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Research in Mannheim

Science Explorer records 28 research institutions in Mannheim, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Mannheim, Central Institute of Mental Health and Technische Hochschule Mannheim.

Research institutions
28
5 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
32k
▲ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
728k
22.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
23.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Mannheim

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 Mannheim?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of MannheimUniversity 14,570 #1,042
2Central Institute of Mental HealthHospital / health system 3,778 #3,234
3Technische Hochschule MannheimUniversity 1,448 #4,025
4ABB (Germany)Company 724 #22,161
5Fuchs (Germany)Company 324 #13,652 all time
6Westinghouse Electric (Germany)Company 251 #25,707 all time
7Universitäts HNO Klinik MannheimHospital / health system 207 #28,830 all time
8University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment AgencyUniversity 164 #32,627 all time
9Forschungsgemeinschaft für elektrische Anlagen und StromwirtschaftResearch facility 159 #26,748 all time
10Spiegel Institut (Germany)Company 116 not ranked
11University of Applied Management StudiesUniversity 115 #19,562
12Bilfinger (Germany)Company 107 not ranked
13Grosskraftwerk Mannheim (Germany)Company 86 not ranked
14Südzucker (Germany)Company 84 not ranked
15Curt Engelhorn Centre ArchaeometryResearch facility 80 not ranked
16Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Heidelberg-MannheimGovernment institution 66 not ranked
17Center for Evaluation and DevelopmentNonprofit 52 not ranked
18MVV Energie (Germany)Company 48 not ranked
19Reiss Engelhorn MuseumArchive 36 not ranked
20Research Centre for Applied System Safety and Industrial MedicineNonprofit 27 not ranked
21Power Plus Communications (Germany)Company 24 not ranked
22Dr. Rolf M. Schwiete StiftungNonprofit 18 not ranked
23Mannheim University of Music and Performing ArtsUniversity 16 not ranked
24Gesundheitsnetz Rhein-NeckarNonprofit 11 not ranked
25Hochschule für Gesundheitsorientierte Wissenschaften Rhein-NeckarUniversity 9 not ranked
26Vaximm (Germany)Company 5 not ranked
27Invisio (Germany)Company 4 not ranked
28Herzog + Partner (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 Mannheim: 64.7%Central Institute of Mental Health: 16.8%Technische Hochschule Mannheim: 6.4%ABB (Germany): 3.2%24 others listed: 8.9%65%largest
University of Mannheim15k · 64.7%Central Institute of Mental Health3,778 · 16.8%Technische Hochschule Mannheim1,448 · 6.4%ABB (Germany)724 · 3.2%24 others listed2,010 · 8.9%

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

Which fields of science does Mannheim work in?

In 2022-now, 51% of research in Mannheim is in Social Sciences, 21% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (21%), Medicine (19%), Computer Science (10%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2,802 fractional works · 50.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,159 fractional works · 21.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 477 fractional works · 8.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 219 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEducation: 77 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGender Studies: 70 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCommunication: 69 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLaw: 54 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 45 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 50 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 420 fractional works · 7.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 121 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 107 fractional works · 1.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 103 fractional works · 1.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 42 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 42 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 375 fractional works · 6.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 138 fractional works · 2.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 70 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhilosophy: 40 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClassics: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 369 fractional works · 6.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 108 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAccounting: 66 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 62 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 49 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 45 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 304 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 230 fractional works · 4.2% of its workFinance: 47 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 174 fractional works · 3.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 89 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 57 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,178 fractional works · 21.3% of its workMedicine: 1,035 fractional works · 18.8% of its workSurgery: 151 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 82 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 79 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 74 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOncology: 69 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEpidemiology: 64 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 62 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 58 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysiology: 51 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 31 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHepatology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 106 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 125 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 90 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,093 fractional works · 19.8% of its workComputer Science: 535 fractional works · 9.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 252 fractional works · 4.6% of its workInformation Systems: 116 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 50 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 290 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 49 fractional works · 0.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 43 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 43 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 37 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 43 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMathematics: 69 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 30 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 67 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 54 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 41 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 448 fractional works · 8.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 203 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 117 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 31 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 172 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 100 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 14 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 37 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKMannheim5,520fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences21%Social Sciences51%

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. Social Sciences2,80250.8%
    1. Social Sciences1,15921.0%
    2. Psychology4207.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities3756.8%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting3696.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3045.5%
    6. Decision Sciences1743.2%
  2. Health Sciences1,17821.3%
    1. Medicine1,03518.8%
    2. Health Professions1252.3%
    3. Nursing100.2%
    4. Veterinary40.1%
    5. Dentistry40.1%
    1. Computer Science5359.7%
    2. Engineering2905.3%
    3. Mathematics691.3%
    4. Environmental Science671.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy410.7%
    6. Chemistry240.4%
    7. Materials Science230.4%
    8. Energy220.4%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences190.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering30.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2033.7%
    2. Neuroscience1723.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology390.7%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences270.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics70.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Mannheim strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Mannheim is most concentrated in Classics, Language and Linguistics and Applied Psychology (7.7× the world share in Classics).

