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Research in Heidelberg

Science Explorer records 82 research institutions in Heidelberg, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Heidelberg University, University Hospital Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center.

Research institutions
82
15 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
199k
▼ 2% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
22.5%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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 Heidelberg?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Heidelberg UniversityUniversity 105,515 #141
2University Hospital HeidelbergHospital / health system 20,365 #647
3German Cancer Research CenterResearch facility 15,723 #950
4Max Planck Institute for Nuclear PhysicsNonprofit 6,411 #2,085
5Chirurgische Universitätsklinik HeidelbergHospital / health system 5,748 #25,637
6DKFZ-ZMBH AllianceResearch facility 4,769 #4,748
7Max Planck Institute for AstronomyResearch facility 4,065 #1,952
8Hautklinik HeidelbergHospital / health system 3,602 #8,345 all time
9Augenklinik HeidelbergHospital / health system 3,595 #26,664
10Max Planck Institute for Medical ResearchResearch facility 3,524 #3,651
11European Molecular Biology LaboratoryGovernment institution 3,108 #1,786
12Universitäts-HNO-Klinik HeidelbergHospital / health system 2,588 #15,156 all time
13Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International LawResearch facility 2,166 #18,111
14Klinik und Poliklinik für Mund-, Kiefer- und GesichtschirurgieHospital / health system 1,878 #26,628
15National Center for Tumor DiseasesFunder 1,711 #2,614
16Frauenklinik HeidelbergHospital / health system 1,651 #25,581
17Heidelberg University of EducationUniversity 1,316 #9,334
18Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical StudiesResearch facility 1,300 #4,101
19European Molecular Biology OrganizationNonprofit 1,185 #6,688
20Kraftanlagen (Germany)Company 1,056 #16,807
21Deutsches Konsortium für Translationale KrebsforschungResearch facility 1,037 #2,701
22Akademie für GesundheitsberufeUniversity 467 #27,347
23Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesResearch facility 440 #6,554 all time
24SRH Hochschule HeidelbergUniversity 408 #24,225
25Heidelberg Engineering (Germany)Company 399 #16,695
26Heidelberger Institut für RadioonkologieInstitution 381 #14,293 all time
27Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen StudiengemeinschaftResearch facility 380 #22,822
28Diabetesinstitut HeidelbergResearch facility 320 #27,082 all time
29Bausch Health (Germany)Company 309 #13,869 all time
30Poliklinik für Zahnärztliche ProthetikHospital / health system 242 #29,487 all time
31Nierenzentrum HeidelbergHospital / health system 236 #30,794 all time
32Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung HeidelbergResearch facility 228 #19,261 all time
33Hopp Children's Cancer Center HeidelbergResearch facility 214 #15,535
34European Media Laboratory (Germany)Company 193 #21,229 all time
35NEC (Germany)Company 190 #29,453 all time
36Krankenhaus SalemHospital / health system 182 #36,808 all time
37Agaplesion Bethanien KrankenhausHospital / health system 153 #36,802 all time
38Berufsgenossenschaft Rohstoffe und chemische IndustrieInstitution 136 #40,319 all time
39HeidelbergCement (Germany)Company 103 not ranked
40Affimed Therapeutics (Germany)Company 101 not ranked
41Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental MedicineNonprofit 100 not ranked
42Corrected Electron Optical Systems (Germany)Company 99 not ranked
43Institute for Environmental Studies Weibel & Ness (Germany)Company 84 not ranked
44BioMed X InstituteResearch facility 82 not ranked
45Heidelberger Druckmaschinen (Germany)Company 80 not ranked
46Stiftung Rehabilitation Heidelberg (Germany)Company 74 not ranked
47Hochschule für Jüdische StudienUniversity 73 not ranked
48Sinus Markt- und Sozialforschung (Germany)Company 61 not ranked
49Apogenix (Germany)Company 60 not ranked
50Phenex Pharmaceuticals (Germany)Company 59 not ranked
51European Institute For Research and Strategic Studies In TelecommunicationsCompany 49 not ranked
52Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für GartenbauUniversity 48 not ranked
53Biobyte Solutions (Germany)Company 42 not ranked
54Mediri (Germany)Company 26 not ranked
55Becton Dickinson (Germany)Company 25 not ranked
56IHI Corporation (Germany)Company 24 not ranked
57Expedeon (Germany)Company 23 not ranked
58Schiller International UniversityUniversity 23 not ranked
59Gene Bridges (Germany)Company 22 not ranked
60Novaliq (Germany)Company 21 not ranked

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.

