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SBA Research

In research, SBA Research stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,496 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence is 6.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#15,502
of 22,385 · #13,746 all time
Rank in Austria
#94
of 143
Research works
507
▲ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.8k
17.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
32%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
SBA Research

What is SBA Research 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 #7,496 of 10,670 7.8%77 #5689

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where SBA Research 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 SBA Research work in?

In 2022-now, 67% of research at SBA Research is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (45%), Engineering (11%), Medicine (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 86 fractional works · 66.6% of its workComputer Science: 58 fractional works · 45.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 21 fractional works · 16.6% of its workInformation Systems: 11 fractional works · 8.4% of its workSoftware: 7 fractional works · 5.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 3.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSignal Processing: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEngineering: 14 fractional works · 11.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 6.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 18.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 9.3% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSBA Research129fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences19%

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 Science5845.3%
    2. Engineering1411.1%
    3. Environmental Science86.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy32.2%
    5. Mathematics10.7%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.4%
    7. Materials Science00.4%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences75.6%
    2. Decision Sciences75.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance53.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting32.2%
    5. Psychology11.0%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.9%
    1. Medicine118.2%
    2. Health Professions10.7%
    3. Veterinary00.3%
    4. Nursing00.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology32.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.7%
    3. Neuroscience10.7%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does SBA Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Artificial Intelligence takes 6.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 21.4 works6.9×
  2. Computer ScienceField · 58.3 works5.8×
← 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: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.49× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 5.82× its world share, 58 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.74× its world share, 14 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.27× its world share, 8 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.00× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.43× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.05× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.68× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 5.63× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.68× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science5.82×58 works
  2. Decision Sciences5.63×7 works
  3. Veterinary2.05×0 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.68×5 works
  5. Environmental Science1.27×8 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy1.00×3 works
  7. Engineering0.74×14 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.68×3 works
  9. Mathematics0.59×1 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.55×0 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.49×3 works
  12. Social Sciences0.44×7 works
  13. Medicine0.43×11 works
  14. Neuroscience0.41×1 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.36×2 works
  16. Psychology0.34×1 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.32×1 works
  18. Health Professions0.27×1 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.26×0 works
  20. Nursing0.26×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.15×0 works
  22. Energy0.12×0 works
  23. Chemistry0.10×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.10×0 works
  25. Dentistry0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at SBA Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Andreas Ekelhart, Martin Mulazzani and Markus Huber lead among researchers whose main affiliation is SBA Research.

  1. 1 Andreas Ekelhart Austria · #451,603 worldwide 2.1k citations · 98 works
  2. 2 Martin Mulazzani Austria · #636,437 worldwide 1.2k citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Markus Huber Austria · #652,645 worldwide 2.1k citations · 65 works
  4. 4 Edgar R. Weippl Austria · #707,712 worldwide 6.5k citations · 426 works
  5. 5 Peter Kieseberg Austria · #841,768 worldwide 2.8k citations · 132 works
  6. 6 Adrian Dabrowski Austria · #911,781 worldwide 713 citations · 42 works
  7. 7 Sebastian Raubitzek Austria · #1,020,723 worldwide 424 citations · 57 works
  8. 8 Kevin Mallinger Austria · #1,031,553 worldwide 254 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Johanna Ullrich Austria · #1,097,343 worldwide 792 citations · 44 works
  10. 10 Georg Goldenits Austria · #1,133,692 worldwide 101 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at SBA Research

What are the most cited papers from SBA Research?

