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Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)

In research, Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) stands highest in Computer Science (#1,667 of 4,417 worldwide), Business, Management and Accounting (#1,144 of 2,581 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#4,760 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Management Information Systems, Management of Technology and Innovation and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Management Information Systems is 33.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,669
of 22,385 · #5,823 all time
Rank in Germany
#287
of 795
Research works
1.1k
▲ 66% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
12.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.03×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
15%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)

What is Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) 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
Computer ScienceField #1,667 of 4,417 7.3%71 #1201
Business, Management and AccountingField #1,144 of 2,581 6.3%85 #1147
Physical SciencesDomain #4,760 of 10,670 5.3%117 #4186
Social SciencesDomain #6,784 of 9,585 6.5%122 #4632

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) 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. Computer Science#1,201 #1,667
  2. Business, Management and Accounting#1,147 #1,144
  3. Physical Sciences#4,186 #4,760
  4. Social Sciences#4,632 #6,784
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 Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) work in?

In 2022-now, 48% of research at Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) is in Social Sciences, 48% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (33%), Computer Science (29%), Engineering (17%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 125 fractional works · 48.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 86 fractional works · 33.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 35 fractional works · 13.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 21 fractional works · 8.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 20 fractional works · 7.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 6.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 11 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 7 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 123 fractional works · 47.8% of its workComputer Science: 76 fractional works · 29.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 22 fractional works · 8.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 19 fractional works · 7.3% of its workInformation Systems: 15 fractional works · 5.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSoftware: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEngineering: 45 fractional works · 17.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 25 fractional works · 9.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSystems,Applications &…258fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences48%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences48%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting8633.3%
    2. Social Sciences176.8%
    3. Decision Sciences93.4%
    4. Psychology72.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities21.0%
    1. Computer Science7629.4%
    2. Engineering4517.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy10.6%
    4. Chemistry10.2%
    5. Environmental Science00.1%
    6. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Medicine52.0%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.0%
    2. Neuroscience10.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Management Information Systems takes 33.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Management Information SystemsSubfield · 35.0 works33×
  2. Management of Technology and InnovationSubfield · 20.4 works26×
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 24.5 works18×
  4. Business, Management and AccountingField · 85.8 works10×
  5. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 20.9 works9.3×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.78× its world share, 76 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 1.16× its world share, 45 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.25× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 5 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10.33× its world share, 86 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.47× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.54× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.94× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.53× its world share, 17 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 10.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting10.33×86 works
  2. Computer Science3.78×76 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.47×9 works
  4. Engineering1.16×45 works
  5. Psychology0.94×7 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.54×3 works
  7. Social Sciences0.53×17 works
  8. Arts and Humanities0.33×2 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.25×2 works
  10. Neuroscience0.24×1 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×2 works
  12. Chemistry0.14×1 works
  13. Medicine0.11×5 works
  14. Dentistry0.09×0 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×1 works
  16. Mathematics0.07×0 works
  17. Veterinary0.07×0 works
  18. Environmental Science0.03×0 works
  19. Health Professions0.02×0 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)?

Ranked on the quality score, Stamatis Karnouskos, Franz Färber and Rouven Krebs lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany).

  1. 1 Stamatis Karnouskos Germany · #111,060 worldwide 11k citations · 288 works
  2. 2 Franz Färber Germany · #445,156 worldwide 1.4k citations · 23 works
  3. 3 Rouven Krebs Germany · #782,400 worldwide 456 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Norman May Germany · #1,136,965 worldwide 1.2k citations · 78 works
  5. 5 Daniel Ritter Germany · #1,279,368 worldwide 1.3k citations · 135 works
  6. 6 Martin Schrepp Germany · #1,373,463 worldwide 6.7k citations · 167 works
  7. 7 Siar Sarferaz Germany · #1,422,672 worldwide 102 citations · 92 works
  8. 8 Hasso Plattner Germany · #1,509,118 worldwide 713 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 Franz Faerber Germany · #1,692,187 worldwide 2.2k citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Alexander Hennig Germany · #1,755,575 worldwide 525 citations · 89 works
All ranked researchers at Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)

What are the most cited papers from Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)?

