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Research in Kaiserslautern

Science Explorer records 13 research institutions in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Kaiserslautern, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence and University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern.

Research institutions
13
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
34k
▼ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
612k
18.3 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
16.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1953-2026
74 years on the record
Kaiserslautern

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 Kaiserslautern?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of KaiserslauternUniversity 23,295 #986
2German Research Centre for Artificial IntelligenceFunder 5,131 #2,197
3University of Applied Sciences KaiserslauternUniversity 1,000 #4,199
4Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbHNonprofit 748 #18,929
5Institut für Biotechnologie und Wirkstoff-ForschungNonprofit 169 #31,307 all time
6SmartFactory (Germany)Company 136 #30,666 all time
7University of Maryland University College EuropeUniversity 113 not ranked
8Photonik-Zentrum KaiserslauternResearch facility 84 not ranked
9Human Solutions (Germany)Company 44 not ranked
10Empolis (Germany)Company 29 not ranked
11Insiders Technologies (Germany)Company 26 not ranked
12Pfaff Industriemaschinen (Germany)Company 8 not ranked
13CirComp (Germany)Company 1 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.

University of Kaiserslautern: 75.7%German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence: 16.7%University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern: 3.2%Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH: 2.4%9 others listed: 2.0%76%largest
University of Kaiserslautern23k · 75.7%German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence5,131 · 16.7%University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern1,000 · 3.2%Leibniz-Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH748 · 2.4%9 others listed610 · 2.0%

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

Which fields of science does Kaiserslautern work in?

In 2022-now, 67% of research in Kaiserslautern is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (30%), Computer Science (22%), Social Sciences (7%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 3,265 fractional works · 67.1% of its workEngineering: 1,467 fractional works · 30.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 257 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 189 fractional works · 3.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 174 fractional works · 3.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 168 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 140 fractional works · 2.9% of its workComputational Mechanics: 95 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 94 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 86 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 73 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 58 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 44 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 34 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 28 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1,068 fractional works · 22.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 383 fractional works · 7.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 220 fractional works · 4.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 111 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 83 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems: 81 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 66 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 43 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSignal Processing: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSoftware: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 173 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 156 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 89 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 32 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 153 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 74 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 33 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 17 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 79 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMathematical Physics: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNumerical Analysis: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 72 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 47 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOceanography: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 892 fractional works · 18.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 323 fractional works · 6.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 127 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 52 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEducation: 51 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLaw: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 44 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 176 fractional works · 3.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 48 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 45 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 33 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 31 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 151 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 62 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 95 fractional works · 1.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 86 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 46 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 24 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 62 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 37 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFinance: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 396 fractional works · 8.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 218 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 144 fractional works · 3.0% of its workBiochemistry: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 12 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 89 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPlant Science: 48 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 75 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 56 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 312 fractional works · 6.4% of its workMedicine: 248 fractional works · 5.1% of its workSurgery: 35 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 23 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOncology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 76 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 56 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKKaiserslautern4,865fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences18%

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
    1. Engineering1,46730.2%
    2. Computer Science1,06822.0%
    3. Environmental Science1733.6%
    4. Physics and Astronomy1563.2%
    5. Materials Science1533.1%
    6. Mathematics791.6%
    7. Chemistry721.5%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences471.0%
    9. Energy270.6%
    10. Chemical Engineering230.5%
    1. Social Sciences3236.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting1763.6%
    3. Psychology1513.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities951.9%
    5. Decision Sciences861.8%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance621.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2184.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences891.8%
    3. Neuroscience751.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology90.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics60.1%
    1. Medicine2485.1%
    2. Health Professions561.2%
    3. Nursing40.1%
    4. Dentistry20.0%
    5. Veterinary10.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Kaiserslautern strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Kaiserslautern is most concentrated in Hardware and Architecture, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction (7.9× the world share in Hardware and Architecture).

