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Reutlingen University

In research, Reutlingen University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#3,203 of 10,670 worldwide), Business, Management and Accounting (#823 of 2,581 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#3,596 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation and Management Information Systems (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is 10.8× its share of world research).

World rank, 2022-now
#3,998
of 22,385 · #3,715 all time
Rank in Germany
#149
of 795
Research works
2.6k
▼ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
17k
6.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.90×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%

What is Reutlingen University 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 #3,203 of 10,670 4.8%375 #3687
Business, Management and AccountingField #823 of 2,581 7.7%114 #681
Social SciencesDomain #3,596 of 9,585 7.1%249 #3010
EngineeringField #2,595 of 5,901 3.9%253 #2331
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #677 of 1,319 3.2%85 #1031
Computer ScienceField #2,544 of 4,417 8.5%74 #2609
Social SciencesField #4,282 of 5,988 6.0%75 #4003

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Reutlingen University 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#3,687 #3,203
  2. Business, Management and Accounting#681 #823
  3. Social Sciences#3,010 #3,596
  4. Engineering#2,331 #2,595
  5. Mechanical Engineering#1,031 #677
  6. Computer Science#2,609 #2,544
  7. Social Sciences#4,003 #4,282
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 Reutlingen University work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research at Reutlingen University is in Physical Sciences, 37% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (35%), Business, Management and Accounting (16%), Social Sciences (11%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 401 fractional works · 53.6% of its workEngineering: 262 fractional works · 35.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 86 fractional works · 11.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 42 fractional works · 5.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 31 fractional works · 4.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 22 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 16 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 85 fractional works · 11.4% of its workInformation Systems: 26 fractional works · 3.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 17 fractional works · 2.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSoftware: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 17 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 280 fractional works · 37.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 123 fractional works · 16.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 32 fractional works · 4.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 28 fractional works · 3.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 22 fractional works · 2.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 16 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMarketing: 15 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAccounting: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness and International Management: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 85 fractional works · 11.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 37 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEducation: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopment: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 22 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 21 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMuseology: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 14 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 14 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 46 fractional works · 6.1% of its workMedicine: 33 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSurgery: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 11 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKReutlingenUniversity748fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences54%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences37%

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. Engineering26235.1%
    2. Computer Science8511.4%
    3. Materials Science172.2%
    4. Environmental Science121.6%
    5. Chemistry71.0%
    6. Mathematics71.0%
    7. Energy50.7%
    8. Physics and Astronomy40.6%
    9. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting12316.5%
    2. Social Sciences8511.4%
    3. Psychology222.9%
    4. Arts and Humanities212.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance141.9%
    6. Decision Sciences141.8%
    1. Medicine334.5%
    2. Health Professions111.5%
    3. Dentistry10.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology91.2%
    2. Neuroscience70.9%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences50.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Reutlingen University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering takes 10.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 41.9 works11×
  2. Management of Technology and InnovationSubfield · 22.1 works9.7×
  3. Management Information SystemsSubfield · 28.0 works9.1×
  4. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 86.3 works6.3×
← 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: 0.13× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.22× its world share, 9 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.58× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.62× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.46× its world share, 85 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.80× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.34× its world share, 262 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.32× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.64× its world share, 17 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.82× its world share, 7 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.57× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 33 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.99× its world share, 22 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5.11× its world share, 123 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.89× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.89× its world share, 14 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.97× its world share, 22 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.90× its world share, 85 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 5.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting5.11×123 works
  2. Engineering2.34×262 works
  3. Decision Sciences1.89×14 works
  4. Computer Science1.46×85 works
  5. Arts and Humanities0.99×22 works
  6. Psychology0.97×22 works
  7. Social Sciences0.90×85 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.89×14 works
  9. Mathematics0.82×7 works
  10. Energy0.80×6 works
  11. Materials Science0.64×17 works
  12. Chemistry0.62×7 works
  13. Neuroscience0.58×7 works
  14. Health Professions0.57×11 works
  15. Environmental Science0.32×12 works
  16. Dentistry0.29×1 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.27×4 works
  18. Medicine0.23×33 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.22×9 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.16×0 works
  21. Veterinary0.16×0 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.13×5 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.08×1 works
  24. Chemical Engineering0.06×0 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Reutlingen University?

Ranked on the quality score, Junyu Qi, Reinhard Kuhn and Ralf Kemkemer lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Reutlingen University.

  1. 1 Junyu Qi Germany · #585,358 worldwide 321 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Reinhard Kuhn Germany · #650,518 worldwide 2.4k citations · 40 works
  3. 3 Ralf Kemkemer Germany · #788,538 worldwide 4.7k citations · 100 works
  4. 4 Simon Heine Germany · #937,583 worldwide 783 citations · 36 works
  5. 5 Andreas Taschner Germany · #1,069,294 worldwide 1.1k citations · 110 works
  6. 6 Jochen Strähle Germany · #1,149,153 worldwide 730 citations · 62 works
  7. 7 Michael Kuss Germany · #1,215,007 worldwide 596 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Hermann Laßleben Germany · #1,215,009 worldwide 376 citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Alfréd Zimmermann Germany · #1,260,132 worldwide 1.9k citations · 174 works
  10. 10 Herbert Wittel Germany · #1,302,409 worldwide 471 citations · 1,353 works
All ranked researchers at Reutlingen University

What are the most cited papers from Reutlingen University?

