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Research in Rostock

Science Explorer records 20 research institutions in Rostock, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, University of Rostock and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Research institutions
20
6 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
36k
▲ 5% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
14.6%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Rostock?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of RostockUniversity 26,509 #1,193
2Leibniz Institute for CatalysisResearch facility 2,643 #1,139
3Universitätsmedizin RostockHospital / health system 2,628 #17,778
4Max Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchResearch facility 1,076 #8,864
5Rostocker Zentrum zur Erforschung des Demografischen WandelsResearch facility 1,021 #25,301
6Immungenetics (Germany)Company 581 #8,778 all time
7Klinikum Südstadt RostockHospital / health system 371 #37,831 all time
8Forschungszentrum für Verbrennungsmotoren und Thermodynamik Rostock (Germany)Company 211 #40,789 all time
9Fraunhofer Institute for Large Structures in Production Engineering IGPResearch facility 176 #27,183
10Institute for ImplantTechnology and BiomaterialsResearch facility 142 #41,432 all time
11Centogene (Germany)Company 99 not ranked
12Rostock University of Music and TheatreUniversity 71 not ranked
13Landesamt für Landwirtschaft, Lebensmittelsicherheit und FischereiResearch facility 52 not ranked
14Hanseatic University RostockUniversity 41 not ranked
15DOT (Germany)Company 24 not ranked
16Maritime Wirtschafts- und Schiffbauforschung (Germany)Company 17 not ranked
17NeuroProof (Germany)Company 16 not ranked
18Advanced Simulation & Design (Germany)Company 14 not ranked
19Hanseatic Institute of TechnologyResearch facility 2 not ranked
20Institut für Sicherheitstechnik / SchiffssicherheitNonprofit 2 not ranked

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.

University of Rostock: 74.3%Leibniz Institute for Catalysis: 7.4%Universitätsmedizin Rostock: 7.4%Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: 3.0%16 others listed: 8.0%74%largest
University of Rostock27k · 74.3%Leibniz Institute for Catalysis2,643 · 7.4%Universitätsmedizin Rostock2,628 · 7.4%Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research1,076 · 3.0%16 others listed2,840 · 8.0%

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What is Rostock strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Rostock is most concentrated in Process Chemistry and Technology, Catalysis and Inorganic Chemistry (13.9× the world share in Process Chemistry and Technology).

  1. Process Chemistry and TechnologySubfield · 28.7 works14×
  2. CatalysisSubfield · 58.2 works7.8×
  3. Inorganic ChemistrySubfield · 75.3 works6.0×
  4. Chemical EngineeringField · 103.6 works5.8×
  5. Organic ChemistrySubfield · 222.9 works5.8×
  6. Physical and Theoretical ChemistrySubfield · 22.6 works5.6×
  7. ChemistryField · 359.6 works4.5×
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Which keywords describe research in Rostock?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Catalysis, Hydrogenation, Carbon Dioxide, Transition Metal Complexes, Epidemiology, Dehydrogenation, Transition Metal Catalysis and Green Chemistry.

▲ 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
  1. Epidemiology192◆ 0.96×124 topics
  2. Catalysis191▲ 5.7×28 topics
  3. Climate Change140◆ 1.02×84 topics
  4. Hydrogenation114▲ 13×5 topics
  5. Sustainability108◆ 0.87×64 topics
  6. Nanoparticles88▲ 1.38×40 topics
  7. Renewable Energy88▲ 1.20×41 topics
  8. Biomedical Applications78▲ 1.30×35 topics
  9. Carbon Dioxide60▲ 7.7×4 topics
  10. Transition Metal Complexes59▲ 13×4 topics
  11. Dehydrogenation57▲ 17×2 topics
  12. Medicinal Chemistry56▲ 4.0×13 topics
  13. Green Chemistry53▲ 5.9×10 topics
  14. Transition Metal Catalysis52▲ 12×4 topics
  15. Ionic Liquids51▲ 3.6×11 topics
  16. Health-related Quality of Life46▲ 3.9×6 topics
  17. Oxidation45▲ 5.5×3 topics
  18. Catalytic44▲ 7.3×6 topics
  19. Enantioselective Reactions43▲ 22×2 topics
  20. Asymmetric Catalysis43▲ 22×4 topics
  21. Organic Synthesis42▲ 7.2×11 topics
  22. Metal-Catalyzed Reactions40▲ 13×3 topics
  23. Selective Oxidation39▲ 5.5×2 topics
  24. Chiral Ligands39▲ 24×2 topics
  25. Heterocycles38▲ 8.1×9 topics
  26. Renewable Resources38▲ 4.4×6 topics
  27. Alcohol Activation38▲ 28×1 topic
  28. Amine Synthesis38▲ 28×1 topic
  29. Homogeneous Catalysts37▲ 15×2 topics
  30. Revision Surgery34▲ 5.4×2 topics
  31. Total Hip Replacement34▲ 5.4×2 topics
  32. Renewable Fuels34▲ 5.8×3 topics
  33. Heterogeneous Catalysts33▲ 7.0×3 topics
  34. Chemical Synthesis32▲ 8.1×3 topics
  35. Organometallic Chemistry32▲ 14×5 topics
  36. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse30▲ 15×2 topics
  37. Oxidative Coupling30▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Enantioselective Synthesis30▲ 9.4×7 topics
  39. Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation29▲ 13×1 topic
  40. C–H Activation29▲ 13×1 topic

What research is done in Rostock?

  1. 1 Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis Inorganic Chemistry 38 works
  2. 2 Catalytic Processes in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 30 works
  3. 3 Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods Organic Chemistry 29 works
  4. 4 Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis Process Chemistry and Technology 29 works
  5. 5 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 24 works
  6. 6 Physics and Engineering Research Articles Computational Mechanics 22 works
  7. 7 Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions Catalysis 20 works
  8. 8 Health disparities and outcomes Health 18 works
  9. 9 Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty Surgery 18 works
  10. 10 Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis Organic Chemistry 17 works

Research output over time

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