  1. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 38.8 works7.9×
  2. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 161.7 works7.2×
  3. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 58.2 works6.5×
← 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: 0.37× its world share, 77 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.81× its world share, 188 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.18× its world share, 8 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.96× its world share, 68 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.32× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.32× its world share, 20 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.90× its world share, 62 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.84× its world share, 960 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 42 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.59× its world share, 24 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.04× its world share, 1,334 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.67× its world share, 145 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.88× its world share, 133 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.37× its world share, 70 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.38× its world share, 133 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.41× its world share, 47 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.26× its world share, 220 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.70× its world share, 88 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.17× its world share, 164 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.80× its world share, 76 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.61× its world share, 57 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.03× its world share, 136 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 286 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 2.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science2.84×960 works
  2. Engineering2.04×1,334 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.80×76 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.38×133 works
  5. Mathematics1.37×70 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.32×20 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting1.17×164 works
  8. Psychology1.03×136 works
  9. Neuroscience0.96×68 works
  10. Chemistry0.90×62 works
  11. Materials Science0.88×133 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.81×188 works
  13. Arts and Humanities0.70×88 works
  14. Environmental Science0.67×145 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.61×42 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.61×57 works
  17. Energy0.59×24 works
  18. Social Sciences0.52×286 works
  19. Health Professions0.41×47 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.37×77 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.32×5 works
  22. Medicine0.26×220 works
  23. Immunology and Microbiology0.18×8 works
  24. Nursing0.17×4 works
  25. Veterinary0.11×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.08×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Kaiserslautern?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Big Data, Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, Additive Manufacturing and Mechanical Properties.

▲ 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. Deep Learning457▲ 2.7×76 topics
  2. Machine Learning291▲ 1.80×79 topics
  3. Neural Networks216▲ 2.9×37 topics
  4. Sustainability164▲ 1.38×70 topics
  5. Big Data154▲ 3.3×25 topics
  6. Artificial Intelligence128▲ 1.84×37 topics
  7. Sustainable Development104▲ 1.36×43 topics
  8. Mechanical Properties100▲ 2.1×39 topics
  9. Internet of Things91▲ 2.2×17 topics
  10. Energy Efficiency81▲ 1.80×31 topics
  11. Convolutional Neural Networks80▲ 2.2×14 topics
  12. Supply Chain Management69▲ 1.59×16 topics
  13. Security69▲ 2.1×22 topics
  14. Additive Manufacturing67▲ 4.5×8 topics
  15. Virtual Reality66▲ 2.8×13 topics
  16. Optimization61▲ 2.8×22 topics
  17. Cyber-Physical Systems60▲ 4.6×9 topics
  18. Digital Transformation57▲ 2.1×14 topics
  19. Software Engineering50▲ 12×2 topics
  20. Autonomous Vehicles49▲ 4.9×5 topics
  21. Governance48▲ 3.0×9 topics
  22. Digital Twin45▲ 6.7×2 topics
  23. Industrial Automation44▲ 14×3 topics
  24. Customer Experience44▲ 5.6×4 topics
  25. Model Predictive Control44▲ 3.6×6 topics
  26. Vibration Analysis44▲ 3.3×9 topics
  27. Cloud Manufacturing44▲ 9.9×1 topic
  28. Smart Manufacturing44▲ 9.9×1 topic
  29. Flexible Automation43▲ 35×1 topic
  30. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems43▲ 35×1 topic
  31. Human-Computer Interaction42▲ 4.8×7 topics
  32. Renewable Resources40▲ 4.6×6 topics
  33. Mobile Health40▲ 5.6×3 topics
  34. Data Integration39▲ 4.7×6 topics
  35. Convolutional Networks36▲ 5.4×3 topics
  36. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse35▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Wearable Sensors33▲ 6.1×3 topics
  38. Business Models33▲ 9.3×3 topics
  39. Technology Innovation32▲ 20×2 topics
  40. Omni-Channel Strategy32▲ 32×1 topic

What research is done in Kaiserslautern?

Flexible and Reconfigura…40Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: 40 fractional worksDigital Transformation i…40Digital Transformation in Industry: 40 fractional worksDigital Innovation in In…31Digital Innovation in Industries: 31 fractional worksManufacturing Process an…27Manufacturing Process and Optimization: 27 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 25 fractional worksCorporate Governance and Management: 24 fractional worksTopic Modeling24Topic Modeling: 24 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 23 fractional worksFault Detection and Control Systems: 20 fractional worksSemantic Web and Ontolog…20Semantic Web and Ontologies: 20 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringManagement of Technology and InnovationComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionStrategy and Management2 others

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

  1. 1 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 40 works
  2. 2 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 40 works
  3. 3 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 31 works
  4. 4 Manufacturing Process and Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 27 works
  5. 5 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 25 works
  6. 6 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 24 works
  7. 7 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 24 works
  8. 8 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 23 works
  9. 9 Fault Detection and Control Systems Control and Systems Engineering 20 works
  10. 10 Semantic Web and Ontologies Artificial Intelligence 20 works

Research output over time

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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 counting10%20%30%Kaiserslautern17.3% 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 27.7% in 2008.

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