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FZI Research Center for Information Technology

In research, FZI Research Center for Information Technology stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,455 of 10,670 worldwide), Computer Science (#1,469 of 4,417 worldwide) and Engineering (#2,554 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Automotive Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Control and Systems Engineering (Automotive Engineering is 15.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#6,897
of 22,385 · #12,875 all time
Rank in Germany
#233
of 795
Research works
11k
▲ 10% vs 2018-21
Citations
250k
22.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
FZI Research Center for Information Technology

What is FZI Research Center for Information Technology known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #2,455 of 10,670 5.1%264 #9007
Computer ScienceField #1,469 of 4,417 4.4%131 #3080
EngineeringField #2,554 of 5,901 5.9%124 #4157

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where FZI Research Center for Information Technology 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#9,007 #2,455
  2. Computer Science#3,080 #1,469
  3. Engineering#4,157 #2,554
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does FZI Research Center for Information Technology work in?

In 2022-now, 80% of research at FZI Research Center for Information Technology is in Physical Sciences, 13% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (40%), Engineering (37%), Social Sciences (5%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 275 fractional works · 80.4% of its workComputer Science: 137 fractional works · 39.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 51 fractional works · 15.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 30 fractional works · 8.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 14 fractional works · 4.0% of its workInformation Systems: 13 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSignal Processing: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSoftware: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 128 fractional works · 37.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 29 fractional works · 8.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 24 fractional works · 7.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 19 fractional works · 5.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 14 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 44 fractional works · 12.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 4.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 10 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 3.2% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKFZI ResearchCenter for…342fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences13%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science13739.9%
    2. Engineering12837.4%
    3. Environmental Science41.2%
    4. Physics and Astronomy20.4%
    5. Energy20.4%
    6. Materials Science10.3%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    8. Chemical Engineering10.2%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    10. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences174.9%
    2. Psychology102.9%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting82.3%
    4. Decision Sciences72.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.3%
    1. Medicine113.2%
    2. Health Professions41.0%
    1. Neuroscience30.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does FZI Research Center for Information Technology specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Automotive Engineering takes 15.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 28.6 works16×
  2. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 30.2 works7.0×
  3. Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 23.9 works6.5×
  4. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 51.4 works6.2×
← 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: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.57× its world share, 3 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 5.13× its world share, 137 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.49× its world share, 128 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.17× its world share, 11 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.72× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.25× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.95× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 17 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 5.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science5.13×137 works
  2. Engineering2.49×128 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.25×7 works
  4. Psychology0.95×10 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting0.72×8 works
  6. Neuroscience0.57×3 works
  7. Chemical Engineering0.56×1 works
  8. Energy0.48×2 works
  9. Health Professions0.39×4 works
  10. Social Sciences0.39×17 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.26×1 works
  12. Environmental Science0.23×4 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.20×2 works
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.18×1 works
  15. Medicine0.17×11 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.16×1 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×2 works
  18. Mathematics0.12×0 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.11×2 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.10×1 works
  21. Materials Science0.09×1 works
  22. Chemistry0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at FZI Research Center for Information Technology?

Ranked on the quality score, Peter A. Herrlich, M. Heil and Andrew C.B. Cato lead among researchers whose main affiliation is FZI Research Center for Information Technology.

  1. 1 Peter A. Herrlich Germany · #218,255 worldwide 39k citations · 368 works
  2. 2 M. Heil Germany · #565,338 worldwide 6.2k citations · 79 works
  3. 3 Andrew C.B. Cato Germany · #778,646 worldwide 12k citations · 341 works
  4. 4 G. Piazza Germany · #1,138,254 worldwide 1.5k citations · 94 works
  5. 5 Melissa A. Denecke Germany · #1,198,386 worldwide 8k citations · 256 works
  6. 6 P. Schweiss #1,434,532 worldwide 3.9k citations · 174 works
  7. 7 M. Johnson Germany · #1,489,492 worldwide 2.5k citations · 25 works
  8. 8 Helmut Ponta Germany · #1,973,848 worldwide 18k citations · 198 works
  9. 9 Jürgen Moll #2,055,896 worldwide 4.2k citations · 61 works
  10. 10 Armin Hekele #2,244,584 worldwide 3k citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at FZI Research Center for Information Technology

What are the most cited papers from FZI Research Center for Information Technology?

