1.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does Frankfurt (Oder) work in?

In 2022-now, 60% of research in Frankfurt (Oder) is in Social Sciences, 36% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (35%), Engineering (22%), Arts and Humanities (11%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 556 fractional works · 59.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 330 fractional works · 35.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 134 fractional works · 14.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 101 fractional works · 10.8% of its workLaw: 19 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCommunication: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety Research: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCultural Studies: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLinguistics and Language: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 102 fractional works · 10.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 31 fractional works · 3.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 20 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPhilosophy: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMuseology: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReligious studies: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 52 fractional works · 5.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 17 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 33 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 21 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 30 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 333 fractional works · 35.7% of its workEngineering: 205 fractional works · 22.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 138 fractional works · 14.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 19 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMedia Technology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 69 fractional works · 7.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 20 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHardware and Architecture: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 12 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 12 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 24 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 17 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 16 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 23 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMedicine: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 20 fractional works · 2.2% of its workNeuroscience: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKFrankfurt (Oder)933fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences36%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences60%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences33035.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities10210.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting525.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance333.6%
    5. Psychology303.2%
    6. Decision Sciences91.0%
    1. Engineering20522.0%
    2. Computer Science697.3%
    3. Physics and Astronomy242.6%
    4. Materials Science161.7%
    5. Environmental Science101.1%
    6. Mathematics40.4%
    7. Chemistry20.2%
    8. Chemical Engineering20.2%
    9. Energy10.2%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    1. Medicine121.3%
    2. Health Professions101.1%
    3. Veterinary10.1%
    1. Neuroscience80.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences60.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology60.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Frankfurt (Oder) strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Frankfurt (Oder) is most concentrated in Political Science and International Relations and Literature and Literary Theory (7.5× the world share in Political Science and International Relations).

  1. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 96.6 works7.5×
  2. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 29.5 works6.4×
← 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: 0.15× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.12× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.56× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.96× its world share, 64 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.44× its world share, 186 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.20× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.49× its world share, 15 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.09× its world share, 21 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.45× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 10 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.87× its world share, 96 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.70× its world share, 47 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.09× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.67× its world share, 31 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.02× its world share, 27 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.84× its world share, 310 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities3.87×96 works
  2. Social Sciences2.84×310 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting1.70×47 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.67×31 works
  5. Engineering1.44×186 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy1.09×21 works
  7. Decision Sciences1.09×9 works
  8. Psychology1.02×27 works
  9. Computer Science0.96×64 works
  10. Neuroscience0.56×8 works
  11. Materials Science0.49×15 works
  12. Chemical Engineering0.45×1 works
  13. Health Professions0.45×10 works
  14. Mathematics0.30×3 works
  15. Veterinary0.24×0 works
  16. Environmental Science0.20×8 works
  17. Energy0.17×1 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×6 works
  19. Chemistry0.15×2 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.12×6 works
  21. Medicine0.06×10 works
  22. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.05×0 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.04×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Frankfurt (Oder)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Identity, Human Rights, Gender, Nationalism, Globalization, Integrated Circuits, Governance and Democracy.

▲ 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. Identity62▲ 9.2×36 topics
  2. Globalization55▲ 3.0×56 topics
  3. Human Rights50▲ 5.2×36 topics
  4. Gender40▲ 8.0×21 topics
  5. Nationalism38▲ 9.0×19 topics
  6. Integrated Circuits31▲ 23×3 topics
  7. Social Media28▲ 2.1×19 topics
  8. Governance25▲ 8.3×10 topics
  9. Biosensors24▲ 5.3×8 topics
  10. Democracy24▲ 7.4×10 topics
  11. Big Data23▲ 2.6×13 topics
  12. Literature23▲ 4.5×17 topics
  13. European Union21▲ 10×18 topics
  14. Leadership20▲ 4.5×12 topics
  15. Neoliberalism20▲ 6.0×15 topics
  16. Sociolinguistics19▲ 11×5 topics
  17. Frequency Synthesizer18▲ 49×2 topics
  18. Religion18▲ 4.1×14 topics
  19. Optical Modulators17▲ 13×2 topics
  20. Nanoelectronics17▲ 22×2 topics
  21. CMOS17▲ 36×2 topics
  22. Politics17▲ 6.8×10 topics
  23. Bildung16▲ 56×2 topics
  24. Millimeter-Wave16▲ 47×2 topics
  25. Autorschaft16▲ 87×1 topic
  26. International Law16▲ 5.5×15 topics
  27. Literaturkritik16▲ 87×1 topic
  28. Migration16▲ 5.0×13 topics
  29. Authoritarianism15▲ 19×3 topics
  30. Public Opinion15▲ 13×5 topics
  31. National Identity14▲ 13×8 topics
  32. Multilingualism14▲ 9.6×4 topics
  33. CMOS Technology14▲ 19×5 topics
  34. European Integration14▲ 27×6 topics
  35. Microcavities14▲ 14×1 topic
  36. Silicon Photonics14▲ 15×1 topic
  37. Narrative14▲ 9.6×8 topics
  38. Cultural History14▲ 12×7 topics
  39. Low-Noise Amplifiers14▲ 52×1 topic
  40. Oscillators14▲ 52×1 topic

What research is done in Frankfurt (Oder)?

German Literature and Cu…16German Literature and Culture Studies: 16 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Dev…13Photonic and Optical Devices: 13 fractional worksRadio Frequency Integrat…12Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design: 12 fractional worksEastern European Communi…11Eastern European Communism and Reforms: 11 fractional worksSemiconductor materials and devices: 10 fractional worksLinguistic research and analysis: 9 fractional worksPublic Administration an…9Public Administration and Political Analysis: 9 fractional worksPopulism, Right-Wing Movements: 8 fractional worksMultilingual Education and Policy: 8 fractional worksAdvanced Memory and Neur…7Advanced Memory and Neural Computing: 7 fractional works
Literature and Literary TheoryElectrical and Electronic EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceLanguage and Linguistics2 others

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

  1. 1 German Literature and Culture Studies Literature and Literary Theory 16 works
  2. 2 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 13 works
  3. 3 Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design Electrical and Electronic Engineering 12 works
  4. 4 Eastern European Communism and Reforms Sociology and Political Science 11 works
  5. 5 Semiconductor materials and devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 10 works
  6. 6 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 9 works
  7. 7 Public Administration and Political Analysis Political Science and International Relations 9 works
  8. 8 Populism, Right-Wing Movements Political Science and International Relations 8 works
  9. 9 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 8 works
  10. 10 Advanced Memory and Neural Computing Electrical and Electronic Engineering 7 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%Frankfurt (Oder)13.6% 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 34.1% in 2003.

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