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Deutsche Bank (Germany)

In research, Deutsche Bank (Germany) stands highest in Business, Management and Accounting (#1,422 of 3,886 worldwide), Social Sciences (#5,632 of 14,833 worldwide) and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#1,801 of 3,142 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#12,224
of 34,923
Rank in Germany
#615
of 1,603
Research works
760
▼ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.3k
9.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Deutsche Bank (Germany)

What is Deutsche Bank (Germany) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,422 of 3,886 6.7%231
Social SciencesDomain #5,632 of 14,833 5.9%611
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #1,801 of 3,142 5.1%256
Strategy and ManagementSubfield #871 of 1,410 8.0%131
FinanceSubfield #524 of 663 3.4%135

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Deutsche Bank (Germany) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Deutsche Bank (Germany) work in?

In 2022-now, 77% of research at Deutsche Bank (Germany) is in Social Sciences, 17% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (28%), Social Sciences (19%), Arts and Humanities (14%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 43 fractional works · 76.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 15 fractional works · 27.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 5 fractional works · 8.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 6.5% of its workAccounting: 3 fractional works · 5.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 18.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 fractional works · 6.6% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 13.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 fractional works · 6.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 fractional works · 10.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 5.1% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 17.5% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 12.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 7.1% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKDeutsche Bank(Germany)56fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences77%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting1527.6%
    2. Social Sciences1018.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities813.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance610.7%
    5. Decision Sciences34.8%
    6. Psychology11.2%
    1. Computer Science712.6%
    2. Engineering22.8%
    3. Mathematics00.6%
    4. Energy00.5%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.4%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    7. Environmental Science00.2%
    1. Medicine22.9%
    2. Health Professions00.8%
    3. Dentistry00.3%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    1. Neuroscience11.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.2%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.62× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 4.75× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8.56× its world share, 15 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.97× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.00× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.49× its world share, 10 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 8.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting8.56×15 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.00×6 works
  3. Decision Sciences4.97×3 works
  4. Arts and Humanities4.75×8 works
  5. Computer Science1.62×7 works
  6. Social Sciences1.49×10 works
  7. Neuroscience0.74×1 works
  8. Dentistry0.69×0 works
  9. Energy0.54×0 works
  10. Mathematics0.51×0 works
  11. Psychology0.39×1 works
  12. Health Professions0.32×0 works
  13. Nursing0.31×0 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.20×0 works
  15. Engineering0.19×2 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.18×0 works
  17. Medicine0.15×2 works
  18. Environmental Science0.05×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.04×0 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Deutsche Bank (Germany)?

Ranked on the quality score, Josef Ackermann, Dietmar Hornung and Ingo Rollwagen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Deutsche Bank (Germany).

  1. 1 Josef Ackermann Germany · #2,363,246 worldwide 160 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Dietmar Hornung Germany · #2,488,230 worldwide 112 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 Ingo Rollwagen Germany · #2,501,560 worldwide 247 citations · 29 works
  4. 4 Oliver P. Pfeil Germany · #2,565,853 worldwide 36 citations · 30 works
  5. 5 Heinz Dietrich Fischer Germany · #2,588,599 worldwide 92 citations · 41 works
  6. 6 Igor Schnakenburg Germany · #2,603,761 worldwide 246 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Judith Wittig Germany · #2,743,340 worldwide 26 citations · 26 works
  8. 8 Jürgen Krumnow Germany · #2,781,277 worldwide 59 citations · 61 works
  9. 9 Hermann-Josef Lamberti Germany · #2,828,335 worldwide 135 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Holde Germany · #2,890,672 worldwide 4 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Deutsche Bank (Germany)

What are the most cited papers from Deutsche Bank (Germany)?

The most cited paper from Deutsche Bank (Germany) is "ESG and financial performance: aggregated evidence from more than 2000 empirical studies" (Gunnar Friede, Timo Busch, Alexander Bassen, 2015), with 4,562 citations. Next come "Corporate Yield Spreads: Default Risk or Liquidity? New Evidence from the Credit Default Swap Market" (562) and "What do we know about geographical knowledge spillovers and regional growth?: A survey of the literature" (553).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 ESG and financial performance: aggregated evidence from more than 2000 empirical studies Gunnar Friede, Timo Busch, Alexander Bassen · Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment Open access 2 Oct 2015 4,562
2 Corporate Yield Spreads: Default Risk or Liquidity? New Evidence from the Credit Default Swap Market Francis A. Longstaff, Sanjay Mithal, Eric Neis · The Journal of Finance Open access Apr 2004 562
3 What do we know about geographical knowledge spillovers and regional growth?: A survey of the literature Thomas Felix Döring, Jan Schnellenbach · Regional Studies May 2006 553
4 The influence of a digital strategy on the digitalization of new ventures: The mediating effect of digital capabilities and a digital culture Dorian Proksch, Anna Frieda Rosin, Stephan Stubner et al. · Journal of Small Business Management Open access 16 Mar 2021 348
5 The Robustness of the Corporate Social and Financial Performance Relation: A Second‐Order Meta‐Analysis Timo Busch, Gunnar Friede · Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Open access 30 Mar 2018 344
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Deutsche Bank (Germany)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Digital Transformation, Investment Decisions, Social Capital, Customer Experience, Corporate Governance and Sustainable Development.

