Research in Leipzig
Science Explorer records 53 research institutions in Leipzig, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Leipzig University, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Research institutions
- 53 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 91k ▲ 8% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 21.3% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Leipzig?
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.
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What is Leipzig strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Leipzig is most concentrated in Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Classics (4.2× the world share in Ecological Modeling).
- Ecological ModelingSubfield · 40.4 works4.2×
- Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 103.8 works3.4×
- ClassicsSubfield · 24.2 works3.2×
- Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 175.9 works3.2×
- VeterinaryField · 51.8 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.
Which keywords describe research in Leipzig?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Epidemiology, Inflammation, Identity, Biodiversity, Global Change, Habitat Fragmentation and Nationalism.
- Social Behavior
- Bildungsungleichheit
- Neural Mechanisms
- Altruism
- Cognition
- Social Cognition
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Heart Failure
- Anxiety
- Governance
- Neurological Disorders
- History
- Gender
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Biodiversity
- Identity
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
- Public Health
- Treatment
- Remote Sensing
- Depression
- Obesity
- Nationalism
- Invasive Species
- Global Change
- Conservation
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Ecosystem Services
- Air Quality
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
- Satellite Observations
- Cooperation
- Hydrological Cycle
- Ethnografisches Schreiben
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
- Climate Change560▲ 1.64×103 topics
- Epidemiology542◆ 1.08×132 topics
- Inflammation315▲ 1.19×83 topics
- Sustainability276◆ 0.89×90 topics
- Machine Learning267▼ 0.64×80 topics
- Globalization218◆ 0.88×110 topics
- Public Health203◆ 1.10×56 topics
- Identity199▲ 2.2×65 topics
- Treatment192▲ 1.25×50 topics
- Biodiversity188▲ 1.98×31 topics
- Remote Sensing185▲ 1.19×36 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease181▲ 1.29×38 topics
- Depression167▲ 1.50×23 topics
- Risk Factors167▲ 1.20×37 topics
- Obesity162▲ 1.69×25 topics
- Gender158▲ 2.3×45 topics
- Nationalism151▲ 2.6×30 topics
- History146▲ 1.65×51 topics
- Invasive Species146▲ 2.7×21 topics
- Neurological Disorders130▲ 1.80×19 topics
- Global Change128▲ 3.9×7 topics
- Governance120▲ 2.9×16 topics
- Conservation120▲ 2.2×23 topics
- Anxiety118▲ 1.97×12 topics
- Habitat Fragmentation117▲ 4.2×5 topics
- Heart Failure117▲ 2.1×14 topics
- Ecosystem Services116▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation108▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Air Quality100▲ 4.3×6 topics
- Social Cognition96▲ 4.5×9 topics
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse84▲ 16×2 topics
- Cognition75▲ 4.3×6 topics
- Satellite Observations73▲ 6.0×3 topics
- Altruism73▲ 6.8×5 topics
- Cooperation72▲ 8.8×4 topics
- Neural Mechanisms68▲ 5.8×4 topics
- Hydrological Cycle67▲ 5.6×2 topics
- Bildungsungleichheit61▲ 16×1 topic
- Ethnografisches Schreiben61▲ 16×1 topic
- Social Behavior57▲ 7.9×3 topics
What research is done in Leipzig?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 61 works
- 2 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 55 works
- 3 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 50 works
- 4 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 45 works
- 5 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 44 works
- 6 German Literature and Culture Studies Literature and Literary Theory 43 works
- 7 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 43 works
- 8 Health and Medical Studies General Health Professions 42 works
- 9 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 40 works
- 10 Primate Behavior and Ecology Social Psychology 40 works
Research output over time
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