Science Explorer Interactive view Map
City · Germany

Research in Wolfsburg

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Wolfsburg, Germany. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Volkswagen Group (Germany) and Fraunhofer Project Centre Wolfsburg.

Research institutions
3
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2.1k
▲ 48% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
10.0%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite 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 #15,581
2Fraunhofer Project Centre WolfsburgResearch facility 616 #25,132
3Institute for Applied Manual TherapyInstitution 0 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.

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 predictsmore →

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 Wolfsburg?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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 Renewable Energy Integration.

▲ 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. Sustainability30▲ 2.8×22 topics
  2. Electric Vehicles29▲ 22×4 topics
  3. Deep Learning25▲ 1.60×42 topics
  4. Epidemiology23▲ 1.31×32 topics
  5. Autonomous Vehicles20▲ 21×5 topics
  6. Thermal Management19▲ 13×4 topics
  7. Big Data18▲ 4.5×13 topics
  8. Sustainable Development16▲ 2.3×8 topics
  9. Model Predictive Control16▲ 13×5 topics
  10. Lithium-ion Batteries15▲ 8.1×4 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence15▲ 2.5×13 topics
  12. Control Systems13▲ 16×2 topics
  13. Renewable Energy Integration13▲ 8.6×5 topics
  14. Digital Transformation13▲ 5.4×4 topics
  15. Industrial Automation13▲ 41×2 topics
  16. Additive Manufacturing12▲ 8.8×6 topics
  17. Software Engineering12▲ 30×2 topics
  18. Vehicle Dynamics12▲ 46×2 topics
  19. Flexible Automation12▲ 105×1 topic
  20. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems12▲ 105×1 topic
  21. Renewable Resources12▲ 15×4 topics
  22. E-commerce12▲ 4.3×3 topics
  23. Environmental Impacts11▲ 8.8×3 topics
  24. Battery Management Systems10▲ 14×1 topic
  25. Thermal Runaway10▲ 14×1 topic
  26. Active Steering10▲ 75×1 topic
  27. Tire-Road Friction Estimation10▲ 75×1 topic
  28. Battery Technology9▲ 7.3×2 topics
  29. Customer Experience9▲ 14×4 topics
  30. Structural Analysis9▲ 21×2 topics
  31. Automotive Engineering9▲ 246×1 topic
  32. Lightweight Materials9▲ 246×1 topic
  33. Mobile Health9▲ 14×3 topics
  34. Neuropathology9▲ 14×2 topics
  35. Business Models8▲ 26×2 topics
  36. Omni-Channel Strategy8▲ 86×1 topic
  37. Technology Innovation8▲ 58×1 topic
  38. Concussion8▲ 42×1 topic
  39. Encephalopathy8▲ 27×1 topic
  40. Fluid Dynamics8▲ 12×4 topics

What research is done in Wolfsburg?

  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

1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.