Research in Hamburg
Science Explorer records 189 research institutions in Hamburg, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Universität Hamburg, Hamburg Institut (Germany) and HAW Hamburg.
- Research institutions
- 189 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 192k ▲ 10% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 4.2M 21.8 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 16.9% 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 Hamburg?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Universität HamburgUniversity | 99,978 | #95 | |
| 2 | Hamburg University of TechnologyUniversity | 9,522 | #1,599 | |
| 3 | Helmut Schmidt UniversityUniversity | 5,661 | #3,239 | |
| 4 | HAW HamburgUniversity | 4,528 | #1,559 | |
| 5 | Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyResearch facility | 4,160 | #10,892 | |
| 6 | Institut für Hygiene und UmweltResearch facility | 2,669 | #14,911 | |
| 7 | Hamburg Institut (Germany)Company | 2,433 | #1,546 | |
| 8 | Asklepios Klinik St. GeorgHospital / health system | 2,072 | #13,370 | |
| 9 | Shell (Germany)Company | 1,433 | #11,298 all time | |
| 10 | MSH Medical School Hamburg – University of Applied Sciences and Medical UniversityUniversity | 1,415 | #3,122 | |
| 11 | Berufsgenossenschaft für Gesundheitsdienst und WohlfahrtspflegeNonprofit | 1,262 | #8,295 | |
| 12 | Museum am RothenbaumArchive | 1,250 | #17,451 | |
| 13 | Behörde für Gesundheit und VerbraucherschutzGovernment institution | 1,225 | #9,586 | |
| 14 | Airbus (Germany)Company | 1,152 | #12,961 | |
| 15 | BundeswehrkrankenhausHospital / health system | 1,119 | #12,841 | |
| 16 | Asklepios Klinik BarmbekHospital / health system | 1,116 | #14,315 | |
| 17 | Asklepios Klinik AltonaHospital / health system | 1,033 | #13,829 | |
| 18 | EndokrinologikumHospital / health system | 1,031 | #16,850 | |
| 19 | Bucerius Law SchoolUniversity | 951 | #13,335 | |
| 20 | HafenCity University HamburgUniversity | 851 | #5,618 | |
| 21 | Beiersdorf (Germany)Company | 825 | #13,560 | |
| 22 | Hamburg Institute of International EconomicsInstitution | 773 | #16,063 | |
| 23 | BG Klinikum HamburgHospital / health system | 735 | #14,869 | |
| 24 | Sasol (Germany)Company | 665 | #9,210 | |
| 25 | AsklepiosHospital / health system | 546 | #16,333 | |
| 26 | Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum Prof. Mathey, Prof. SchoferHospital / health system | 539 | #17,265 | |
| 27 | Jungheinrich (Germany)Company | 527 | #15,162 | |
| 28 | Hamburger Fern-HochschuleUniversity | 518 | #17,621 | |
| 29 | NXP (Germany)Company | 493 | #20,289 | |
| 30 | Schön Klinik Hamburg EilbekHospital / health system | 471 | #12,569 all time | |
| 31 | Hochschule für bildende KünsteUniversity | 458 | #21,921 | |
| 32 | Hamburgische Investitions- und FörderbankInstitution | 440 | #20,151 all time | |
| 33 | Asklepios Klinikum HarburgHospital / health system | 433 | #14,962 all time | |
| 34 | Kühne Logistics UniversityUniversity | 418 | #11,115 | |
| 35 | Hamburg School of Business AdministrationUniversity | 408 | #15,917 | |
| 36 | Dermatologikum HamburgHospital / health system | 398 | #20,700 | |
| 37 | Asklepios Kliniken HamburgHospital / health system | 391 | #17,719 | |
| 38 | Albertinen DiakoniewerkHospital / health system | 373 | #19,711 all time | |
| 39 | Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of GermanyGovernment institution | 358 | #24,036 all time | |
| 40 | Helios Endo-Klinik HamburgHospital / health system | 356 | #22,186 | |
| 41 | Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung und SchulentwicklungUniversity | 334 | #20,110 | |
| 42 | Hamburg Institute for Social ResearchInstitution | 323 | #22,943 all time | |
| 43 | Kinderkrebs-Zentrum HamburgResearch facility | 297 | #20,120 all time | |
| 44 | Verwaltungs-BerufsgenossenschaftInstitution | 275 | #18,833 all time | |
| 45 | Hamburg Wasser (Germany)Company | 262 | #16,022 | |
| 46 | Techniker Krankenkasse (Germany)Company | 262 | #20,031 all time | |
| 47 | Israelitisches KrankenhausHospital / health system | 256 | #23,422 all time | |
