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Research in Tübingen

Science Explorer records 34 research institutions in Tübingen, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Tübingen, University Children's Hospital Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Biology.

Research institutions
34
12 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
108k
▲ 6% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
22.8%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Tübingen?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of TübingenUniversity 69,094 #210
2Universitäts FrauenklinikHospital / health system 10,561 #26,827
3Universitätsklinikum TübingenHospital / health system 5,928 #7,772
4Max Planck Institute for Biological CyberneticsResearch facility 5,098 #5,173
5University Children's Hospital TübingenHospital / health system 3,717 #4,027
6Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience TübingenGovernment institution 2,684 #5,597
7Max Planck Institute for BiologyResearch facility 2,348 #5,146
8Max Planck Institute for Developmental BiologyResearch facility 1,682 #1,768 all time
9STZ eyetrialHospital / health system 1,623 #13,051
10Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain ResearchInstitution 1,465 #5,849
11BG Klinik TübingenHospital / health system 1,317 #15,964
12Leibniz-Institut für WissensmedienResearch facility 605 #11,391
13Friedrich Miescher LaboratoryNonprofit 462 #7,050 all time
14Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and PalaeoenvironmentResearch facility 381 #5,275
15Institute for Applied Economic ResearchNonprofit 323 #32,974 all time
16Praxis für Humangenetik TübingenResearch facility 219 #21,915 all time
17Deutsche KnochenmarkspenderdateiNonprofit 106 not ranked
18Research Institute for Work, Technology and CultureNonprofit 99 not ranked
19Erbe Elektromedizin (Germany)Company 85 not ranked
20CeGaT (Germany)Company 72 not ranked
21CureVac (Germany)Company 67 not ranked
22Immatics Biotechnologies (Germany)Company 57 not ranked
23German Institute for Disaster MedicineInstitution 55 not ranked
24EMC Microcollections (Germany)Company 38 not ranked
25Synovo (Germany)Company 21 not ranked
26Kommission für Geschichte und Kultur der Deutschen in SüdosteuropaNonprofit 8 not ranked
27DAASI International (Germany)Company 6 not ranked
28Poliklinik für Zahnärztliche Prothetik mit PropädeutikHospital / health system 4 not ranked
29Biametrics (Germany)Company 3 not ranked
30HighFinesse (Germany)Company 3 not ranked
31Synimmune (Germany)Company 3 not ranked
32ERN-RNDHospital / health system 3 not ranked
33Somfy (Germany)Company 1 not ranked
34European Group for Integrated Social ResearchInstitution 1 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 Tübingen: 63.9%Universitäts Frauenklinik: 9.8%Universitätsklinikum Tübingen: 5.5%Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics: 4.7%30 others listed: 16.1%64%largest
University of Tübingen69k · 63.9%Universitäts Frauenklinik11k · 9.8%Universitätsklinikum Tübingen5,928 · 5.5%Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics5,098 · 4.7%30 others listed17k · 16.1%

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

What is Tübingen strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Tübingen is most concentrated in Classics, Paleontology and Nature and Landscape Conservation (8.0× the world share in Classics).

  1. ClassicsSubfield · 52.4 works8.0×
  2. PaleontologySubfield · 85.5 works6.4×
  3. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 142.8 works5.4×
  4. BiochemistrySubfield · 45.5 works4.9×
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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 Tübingen?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Landscape Management, Conservation, Biosphere Reserves, Participatory Governance, Inflammation, Gender and Virtual Reality.

▲ 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. Epidemiology463◆ 1.06×132 topics
  2. Inflammation294▲ 1.28×82 topics
  3. Machine Learning245▼ 0.68×71 topics
  4. Sustainable Development217▲ 1.24×51 topics
  5. Climate Change215▼ 0.72×93 topics
  6. Oxidative Stress191◆ 1.06×61 topics
  7. Identity188▲ 2.4×55 topics
  8. Immunotherapy177▲ 2.3×18 topics
  9. Gender174▲ 2.9×42 topics
  10. Cancer172▲ 1.16×53 topics
  11. Conservation170▲ 3.6×21 topics
  12. Virtual Reality167▲ 3.0×14 topics
  13. Treatment161▲ 1.21×50 topics
  14. Neurological Disorders158▲ 2.5×20 topics
  15. Ethics147▲ 2.8×44 topics
  16. History145▲ 1.88×47 topics
  17. Literature129▲ 2.2×47 topics
  18. Genetic Mutations123▲ 2.6×23 topics
  19. Landscape Management119▲ 61×2 topics
  20. Governance119▲ 3.3×14 topics
  21. Biosphere Reserves117▲ 83×1 topic
  22. Participatory Governance117▲ 83×1 topic
  23. Philosophy112▲ 2.3×34 topics
  24. Emotion94▲ 4.1×12 topics
  25. Neurodegeneration93▲ 2.8×11 topics
  26. Magnetic Resonance Imaging86▲ 3.1×8 topics
  27. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse81▲ 18×2 topics
  28. Working Memory76▲ 7.6×3 topics
  29. Cancer Immunotherapy75▲ 4.4×3 topics
  30. Neural Mechanisms75▲ 7.4×4 topics
  31. Neuronal Oscillations70▲ 8.4×2 topics
  32. Bildung70▲ 19×3 topics
  33. Functional Connectivity69▲ 4.8×3 topics
  34. Bildungsungleichheit66▲ 20×1 topic
  35. Ethnografisches Schreiben66▲ 20×1 topic
  36. Cortical Connectivity62▲ 13×2 topics
  37. Neural Processing60▲ 8.9×2 topics
  38. Cognitive Functions58▲ 7.2×2 topics
  39. Cortical Networks54▲ 8.5×1 topic
  40. Gamma Rhythms54▲ 8.5×1 topic

What research is done in Tübingen?

  1. 1 Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 117 works
  2. 2 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 66 works
  3. 3 Neural dynamics and brain function Cognitive Neuroscience 54 works
  4. 4 German Literature and Culture Studies Literature and Literary Theory 53 works
  5. 5 Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Anthropology 53 works
  6. 6 Visual perception and processing mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 46 works
  7. 7 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 43 works
  8. 8 CAR-T cell therapy research Oncology 41 works
  9. 9 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 39 works
  10. 10 Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 38 works

Research output over time

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