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AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes

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World rank, 2022-now
#18,080
of 22,385 · #32,491 all time
Rank in Germany
#612
of 795
Research works
137
▲ 164% vs 2018-21
Citations
499
3.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.96×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
25%
world 40%
International
2%
world 18%
AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes

Which fields of science does AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes is in Physical Sciences, 42% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (30%), Engineering (28%), Computer Science (15%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 48 fractional works · 51.5% of its workEngineering: 26 fractional works · 28.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 15 fractional works · 16.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 14 fractional works · 15.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 5.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 6.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 40 fractional works · 42.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 28 fractional works · 30.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 12 fractional works · 13.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 11 fractional works · 11.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.0% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKAWS-Institute forDigitized…93fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences52%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences42%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2628.2%
    2. Computer Science1415.1%
    3. Environmental Science66.8%
    4. Energy10.7%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.4%
    6. Materials Science00.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting2830.3%
    2. Social Sciences55.3%
    3. Decision Sciences33.4%
    4. Psychology22.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.8%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.4%
    1. Medicine22.2%
    2. Health Professions10.9%
    1. Neuroscience21.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Business, Management and Accounting takes 9.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Business, Management and AccountingField · 28.3 works9.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.10× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.95× its world share, 14 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.88× its world share, 26 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.36× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceHealth Professions: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 9.39× its world share, 28 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.47× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.75× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting9.39×28 works
  2. Decision Sciences3.47×3 works
  3. Computer Science1.95×14 works
  4. Engineering1.88×26 works
  5. Environmental Science1.36×6 works
  6. Neuroscience1.10×2 works
  7. Energy0.78×1 works
  8. Psychology0.75×2 works
  9. Social Sciences0.42×5 works
  10. Health Professions0.34×1 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.27×1 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.23×0 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.19×1 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.17×0 works
  15. Medicine0.11×2 works
  16. Materials Science0.10×0 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes?

Ranked on the quality score, August-Wilhelm Scheer, Tobias Greff and Nanna Dahlem lead among researchers whose main affiliation is AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes.

  1. 1 August-Wilhelm Scheer Germany · #2,473,272 worldwide 3 citations · 32 works
  2. 2 Tobias Greff Germany · #3,489,100 worldwide 191 citations · 37 works
  3. 3 Nanna Dahlem Germany · #3,803,438 worldwide 16 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Anne Gebert Germany · #3,962,605 worldwide 22 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Marcel Mutz Germany · #4,028,128 worldwide 74 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Christian Linn Germany · #4,717,158 worldwide 102 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Thomas Bleistein Germany · #5,360,650 worldwide 107 citations · 29 works
All ranked researchers at AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes

What are the most cited papers from AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes?

The most cited paper from AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes is "Enhancing brick-and-mortar store shopping experience with an augmented reality shopping assistant application using personalized recommendations and explainable artificial intelligence" (Robert L. Zimmermann, Daniel Mocencahua Mora, Douglas Cirqueira et al., 2022), with 130 citations. Next come "Advanced User Assistance Systems" (100) and "Consulting 4.0 – Die Digitalisierung der Unternehmensberatung" (53).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Enhancing brick-and-mortar store shopping experience with an augmented reality shopping assistant application using personalized recommendations and explainable artificial intelligence Robert L. Zimmermann, Daniel Mocencahua Mora, Douglas Cirqueira et al. · Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing Open access 11 Apr 2022 130
2 Advanced User Assistance Systems Alexander Maedche, Stefan Morana, Silvia Schacht et al. · Business & Information Systems Engineering Aug 2016 100
3 Consulting 4.0 – Die Digitalisierung der Unternehmensberatung Dirk Werth, Tobias Greff, August‐Wilhelm Scheer · HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 11 Jan 2016 53
4 Virtual remote inspection — A new concept for virtual reality enhanced real-time maintenance Christian Linn, Simon Bender, Joshua Prosser et al. Conference paper Oct 2017 38
5 Predictive Quality: Towards a New Understanding of Quality Assurance Using Machine Learning Tools Oliver Nalbach, Christian Linn, Maximilian Derouet et al. · Lecture notes in business information processing Conference paper 2018 26
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Which keywords describe research at AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development, Digital Transformation, Customer Experience, E-commerce, Business Models and Customer Relationship Management.

