City · Germany
Research in Munich
Science Explorer records 262 research institutions in Munich, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Technical University of Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology.
- Research institutions
- 262 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 504k ▼ 2% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.3% record average 16.5%
A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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 Munich?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenUniversity | 104,672 | #105 | |
| 2 | Max Planck SocietyNonprofit | 104,111 | #3,162 | |
| 3 | Technical University of MunichUniversity | 97,111 | #76 | |
| 4 | Siemens (Germany)Company | 22,072 | #4,695 | |
| 5 | München KlinikHospital / health system | 19,413 | #7,037 | |
| 6 | LMU KlinikumHospital / health system | 15,010 | #1,066 | |
| 7 | Munich University of Applied SciencesUniversity | 12,374 | #8,139 | |
| 8 | TUM KlinikumHospital / health system | 11,261 | #2,178 | |
| 9 | Universität der Bundeswehr MünchenUniversity | 10,744 | #3,098 | |
| 10 | Helmholtz Zentrum MünchenResearch facility | 6,493 | #957 | |
| 11 | Max Planck Institute of PsychiatryResearch facility | 5,976 | #5,048 | |
| 12 | Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und PsychotherapieHospital / health system | 5,607 | #22,284 | |
| 13 | Ifo Institute for Economic ResearchResearch facility | 5,431 | #5,626 | |
| 14 | Max Planck Institute for PhysicsResearch facility | 5,029 | #3,287 | |
| 15 | Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGovernment institution | 4,673 | #18,005 | |
| 16 | Infineon Technologies (Germany)Company | 4,442 | #10,852 | |
| 17 | Bristol-Myers Squibb (Germany)Company | 2,596 | #7,764 | |
| 18 | Deutsches Herzzentrum MünchenHospital / health system | 2,555 | #8,439 | |
| 19 | Center for NanoScienceResearch facility | 2,491 | #2,261 | |
| 20 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Germany)Company | 2,436 | #20,483 | |
| 21 | Max Planck Institute for Innovation and CompetitionResearch facility | 2,317 | #17,951 | |
| 22 | BMW (Germany)Company | 1,973 | #9,653 | |
| 23 | Klinik und Poliklinik für Strahlentherapie und RadioonkologieHospital / health system | 1,751 | #26,776 | |
| 24 | München Klinik BogenhausenHospital / health system | 1,719 | #22,173 | |
| 25 | Central Institute for Art HistoryResearch facility | 1,690 | #22,649 all time | |
| 26 | Institut für Urheber- und MedienrechtResearch facility | 1,592 | #26,133 | |
| 27 | Ukrainian Free UniversityUniversity | 1,455 | #24,567 | |
| 28 | BMW Group (Germany)Company | 1,413 | #12,256 | |
| 29 | Munich School of PhilosophyUniversity | 1,386 | #4,887 | |
| 30 | München Klinik SchwabingHospital / health system | 1,299 | #21,926 | |
| 31 | Klinik und Poliklinik für Orthopädie, Physikalische Medizin und RehabilitationHospital / health system | 1,219 | #14,206 all time | |
| 32 | Institut für Zeitgeschichte München–BerlinNonprofit | 1,199 | #24,113 | |
| 33 | Bavarian State Collection of ZoologyArchive | 1,196 | #20,148 | |
| 34 | AcatechUniversity | 1,139 | #7,485 all time | |
| 35 | German Center for Diabetes ResearchResearch facility | 1,107 | #3,967 | |
| 36 | Center for Integrated Protein Science MunichInstitution | 1,106 | #2,707 all time | |
| 37 | Daiichi Sankyo (Germany)Company | 1,092 | #19,453 | |
| 38 | Universität BayernUniversity | 1,041 | #21,918 | |
| 39 | Munich Security ConferenceNonprofit | 987 | #8,574 all time | |
| 40 | Munich Leukemia Laboratory (Germany)Company | 824 | #15,574 | |
| 41 | Linde (Germany)Company | 790 | #19,329 | |
| 42 | MTU Aero Engines (Germany)Company | 783 | #26,112 | |
| 43 | Deutsches JugendinstitutResearch facility | 777 | #20,481 | |
| 44 | Rohde & Schwarz (Germany)Company | 770 | #17,942 | |
| 45 | Nokia (Germany)Company | 744 | #16,849 | |
| 46 | Electro Optical Systems (Germany)Company | 728 | #15,475 | |
| 47 | München Klinik HarlachingHospital / health system | 726 | #27,239 all time | |
| 48 | Bavarian Academy of Sciences and HumanitiesUniversity | 721 | #9,747 | |
| 49 | Medical Genetics CenterHospital / health system | 676 | #19,630 | |
| 50 | OSRAM (Germany)Company | 673 | #5,677 all time | |
| 51 | GP ForschungsgruppeNonprofit | 660 | #26,491 | |
| 52 | Intel (Germany)Company | 620 | #14,847 | |
| 53 | Baum ConsultNonprofit | 581 | #21,734 all time | |
| 54 | Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und GeologieArchive | 572 | #13,837 all time | |
| 55 | Deutsches MuseumArchive | 554 | #22,929 | |
| 56 | Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und BeratungNonprofit | 550 | #21,264 | |
| 57 | Munich Cluster for Systems NeurologyResearch facility | 549 | #2,782 | |
| 58 | Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public FinanceResearch facility | 523 | #26,835 | |
| 59 | DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbHCompany | 521 | #19,194 all time | |
| 60 | Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche ForschungNonprofit | 516 | #24,786 all time |
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.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München105k · 21.6%Max Planck Society104k · 21.5%Technical University of Munich97k · 20.0%Siemens (Germany)22k · 4.6%56 others listed157k · 32.4%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Munich strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Munich is most concentrated in Theoretical Computer Science, Software and Classics (4.8× the world share in Theoretical Computer Science).
