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Research in Wolfsburg

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Wolfsburg, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Volkswagen Group (Germany).

Research institutions
2
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.1k
▼ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
20k
9.5 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Wolfsburg

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 Wolfsburg?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Volkswagen Group (Germany)Company 1,438 #7,708
2Institute for Applied Manual TherapyInstitution 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.

Which fields of science does Wolfsburg work in?

In 2022-now, 62% of research in Wolfsburg is in Physical Sciences, 20% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (43%), Medicine (13%), Computer Science (10%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 292 fractional works · 61.9% of its workEngineering: 203 fractional works · 43.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 44 fractional works · 9.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 42 fractional works · 8.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 29 fractional works · 6.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 29 fractional works · 6.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 17 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 45 fractional works · 9.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 16 fractional works · 3.4% of its workInformation Systems: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoftware: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 19 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 96 fractional works · 20.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 33 fractional works · 7.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 29 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 14 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 10 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 66 fractional works · 14.0% of its workMedicine: 59 fractional works · 12.6% of its workEpidemiology: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSurgery: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNeurology: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 18 fractional works · 3.8% of its workNeuroscience: 7 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKWolfsburg471fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences62%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences20%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering20343.1%
    2. Computer Science459.6%
    3. Environmental Science194.1%
    4. Materials Science81.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy71.4%
    6. Energy51.0%
    7. Chemical Engineering20.4%
    8. Chemistry10.2%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.2%
    10. Mathematics10.1%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting337.0%
    2. Social Sciences296.2%
    3. Psychology142.9%
    4. Arts and Humanities92.0%
    5. Decision Sciences81.8%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.5%
    1. Medicine5912.6%
    2. Health Professions71.4%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Neuroscience71.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.3%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences51.0%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Wolfsburg strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Wolfsburg is most concentrated in Automotive Engineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (17.8× the world share in Automotive Engineering).

  1. Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 42.9 works18×
  2. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 28.4 works12×
← 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: 0.22× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.24× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.89× its world share, 6 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.85× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.23× its world share, 43 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.02× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.85× its world share, 193 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.80× its world share, 18 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.50× its world share, 8 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.65× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.54× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.66× its world share, 57 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.71× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.21× its world share, 32 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.89× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.95× its world share, 13 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 29 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 2.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering2.85×193 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting2.21×32 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.89×8 works
  4. Computer Science1.23×43 works
  5. Energy1.02×4 works
  6. Psychology0.95×13 works
  7. Neuroscience0.89×6 works
  8. Chemical Engineering0.85×1 works
  9. Environmental Science0.80×18 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.71×9 works
  11. Medicine0.66×57 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.65×6 works
  13. Health Professions0.54×6 works
  14. Social Sciences0.51×29 works
  15. Materials Science0.50×8 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.25×2 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.24×6 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×5 works
  19. Chemistry0.16×1 works
  20. Mathematics0.13×1 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.12×1 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works
  23. Dentistry0.04×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Wolfsburg?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Thermal Management, Sustainability, Model Predictive Control, Lithium-ion Batteries, Big Data and Control Systems.

▲ 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. Sustainability31▲ 2.7×24 topics
  2. Electric Vehicles29▲ 21×4 topics
  3. Deep Learning25▲ 1.56×43 topics
  4. Epidemiology24▲ 1.26×34 topics
  5. Autonomous Vehicles21▲ 21×5 topics
  6. Thermal Management20▲ 13×4 topics
  7. Big Data18▲ 4.1×13 topics
  8. Sustainable Development16▲ 2.2×8 topics
  9. Model Predictive Control16▲ 13×5 topics
  10. Lithium-ion Batteries16▲ 8.0×4 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence15▲ 2.3×13 topics
  12. Control Systems13▲ 16×2 topics
  13. Additive Manufacturing13▲ 9.0×7 topics
  14. Renewable Energy Integration13▲ 8.5×5 topics
  15. Digital Transformation13▲ 5.1×4 topics
  16. Industrial Automation13▲ 41×2 topics
  17. Vehicle Dynamics12▲ 46×2 topics
  18. Software Engineering12▲ 30×2 topics
  19. Flexible Automation12▲ 102×1 topic
  20. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems12▲ 102×1 topic
  21. Renewable Resources12▲ 14×4 topics
  22. E-commerce12▲ 4.3×3 topics
  23. Environmental Impacts11▲ 8.7×3 topics
  24. Active Steering10▲ 72×1 topic
  25. Tire-Road Friction Estimation10▲ 72×1 topic
  26. Battery Management Systems10▲ 14×1 topic
  27. Thermal Runaway10▲ 14×1 topic
  28. Battery Technology10▲ 7.2×2 topics
  29. Structural Analysis9▲ 22×2 topics
  30. Customer Experience9▲ 12×4 topics
  31. Automotive Engineering9▲ 228×1 topic
  32. Lightweight Materials9▲ 228×1 topic
  33. Mobile Health9▲ 13×3 topics
  34. Neuropathology9▲ 14×2 topics
  35. Business Models8▲ 24×2 topics
  36. Omni-Channel Strategy8▲ 84×1 topic
  37. Technology Innovation8▲ 51×1 topic
  38. Concussion8▲ 39×1 topic
  39. Encephalopathy8▲ 25×1 topic
  40. Fluid Dynamics8▲ 11×4 topics

What research is done in Wolfsburg?

Flexible and Reconfigura…12Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: 12 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Technol…10Advanced Battery Technologies Research: 10 fractional worksVehicle Dynamics and Con…10Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems: 10 fractional worksEngineering and Material…9Engineering and Materials Science Studies: 9 fractional worksDigital Innovation in Industries: 8 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury Research: 8 fractional worksPhysics and Engineering …6Physics and Engineering Research Articles: 6 fractional worksAutonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety: 6 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances: 6 fractional worksVehicle emissions and pe…5Vehicle emissions and performance: 5 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringAutomotive EngineeringMechanical EngineeringManagement of Technology and Innovation3 others

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

  1. 1 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 12 works
  2. 2 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 10 works
  3. 3 Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems Automotive Engineering 10 works
  4. 4 Engineering and Materials Science Studies Mechanical Engineering 9 works
  5. 5 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 8 works
  6. 6 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 8 works
  7. 7 Physics and Engineering Research Articles Computational Mechanics 6 works
  8. 8 Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety Automotive Engineering 6 works
  9. 9 Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances Neurology 6 works
  10. 10 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 5 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 counting20%40%Wolfsburg10.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 33.0% in 2004.

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