Research in Heidelberg
Science Explorer records 72 research institutions in Heidelberg, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Heidelberg University, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and National Center for Tumor Diseases.
- Research institutions
- 72 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 199k ▼ 8% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 6.1M 30.5 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 22.5% 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 Heidelberg?
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 Heidelberg work in?
In 2022-now, 43% of research in Heidelberg is in Health Sciences, 21% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (39%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%), Social Sciences (8%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Health 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
- Health Sciences10k43.0%
- Medicine9,47439.3%
- Health Professions6522.7%
- Dentistry1330.6%
- Nursing870.4%
- Veterinary200.1%
- Physical Sciences5,09721.2%
- Physics and Astronomy1,7617.3%
- Engineering1,0084.2%
- Computer Science6892.9%
- Environmental Science4291.8%
- Chemistry4081.7%
- Materials Science2961.2%
- Mathematics2321.0%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2240.9%
- Energy300.1%
- Chemical Engineering190.1%
- Life Sciences4,33718.0%
- Social Sciences4,28017.8%
- Social Sciences1,9328.0%
- Psychology8853.7%
- Arts and Humanities7953.3%
- Business, Management and Accounting2971.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2491.0%
- Decision Sciences1220.5%
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).
- InstrumentationSubfield · 74.1 works7.1×
- Structural BiologySubfield · 21.7 works6.5×
- RadiationSubfield · 153.9 works5.4×
- GeneticsSubfield · 302.2 works5.3×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 342.5 works5.2×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 541.9 works5.0×
- OncologySubfield · 945.4 works4.0×
- BiophysicsSubfield · 83.4 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: Physics and Astronomy, 3.3×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physics and Astronomy3.26×1,512 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.26×2,512 works
- Immunology and Microbiology2.26×474 works
- Medicine2.05×8,207 works
- Neuroscience1.52×516 works
- Psychology1.21×770 works
- Arts and Humanities1.18×708 works
- Dentistry1.17×118 works
- Chemistry1.11×362 works
- Health Professions1.03×564 works
- Mathematics0.83×204 works
- Nursing0.70×72 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.69×50 works
- Social Sciences0.66×1,736 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.55×179 works
- Veterinary0.54×16 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.52×230 works
- Decision Sciences0.50×102 works
- Materials Science0.36×259 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.36×245 works
- Computer Science0.35×576 works
- Environmental Science0.35×365 works
- Engineering0.28×867 works
- Chemical Engineering0.23×17 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.18×180 works
- Energy0.14×28 works
Which keywords describe research in Heidelberg?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Immunotherapy, Epidemiology, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, Inflammation, Cancer, Prognostic Factors and Tumor Microenvironment.
- Accretion Disks
- Dosimetry
- Genomic Instability
- Dark Matter
- Glioblastoma
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Molecular Classification
- Targeted Therapy
- Depression
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Clinical Trials
- Gene Expression
- Diagnosis
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Treatment
- Radiotherapy
- Machine Learning
- Cancer
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Immunotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Prognostic Factors
- Risk Factors
- Genetic Mutations
- Cancer Therapy
- Biomarkers
- Precision Medicine
- Medical Imaging
- Guidelines
- Immunity
- Metastasis
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Temozolomide
- Star Formation
- Black Holes
- Magnetic Fields
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
- Epidemiology1,377▲ 1.44×136 topics
- Inflammation888▲ 1.73×83 topics
- Immunotherapy871▲ 5.0×19 topics
- Cancer746▲ 2.3×57 topics
- Chemotherapy611▲ 3.6×25 topics
- Machine Learning587▼ 0.73×77 topics
- Oxidative Stress518▲ 1.31×62 topics
- Radiotherapy499▲ 5.2×13 topics
- Quality of Life483▲ 1.39×56 topics
- Treatment463▲ 1.58×51 topics
- Prognostic Factors438▲ 4.2×14 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment424▲ 3.9×8 topics
- Risk Factors403▲ 1.52×37 topics
- Diagnosis373▲ 1.66×41 topics
- Genetic Mutations354▲ 3.4×23 topics
- Gene Expression351▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Cancer Therapy342▲ 2.5×20 topics
- Clinical Trials341▲ 2.1×19 topics
- Biomarkers339▲ 2.0×18 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines336▲ 2.5×14 topics
- Precision Medicine336▲ 2.8×8 topics
- Depression332▲ 1.57×24 topics
- Medical Imaging302▲ 2.4×9 topics
- Targeted Therapy284▲ 5.3×5 topics
- Guidelines269▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Molecular Classification259▲ 7.1×4 topics
- Immunity259▲ 2.7×11 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy240▲ 4.2×5 topics
- Metastasis237▲ 2.9×12 topics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging232▲ 3.8×8 topics
- Cancer Immunotherapy222▲ 6.0×3 topics
- Glioblastoma222▲ 14×1 topic
- Temozolomide222▲ 14×1 topic
- Dark Matter202▲ 7.2×4 topics
- Star Formation188▲ 14×2 topics
- Genomic Instability176▲ 6.5×3 topics
- Black Holes156▲ 6.7×3 topics
- Dosimetry150▲ 8.8×2 topics
- Magnetic Fields148▲ 9.2×3 topics
- Accretion Disks146▲ 12×2 topics
What research is done in Heidelberg?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 193 works
- 2 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 128 works
- 3 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 118 works
- 4 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 114 works
- 5 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 113 works
- 6 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 112 works
- 7 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 94 works
- 8 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 90 works
- 9 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 89 works
- 10 Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 76 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 29.4% in 2013.
Questions people ask
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Science Explorer records 72 research institutions in Heidelberg, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Heidelberg University, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and National Center for Tumor Diseases.
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