Universität Innsbruck
In research, Universität Innsbruck stands highest in Social Sciences (#158 of 9,585 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#246 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#176 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Pharmaceutical Science, Language and Linguistics and Atmospheric Science (Pharmaceutical Science is 5.5× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #235 of 22,385 · #249 all time
- Rank in Austria
- #3 of 143
- Research works
- 36k ▲ 8% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 943k 26.2 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 11.7% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 1.25× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 39% world 40%
- International
- 28% world 18%
What is Universität Innsbruck known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social SciencesDomain | #158 of 9,585 | 13.1% | 1,840 | #221 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #246 of 10,670 | 9.5% | 2,161 | #222 | |
| Social SciencesField | #176 of 5,988 | 12.5% | 834 | #284 | |
| Computer ScienceField | #149 of 4,417 | 11.8% | 404 | #192 | |
| Health SciencesDomain | #344 of 9,902 | 14.1% | 1,023 | #552 | |
| MedicineField | #311 of 8,541 | 14.1% | 915 | #495 | |
| Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield | #139 of 2,526 | 12.9% | 323 | #241 | |
| Arts and HumanitiesField | #114 of 1,896 | 13.3% | 437 | #191 | |
| Life SciencesDomain | #420 of 6,403 | 11.3% | 760 | #398 | |
| Artificial IntelligenceSubfield | #126 of 1,862 | 12.7% | 182 | #136 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Universität Innsbruck 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.
- Social Sciences#221 #158
- Physical Sciences#222 #246
- Social Sciences#284 #176
- Computer Science#192 #149
- Health Sciences#552 #344
- Medicine#495 #311
- Sociology and Political Science#241 #139
- Arts and Humanities#191 #114
- Life Sciences#398 #420
- Artificial Intelligence#136 #126
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 Universität Innsbruck work in?
In 2022-now, 38% of research at Universität Innsbruck is in Physical Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (16%), Social Sciences (14%), Engineering (10%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.
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 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences2,47037.8%
- Engineering6339.7%
- Computer Science4587.0%
- Environmental Science3805.8%
- Physics and Astronomy2904.4%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2153.3%
- Materials Science1792.7%
- Chemistry1682.6%
- Mathematics931.4%
- Energy330.5%
- Chemical Engineering200.3%
- Social Sciences2,05431.4%
- Social Sciences93414.3%
- Arts and Humanities4937.5%
- Psychology2553.9%
- Business, Management and Accounting2073.2%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1051.6%
- Decision Sciences600.9%
- Health Sciences1,15117.6%
- Medicine1,02815.7%
- Health Professions941.4%
- Nursing140.2%
- Dentistry110.2%
- Veterinary40.1%
- Life Sciences86013.2%
What does Universität Innsbruck specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Pharmaceutical Science takes 5.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- Pharmaceutical ScienceSubfield · 38.2 works5.5×
- Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 131.9 works4.6×
- Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 119.2 works4.1×
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 168.1 works3.6×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 2.6×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Arts and Humanities2.61×493 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.30×53 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.10×215 works
- Physics and Astronomy2.00×290 works
- Chemistry1.64×168 works
- Neuroscience1.34×142 works
- Psychology1.28×255 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.21×423 works
- Mathematics1.21×93 works
- Environmental Science1.17×380 works
- Social Sciences1.13×934 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.98×207 works
- Decision Sciences0.94×60 works
- Computer Science0.90×458 works
- Chemical Engineering0.88×20 works
- Medicine0.82×1,028 works
- Materials Science0.79×180 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.75×105 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.72×48 works
- Engineering0.65×633 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.63×195 works
- Health Professions0.55×94 works
- Energy0.54×33 works
- Veterinary0.50×4 works
- Nursing0.43×14 works
- Dentistry0.34×11 works
- Arts and Humanities 2.6×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2.3×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 2.1×
- Physics and Astronomy 2.0×
- Chemistry 1.6×
- Neuroscience 1.3×
- Psychology 1.3×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1.2×
- Mathematics 1.2×
- Environmental Science 1.2×
- Social Sciences 1.1×
- Business, Management and Accounting 1.0×
- Decision Sciences 0.9×
- Computer Science 0.9×
- Chemical Engineering 0.9×
- Medicine 0.8×
- Materials Science 0.8×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.8×
- Immunology and Microbiology 0.7×
- Engineering 0.7×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.6×
- Health Professions 0.6×
- Energy 0.5×
- Veterinary 0.5×
- Nursing 0.4×
- Dentistry 0.3×
Who are the top researchers at Universität Innsbruck?
Ranked on the quality score, P. Zoller, Michael Bahn and Christian F. Roos lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Universität Innsbruck.
- 1
P. Zoller
Austria · #1,866 worldwide 100k citations · 805 works
- 2
Michael Bahn
Austria · #16,601 worldwide 27k citations · 391 works
- 3
Christian F. Roos
Austria · #17,687 worldwide 21k citations · 209 works
- 4
R. Blatt
Austria · #19,276 worldwide 41k citations · 490 works
- 5
Francesca Ferlaino
Austria · #20,414 worldwide 9.5k citations · 170 works
- 6
Thomas Karl
Austria · #20,504 worldwide 25k citations · 338 works
- 7
Manfred J. Mark
Austria · #20,767 worldwide 9.7k citations · 136 works
- 8
Hans J. Briegel
Austria · #22,151 worldwide 28k citations · 317 works
- 9
Wolfgang Dür
Austria · #24,343 worldwide 22k citations · 265 works
- 10
Hanns‐Christoph Nägerl
Austria · #27,352 worldwide 10k citations · 142 works
Which keywords describe research at Universität Innsbruck?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Entanglement, Identity, Quantum Information, Gender, Quantum Simulation, Human Rights and Governance.