▲ 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 institution'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. Big Data16▲ 18×9 topics
  2. Artificial Intelligence15▲ 11×11 topics
  3. Sustainable Development13▲ 8.7×4 topics
  4. Digital Transformation12▲ 24×4 topics
  5. Customer Experience11▲ 73×3 topics
  6. E-commerce11▲ 20×3 topics
  7. Business Models10▲ 155×2 topics
  8. Customer Relationship Management10▲ 80×2 topics
  9. Information Technology10▲ 23×1 topic
  10. Value Chains10▲ 634×1 topic
  11. Mobile Health10▲ 75×1 topic
  12. Technology Innovation10▲ 321×1 topic
  13. Software Engineering10▲ 117×2 topics
  14. Flexible Automation10▲ 407×1 topic
  15. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems10▲ 407×1 topic
  16. Deep Learning7▲ 2.2×15 topics
  17. Machine Learning7▲ 2.3×17 topics
  18. Sustainability5▲ 2.0×9 topics
  19. Internet of Things4▲ 5.4×6 topics
  20. Supply Chain Management4▲ 4.9×5 topics
  21. Remote Sensing4▲ 3.5×4 topics
  22. Renewable Energy4▲ 3.0×6 topics
  23. Cyber-Physical Systems4▲ 16×3 topics
  24. IoT4▲ 10×3 topics
  25. Computer Vision3▲ 13×2 topics
  26. Smart Factory3▲ 33×3 topics
  27. Aquaculture3▲ 13×1 topic
  28. Digital Twin3▲ 23×2 topics
  29. Neural Networks3▲ 2.1×5 topics
  30. Water Quality Monitoring3▲ 41×1 topic
  31. Smart Grid2▲ 7.4×2 topics
  32. Innovation Policy2▲ 24×2 topics
  33. Interdisciplinary Research2▲ 21×1 topic
  34. Social Innovation2▲ 13×1 topic
  35. Cloud Manufacturing2▲ 20×1 topic
  36. Demand Response2▲ 20×1 topic
  37. Energy Management2▲ 11×1 topic
  38. Fabric Defect Detection2▲ 25×1 topic
  39. Machine Vision2▲ 8.5×1 topic
  40. Smart Manufacturing2▲ 20×1 topic

Which research topics does AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Corporate Governance and Management, Digital Innovation in Industries, Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems and Water Quality Monitoring Technologies.

Corporate Governance and…10Corporate Governance and Management: 10 fractional worksDigital Innovation in In…10Digital Innovation in Industries: 10 fractional worksFlexible and Reconfigura…10Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: 10 fractional worksWater Quality Monitoring Technologies: 3 fractional worksInnovation, Technology, and Society: 2 fractional worksDigital Transformation in Industry: 2 fractional worksSmart Grid Energy Management: 2 fractional worksIndustrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection: 2 fractional worksBusiness Process Modeling and Analysis: 1 fractional worksAugmented Reality Applications: 1 fractional works
Strategy and ManagementManagement of Technology and InnovationIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringWater Science and Technology4 others

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

  1. 1 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 10 works
  2. 2 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 10 works
  3. 3 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 10 works
  4. 4 Water Quality Monitoring Technologies Water Science and Technology 3 works
  5. 5 Innovation, Technology, and Society Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  6. 6 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 works
  7. 7 Smart Grid Energy Management Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 works
  9. 9 Business Process Modeling and Analysis Management Information Systems 1 works
  10. 10 Augmented Reality Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available25.1%not open74.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.0%domestic only98.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 164% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00033% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes0.00091% in 202520102020

Fractional works of AWS-Institute for Digitized Products and Processes over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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