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Research in Villigen

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Villigen, Switzerland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Paul Scherrer Institute.

Research institutions
2
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
13k
▼ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
470k
35.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
21.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1970-2026
57 years on the record
Villigen

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Which research institutions are in Villigen?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Paul Scherrer InstituteResearch facility 13,189 #669
2Competence Center Energy and MobilityResearch facility 1 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 Villigen work in?

In 2022-now, 85% of research in Villigen is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (27%), Physics and Astronomy (22%), Materials Science (16%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,677 fractional works · 85.5% of its workEngineering: 537 fractional works · 27.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 179 fractional works · 9.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 84 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 83 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 67 fractional works · 3.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 34 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 27 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 22 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 18 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 423 fractional works · 21.6% of its workRadiation: 142 fractional works · 7.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 103 fractional works · 5.2% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 84 fractional works · 4.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 78 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 310 fractional works · 15.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 209 fractional works · 10.6% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 56 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 18 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomaterials: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 95 fractional works · 4.8% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 30 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 24 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 18 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrochemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 89 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 28 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 19 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 16 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 66 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 45 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeophysics: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 62 fractional works · 3.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 50 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 48 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCatalysis: 35 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 38 fractional works · 1.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 16 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 126 fractional works · 6.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 94 fractional works · 4.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 51 fractional works · 2.6% of its workStructural Biology: 20 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiophysics: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 118 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMedicine: 106 fractional works · 5.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 31 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 31 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSurgery: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 26 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 41 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 14 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKVilligen1,962fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences85%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences2%

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. Engineering53727.4%
    2. Physics and Astronomy42321.6%
    3. Materials Science31015.8%
    4. Chemistry954.8%
    5. Environmental Science894.6%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences663.4%
    7. Energy623.2%
    8. Chemical Engineering482.4%
    9. Computer Science381.9%
    10. Mathematics90.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology944.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences140.7%
    3. Neuroscience110.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics40.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology30.1%
    1. Medicine1065.4%
    2. Health Professions90.5%
    3. Nursing20.1%
    4. Dentistry10.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Decision Sciences140.7%
    2. Social Sciences120.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance60.3%
    4. Arts and Humanities50.2%
    5. Psychology20.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting20.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Villigen strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Villigen is most concentrated in Radiation, Condensed Matter Physics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (53.0× the world share in Radiation).

  1. RadiationSubfield · 129.6 works53×
  2. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 77.1 works27×
  3. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 71.4 works13×
  4. CatalysisSubfield · 32.1 works12×
  5. Physics and AstronomyField · 388.1 works9.8×
  6. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 95.7 works7.5×
← 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.

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: 0.15× its world share, 13 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.83× its world share, 79 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.32× its world share, 9 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.64× its world share, 4 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 6.96× its world share, 43 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 3.08× its world share, 86 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 36 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.17× its world share, 60 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.46× its world share, 57 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.83× its world share, 489 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.90× its world share, 80 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 4.54× its world share, 282 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.31× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 9.80× its world share, 388 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.20× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.28× its world share, 94 worksMedicineNursing: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.80× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 9.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy9.80×388 works
  2. Chemical Engineering6.96×43 works
  3. Materials Science4.54×282 works
  4. Energy3.46×57 works
  5. Chemistry3.08×86 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.17×60 works
  7. Engineering1.83×489 works
  8. Environmental Science0.90×80 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.83×79 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.80×14 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.64×4 works
  12. Neuroscience0.32×9 works
  13. Mathematics0.31×6 works
  14. Medicine0.28×94 works
  15. Computer Science0.26×36 works
  16. Health Professions0.20×9 works
  17. Nursing0.19×2 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.15×13 works
  19. Immunology and Microbiology0.14×2 works
  20. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.14×5 works
  21. Dentistry0.12×1 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.09×5 works
  23. Social Sciences0.05×12 works
  24. Psychology0.04×2 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.03×2 works
  26. Veterinary0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Villigen?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Tomography, Catalysis, Superconductivity, X-ray Imaging, Small-Angle Scattering, Nanoscale Imaging, Nanoparticles and Electronic Structure.

▲ 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. Tomography93▲ 27×4 topics
  2. Catalysis85▲ 6.5×24 topics
  3. Nanoparticles77▲ 3.1×37 topics
  4. Superconductivity74▲ 22×9 topics
  5. X-ray Imaging60▲ 89×2 topics
  6. Small-Angle Scattering55▲ 54×2 topics
  7. Nanomaterials51▲ 2.5×17 topics
  8. Nanoscale Imaging51▲ 31×2 topics
  9. Electronic Structure48▲ 14×8 topics
  10. Data Analysis48▲ 9.4×5 topics
  11. Radiography44▲ 64×2 topics
  12. Neutron Activation Analysis43▲ 68×1 topic
  13. Neutron Imaging43▲ 68×1 topic
  14. Energy Storage43▲ 3.4×11 topics
  15. Density Functional Theory42▲ 21×6 topics
  16. Phase Retrieval42▲ 140×1 topic
  17. Ptychography42▲ 140×1 topic
  18. Crystal Growth39▲ 7.2×12 topics
  19. Electronic Structure Calculations37▲ 29×2 topics
  20. Air Quality37▲ 10.0×6 topics
  21. Electrocatalysis36▲ 6.5×5 topics
  22. Catalysts36▲ 9.0×3 topics
  23. Synchrotron Radiation35▲ 36×4 topics
  24. Spin Dynamics35▲ 44×2 topics
  25. Spectroscopy35▲ 10×10 topics
  26. Molten Salt34▲ 55×1 topic
  27. Nuclear Reactor34▲ 55×1 topic
  28. Topological Order34▲ 36×2 topics
  29. Hydrogen Embrittlement32▲ 20×3 topics
  30. High Temperature Behavior31▲ 29×2 topics
  31. Oxidation31▲ 10×3 topics
  32. Frustrated Magnets30▲ 61×1 topic
  33. Quantum Spin Liquids30▲ 61×1 topic
  34. Selective Oxidation30▲ 12×2 topics
  35. Oxidation Resistance30▲ 14×3 topics
  36. Ceria30▲ 13×1 topic
  37. Gold30▲ 13×1 topic
  38. Accident Tolerant Fuels28▲ 41×1 topic
  39. Fuel Cladding28▲ 41×1 topic
  40. Molecular Dynamics28▲ 8.1×6 topics

What research is done in Villigen?

Nuclear Physics and Appl…41Nuclear Physics and Applications: 41 fractional worksAdvanced X-ray Imaging T…37Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques: 37 fractional worksNuclear reactor physics and engineering: 31 fractional worksAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics: 29 fractional worksCatalytic Processes in Materials Science: 29 fractional worksNuclear Materials and Properties: 27 fractional worksRadiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies: 24 fractional worksPhysics of Superconducti…23Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism: 23 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 23 fractional worksElectrocatalysts for Energy Conversion: 23 fractional works
RadiationAerospace EngineeringCondensed Matter PhysicsMaterials Chemistry2 others

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

  1. 1 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 41 works
  2. 2 Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques Radiation 37 works
  3. 3 Nuclear reactor physics and engineering Aerospace Engineering 31 works
  4. 4 Advanced Condensed Matter Physics Condensed Matter Physics 29 works
  5. 5 Catalytic Processes in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 29 works
  6. 6 Nuclear Materials and Properties Materials Chemistry 27 works
  7. 7 Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies Radiation 24 works
  8. 8 Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism Condensed Matter Physics 23 works
  9. 9 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 23 works
  10. 10 Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 23 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 counting20%40%Villigen17.6% 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 35.9% in 2016.

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