  1. ClassicsSubfield · 22.4 works7.7×
  2. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 118.3 works5.5×
  3. Applied PsychologySubfield · 36.8 works5.3×
  4. CommunicationSubfield · 63.4 works4.7×
  5. Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 93.3 works4.0×
  6. Gender StudiesSubfield · 60.8 works3.4×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 26 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.67× its world share, 175 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.66× its world share, 33 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.85× its world share, 147 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.31× its world share, 5 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.29× its world share, 22 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.22× its world share, 464 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 16 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.45× its world share, 20 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.36× its world share, 264 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.24× its world share, 59 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 20 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.05× its world share, 60 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.34× its world share, 37 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.88× its world share, 113 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.95× its world share, 898 worksMedicineNursing: 0.35× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.51× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.32× its world share, 327 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.13× its world share, 336 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.23× its world share, 153 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.76× its world share, 289 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.49× its world share, 371 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.68× its world share, 1,038 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences3.23×153 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.76×289 works
  3. Psychology2.49×371 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.32×327 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting2.13×336 works
  6. Neuroscience1.85×147 works
  7. Social Sciences1.68×1,038 works
  8. Computer Science1.22×464 works
  9. Mathematics1.05×60 works
  10. Medicine0.95×898 works
  11. Health Professions0.88×113 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.67×175 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.66×33 works
  14. Veterinary0.51×3 works
  15. Energy0.45×20 works
  16. Engineering0.36×264 works
  17. Nursing0.35×8 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.34×37 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.31×5 works
  20. Chemistry0.29×22 works
  21. Environmental Science0.24×59 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.21×16 works
  23. Dentistry0.14×3 works
  24. Materials Science0.12×20 works
  25. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.11×26 works
  26. Chemical Engineering0.11×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Mannheim?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Big Data, Social Media, Public Opinion, Globalization, Labor Market, Data Integration, Economic Policy and Machine Learning.

▲ 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 Learning200◆ 1.09×76 topics
  2. Big Data180▲ 3.4×21 topics
  3. Globalization168▲ 1.55×84 topics
  4. Epidemiology164▼ 0.75×117 topics
  5. Social Media162▲ 2.1×30 topics
  6. Mental Health131▲ 1.66×39 topics
  7. Innovation105▲ 1.85×35 topics
  8. Corporate Governance96▲ 2.4×22 topics
  9. Depression93▲ 1.91×21 topics
  10. Labor Market82▲ 5.3×16 topics
  11. Public Opinion81▲ 12×5 topics
  12. Leadership81▲ 3.0×19 topics
  13. Governance74▲ 4.1×14 topics
  14. Democracy73▲ 3.8×20 topics
  15. Data Integration70▲ 7.4×6 topics
  16. Sociolinguistics68▲ 6.7×7 topics
  17. Economic Policy68▲ 24×6 topics
  18. Political Science60▲ 33×4 topics
  19. Discourse Analysis59▲ 4.4×5 topics
  20. Language Variation58▲ 19×3 topics
  21. Digital Communication58▲ 15×3 topics
  22. Topic Modeling55▲ 6.5×2 topics
  23. Income Inequality55▲ 7.1×7 topics
  24. Multimodality55▲ 19×2 topics
  25. Data Quality55▲ 23×5 topics
  26. Phraseology53▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Communication Practices52▲ 48×1 topic
  28. Text Linguistics52▲ 48×1 topic
  29. Empirical Analysis51▲ 42×1 topic
  30. Voter Behavior51▲ 42×1 topic
  31. Online Communication51▲ 6.0×3 topics
  32. Semantic Web50▲ 9.6×5 topics
  33. Digital Repositories50▲ 26×2 topics
  34. Data Sharing48▲ 27×2 topics
  35. Political Communication45▲ 15×2 topics
  36. Response Rates45▲ 150×1 topic
  37. Survey Methodology45▲ 150×1 topic
  38. Genetic Testing44▲ 6.8×4 topics
  39. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse42▲ 20×2 topics
  40. Social Policy42▲ 8.3×5 topics

What research is done in Mannheim?

Electoral Systems and Po…49Electoral Systems and Political Participation: 49 fractional worksLinguistic research and …43Linguistic research and analysis: 43 fractional worksSurvey Methodology and Nonresponse: 42 fractional worksSocial Media and Politics: 35 fractional worksPhysics and Engineering Research Articles: 33 fractional worksData Quality and Management: 32 fractional worksMedical and Health Sciences Research: 31 fractional worksTopic Modeling30Topic Modeling: 30 fractional worksPopulism, Right-Wing Movements: 28 fractional worksSociology and Education Studies: 27 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsLanguage and LinguisticsSociology and Political ScienceCommunication4 others

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

  1. 1 Electoral Systems and Political Participation Political Science and International Relations 49 works
  2. 2 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 43 works
  3. 3 Survey Methodology and Nonresponse Sociology and Political Science 42 works
  4. 4 Social Media and Politics Communication 35 works
  5. 5 Physics and Engineering Research Articles Computational Mechanics 33 works
  6. 6 Data Quality and Management Management Science and Operations Research 32 works
  7. 7 Medical and Health Sciences Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 31 works
  8. 8 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 30 works
  9. 9 Populism, Right-Wing Movements Political Science and International Relations 28 works
  10. 10 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 27 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 counting20%40%Mannheim20.5% 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 31.1% in 2009.

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