Heidelberg University: 53.2%University Hospital Heidelberg: 10.3%German Cancer Research Center: 7.9%Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics: 3.2%56 others listed: 25.4%53%largest
Heidelberg University106k · 53.2%University Hospital Heidelberg20k · 10.3%German Cancer Research Center16k · 7.9%Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics6,411 · 3.2%56 others listed50k · 25.4%

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

What is Heidelberg strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Heidelberg is most concentrated in Instrumentation, Structural Biology and Radiation (7.1× the world share in Instrumentation).

  1. InstrumentationSubfield · 74.1 works7.1×
  2. Structural BiologySubfield · 21.7 works6.5×
  3. RadiationSubfield · 153.9 works5.4×
  4. GeneticsSubfield · 302.2 works5.3×
  5. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 342.5 works5.2×
  6. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 541.9 works5.0×
  7. OncologySubfield · 945.4 works4.0×
  8. BiophysicsSubfield · 83.4 works3.5×
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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 Heidelberg?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Immunotherapy, Epidemiology, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, Cancer, Inflammation, Prognostic Factors and Tumor Microenvironment.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
  1. Epidemiology1,180▲ 1.43×136 topics
  2. Inflammation758▲ 1.75×83 topics
  3. Immunotherapy752▲ 5.1×19 topics
  4. Cancer658▲ 2.4×56 topics
  5. Chemotherapy528▲ 3.6×25 topics
  6. Machine Learning499▼ 0.73×71 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress439▲ 1.29×62 topics
  8. Radiotherapy431▲ 5.4×13 topics
  9. Quality of Life425▲ 1.41×54 topics
  10. Treatment404▲ 1.60×51 topics
  11. Prognostic Factors392▲ 4.3×14 topics
  12. Tumor Microenvironment376▲ 4.1×8 topics
  13. Risk Factors348▲ 1.52×37 topics
  14. Diagnosis324▲ 1.67×41 topics
  15. Genetic Mutations302▲ 3.4×23 topics
  16. Clinical Trials301▲ 2.1×19 topics
  17. Cancer Therapy300▲ 2.5×20 topics
  18. Gene Expression296▲ 2.3×19 topics
  19. Clinical Practice Guidelines294▲ 2.6×14 topics
  20. Precision Medicine291▲ 3.0×8 topics
  21. Depression291▲ 1.59×23 topics
  22. Biomarkers290▲ 2.0×18 topics
  23. Medical Imaging266▲ 2.5×9 topics
  24. Targeted Therapy250▲ 5.4×5 topics
  25. Guidelines234▲ 2.4×13 topics
  26. Immunity226▲ 2.7×11 topics
  27. Molecular Classification225▲ 7.2×4 topics
  28. Surgical Management215▲ 2.5×20 topics
  29. Neoadjuvant Therapy211▲ 4.3×5 topics
  30. Metastasis204▲ 2.9×12 topics
  31. Magnetic Resonance Imaging203▲ 3.8×8 topics
  32. Cancer Immunotherapy197▲ 6.1×3 topics
  33. Glioblastoma193▲ 14×1 topic
  34. Temozolomide193▲ 14×1 topic
  35. Dark Matter176▲ 7.3×4 topics
  36. Lymphoma157▲ 4.7×4 topics
  37. Genomic Instability156▲ 6.7×3 topics
  38. Star Formation153▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Tumor Regression144▲ 6.3×2 topics
  40. Dosimetry132▲ 9.0×2 topics

What research is done in Heidelberg?

  1. 1 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 193 works
  2. 2 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 128 works
  3. 3 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 118 works
  4. 4 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 114 works
  5. 5 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 113 works
  6. 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 112 works
  7. 7 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 94 works
  8. 8 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 90 works
  9. 9 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 89 works
  10. 10 Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 76 works

Research output over time

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