▲ 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. Artificial Intelligence7▲ 9.1×14 topics
  2. Big Data5▲ 9.5×9 topics
  3. Digital Transformation4▲ 13×5 topics
  4. Investment Decisions4▲ 56×3 topics
  5. Sustainable Development4▲ 4.3×9 topics
  6. Social Capital3▲ 12×5 topics
  7. Customer Experience3▲ 34×2 topics
  8. Corporate Governance3▲ 7.2×8 topics
  9. Entrepreneurship3▲ 12×4 topics
  10. Business Models2▲ 60×2 topics
  11. E-commerce2▲ 7.0×2 topics
  12. Mobile Health2▲ 26×1 topic
  13. Technology Innovation2▲ 112×1 topic
  14. Crowdfunding2▲ 50×1 topic
  15. Discourse Analysis2▲ 15×1 topic
  16. Fintech2▲ 46×1 topic
  17. Internet of Things2▲ 4.2×4 topics
  18. Language Variation2▲ 65×1 topic
  19. Innovation2▲ 3.3×10 topics
  20. Cultural Studies2▲ 8.9×2 topics
  21. Financial Crisis2▲ 27×5 topics
  22. Governance2▲ 9.2×3 topics
  23. Security2▲ 4.2×4 topics
  24. German as a Foreign Language2▲ 194×1 topic
  25. Information Technology2▲ 5.8×2 topics
  26. Innovation Policy2▲ 29×4 topics
  27. Language Learning2▲ 38×1 topic
  28. Monetary Policy2▲ 11×5 topics
  29. Cybersecurity1▲ 10×2 topics
  30. Digital Capital1▲ 140×1 topic
  31. Value Chains1▲ 140×1 topic
  32. Support Vector Machines1▲ 7.5×2 topics
  33. Data Protection1▲ 77×1 topic
  34. Digital Rights1▲ 253×1 topic
  35. Distributed Systems1▲ 13×4 topics
  36. Organizational Economics1▲ 182×2 topics
  37. Technology Adoption1▲ 11×2 topics
  38. Data Integration1▲ 12×3 topics
  39. Digitalization1▲ 9.5×2 topics
  40. Financial Constraints1▲ 19×2 topics

Which research topics does Deutsche Bank (Germany) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Digital Innovation in Industries, Linguistic research and analysis, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance and Linguistic Education and Pedagogy.

Digital Innovation in In…2Digital Innovation in Industries: 2 fractional worksLinguistic research and …2Linguistic research and analysis: 2 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, D…2FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 2 fractional worksLinguistic Education and…2Linguistic Education and Pedagogy: 2 fractional worksCorporate Governance and Management: 1 fractional worksDigitalization, Law, and Regulation: 1 fractional worksGlobal Peace and Securit…1Global Peace and Security Dynamics: 1 fractional worksCooperative Studies and Economics: 1 fractional worksAI in Service Interactions: 1 fractional worksStock Market Forecasting…1Stock Market Forecasting Methods: 1 fractional works
Management of Technology and InnovationLanguage and LinguisticsManagement Information SystemsStrategy and Management4 others

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

  1. 1 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 2 works
  2. 2 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 2 works
  3. 3 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 2 works
  4. 4 Linguistic Education and Pedagogy Language and Linguistics 2 works
  5. 5 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 1 works
  6. 6 Digitalization, Law, and Regulation Law 1 works
  7. 7 Global Peace and Security Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  8. 8 Cooperative Studies and Economics Strategy and Management 1 works
  9. 9 AI in Service Interactions Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  10. 10 Stock Market Forecasting Methods Management Science and Operations Research 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 available27.0%not open73.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.3%domestic only84.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Deutsche Bank (Germany)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Deutsche Bank (Germany) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00019% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Deutsche Bank (Germany)0.00024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Deutsche Bank (Germany) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2018Deutsche Bank (Germany)6.0% in 201820002010

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.1% in 2008.

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