Research in Karlsruhe
Science Explorer records 56 research institutions in Karlsruhe, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research and Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation.
- Research institutions
- 56 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 110k ▲ 7% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 15.9% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Karlsruhe?
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
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What is Karlsruhe strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Karlsruhe is most concentrated in Hardware and Architecture, Software and Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (5.2× the world share in Hardware and Architecture).
- Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 93.1 works5.2×
- SoftwareSubfield · 52.5 works5.2×
- Fluid Flow and Transfer ProcessesSubfield · 62.5 works5.1×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 246.7 works5.0×
- Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 373.5 works4.6×
- Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 355.3 works4.2×
- Computational MechanicsSubfield · 377.8 works4.1×
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 Karlsruhe?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Medicinal Plants, Deep Learning, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Thermal Management, Lithium-ion Batteries, Machine Learning and Cathode Materials.
- Industrial Automation
- Turbine Technology
- Engineering
- Materials Science
- Battery Materials
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Fluid Dynamics
- Vibration Analysis
- Ethnobotanical Survey
- Smart Grid
- Electric Vehicles
- Drug Discovery
- Mechanical Properties
- Cathode Materials
- Energy Storage
- Nanoparticles
- Catalysis
- Climate Change
- Renewable Energy
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Sustainability
- Medicinal Plants
- Neural Networks
- Lithium-ion Batteries
- Thermal Management
- Big Data
- Renewable Energy Integration
- Antioxidant
- Herbal Medicine
- Battery Technology
- Phytochemical Constituents
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
- Rechargeable Batteries
- Additive Manufacturing
- Anti-inflammatory
- Nanostructured Anodes
- Mathematical Modeling
- Battery Management Systems
- Software Engineering
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
- Deep Learning800▲ 1.48×75 topics
- Machine Learning627▲ 1.21×86 topics
- Sustainability604▲ 1.57×88 topics
- Renewable Energy514▲ 2.3×49 topics
- Medicinal Plants435▲ 6.9×20 topics
- Climate Change394◆ 0.92×107 topics
- Neural Networks368▲ 1.51×40 topics
- Catalysis308▲ 2.9×28 topics
- Lithium-ion Batteries303▲ 4.5×4 topics
- Nanoparticles303▲ 1.52×42 topics
- Thermal Management283▲ 5.4×8 topics
- Energy Storage268▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Big Data267▲ 1.86×26 topics
- Cathode Materials266▲ 4.3×3 topics
- Renewable Energy Integration249▲ 4.7×6 topics
- Mechanical Properties233▲ 1.52×38 topics
- Antioxidant230▲ 2.1×49 topics
- Drug Discovery212▲ 6.0×12 topics
- Herbal Medicine209▲ 4.6×11 topics
- Electric Vehicles205▲ 4.4×4 topics
- Battery Technology188▲ 4.2×3 topics
- Smart Grid182▲ 3.0×9 topics
- Phytochemical Constituents181▲ 39×2 topics
- Ethnobotanical Survey180▲ 37×1 topic
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge180▲ 27×1 topic
- Vibration Analysis169▲ 4.0×9 topics
- Rechargeable Batteries164▲ 3.9×2 topics
- Fluid Dynamics161▲ 7.4×6 topics
- Additive Manufacturing157▲ 3.2×8 topics
- Autonomous Vehicles148▲ 4.5×5 topics
- Anti-inflammatory146▲ 3.3×28 topics
- Battery Materials134▲ 5.1×1 topic
- Nanostructured Anodes134▲ 5.1×1 topic
- Materials Science125▲ 19×4 topics
- Mathematical Modeling123▲ 8.8×6 topics
- Engineering121▲ 17×6 topics
- Battery Management Systems117▲ 4.8×1 topic
- Turbine Technology117▲ 41×1 topic
- Software Engineering101▲ 7.1×3 topics
- Industrial Automation96▲ 8.9×3 topics
What research is done in Karlsruhe?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies Plant Science 180 works
- 2 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 134 works
- 3 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 117 works
- 4 Physics and Engineering Research Articles Computational Mechanics 117 works
- 5 Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 101 works
- 6 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 93 works
- 7 Manufacturing Process and Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 92 works
- 8 Catalytic Processes in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 78 works
- 9 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 64 works
- 10 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 64 works
Research output over time
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