- Migration Law
- Bildungsungleichheit
- Consumer Protection
- Constitutional Courts
- Text Linguistics
- Superfluidity
- Bildung
- Quantum
- Metrology
- Cryptography
- Superconducting Circuits
- Hydrology
- European Union
- Sociolinguistics
- Quantum Information
- Governance
- Remote Sensing
- Human Rights
- Identity
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Oxidative Stress
- Gender
- Entanglement
- Ethics
- Literature
- Quantum Simulation
- Multilingualism
- Language Variation
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
- Computation
- Phraseology
- Digital Communication
- Multimodality
- Communication Practices
- Legal Methodology
- Autorschaft
- Literaturkritik
- Ethnografisches Schreiben
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
- Climate Change288▲ 1.62×97 topics
- Epidemiology170▼ 0.65×123 topics
- Globalization133◆ 1.04×97 topics
- Identity120▲ 2.5×50 topics
- Oxidative Stress109◆ 1.02×60 topics
- Human Rights107▲ 1.60×51 topics
- Gender102▲ 2.9×41 topics
- Remote Sensing101▲ 1.27×33 topics
- Entanglement81▲ 8.2×4 topics
- Governance69▲ 3.2×10 topics
- Ethics68▲ 2.1×43 topics
- Quantum Information68▲ 9.0×3 topics
- Literature67▲ 1.88×43 topics
- Sociolinguistics56▲ 4.7×9 topics
- Quantum Simulation52▲ 9.8×2 topics
- European Union49▲ 3.3×21 topics
- Multilingualism44▲ 4.2×6 topics
- Hydrology44▲ 5.2×4 topics
- Language Variation42▲ 12×3 topics
- Superconducting Circuits41▲ 9.0×2 topics
- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse41▲ 16×2 topics
- Cryptography40▲ 5.1×3 topics
- Computation39▲ 8.4×2 topics
- Metrology38▲ 9.9×1 topic
- Phraseology38▲ 8.2×3 topics
- Quantum38▲ 7.5×1 topic
- Digital Communication38▲ 8.7×3 topics
- Bildung37▲ 18×3 topics
- Multimodality37▲ 11×2 topics
- Superfluidity34▲ 13×2 topics
- Communication Practices33▲ 26×1 topic
- Text Linguistics33▲ 26×1 topic
- Legal Methodology33▲ 28×2 topics
- Constitutional Courts33▲ 33×2 topics
- Autorschaft32▲ 25×1 topic
- Consumer Protection32▲ 12×2 topics
- Literaturkritik32▲ 25×1 topic
- Bildungsungleichheit32▲ 18×1 topic
- Ethnografisches Schreiben32▲ 18×1 topic
- Migration Law32▲ 34×2 topics
Which research topics does Universität Innsbruck publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Quantum Information and Cryptography, Linguistic research and analysis, German Literature and Culture Studies and Sociology and Education Studies.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Quantum Information and Cryptography Artificial Intelligence 38 works
- 2 Linguistic research and analysis Language and Linguistics 33 works
- 3 German Literature and Culture Studies Literature and Literary Theory 32 works
- 4 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 32 works
- 5 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 30 works
- 6 Law and Political Science Law 30 works
- 7 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 28 works
- 8 Diverse Legal and Medical Studies Strategy and Management 25 works
- 9 Winter Sports Injuries and Performance Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 24 works
- 10 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 23 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Universität Innsbruck's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021.
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 Universität Innsbruck as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.
Fractional works of Universität Innsbruck 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.1% in 1996.
Other research institutions in Innsbruck
- Innsbruck Medical University
- University Clinic of Traumatology
- University Hospital Innsbruck
- Management Center Innsbruck
- Tirol Kliniken
- MED-EL (Austria)
- AGO Austria
- Tyrolean Cancer Research Institute
Which institutions have research most like Universität Innsbruck's?
Among the world's leading institutions, University of Vienna has the research profile closest to Universität Innsbruck's, with both strong in Arts and Humanities.
- 1
University of Vienna
Austria · Both strong in Arts and Humanities, Physics and Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.78 Compare
- 2
University of Fribourg
Switzerland · Both strong in Arts and Humanities, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Chemistry 0.75 Compare
- 3
Stockholm University
Sweden · Both strong in Arts and Humanities, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physics and Astronomy 0.73 Compare
- 4
Princeton University
United States · Both strong in Arts and Humanities, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physics and Astronomy 0.70 Compare
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
France · Both strong in Arts and Humanities, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Physics and Astronomy 0.70 Compare
Similarity is the correlation of each side's location quotients across every field it publishes in, on a log scale: 1 is the same shape of research, 0 is unrelated. It ignores size. How it is measured.
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