| 48 | Institut für Hämatopathologie HamburgHospital / health system | 252 | #31,204 all time | |
| 49 | Katholisches Kinderkrankenhaus WilhelmstiftHospital / health system | 245 | #24,207 all time | |
| 50 | Max Planck Unit for Structural Molecular BiologyResearch facility | 242 | #25,894 all time | |
| 51 | DAK-Gesundheit (Germany)Company | 239 | #17,307 | |
| 52 | Hamburg University of Music and DramaUniversity | 234 | #26,749 all time | |
| 53 | Amedes MVZ HamburgInstitution | 227 | #24,419 all time | |
| 54 | Mammazentrum HamburgHospital / health system | 224 | #24,360 all time | |
| 55 | Pathologie Hamburg-WestHospital / health system | 223 | #22,918 all time | |
| 56 | BQS Institut für Qualität und Patientensicherheit (Germany)Company | 197 | #22,835 all time | |
| 57 | Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt (Germany)Company | 193 | #33,120 all time | |
| 58 | Evotec (Germany)Company | 187 | #16,676 all time | |
| 59 | British American Tobacco (Germany)Company | 186 | #25,036 all time | |
| 60 | Unilever (Germany)Company | 185 | #29,093 all time |
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 Hamburg work in?
In 2022-now, 33% of research in Hamburg is in Social Sciences, 33% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (21%), Social Sciences (17%), Engineering (11%). It does 1.3× 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 Sciences12k33.1%
- Social Sciences6,49317.5%
- Arts and Humanities1,6894.5%
- Psychology1,5194.1%
- Business, Management and Accounting1,4303.8%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance8612.3%
- Decision Sciences3240.9%
- Physical Sciences12k32.7%
- Engineering4,10311.0%
- Computer Science2,1735.8%
- Physics and Astronomy2,1525.8%
- Environmental Science1,2753.4%
- Materials Science8272.2%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences6811.8%
- Mathematics3671.0%
- Chemistry3290.9%
- Energy1840.5%
- Chemical Engineering790.2%
- Health Sciences9,15924.6%
- Medicine7,86821.2%
- Health Professions1,0902.9%
- Dentistry980.3%
- Nursing800.2%
- Veterinary220.1%
- Life Sciences3,5319.5%
What is Hamburg strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Hamburg is most concentrated in Structural Biology, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Radiation (8.3× the world share in Structural Biology).
- Structural BiologySubfield · 42.7 works8.3×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 623.4 works6.2×
- RadiationSubfield · 176.0 works4.0×
- DevelopmentSubfield · 125.0 works3.9×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 61.7 works3.6×
- ClassicsSubfield · 59.6 works3.1×
- MuseologySubfield · 117.9 works3.0×
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: Physics and Astronomy, 2.6×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physics and Astronomy2.58×1,844 works
- Arts and Humanities1.60×1,487 works
- Social Sciences1.36×5,521 works
- Psychology1.31×1,278 works
- Neuroscience1.24×646 works
- Business, Management and Accounting1.18×1,226 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.17×378 works
- Health Professions1.14×963 works
- Medicine1.12×6,898 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.10×759 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.04×525 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.87×1,498 works
- Decision Sciences0.86×266 works
- Mathematics0.85×320 works
- Engineering0.77×3,695 works
- Computer Science0.73×1,829 works
- Environmental Science0.66×1,058 works
- Materials Science0.63×709 works
- Chemical Engineering0.61×68 works
- Chemistry0.58×291 works
- Energy0.55×163 works
- Dentistry0.54×85 works
- Nursing0.43×67 works
- Veterinary0.38×17 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.33×37 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.32×486 works
Which keywords describe research in Hamburg?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Governance, Global Governance, Human Rights, Democracy, Epidemiology, Climate Change, Ethnic Conflict and Political Economy.
