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Research in Thun

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Thun, Switzerland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Saab (Switzerland).

Research institutions
3
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
490
▲ 38% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.8k
17.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
13.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1961-2026
66 years on the record
Thun

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 Thun?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Saab (Switzerland)Company 383 #16,036
2Tofwerk (Switzerland)Company 80 not ranked
3Meyer Burger Technology (Switzerland)Company 27 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.

Which fields of science does Thun work in?

In 2022-now, 61% of research in Thun is in Physical Sciences, 22% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (28%), Social Sciences (12%), Computer Science (11%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 74 fractional works · 61.1% of its workEngineering: 34 fractional works · 27.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 9 fractional works · 7.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 fractional works · 3.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 13 fractional works · 10.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 8.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 4.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 27 fractional works · 22.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 12.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 4.6% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 13 fractional works · 11.0% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 8.7% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStructural Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKThun121fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences61%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences22%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering3427.8%
    2. Computer Science1310.6%
    3. Environmental Science108.4%
    4. Chemistry54.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences54.2%
    6. Materials Science43.5%
    7. Physics and Astronomy21.7%
    8. Mathematics00.3%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    10. Energy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences1512.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities64.6%
    3. Decision Sciences32.2%
    4. Psychology21.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting11.1%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.7%
    1. Medicine118.7%
    2. Health Professions21.5%
    3. Dentistry10.7%
    4. Nursing00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences32.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology32.2%
    3. Neuroscience00.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Thun?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Air Quality, Complex Adaptive Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Model-Based Systems Engineering, Value-Driven Design, Risk Assessment, Collision Avoidance and Imaging.

▲ 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 Learning4◆ 1.09×18 topics
  2. Air Quality4▲ 17×5 topics
  3. Risk Assessment4▲ 4.5×4 topics
  4. Complex Adaptive Systems4▲ 98×2 topics
  5. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles3▲ 13×2 topics
  6. Model-Based Systems Engineering3▲ 319×1 topic
  7. Value-Driven Design3▲ 319×1 topic
  8. Ethnicity3▲ 5.9×3 topics
  9. Health Effects3▲ 3.6×7 topics
  10. Collision Avoidance2▲ 11×4 topics
  11. Imaging2▲ 8.5×2 topics
  12. Environmental Monitoring2▲ 5.1×6 topics
  13. Mass Spectrometry2▲ 13×2 topics
  14. Volatile Organic Compounds2▲ 19×3 topics
  15. Atmospheric Aerosols2▲ 34×1 topic
  16. Autonomous Vehicles2▲ 9.2×4 topics
  17. Black Carbon2▲ 34×1 topic
  18. Electrospray2▲ 61×1 topic
  19. Ionization2▲ 61×1 topic
  20. Philosophy2▲ 4.3×3 topics
  21. Modernization2▲ 9.8×2 topics
  22. Carbon Nanotubes2▲ 4.7×2 topics
  23. Particulate Matter2▲ 11×2 topics
  24. Decision Making2▲ 5.2×2 topics
  25. Ionic Liquids2▲ 5.3×3 topics
  26. Air Force2▲ 12×1 topic
  27. Large-Eddy Simulation2▲ 7.6×5 topics
  28. Multi-Agent Systems2▲ 7.5×3 topics
  29. Warfare2▲ 12×1 topic
  30. Air Traffic Management2▲ 63×1 topic
  31. Biosensing2▲ 16×2 topics
  32. Conflict Resolution2▲ 31×1 topic
  33. Molecularly Imprinted Polymers2▲ 34×1 topic
  34. Solid-Phase Microextraction2▲ 34×1 topic
  35. System Maturity2▲ 68×1 topic
  36. Technology Readiness Levels2▲ 68×1 topic
  37. Parameter Estimation2▲ 9.5×3 topics
  38. Time-of-Flight2▲ 32×2 topics
  39. Transport Policy2▲ 10×1 topic
  40. Wireless Communications2▲ 7.2×4 topics

What research is done in Thun?

Systems Engineering Meth…3Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications: 3 fractional worksMass Spectrometry Techni…2Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications: 2 fractional worksTechnology Assessment and Management: 2 fractional worksAir Traffic Management and Optimization: 2 fractional worksMilitary Technology and Strategies: 2 fractional worksAnalytical chemistry methods development: 2 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Analysis: 1 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, an…1Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 1 fractional worksHuman-Automation Interaction and Safety: 1 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 1 fractional works
Control and Systems EngineeringSpectroscopySafety, Risk, Reliability and QualityAerospace Engineering5 others

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

  1. 1 Systems Engineering Methodologies and Applications Control and Systems Engineering 3 works
  2. 2 Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications Spectroscopy 2 works
  3. 3 Technology Assessment and Management Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 2 works
  4. 4 Air Traffic Management and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  6. 6 Analytical chemistry methods development Analytical Chemistry 2 works
  7. 7 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 1 works
  8. 8 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  9. 9 Human-Automation Interaction and Safety Social Psychology 1 works
  10. 10 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 1 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%Thun13.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 22.2% in 2023.

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