The most cited paper from SBA Research is "Advanced social engineering attacks" (Katharina Krombholz, Heidelinde Hobel, Markus Huber et al., 2014), with 571 citations. Next come "Legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks for development of standards in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous robotic surgery" (437) and "Explainable AI: The New 42?" (253).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Advanced social engineering attacks Katharina Krombholz, Heidelinde Hobel, Markus Huber et al. · Journal of Information Security and Applications 24 Oct 2014 571
2 Legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks for development of standards in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous robotic surgery Shane O’Sullivan, Nathalie Nevejans, Colin Allen et al. · International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery 6 Nov 2018 437
3 Explainable AI: The New 42? Randy G. Goebel, Ajay Chander, Katharina Holzinger et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paperOpen access 2018 253
4 Formalizing information security knowledge Stefan Fenz, Andreas Ekelhart Conference paper 10 Mar 2009 253
5 XCLAIM: Trustless, Interoperable, Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets Alexei Zamyatin, Dominik Harz, Joshua Lind et al. Conference paperOpen access May 2019 237
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at SBA Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Security, Data Mining, Neural Networks, Automated Testing, Software Fault Localization 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. Machine Learning18▲ 4.2×30 topics
  2. Deep Learning14▲ 3.2×27 topics
  3. Neural Networks7▲ 3.5×13 topics
  4. Security7▲ 8.1×10 topics
  5. Data Mining7▲ 7.2×7 topics
  6. Big Data6▲ 4.8×14 topics
  7. Automated Testing5▲ 147×1 topic
  8. Software Fault Localization5▲ 147×1 topic
  9. Differential Privacy4▲ 50×1 topic
  10. Federated Learning4▲ 50×1 topic
  11. IoT Security4▲ 11×3 topics
  12. Security Analysis4▲ 21×3 topics
  13. Supply Chain Management4▲ 3.6×7 topics
  14. Anomaly Detection4▲ 10×3 topics
  15. Behavioral Analysis4▲ 25×2 topics
  16. Healthcare4▲ 2.5×7 topics
  17. Internet of Things4▲ 3.2×6 topics
  18. Detection3▲ 9.3×2 topics
  19. Surveillance3▲ 9.2×3 topics
  20. Android Malware3▲ 33×1 topic
  21. Permission Analysis3▲ 33×1 topic
  22. Distributed Systems3▲ 14×5 topics
  23. Side-Channel Attacks3▲ 47×3 topics
  24. Privacy3▲ 8.1×3 topics
  25. Trust3▲ 8.1×4 topics
  26. Virtualization3▲ 27×2 topics
  27. Neural Network2▲ 11×2 topics
  28. Architecture-Based Approach2▲ 86×1 topic
  29. Smart Contracts2▲ 12×2 topics
  30. Software Reliability Modeling2▲ 86×1 topic
  31. Blockchain2▲ 7.5×1 topic
  32. Decentralization2▲ 8.1×1 topic
  33. Adversarial Examples2▲ 29×1 topic
  34. Robustness2▲ 29×1 topic
  35. Cryptography2▲ 13×3 topics
  36. Fault Localization2▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Agent-Based Modeling2▲ 11×4 topics
  38. Control-Flow Integrity2▲ 68×1 topic
  39. Homomorphic Encryption2▲ 30×1 topic
  40. Security Policies2▲ 68×1 topic

Which research topics does SBA Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques and Software Reliability and Analysis Research.

Software Testing and Debugging Techniques: 5 fractional worksPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Malware Detecti…3Advanced Malware Detection Techniques: 3 fractional worksSoftware Reliability and…2Software Reliability and Analysis Research: 2 fractional worksBlockchain Technology Applications and Security: 2 fractional worksAdversarial Robustness in Machine Learning: 2 fractional worksPrivacy, Security, and D…2Privacy, Security, and Data Protection: 2 fractional worksCryptography and Data Security: 2 fractional worksSecurity and Verification in Computing: 2 fractional worksData Quality and Management: 1 fractional works
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceSignal ProcessingInformation Systems2 others

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

  1. 1 Software Testing and Debugging Techniques Software 5 works
  2. 2 Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  3. 3 Advanced Malware Detection Techniques Signal Processing 3 works
  4. 4 Software Reliability and Analysis Research Software 2 works
  5. 5 Blockchain Technology Applications and Security Information Systems 2 works
  6. 6 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  7. 7 Privacy, Security, and Data Protection Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  8. 8 Cryptography and Data Security Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  9. 9 Security and Verification in Computing Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  10. 10 Data Quality and Management 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 available32.1%not open67.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.9%domestic only76.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has SBA Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
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 SBA Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00046% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%SBA Research0.00043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of SBA Research 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%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025SBA Research4.2% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.7% in 2014.

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