- Theoretical Computer ScienceSubfield · 47.7 works4.8×
- SoftwareSubfield · 139.9 works3.8×
- ClassicsSubfield · 107.9 works3.1×
- Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 203.2 works3.1×
- TransportationSubfield · 584.8 works3.0×
- General Decision SciencesSubfield · 30.9 works2.8×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 469.3 works2.6×
- Management of Technology and InnovationSubfield · 443.3 works2.5×
← 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.
Which keywords describe research in Munich?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Legal Regulation, Machine Learning, Philosophy, Epidemiology, Big Data, History and Sustainability.
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
- Mobile Health
- Malay Language
- Air Force
- Strategic Planning
- Islam
- Public Oversight
- International Trade Law
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Economic Security
- Thermal Management
- Culture
- Legal Regulation
- Philosophy
- Renewable Energy
- History
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainable Development
- Sustainability
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Inflammation
- Big Data
- Neural Networks
- Human Rights
- Literature
- Digital Transformation
- Ethnicity
- Science
- Social Influence
- Modernization
- Foresight
- Transport Policy
- Design
- Sharia Law
- Warfare
- Fluid Dynamics
- Business Models
▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 Learning2,036◆ 1.03×84 topics
- Machine Learning1,920◆ 1.02×93 topics
- Epidemiology1,858▼ 0.81×139 topics
- Sustainability1,423◆ 1.01×129 topics
- Climate Change1,231▼ 0.79×127 topics
- Sustainable Development1,078▲ 1.18×100 topics
- Inflammation1,070◆ 0.89×83 topics
- Artificial Intelligence1,057▲ 1.34×64 topics
- Big Data994▲ 1.90×34 topics
- History892▲ 2.2×66 topics
- Neural Networks881◆ 0.99×42 topics
- Renewable Energy877◆ 1.06×58 topics
- Human Rights850▲ 1.43×87 topics
- Philosophy800▲ 3.1×46 topics
- Literature770▲ 2.5×61 topics
- Legal Regulation735▲ 5.8×8 topics
- Digital Transformation710▲ 2.3×31 topics
- Culture622▲ 2.0×38 topics
- Ethnicity538▲ 2.5×25 topics
- Thermal Management522▲ 2.7×8 topics
- Science515▲ 3.6×12 topics
- Economic Security500▲ 4.0×7 topics
- Social Influence461▲ 3.7×3 topics
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles458▲ 4.2×5 topics
- Modernization445▲ 4.2×5 topics
- International Trade Law440▲ 5.7×2 topics
- Foresight432▲ 5.5×2 topics
- Public Oversight431▲ 5.9×1 topic
- Transport Policy431▲ 5.9×1 topic
- Islam428▲ 3.5×5 topics
- Design426▲ 4.5×6 topics
- Strategic Planning422▲ 4.9×5 topics
- Sharia Law416▲ 5.0×2 topics
- Air Force415▲ 5.9×1 topic
- Warfare415▲ 5.9×1 topic
- Malay Language415▲ 5.1×1 topic
- Fluid Dynamics379▲ 4.8×6 topics
- Mobile Health351▲ 4.4×3 topics
- Business Models293▲ 7.2×4 topics
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse280▲ 12×2 topics
What research is done in Munich?
TransportationAerospace EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceComputational Mechanics5 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Legal and Regulatory AnalysisTransportation 431 works
- 2 Military Technology and StrategiesAerospace Engineering 415 works
- 3 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary StudiesSociology and Political Science 415 works
- 4 Physics and Engineering Research ArticlesComputational Mechanics 259 works
- 5 Digital Innovation in IndustriesManagement of Technology and Innovation 256 works
- 6 Corporate Governance and ManagementStrategy and Management 235 works
- 7 Sociology and Education StudiesSociology and Political Science 201 works
- 8 Corporate Management and LeadershipOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 189 works
- 9 Health and Medical StudiesGeneral Health Professions 183 works
- 10 Medical and Health Sciences ResearchPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 182 works
Research output over time
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.