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Research in Salzburg

Science Explorer records 19 research institutions in Salzburg, Austria. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Salzburg, Paracelsus Medical University and Fachhochschule Salzburg.

Research institutions
19
6 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
26k
▲ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
526k
20.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
18.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Salzburg

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 Salzburg?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of SalzburgUniversity 15,350 #826
2Paracelsus Medical UniversityUniversity 6,297 #2,771
3Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and PreventionResearch facility 1,793 #9,725
4Fachhochschule SalzburgUniversity 1,035 #4,219
5Unfallkrankenhaus SalzburgHospital / health system 676 #13,973
6Pädagogische Hochschule SalzburgUniversity 485 #12,024
7Research Studios AustriaNonprofit 383 #20,751 all time
8Mozarteum University of SalzburgUniversity 218 #19,931 all time
9EB House AustriaHospital / health system 73 not ranked
10Gesundheitszentrum OberndorfHospital / health system 13 not ranked
11Haus der Natur - Museum für Natur und TechnikArchive 11 not ranked
12Georesearch ForschungsgesellschaftNonprofit 10 not ranked
13Wings for LifeNonprofit 9 not ranked
14Salzburg Global SeminarNonprofit 5 not ranked
15Bühler (Austria)Company 3 not ranked
16Benteler (Austria)Company 3 not ranked
17PROJEKTkompetenzInstitution 2 not ranked
18Arbeitsgemeinschaft medikamentöse TumortherapieNonprofit 2 not ranked
19Archiv der Erzdiözese SalzburgArchive 0 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 Salzburg: 58.2%Paracelsus Medical University: 23.9%Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention: 6.8%Fachhochschule Salzburg: 3.9%14 others listed: 7.2%58%largest
University of Salzburg15k · 58.2%Paracelsus Medical University6,297 · 23.9%Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention1,793 · 6.8%Fachhochschule Salzburg1,035 · 3.9%14 others listed1,893 · 7.2%

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

Which fields of science does Salzburg work in?

In 2022-now, 38% of research in Salzburg is in Social Sciences, 30% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (27%), Social Sciences (17%), Arts and Humanities (9%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2,000 fractional works · 37.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 894 fractional works · 16.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 339 fractional works · 6.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 175 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEducation: 85 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLaw: 57 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCommunication: 47 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCultural Studies: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 453 fractional works · 8.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 84 fractional works · 1.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 80 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhilosophy: 68 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHistory: 48 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 36 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReligious studies: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClassics: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 337 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 109 fractional works · 2.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 81 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 77 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 35 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 33 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 176 fractional works · 3.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 62 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 42 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 75 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 47 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 66 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 39 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFinance: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,572 fractional works · 29.7% of its workMedicine: 1,405 fractional works · 26.5% of its workSurgery: 240 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 114 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 103 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 97 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEpidemiology: 76 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOncology: 73 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysiology: 70 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNeurology: 52 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 48 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 47 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 45 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 45 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 45 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 34 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 24 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHematology: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDermatology: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHepatology: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 88 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 141 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 87 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 37 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 9 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 7 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1,166 fractional works · 22.0% of its workComputer Science: 384 fractional works · 7.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 123 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 69 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 48 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 43 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 35 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 312 fractional works · 5.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 82 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 41 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 32 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 17 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 14 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 13 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 186 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 41 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 23 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 77 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeophysics: 26 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 22 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 29 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 67 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 16 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 61 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 13 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 40 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 28 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 12 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 560 fractional works · 10.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 262 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 123 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGenetics: 54 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 20 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 35 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 163 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 102 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 15 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 25 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 92 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPlant Science: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 29 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 11 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 38 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 30 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSalzburg5,298fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences22%Health Sciences30%Social Sciences38%

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 Sciences2,00037.7%
    1. Social Sciences89416.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities4538.6%
    3. Psychology3376.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting1763.3%
    5. Decision Sciences751.4%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance661.2%
  2. Health Sciences1,57229.7%
    1. Medicine1,40526.5%
    2. Health Professions1412.7%
    3. Nursing100.2%
    4. Dentistry90.2%
    5. Veterinary70.1%
    1. Computer Science3847.3%
    2. Engineering3125.9%
    3. Environmental Science1863.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences771.5%
    5. Mathematics671.3%
    6. Materials Science611.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy400.7%
    8. Chemistry250.5%
    9. Energy120.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering20.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2625.0%
    2. Neuroscience1633.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences921.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology380.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics50.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Salzburg strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Salzburg is most concentrated in Human-Computer Interaction, Applied Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science (4.7× the world share in Human-Computer Interaction).

