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German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

In research, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,392 of 10,670 worldwide), Computer Science (#702 of 4,417 worldwide) and Engineering (#1,127 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Human-Computer Interaction is 17.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#2,197
of 22,385 · #1,748 all time
Rank in Germany
#96
of 795
Research works
5.1k
▲ 65% vs 2018-21
Citations
87k
17.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

What is German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence 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 #1,392 of 10,670 8.3%840 #1180
Computer ScienceField #702 of 4,417 8.1%497 #372
EngineeringField #1,127 of 5,901 7.9%285 #1137
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #514 of 1,862 7.6%205 #243
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield #342 of 963 9.5%119 #256
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #954 of 2,176 6.8%66 #1289
Life SciencesDomain #2,839 of 6,403 12.1%67 #3702
Social SciencesDomain #4,822 of 9,585 11.4%148 #2498

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence 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#1,180 #1,392
  2. Computer Science#372 #702
  3. Engineering#1,137 #1,127
  4. Artificial Intelligence#243 #514
  5. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition#256 #342
  6. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#1,289 #954
  7. Life Sciences#3,702 #2,839
  8. Social Sciences#2,498 #4,822
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 German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence work in?

In 2022-now, 75% of research at German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (44%), Engineering (25%), Medicine (4%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 934 fractional works · 75.1% of its workComputer Science: 552 fractional works · 44.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 227 fractional works · 18.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 134 fractional works · 10.8% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 44 fractional works · 3.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 42 fractional works · 3.4% of its workInformation Systems: 35 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSignal Processing: 22 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 16 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 15 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSoftware: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 310 fractional works · 25.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 72 fractional works · 5.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 52 fractional works · 4.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 51 fractional works · 4.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 40 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 24 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 18 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMedia Technology: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 35 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOceanography: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 169 fractional works · 13.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 49 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 17 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSafety Research: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 46 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 17 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 33 fractional works · 2.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 15 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 7 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 26 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 14 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 11 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 75 fractional works · 6.0% of its workNeuroscience: 31 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 27 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 30 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 20 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiophysics: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 66 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMedicine: 55 fractional works · 4.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKGerman ResearchCentre for…1,244fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences75%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences14%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science55244.4%
    2. Engineering31025.0%
    3. Environmental Science352.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy121.0%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences121.0%
    6. Mathematics60.4%
    7. Materials Science50.4%
    8. Chemistry20.1%
    9. Energy10.1%
    1. Social Sciences493.9%
    2. Psychology463.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting332.7%
    4. Decision Sciences262.1%
    5. Arts and Humanities110.8%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance40.4%
    1. Neuroscience312.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology302.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences110.9%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
    1. Medicine554.4%
    2. Health Professions100.8%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Human-Computer Interaction takes 17.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 43.9 works17×
  2. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 134.2 works8.6×
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 51.0 works7.9×
  4. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 227.4 works7.6×
  5. Signal ProcessingSubfield · 22.4 works5.9×
  6. Computer ScienceField · 551.9 works5.7×
← 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: 0.18× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.45× its world share, 30 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.54× its world share, 31 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 5.71× its world share, 552 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.62× its world share, 12 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.66× its world share, 310 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.56× its world share, 35 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.38× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.45× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.31× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 55 worksMedicineNursing: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.29× its world share, 10 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.83× its world share, 33 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.17× its world share, 26 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.21× its world share, 46 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 49 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 5.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science5.71×552 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.17×26 works
  3. Engineering1.66×310 works
  4. Neuroscience1.54×31 works
  5. Psychology1.21×46 works
  6. Business, Management and Accounting0.83×33 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.62×12 works
  8. Environmental Science0.56×35 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.45×30 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.45×12 works
  11. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.38×2 works
  12. Mathematics0.38×6 works
  13. Health Professions0.31×10 works
  14. Social Sciences0.31×49 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.29×10 works
  16. Medicine0.23×55 works
  17. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.18×11 works
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.17×4 works
  19. Materials Science0.11×5 works
  20. Veterinary0.10×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.09×1 works
  22. Chemistry0.09×2 works
  23. Energy0.08×1 works
  24. Dentistry0.06×0 works
  25. Nursing0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence?

Ranked on the quality score, Dominic Gorecky, Wei Jiang and Georg Buscher lead among researchers whose main affiliation is German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence.

  1. 1 Dominic Gorecky Germany · #165,410 worldwide 3.5k citations · 38 works
  2. 2 Wei Jiang Germany · #269,927 worldwide 6.7k citations · 368 works
  3. 3 Georg Buscher Germany · #276,996 worldwide 2.1k citations · 58 works
  4. 4 Nijat Mehdiyev Germany · #339,778 worldwide 1.1k citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Kiran Varanasi Germany · #411,387 worldwide 1.8k citations · 42 works
  6. 6 Muhammad Nabeel Asim Germany · #483,316 worldwide 1.1k citations · 89 works
  7. 7 Michael Sintek Germany · #505,997 worldwide 5.2k citations · 113 works
  8. 8 Bernhard Hollunder Germany · #530,617 worldwide 1.9k citations · 52 works
  9. 9 Jason Raphael Rambach Germany · #562,002 worldwide 1.1k citations · 96 works
  10. 10 Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis Germany · #599,470 worldwide 618 citations · 62 works
All ranked researchers at German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

What are the most cited papers from German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence?