The most cited paper from Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) is "Construction and Evaluation of a User Experience Questionnaire" (Bettina Laugwitz, Theo Held, Martin Schrepp, 2008), with 2,063 citations. Next come "Mass-spectrometry-based draft of the human proteome" (1,918) and "Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches" (985).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Construction and Evaluation of a User Experience Questionnaire Bettina Laugwitz, Theo Held, Martin Schrepp · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2008 2,063
2 Mass-spectrometry-based draft of the human proteome Mathias Wilhelm et al. · Nature 27 May 2014 1,918
3 Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches Krzysztof Czarnecki, Simon Helsen · IBM Systems Journal 2006 985
4 The target landscape of clinical kinase drugs Susan Klaeger et al. · Science Open access 30 Nov 2017 905
5 Applying the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) in Different Evaluation Scenarios Martin Schrepp, Andreas Hinderks, Jörg Thomaschewski · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paperOpen access 2014 548
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Which keywords describe research at Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Supply Chain Management, Digital Transformation, Customer Experience, Sustainable Development, E-commerce and Mobile Health.

▲ 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. Big Data39▲ 16×13 topics
  2. Artificial Intelligence33▲ 9.0×14 topics
  3. Supply Chain Management30▲ 13×11 topics
  4. Digital Transformation29▲ 21×9 topics
  5. Sustainable Development22▲ 5.4×7 topics
  6. Customer Experience19▲ 44×4 topics
  7. E-commerce18▲ 12×2 topics
  8. Sustainability18▲ 2.9×13 topics
  9. Mobile Health18▲ 47×3 topics
  10. Business Models18▲ 94×2 topics
  11. Omni-Channel Strategy17▲ 327×1 topic
  12. Technology Innovation17▲ 200×1 topic
  13. Machine Learning17▲ 1.99×25 topics
  14. Customer Relationship Management16▲ 45×2 topics
  15. Information Technology16▲ 13×2 topics
  16. Knowledge Sharing16▲ 38×3 topics
  17. IT Governance16▲ 333×2 topics
  18. Digital Capital15▲ 341×1 topic
  19. Value Chains15▲ 341×1 topic
  20. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises14▲ 108×2 topics
  21. Enterprise Resource Planning14▲ 712×1 topic
  22. Implementation Procedures14▲ 712×1 topic
  23. Software Engineering12▲ 55×2 topics
  24. Flexible Automation11▲ 178×1 topic
  25. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems11▲ 178×1 topic
  26. Business Process Management10▲ 178×1 topic
  27. Workflow Mining10▲ 178×1 topic
  28. Distributed Systems9▲ 21×6 topics
  29. Predictive Analytics8▲ 30×2 topics
  30. Innovation8▲ 3.0×12 topics
  31. Analytics8▲ 35×1 topic
  32. Business Intelligence8▲ 35×1 topic
  33. Automation8▲ 43×2 topics
  34. Business Process7▲ 378×1 topic
  35. Robotic Process Automation7▲ 378×1 topic
  36. Data Integration7▲ 16×3 topics
  37. Continuous Queries7▲ 178×1 topic
  38. Data Stream Management7▲ 178×1 topic
  39. Semantic Web5▲ 22×4 topics
  40. Social Innovation5▲ 12×2 topics

Which research topics does Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Digital Innovation in Industries, Corporate Governance and Management, ERP Systems Implementation and Impact and Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.

Digital Innovation in Industries: 17 fractional worksCorporate Governance and Management: 15 fractional worksERP Systems Implementati…14ERP Systems Implementation and Impact: 14 fractional worksFlexible and Reconfigura…11Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: 11 fractional worksBusiness Process Modeling and Analysis: 10 fractional worksBig Data and Business Intelligence: 8 fractional worksRobotic Process Automati…7Robotic Process Automation Applications: 7 fractional worksAdvanced Database Systems and Queries: 7 fractional worksSoftware System Performance and Reliability: 4 fractional worksService-Oriented Architecture and Web Services: 4 fractional works
Management of Technology and InnovationStrategy and ManagementManagement Information SystemsIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 17 works
  2. 2 Corporate Governance and Management Strategy and Management 15 works
  3. 3 ERP Systems Implementation and Impact Management Information Systems 14 works
  4. 4 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 11 works
  5. 5 Business Process Modeling and Analysis Management Information Systems 10 works
  6. 6 Big Data and Business Intelligence Management Information Systems 8 works
  7. 7 Robotic Process Automation Applications Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 7 works
  8. 8 Advanced Database Systems and Queries Computer Networks and Communications 7 works
  9. 9 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 4 works
  10. 10 Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services Information Systems 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 available15.4%not open84.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors17.9%domestic only82.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 66% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0010% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)0.00089% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany) 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%Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (Germany)11.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.8% in 2017.

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