The most cited paper from Reutlingen University is "Continuation of bevacizumab after first progression in metastatic colorectal cancer (ML18147): a randomised phase 3 trial" (Jaafar Bennouna, Javier Sastre, Dirk Arnold et al., 2012), with 1,175 citations. Next come "How Big Old Companies Navigate Digital Transformation" (1,019) and "BCAT1 promotes cell proliferation through amino acid catabolism in gliomas carrying wild-type IDH1" (487).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Continuation of bevacizumab after first progression in metastatic colorectal cancer (ML18147): a randomised phase 3 trial Jaafar Bennouna, Javier Sastre, Dirk Arnold et al. · The Lancet Oncology Open access 15 Nov 2012 1,175
2 How Big Old Companies Navigate Digital Transformation Ina M. Sebastian, Jeanne W. Ross, Cynthia Mathis Beath et al. Book chapterOpen access 6 Apr 2020 1,019
3 BCAT1 promotes cell proliferation through amino acid catabolism in gliomas carrying wild-type IDH1 Martje Tönjes et al. · Nature Medicine Open access 23 Jun 2013 487
4 A spike sorting toolbox for up to thousands of electrodes validated with ground truth recordings in vitro and in vivo Pierre Yger, Giulia Lb Spampinato, Elric Esposito et al. · eLife Open access 20 Mar 2018 485
5 An adoption framework for mobile augmented reality games: The case of Pokémon Go Philipp A. Rauschnabel, Alexander Rossmann, M. Claudia tom Dieck · Computers in Human Behavior Open access 24 Jul 2017 472
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Reutlingen University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Renewable Resources, Additive Manufacturing, Composite Structures, Structural Analysis, Automotive Engineering, Lightweight Materials, Sustainability and Big Data.

▲ 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. Sustainability65▲ 3.5×36 topics
  2. Renewable Resources56▲ 42×5 topics
  3. Additive Manufacturing53▲ 23×4 topics
  4. Composite Structures51▲ 154×2 topics
  5. Structural Analysis51▲ 76×2 topics
  6. Automotive Engineering51▲ 809×1 topic
  7. Lightweight Materials51▲ 809×1 topic
  8. Big Data40▲ 5.5×14 topics
  9. Sustainable Development39▲ 3.4×17 topics
  10. Renewable Energy37▲ 3.4×24 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence30▲ 2.8×23 topics
  12. Supply Chain Management29▲ 4.3×13 topics
  13. Renewable Energy Integration28▲ 11×6 topics
  14. Vibration Analysis25▲ 13×6 topics
  15. Digital Transformation23▲ 5.7×9 topics
  16. Thermal Management22▲ 9.2×4 topics
  17. Fluid Dynamics20▲ 19×4 topics
  18. Mathematical Modeling20▲ 30×2 topics
  19. Engineering20▲ 57×1 topic
  20. Materials Science20▲ 65×1 topic
  21. Internet of Things19▲ 3.0×10 topics
  22. Customer Experience19▲ 16×4 topics
  23. Governance18▲ 7.2×7 topics
  24. Business Models16▲ 29×2 topics
  25. Mobile Health14▲ 13×3 topics
  26. Cyber-Physical Systems13▲ 6.4×5 topics
  27. Material Properties12▲ 17×4 topics
  28. Omni-Channel Strategy12▲ 78×1 topic
  29. Technology Innovation12▲ 47×1 topic
  30. Digital Twin12▲ 12×2 topics
  31. Structural Health Monitoring12▲ 20×2 topics
  32. Cloud Manufacturing12▲ 17×1 topic
  33. Customer Relationship Management12▲ 11×2 topics
  34. Smart Manufacturing12▲ 17×1 topic
  35. Construction11▲ 12×2 topics
  36. Industrial Automation11▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Software Engineering11▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Investment Decisions11▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Knowledge Sharing11▲ 9.2×7 topics
  40. Flexible Automation11▲ 58×1 topic

Which research topics does Reutlingen University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Engineering and Materials Science Studies, Physics and Engineering Research Articles, Digital Innovation in Industries and Digital Transformation in Industry.

  1. 1 Engineering and Materials Science Studies Mechanical Engineering 51 works
  2. 2 Physics and Engineering Research Articles Computational Mechanics 20 works
  3. 3 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 12 works
  4. 4 Digital Transformation in Industry Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 12 works
  5. 5 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 11 works
  6. 6 Civil and Structural Engineering Research Civil and Structural Engineering 11 works
  7. 7 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 9 works
  8. 8 Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Automotive Engineering 8 works
  9. 9 Business Process Modeling and Analysis Management Information Systems 8 works
  10. 10 International Development and Aid Development 7 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 available23.7%not open76.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.8%domestic only87.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Reutlingen University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower 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 Reutlingen University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0029% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Reutlingen University0.0034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Reutlingen University 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 2025Reutlingen University5.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 8.8% in 2011.

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