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Leibniz Institute for the German Language

In research, Leibniz Institute for the German Language stands highest in Language and Linguistics (#55 of 303 worldwide), Social Sciences (#3,912 of 10,521 worldwide) and Arts and Humanities (#1,002 of 1,998 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Language and Linguistics and Arts and Humanities — Language and Linguistics is 101.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#15,429
of 28,054 · #20,972 all time
Rank in Germany
#603
of 1,178
Research works
833
▲ 55% vs 2013–17
Citations
6.2k
7.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
74%
world 28%

What is Leibniz Institute for the German Language known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Language and LinguisticsSubfield #55 of 303 36.8%83 #184
Social SciencesDomain #3,912 of 10,521 33.9%147 #4426
Arts and HumanitiesField #1,002 of 1,998 36.1%98 #1342

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Leibniz Institute for the German Language 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Language and Linguistics#184 #55
  2. Social Sciences#4,426 #3,912
  3. Arts and Humanities#1,342 #1,002
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Leibniz Institute for the German Language specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Language and Linguistics takes 101.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 83.4 works102×
  2. Arts and HumanitiesField · 98.1 works18×
← 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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.11× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 18.16× its world share, 98 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.21× its world share, 18 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.20× its world share, 28 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 18.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Leibniz Institute for the German Language?

Ranked on the composite score, Arnulf Deppermann, Gisela Zifonun and Jörg Zinken lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Leibniz Institute for the German Language.

  1. 1 Arnulf Deppermann Germany · #43,273 worldwide 264 citations · 79 works
  2. 2 Gisela Zifonun Germany · #223,976 worldwide 23 citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Jörg Zinken Germany · #253,404 worldwide 66 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Reinhold Schmitt Germany · #297,846 worldwide 39 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Annette Klosa Germany · #335,789 worldwide 12 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 Heidrun Kämper Germany · #379,714 worldwide 3 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Nina Berend Germany · #487,773 worldwide 8 citations · 21 works
  8. 8 Rudolf Gerhardt Germany · #510,851 worldwide 1 citations · 22 works
  9. 9 Andreas Witt Germany · #533,255 worldwide 69 citations · 54 works
  10. 10 Ulrich Püschel Germany · #577,505 worldwide 12 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Leibniz Institute for the German Language

Which keywords describe research at Leibniz Institute for the German Language?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Digital Communication, Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Phraseology, Communication Practices and Text Linguistics.

▲ 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 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. Sociolinguistics41▲ 117×6 topics
  2. Language Variation37▲ 346×3 topics
  3. Digital Communication37▲ 276×2 topics
  4. Discourse Analysis35▲ 73×4 topics
  5. Multimodality34▲ 350×2 topics
  6. Phraseology33▲ 235×3 topics
  7. Communication Practices32▲ 843×1 topic
  8. Text Linguistics32▲ 843×1 topic
  9. Social Interaction19▲ 26×7 topics
  10. Language18▲ 39×5 topics
  11. Corpus Linguistics17▲ 43×5 topics
  12. Language Acquisition17▲ 78×3 topics
  13. Multilingualism17▲ 53×3 topics
  14. Pragmatics16▲ 54×6 topics
  15. Language Learning16▲ 112×2 topics
  16. Cultural Studies16▲ 22×7 topics
  17. German as a Foreign Language14▲ 498×1 topic
  18. Intercultural Competence14▲ 205×1 topic
  19. Narrative Analysis13▲ 137×2 topics
  20. Conversation Analysis12▲ 214×1 topic
  21. Interactional Linguistics12▲ 214×1 topic
  22. History11▲ 8.4×8 topics
  23. Neural Machine Translation10▲ 53×1 topic
  24. Statistical Machine Translation10▲ 53×1 topic
  25. Bilingualism9▲ 35×5 topics
  26. Lexicography9▲ 50×3 topics
  27. Neural Basis8▲ 50×2 topics
  28. Embodiment8▲ 22×4 topics
  29. Dictionaries8▲ 128×1 topic
  30. Electronic8▲ 222×1 topic
  31. Cognition8▲ 30×2 topics
  32. Metaphor7▲ 92×1 topic
  33. Time7▲ 83×1 topic
  34. Language Contact7▲ 36×4 topics
  35. Gender Differences7▲ 9.4×4 topics
  36. Social Perception6▲ 77×2 topics
  37. Children's Literature6▲ 79×2 topics
  38. Gender Stereotyping6▲ 252×1 topic
  39. Language Education6▲ 27×1 topic
  40. Anglicisms5▲ 108×1 topic

Which research topics does Leibniz Institute for the German Language publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Linguistic research and analysis, Linguistic Education and Pedagogy, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies and Natural Language Processing Techniques.

Linguistic research and …32Linguistic research and analysis: 32 fractional worksLinguistic Education and…14Linguistic Education and Pedagogy: 14 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Com…12Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 12 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 10 fractional worksLexicography and Language Studies: 8 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and …7Language, Metaphor, and Cognition: 7 fractional worksGender Studies in Language: 6 fractional worksLinguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity: 5 fractional worksDigital Communication and Language: 5 fractional workslinguistics and terminology studies: 4 fractional works
Language and LinguisticsArtificial IntelligenceExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyGender Studies1 others

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

  1. 1 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 32 works
  2. 2 Linguistic Education and Pedagogy Language and Linguistics 14 works
  3. 3 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 12 works
  4. 4 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 10 works
  5. 5 Lexicography and Language Studies Language and Linguistics 8 works
  6. 6 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 7 works
  7. 7 Gender Studies in Language Gender Studies 6 works
  8. 8 Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity Language and Linguistics 5 works
  9. 9 Digital Communication and Language Human-Computer Interaction 5 works
  10. 10 linguistics and terminology studies Language and Linguistics 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 available73.9%not open26.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.6%domestic only86.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Leibniz Institute for the German Language's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 55% 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.

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