- Socioeconomic Status
- Outcomes
- Higgs Boson
- Institutions
- Bildungsungleichheit
- Corruption
- State Capacity
- Civil War
- Transitional Justice
- Protest
- International Law
- Religion
- Gender
- Political Economy
- Economic Growth
- Global Governance
- Sustainable Development
- Sustainability
- Governance
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Human Rights
- Globalization
- Public Health
- Democracy
- History
- Identity
- Neoliberalism
- Nationalism
- Ethnic Conflict
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
- Dark Matter
- Authoritarianism
- Political Institutions
- Particle Physics
- Peacebuilding
- Ethnografisches Schreiben
- NGOs
- High-Energy Collider
- Inclusive Development
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
- Epidemiology1,426◆ 0.96×137 topics
- Climate Change1,074◆ 1.06×115 topics
- Human Rights944▲ 2.5×79 topics
- Governance918▲ 7.6×18 topics
- Globalization906▲ 1.24×147 topics
- Sustainability844◆ 0.93×121 topics
- Public Health648▲ 1.20×71 topics
- Sustainable Development638◆ 1.10×92 topics
- Democracy620▲ 4.8×28 topics
- Global Governance611▲ 6.8×25 topics
- History564▲ 2.2×54 topics
- Economic Growth486▲ 1.60×30 topics
- Identity456▲ 1.69×68 topics
- Political Economy443▲ 4.7×17 topics
- Neoliberalism424▲ 3.2×27 topics
- Gender420▲ 2.1×52 topics
- Nationalism410▲ 2.5×32 topics
- Religion377▲ 2.2×40 topics
- Ethnic Conflict352▲ 20×4 topics
- International Law332▲ 2.8×30 topics
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse329▲ 23×2 topics
- Protest317▲ 22×3 topics
- Dark Matter315▲ 7.3×4 topics
- Transitional Justice313▲ 10×6 topics
- Authoritarianism313▲ 9.6×5 topics
- Civil War301▲ 26×2 topics
- Political Institutions295▲ 39×1 topic
- State Capacity295▲ 39×1 topic
- Particle Physics286▲ 11×2 topics
- Corruption267▲ 4.6×7 topics
- Peacebuilding244▲ 9.6×6 topics
- Bildungsungleichheit238▲ 23×1 topic
- Ethnografisches Schreiben238▲ 23×1 topic
- Institutions231▲ 7.9×5 topics
- NGOs226▲ 6.5×5 topics
- Higgs Boson213▲ 11×1 topic
- High-Energy Collider213▲ 11×1 topic
- Outcomes213▲ 7.0×2 topics
- Inclusive Development204▲ 13×2 topics
- Socioeconomic Status194▲ 10×4 topics
What research is done in Hamburg?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Political Conflict and Governance Sociology and Political Science 241 works
- 2 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 214 works
- 3 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 168 works
- 4 Health and Medical Studies General Health Professions 158 works
- 5 Peacebuilding and International Security Sociology and Political Science 140 works
- 6 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 138 works
- 7 Corruption and Economic Development Sociology and Political Science 117 works
- 8 Global Peace and Security Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 112 works
- 9 Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy Social Psychology 111 works
- 10 International Development and Aid Development 110 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 26.5% in 2016.
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