The most cited paper from FZI Research Center for Information Technology is "Balanced basis sets of split valence, triple zeta valence and quadruple zeta valence quality for H to Rn: Design and assessment of accuracy" (Florian Weigend, Reinhart Ahlrichs, 2005), with 31,196 citations. Next come "Complex networks orchestrate epithelial–mesenchymal transitions" (3,974) and "The role of Jun, Fos and the AP-1 complex in cell-proliferation and transformation" (3,422).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Balanced basis sets of split valence, triple zeta valence and quadruple zeta valence quality for H to Rn: Design and assessment of accuracy Florian Weigend, Reinhart Ahlrichs · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2005 31,196
2 Complex networks orchestrate epithelial–mesenchymal transitions Jean Paul Thiery, Jonathan Paul Sleeman · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Review Feb 2006 3,974
3 The role of Jun, Fos and the AP-1 complex in cell-proliferation and transformation Peter E. Angel, Michael Karin · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Reviews on Cancer Dec 1991 3,422
4 Gold Helix Photonic Metamaterial as Broadband Circular Polarizer Justyna K. Gansel, Michael Thiel, Michael Stefan Rill et al. · Science 21 Aug 2009 2,705
5 CD44: From adhesion molecules to signalling regulators Helmut Ponta, Larry S. Sherman, Peter A. Herrlich · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Review 2003 2,409
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at FZI Research Center for Information Technology?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Collision Avoidance, Sensor Fusion, Driver Assistance Systems and Trajectory Prediction.

▲ 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. Deep Learning90▲ 7.6×51 topics
  2. Machine Learning42▲ 3.7×35 topics
  3. Autonomous Vehicles33▲ 46×5 topics
  4. Neural Networks33▲ 6.2×22 topics
  5. Collision Avoidance28▲ 45×2 topics
  6. Sensor Fusion21▲ 58×2 topics
  7. Driver Assistance Systems21▲ 106×1 topic
  8. Trajectory Prediction21▲ 106×1 topic
  9. Big Data13▲ 4.1×12 topics
  10. Security13▲ 5.6×13 topics
  11. Multi-Agent Systems12▲ 19×5 topics
  12. Robotics12▲ 15×4 topics
  13. Intelligent Transportation Systems12▲ 24×3 topics
  14. Time Series12▲ 20×3 topics
  15. Convolutional Neural Networks11▲ 4.6×8 topics
  16. Artificial Intelligence11▲ 2.3×8 topics
  17. Surveillance9▲ 9.9×4 topics
  18. Reinforcement Learning9▲ 23×4 topics
  19. Anomaly Detection9▲ 9.0×3 topics
  20. Security Analysis8▲ 14×3 topics
  21. Traffic Flow8▲ 22×2 topics
  22. Path Planning8▲ 18×2 topics
  23. Smart Grid7▲ 6.0×5 topics
  24. Trust7▲ 7.7×4 topics
  25. Computer Vision7▲ 7.7×2 topics
  26. Image Classification7▲ 11×2 topics
  27. Optimal Motion Planning7▲ 28×1 topic
  28. Sampling-Based Algorithms7▲ 28×1 topic
  29. Mobile Robots7▲ 21×3 topics
  30. Distributed Systems7▲ 11×5 topics
  31. Image Recognition7▲ 13×1 topic
  32. Object Detection7▲ 14×1 topic
  33. Distributed Control6▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Adversarial Examples6▲ 33×1 topic
  35. Robustness6▲ 33×1 topic
  36. 3D Mapping6▲ 26×1 topic
  37. SLAM6▲ 26×1 topic
  38. Dimensionality Reduction6▲ 24×2 topics
  39. Outlier Detection6▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Unsupervised6▲ 16×1 topic

Which research topics does FZI Research Center for Information Technology publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Advanced Neural Network Applications and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning.

Autonomous Vehicle Techn…21Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety: 21 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Algorithms: 7 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 7 fractional worksAdversarial Robustness i…6Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning: 6 fractional worksRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization: 6 fractional worksAnomaly Detection Techniques and Applications: 6 fractional worksTime Series Analysis and…6Time Series Analysis and Forecasting: 6 fractional worksTraffic control and management: 4 fractional worksModular Robots and Swarm Intelligence: 4 fractional worksVehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs): 4 fractional works
Automotive EngineeringComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceAerospace Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety Automotive Engineering 21 works
  2. 2 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 7 works
  3. 3 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 7 works
  4. 4 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  5. 5 Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Aerospace Engineering 6 works
  6. 6 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  7. 7 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Signal Processing 6 works
  8. 8 Traffic control and management Control and Systems Engineering 4 works
  9. 9 Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence Mechanical Engineering 4 works
  10. 10 Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 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 available12.1%not open87.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.5%domestic only84.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has FZI Research Center for Information Technology's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 FZI Research Center for Information Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%FZI Research Center for Information Technology0.0016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of FZI Research Center for Information Technology 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.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025FZI Research Center for Information Technology5.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.9% in 2001.

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