Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
City · Austria

Research in Linz

Science Explorer records 31 research institutions in Linz, Austria. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Software Competence Center Hagenberg (Austria) and University of Education Upper Austria.

Research institutions
31
11 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
28k
▲ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
455k
16.3 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
16.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Linz

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 Linz?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Johannes Kepler University of LinzUniversity 19,624 #678
2Voestalpine (Austria)Company 1,019 #13,996
3Ordensklinikum Linz Barmherzige SchwesternHospital / health system 870 #15,314
4Krankenhaus der ElisabethinenHospital / health system 817 #20,634
5Software Competence Center Hagenberg (Austria)Company 788 #11,841
6Linz Center of Mechatronics (Austria)Company 684 #15,367
7Women's General HospitalHospital / health system 569 #16,229 all time
8Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese LinzUniversity 493 #14,565
9Kompetenzzentrum HolzCompany 467 #15,992
10University of Arts and Industrial Design LinzUniversity 335 #17,254
11University of Education Upper AustriaUniversity 272 #13,458
12Convent Hospital of the Brothers of Saint John of GodHospital / health system 255 #28,369 all time
13Research Center for Non Destructive Testing (Austria)Company 218 #22,401 all time
14Catholic Theological Private University LinzUniversity 169 #21,950
15Plastic Electronic (Austria)Company 132 #28,471 all time
16Upper Austrian ResearchCompany 107 not ranked
17Primetals Technologies (Austria)Company 97 not ranked
18Anton Bruckner Private UniversityUniversity 83 not ranked
19University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper AustriaUniversity 60 not ranked
20Ars Electronica CenterArchive 43 not ranked
21DSM (Austria)Company 34 not ranked
22DCS Computing (Austria)Company 33 not ranked
23GespagHospital / health system 23 not ranked
24OÖ EnergiesparverbandInstitution 15 not ranked
25FerRobotics Compliant Robot Technology (Austria)Company 13 not ranked
26Swietelsky (Austria)Company 10 not ranked
27Plasser and Theurer (Austria)Company 9 not ranked
28BioMed zet Life ScienceNonprofit 8 not ranked
29StifterHausArchive 4 not ranked
30Interdisciplinary Transformation University AustriaUniversity 4 not ranked
31Business Upper Austria – OÖ WirtschaftsagenturGovernment institution 2 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.

Johannes Kepler University of Linz: 72.0%Voestalpine (Austria): 3.7%Ordensklinikum Linz Barmherzige Schwestern: 3.2%Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen: 3.0%27 others listed: 18.1%72%largest
Johannes Kepler University of Linz20k · 72.0%Voestalpine (Austria)1,019 · 3.7%Ordensklinikum Linz Barmherzige Schwestern870 · 3.2%Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen817 · 3.0%27 others listed4,927 · 18.1%

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

Which fields of science does Linz work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research in Linz is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (22%), Medicine (17%), Computer Science (16%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 3,034 fractional works · 51.3% of its workEngineering: 1,327 fractional works · 22.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 227 fractional works · 3.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 217 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 201 fractional works · 3.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 141 fractional works · 2.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 125 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 92 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 92 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 64 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 55 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 40 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 934 fractional works · 15.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 304 fractional works · 5.1% of its workInformation Systems: 124 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 115 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 92 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 77 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSoftware: 55 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSignal Processing: 46 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 38 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 35 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 219 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 91 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 52 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 164 fractional works · 2.8% of its workApplied Mathematics: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNumerical Analysis: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeometry and Topology: 21 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 127 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 73 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 111 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPollution: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 47 fractional works · 0.8% of its workChemistry: 77 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 44 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,418 fractional works · 24.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 612 fractional works · 10.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 227 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEducation: 112 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 85 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLaw: 49 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGender Studies: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 58 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 261 fractional works · 4.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 83 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 52 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 42 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 177 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 63 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 42 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 176 fractional works · 3.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 27 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReligious studies: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 113 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 71 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFinance: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 79 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 32 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,130 fractional works · 19.1% of its workMedicine: 1,020 fractional works · 17.2% of its workSurgery: 166 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 85 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEpidemiology: 77 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 68 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 63 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 60 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 48 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 43 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 36 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 25 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNephrology: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 87 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 93 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 60 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 333 fractional works · 5.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 173 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 87 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGenetics: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 45 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeuroscience: 82 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 37 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 46 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 26 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 20 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKLinz5,915fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences51%Health Sciences19%Social Sciences24%

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. Engineering1,32722.4%
    2. Computer Science93415.8%
    3. Materials Science2193.7%
    4. Mathematics1642.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy1272.2%
    6. Environmental Science1111.9%
    7. Chemistry771.3%
    8. Energy330.6%
    9. Chemical Engineering230.4%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences190.3%
  2. Social Sciences1,41824.0%
    1. Social Sciences61210.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting2614.4%
    3. Psychology1773.0%
    4. Arts and Humanities1763.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1131.9%
    6. Decision Sciences791.3%
  3. Health Sciences1,13019.1%
    1. Medicine1,02017.2%
    2. Health Professions931.6%
    3. Nursing110.2%
    4. Dentistry50.1%
    5. Veterinary30.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1732.9%
    2. Neuroscience821.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences460.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology260.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics60.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Linz strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Linz is most concentrated in Software, Algebra and Number Theory and Hardware and Architecture (15.2× the world share in Software).

