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Science in Austria

Austria ranks #32 of 192 countries on research quality in 2022–2025 (#20 all time), with 90k research works and 18.7% of them in the world's top 10%.

World rank, 2022–2025
#32
of 192 · #20 all time
Works, 2022–2025
90k
▲ 16% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate
18.7%
record average 16.5%
In the world top 100
0
5 in the top 1,000
Open access
37%
world 63%

What is Austria strongest at in science?

On research quality in 2022–2025, Austria ranks highest in Medicine (#27 of 155), Social Sciences (#29 of 151) and Sociology and Political Science (#24 of 122). Relative to its size it is most specialised in Classics, Software and History and Philosophy of Science.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
MedicineField #27 of 155 17.4%17,329 Institutions
Social SciencesField #29 of 151 21.7%11,754 Institutions
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #24 of 122 21.5%4,463 Institutions
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #22 of 108 20.9%5,105 Institutions
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #21 of 97 19.7%2,204 Institutions
Arts and HumanitiesField #23 of 106 15.9%4,890 Institutions
Computer ScienceField #30 of 131 19.1%7,093 Institutions
PsychologyField #27 of 109 22.8%3,284 Institutions
Physics and AstronomyField #20 of 79 23.2%2,605 Institutions
SurgerySubfield #23 of 88 16.0%2,352 Institutions
CommunicationSubfield #14 of 53 34.7%390 Institutions
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield #16 of 59 22.9%1,000 Institutions

Where its research is concentrated

Location quotient: how much more — or less — of each node it does than its size predicts. Drawn around 1×, where “twice the world share” and “half of it” are the same distance apart in opposite directions. A volume reading, which on a country axis is largely population and industrial structure.

  1. ClassicsSubfield · 178.5 works3.3×
  2. SoftwareSubfield · 186.0 works3.2×
  3. History and Philosophy of ScienceSubfield · 405.8 works2.9×
  4. General PsychologySubfield · 26.5 works2.9×
  5. Theoretical Computer ScienceSubfield · 43.7 works2.9×
  6. ArchitectureSubfield · 90.8 works2.6×
  7. EquineSubfield · 29.1 works2.5×
  8. Space and Planetary ScienceSubfield · 44.3 works2.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 2,360 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.07× its world share, 5,105 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.98× its world share, 888 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.19× its world share, 1,728 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.65× its world share, 205 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.90× its world share, 281 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.86× its world share, 1,215 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.02× its world share, 7,093 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 1,379 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.65× its world share, 535 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.95× its world share, 13k worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.87× its world share, 3,875 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.73× its world share, 2,295 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.43× its world share, 1,514 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.30× its world share, 2,604 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.59× its world share, 256 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.84× its world share, 1,987 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.00× its world share, 17k worksMedicineNursing: 0.53× its world share, 231 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.63× its world share, 199 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.89× its world share, 4,890 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.12× its world share, 3,248 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.07× its world share, 924 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.94× its world share, 1,804 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.20× its world share, 3,284 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.04× its world share, 12k worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 1.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research in Austria?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Sustainability, Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse, Machine Learning, Governance, Gender and Inflammation.

▲ 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 country'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. Epidemiology3,074◆ 0.87×140 topics
  2. Climate Change2,508◆ 1.04×130 topics
  3. Machine Learning2,416▼ 0.82×92 topics
  4. Deep Learning2,286▼ 0.74×80 topics
  5. Sustainability2,219◆ 1.02×138 topics
  6. Inflammation1,864◆ 1.00×83 topics
  7. Globalization1,740◆ 0.99×178 topics
  8. Sustainable Development1,292◆ 0.91×106 topics
  9. Human Rights1,278▲ 1.38×88 topics
  10. Big Data1,238▲ 1.52×34 topics
  11. Education1,231▼ 0.80×151 topics
  12. Public Health1,223◆ 0.94×76 topics
  13. Identity1,221▲ 1.87×77 topics
  14. Quality of Life1,207◆ 0.93×61 topics
  15. Renewable Energy1,182◆ 0.92×59 topics
  16. Artificial Intelligence1,150◆ 0.93×62 topics
  17. Oxidative Stress1,139▼ 0.78×63 topics
  18. Gender1,096▲ 2.3×57 topics
  19. Treatment1,010◆ 0.93×52 topics
  20. Mechanical Properties1,008▲ 1.16×39 topics
  21. Innovation976◆ 1.03×86 topics
  22. History970▲ 1.54×65 topics
  23. Governance949▲ 3.2×19 topics
  24. Ethics900▲ 2.1×60 topics
  25. Nationalism740▲ 1.79×33 topics
  26. Religion730▲ 1.72×42 topics
  27. Philosophy705▲ 1.78×47 topics
  28. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse691▲ 19×2 topics
  29. Neoliberalism616▲ 1.92×30 topics
  30. European Union539▲ 2.6×29 topics
  31. Bildungsungleichheit495▲ 19×1 topic
  32. Ethnografisches Schreiben495▲ 19×1 topic
  33. Bildung354▲ 12×3 topics
  34. Migration Law322▲ 24×2 topics
  35. Legal Methodology319▲ 19×2 topics
  36. Regulatory Agencies314▲ 16×2 topics
  37. Constitutional Courts309▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Digital Governance302▲ 29×1 topic
  39. Party Competition302▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Autorschaft289▲ 15×1 topic

How many world-class institutions does Austria hold?