The most cited paper from German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence is "An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale" (Alexey Dosovitskiy, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov et al., 2020), with 22,044 citations. Next come "Industry 4.0" (4,243) and "A Novel Connectionist System for Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition" (2,026).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale Alexey Dosovitskiy, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 22 Oct 2020 22,044
2 Industry 4.0 Heiner Lasi, Peter Fettke, Hans-Georg Kemper et al. · Business & Information Systems Engineering 19 Jun 2014 4,243
3 A Novel Connectionist System for Unconstrained Handwriting Recognition Alexander Graves, Marcus Liwicki, S. George Fernandez et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 9 Mar 2009 2,026
4 The Road Towards 6G: A Comprehensive Survey Wei Jiang, Bin Han, Mohammad Asif Habibi et al. · IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Open access 2021 1,598
5 FTO Obesity Variant Circuitry and Adipocyte Browning in Humans Melina Claussnitzer, Simon N. Dankel, Kyoung-Han Kim et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 19 Aug 2015 1,417
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Big Data, Convolutional Neural Networks, Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence.

▲ 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 Learning266▲ 6.2×74 topics
  2. Neural Networks134▲ 7.0×35 topics
  3. Machine Learning128▲ 3.1×72 topics
  4. Big Data55▲ 4.7×22 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence48▲ 2.7×29 topics
  6. Convolutional Neural Networks45▲ 5.0×14 topics
  7. Internet of Things35▲ 3.3×15 topics
  8. Virtual Reality34▲ 5.6×11 topics
  9. Human-Computer Interaction29▲ 13×5 topics
  10. Security28▲ 3.4×19 topics
  11. Data Integration26▲ 12×6 topics
  12. Text Classification25▲ 12×3 topics
  13. Feature Extraction25▲ 4.4×10 topics
  14. Surveillance24▲ 7.0×4 topics
  15. Information Retrieval24▲ 8.9×3 topics
  16. Convolutional Networks24▲ 14×3 topics
  17. Topic Modeling23▲ 12×3 topics
  18. Machine Translation22▲ 11×2 topics
  19. Robotics22▲ 7.4×5 topics
  20. Deep Neural Networks22▲ 15×3 topics
  21. Corpus Linguistics22▲ 8.4×4 topics
  22. Multi-Agent Systems22▲ 9.3×5 topics
  23. Semantic Similarity22▲ 14×1 topic
  24. Word Representation22▲ 14×1 topic
  25. Knowledge Representation22▲ 20×4 topics
  26. Time Series22▲ 10×3 topics
  27. Computer Vision22▲ 6.3×4 topics
  28. Wearable Sensors21▲ 15×3 topics
  29. Health Monitoring21▲ 8.3×3 topics
  30. Description Logics20▲ 35×2 topics
  31. Anomaly Detection20▲ 5.7×4 topics
  32. Semantic Web20▲ 17×4 topics
  33. Neural Machine Translation20▲ 18×1 topic
  34. Statistical Machine Translation20▲ 18×1 topic
  35. Gesture Recognition20▲ 21×3 topics
  36. Unsupervised Learning20▲ 10×3 topics
  37. Pose Estimation19▲ 13×3 topics
  38. Image Classification19▲ 8.0×2 topics
  39. Real-time Tracking17▲ 14×2 topics
  40. Human-Robot Interaction17▲ 11×3 topics

Which research topics does German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Semantic Web and Ontologies and Advanced Neural Network Applications.

Topic Modeling22Topic Modeling: 22 fractional worksNatural Language Process…20Natural Language Processing Techniques: 20 fractional worksSemantic Web and Ontologies: 16 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 16 fractional worksDigital Transformation in Industry: 16 fractional worksExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): 15 fractional worksContext-Aware Activity Recognition Systems: 15 fractional worksHuman Pose and Action Re…14Human Pose and Action Recognition: 14 fractional worksRobot Manipulation and Learning: 13 fractional worksAnomaly Detection Techniques and Applications: 13 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringControl and Systems Engineering

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 22 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 20 works
  3. 3 Semantic Web and Ontologies Artificial Intelligence 16 works
  4. 4 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 16 works
  5. 5 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 16 works
  6. 6 Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Artificial Intelligence 15 works
  7. 7 Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 15 works
  8. 8 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 14 works
  9. 9 Robot Manipulation and Learning Control and Systems Engineering 13 works
  10. 10 Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications Artificial Intelligence 13 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 available32.5%not open67.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.5%domestic only82.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 65% 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 German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0054% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence0.0054% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.4% in 1997.

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