  1. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 43.6 works4.7×
  2. Applied PsychologySubfield · 28.3 works4.4×
  3. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 30.0 works4.3×
  4. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 72.6 works3.7×
  5. Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield · 41.8 works3.6×
← 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: 0.38× its world share, 81 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.95× its world share, 230 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.75× its world share, 34 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.91× its world share, 140 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.33× its world share, 23 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.84× its world share, 294 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.84× its world share, 60 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.27× its world share, 11 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 233 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.72× its world share, 161 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.33× its world share, 52 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.05× its world share, 56 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.29× its world share, 29 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.40× its world share, 9 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.06× its world share, 127 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.41× its world share, 1,227 worksMedicineNursing: 0.38× its world share, 8 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.10× its world share, 7 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.95× its world share, 386 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.06× its world share, 154 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.93× its world share, 41 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.61× its world share, 59 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.13× its world share, 294 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.40× its world share, 802 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities2.95×386 works
  2. Psychology2.13×294 works
  3. Neuroscience1.91×140 works
  4. Medicine1.41×1,227 works
  5. Social Sciences1.40×802 works
  6. Veterinary1.10×7 works
  7. Health Professions1.06×127 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting1.06×154 works
  9. Mathematics1.05×56 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.95×230 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.93×41 works
  12. Computer Science0.84×294 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.84×60 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.75×34 works
  15. Environmental Science0.72×161 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.61×59 works
  17. Dentistry0.40×9 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.38×81 works
  19. Nursing0.38×8 works
  20. Engineering0.34×233 works
  21. Chemistry0.33×23 works
  22. Materials Science0.33×52 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.29×29 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.27×4 works
  25. Energy0.27×11 works
  26. Chemical Engineering0.09×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Salzburg?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Identity, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Gender, Inflammation, Governance, Ethics and Bildungsungleichheit.

▲ 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. Epidemiology254▲ 1.20×124 topics
  2. Inflammation153▲ 1.36×79 topics
  3. Climate Change125◆ 0.87×85 topics
  4. Globalization123▲ 1.18×94 topics
  5. Identity106▲ 2.8×55 topics
  6. Human Rights95▲ 1.76×50 topics
  7. Gender92▲ 3.2×44 topics
  8. Public Health92▲ 1.19×53 topics
  9. Treatment92▲ 1.42×49 topics
  10. Social Media86▲ 1.18×32 topics
  11. Risk Factors83▲ 1.43×36 topics
  12. History78▲ 2.1×37 topics
  13. Ethics77▲ 2.9×38 topics
  14. Governance74▲ 4.3×12 topics
  15. Literature64▲ 2.2×41 topics
  16. Complications62▲ 2.4×17 topics
  17. Meta-Analysis62▲ 1.99×17 topics
  18. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse62▲ 30×2 topics
  19. Nationalism61▲ 2.6×24 topics
  20. Philosophy57▲ 2.4×29 topics
  21. Surgery49▲ 2.7×12 topics
  22. Bildungsungleichheit46▲ 32×1 topic
  23. Ethnografisches Schreiben46▲ 32×1 topic
  24. Aesthetics44▲ 11×8 topics
  25. Sociolinguistics42▲ 4.4×8 topics
  26. Bildung41▲ 24×3 topics
  27. Medical Ethics38▲ 5.7×6 topics
  28. Workflow Management37▲ 9.7×2 topics
  29. Software Development35▲ 13×3 topics
  30. Ontologies35▲ 12×2 topics
  31. Bioinformatics34▲ 5.5×3 topics
  32. Semantic Web Services34▲ 12×2 topics
  33. Reproducibility34▲ 16×1 topic
  34. Scientific Workflows34▲ 16×1 topic
  35. Outcomes32▲ 7.4×2 topics
  36. Language Variation32▲ 11×3 topics
  37. Social History31▲ 7.3×7 topics
  38. Phraseology30▲ 8.0×3 topics
  39. Multimodality30▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Political Communication30▲ 10×2 topics

What research is done in Salzburg?

Sociology and Education Studies: 43 fractional worksGerman Literature and Culture Studies: 26 fractional worksMedical and Health Scien…25Medical and Health Sciences Research: 25 fractional worksLinguistic research and …22Linguistic research and analysis: 22 fractional worksLaw and Political Science: 18 fractional worksMedia Studies and Communication: 17 fractional worksHealth and Medical Studies16Health and Medical Studies: 16 fractional worksReligion, Theology, and Education: 16 fractional worksSports Performance and Training: 16 fractional worksOsteoarthritis Treatment…16Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms: 16 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceLiterature and Literary TheoryPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthLanguage and Linguistics6 others

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

  1. 1 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 43 works
  2. 2 German Literature and Culture Studies Literature and Literary Theory 26 works
  3. 3 Medical and Health Sciences Research Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 25 works
  4. 4 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 22 works
  5. 5 Law and Political Science Law 18 works
  6. 6 Media Studies and Communication Communication 17 works
  7. 7 Health and Medical Studies General Health Professions 16 works
  8. 8 Religion, Theology, and Education Religious studies 16 works
  9. 9 Sports Performance and Training Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 16 works
  10. 10 Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Rheumatology 16 works

Research output over time

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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%Salzburg17.5% 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 28.0% in 2015.

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