Average quality and elite capacity disagree by construction, and both are worth knowing: the first is decided by a country’s whole institution population, the second counts the institutions it holds at the top. One square per institution.

101st to 500th4501st to 1,000th1

Bands are exclusive, so the squares add up to 5 — the institutions it holds in the world top 1,000 — and not to four times it.

Which universities in Austria lead research?

University of Vienna, Universität Innsbruck and Medical University of Vienna rank highest in Austria on research quality in 2022–2025.

0%20%40%mean 23.18%fractional works (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Vienna: 9,931, 22.9%Universität Innsbruck: 5,769, 21.1%Medical University of Vienna: 6,144, 19.5%TU Wien: 6,396, 15.7%Graz University of Technology: 4,018, 15.3%Austrian Academy of Sciences: 1,290, 22.3%Medical University of Graz: 2,470, 18.5%Institute of Science and Technology Austria: 749, 29.5%Johannes Kepler University of Linz: 3,287, 18.2%University of Graz: 3,507, 19.6%BOKU University: 2,087, 27.0%International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: 611, 40.2%Innsbruck Medical University: 1,863, 18.6%University of Salzburg: 2,443, 19.5%Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Innsbruck: 73, 39.8%University of ViennaUniversität InnsbruckMedical University o…TU Wien
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per institution in the list below. The upper left is the interesting corner.

  1. 1University of ViennaUniversity · Vienna · #178 worldwide22.9% top 10% · 9.9k works
  2. 2Universität InnsbruckUniversity · Innsbruck · #348 worldwide21.1% top 10% · 5.8k works
  3. 3Medical University of ViennaUniversity · Vienna · #382 worldwide19.5% top 10% · 6.1k works
  4. 4TU WienUniversity · Vienna · #396 worldwide15.7% top 10% · 6.4k works
  5. 5Graz University of TechnologyUniversity · Graz · #931 worldwide15.3% top 10% · 4k works
  6. 6Austrian Academy of SciencesGovernment institution · Vienna · #1,020 worldwide22.3% top 10% · 1.3k works
  7. 7Medical University of GrazUniversity · Graz · #1,159 worldwide18.5% top 10% · 2.5k works
  8. 8Institute of Science and Technology AustriaUniversity · Klosterneuburg · #1,200 worldwide29.5% top 10% · 749 works
  9. 9Johannes Kepler University of LinzUniversity · Linz · #1,204 worldwide18.2% top 10% · 3.3k works
  10. 10University of GrazUniversity · Graz · #1,292 worldwide19.6% top 10% · 3.5k works
  11. 11BOKU UniversityUniversity · Vienna · #1,586 worldwide27.0% top 10% · 2.1k works
  12. 12International Institute for Applied Systems AnalysisNonprofit · Laxenburg · #1,692 worldwide40.2% top 10% · 611 works
  13. 13Innsbruck Medical UniversityUniversity · Innsbruck · #1,772 worldwide18.6% top 10% · 1.9k works
  14. 14University of SalzburgUniversity · Salzburg · #2,162 worldwide19.5% top 10% · 2.4k works
  15. 15Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information InnsbruckResearch facility · Innsbruck · #2,409 worldwide39.8% top 10% · 73 works

The track on each row is its top-10% rate; the tick is the world’s rate in this record, 16.5% — teal above it, red below.

All ranked institutions in Austria

Who are the top researchers in Austria?

J. Häfner, Georg Kresse and P. Zoller rank highest among researchers based in Austria.

  1. 1 J. Häfner · #81 worldwide 11k citations · 132 works
  2. 2 Georg Kresse · #163 worldwide 24k citations · 113 works
  3. 3 P. Zoller · #569 worldwide 4.2k citations · 178 works
  4. 4 Dieter Fensel · #1,462 worldwide 1.8k citations · 121 works
  5. 5 Thomas Pock · #1,687 worldwide 2.3k citations · 92 works
  6. 6 Josef Niebauer · #1,746 worldwide 1.2k citations · 92 works
  7. 7 Keywan Riahi · #2,233 worldwide 2.2k citations · 98 works
  8. 8 Werner Poewe · #2,366 worldwide 1.2k citations · 116 works
  9. 9 Rudolf Bauer · #2,462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 124 works
  10. 10 Hermann Stuppner · #2,507 worldwide 1.2k citations · 79 works
Top researchers in Austria

Which cities in Austria are research hubs?

  1. 1 Vienna Austria 302k works
  2. 2 Graz Austria 85k works
  3. 3 Innsbruck Austria 58k works
  4. 4 Linz Austria 28k works
  5. 5 Salzburg Austria 26k works

How much of it is in the largest

The same cities as shares of everything these twelve account for.

Vienna: 60.5%Graz: 17.0%Innsbruck: 11.6%Linz: 5.6%1 other listed: 5.3%60%largest
Vienna302k · 60.5%Graz85k · 17.0%Innsbruck58k · 11.6%Linz28k · 5.6%1 other listed26k · 5.3%

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

How open and international is Austria's research?

37% of its research is openly available (world: 40%), and 29% is written with international co-authors (world: 18%).

openly available37.1%not open62.9%

World: 63% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.3%domestic only70.7%

World: 22% is written across borders.

How has Austria's research grown?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Research fields in Austria