  1. SoftwareSubfield · 51.4 works15×
  2. Algebra and Number TheorySubfield · 20.8 works6.2×
  3. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 35.1 works5.9×
  4. Numerical AnalysisSubfield · 23.4 works5.2×
  5. Computational Theory and MathematicsSubfield · 107.0 works4.8×
  6. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 116.2 works4.3×
← 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: 0.15× its world share, 38 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.54× its world share, 150 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.41× its world share, 21 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.83× its world share, 70 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.09× its world share, 20 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.83× its world share, 68 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.08× its world share, 849 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 16 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.49× its world share, 24 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.54× its world share, 1,212 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.36× its world share, 94 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.05× its world share, 192 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.36× its world share, 146 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.94× its world share, 110 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.61× its world share, 85 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.85× its world share, 856 worksMedicineNursing: 0.34× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.04× its world share, 158 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.43× its world share, 242 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.44× its world share, 73 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.95× its world share, 107 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.96× its world share, 153 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.82× its world share, 543 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 2.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics2.36×146 works
  2. Computer Science2.08×849 works
  3. Engineering1.54×1,212 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.44×73 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.43×242 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.09×20 works
  7. Materials Science1.05×192 works
  8. Arts and Humanities1.04×158 works
  9. Psychology0.96×153 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.95×107 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.94×110 works
  12. Medicine0.85×856 works
  13. Neuroscience0.83×70 works
  14. Chemistry0.83×68 works
  15. Social Sciences0.82×543 works
  16. Health Professions0.61×85 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.54×150 works
  18. Energy0.49×24 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.41×21 works
  20. Environmental Science0.36×94 works
  21. Nursing0.34×9 works
  22. Veterinary0.30×2 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.26×5 works
  24. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.19×16 works
  25. Dentistry0.17×4 works
  26. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×38 works

Which keywords describe research in Linz?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Neural Networks, Mechanical Properties, Sustainability and Industrial Automation.

▲ 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. Machine Learning238▲ 1.21×78 topics
  2. Deep Learning236▲ 1.16×73 topics
  3. Epidemiology172▼ 0.73×125 topics
  4. Sustainability142◆ 0.98×71 topics
  5. Neural Networks127▲ 1.39×36 topics
  6. Big Data122▲ 2.2×24 topics
  7. Mechanical Properties104▲ 1.80×37 topics
  8. Artificial Intelligence96◆ 1.14×34 topics
  9. Education88▼ 0.86×66 topics
  10. Biomedical Applications78◆ 1.12×31 topics
  11. Innovation73▲ 1.20×41 topics
  12. Governance61▲ 3.2×11 topics
  13. Ethics56▲ 1.87×31 topics
  14. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse52▲ 23×2 topics
  15. Autonomous Vehicles46▲ 3.7×5 topics
  16. Industrial Automation43▲ 11×3 topics
  17. Software Engineering41▲ 7.9×2 topics
  18. Model Checking40▲ 15×3 topics
  19. Requirements Engineering39▲ 15×3 topics
  20. Flexible Automation39▲ 27×1 topic
  21. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems39▲ 27×1 topic
  22. Fluid-Structure Interaction39▲ 4.4×6 topics
  23. Distributed Systems38▲ 3.7×6 topics
  24. Bildungsungleichheit37▲ 23×1 topic
  25. Ethnografisches Schreiben37▲ 23×1 topic
  26. Software Development34▲ 11×2 topics
  27. Model-Based Development32▲ 28×2 topics
  28. Quantum Information32▲ 4.6×3 topics
  29. Metamodeling28▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Code Clone Detection27▲ 12×1 topic
  31. Refactoring27▲ 12×1 topic
  32. Prison System27▲ 8.1×2 topics
  33. Automata26▲ 16×2 topics
  34. Youth Offenders26▲ 9.8×2 topics
  35. Temporal Logic25▲ 13×2 topics
  36. Autonomic Computing25▲ 38×1 topic
  37. Legal Reforms25▲ 44×1 topic
  38. Security Measures25▲ 32×1 topic
  39. Self-Adaptive Systems25▲ 38×1 topic
  40. Regulatory Agencies25▲ 19×2 topics

What research is done in Linz?

Flexible and Reconfigura…37Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: 37 fractional worksSociology and Education …35Sociology and Education Studies: 35 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Research: 27 fractional worksDigital Transformation in Industry: 25 fractional worksAdvanced Software Engineering Methodologies: 25 fractional worksManufacturing Process and Optimization: 24 fractional worksCriminal Law and Policy: 23 fractional worksModel-Driven Software En…22Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques: 22 fractional worksLaw and Political Science: 22 fractional worksQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture: 22 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceInformation SystemsArtificial Intelligence2 others

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

  1. 1 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 37 works
  2. 2 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 35 works
  3. 3 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 27 works
  4. 4 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 25 works
  5. 5 Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies Artificial Intelligence 25 works
  6. 6 Manufacturing Process and Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 24 works
  7. 7 Criminal Law and Policy Sociology and Political Science 23 works
  8. 8 Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques Software 22 works
  9. 9 Law and Political Science Law 22 works
  10. 10 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 22 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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%Linz16.5% 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 27.1% in 2005.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Linz. Posts are plain text and can be reported.