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ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)

In research, ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,203 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#4,206 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Automotive Engineering (Automotive Engineering is 29.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,493
of 22,385 · #7,128 all time
Rank in Germany
#373
of 795
Research works
906
▲ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.5k
3.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)

What is ZF Friedrichshafen (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
Physical SciencesDomain #7,203 of 10,670 2.9%113 #4121
EngineeringField #4,206 of 5,901 2.9%87 #4502

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where ZF Friedrichshafen (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 fields of science does ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany) work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research at ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany) is in Physical Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (53%), Social Sciences (13%), Computer Science (11%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 128 fractional works · 69.0% of its workEngineering: 99 fractional works · 53.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 29 fractional works · 15.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 22 fractional works · 11.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 14 fractional works · 7.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 10 fractional works · 5.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 9 fractional works · 4.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 21 fractional works · 11.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 45 fractional works · 24.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 25 fractional works · 13.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 14 fractional works · 7.6% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 4.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 3.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKZFFriedrichshafen…185fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences69%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences24%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering9953.4%
    2. Computer Science2111.2%
    3. Materials Science31.6%
    4. Physics and Astronomy21.3%
    5. Energy10.5%
    6. Environmental Science10.4%
    7. Chemical Engineering10.4%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Social Sciences2513.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting84.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities63.4%
    4. Psychology42.2%
    5. Decision Sciences10.7%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.6%
    1. Medicine84.1%
    2. Health Professions10.6%
    3. Veterinary00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.7%
    2. Neuroscience10.7%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Automotive Engineering takes 29.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Automotive EngineeringSubfield · 28.8 works29×
← 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: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.03× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.44× its world share, 21 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.56× its world share, 99 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.46× its world share, 3 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.59× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.21× its world share, 8 worksMedicineVeterinary: 1.99× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.18× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.29× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.71× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.72× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.05× its world share, 25 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.56×99 works
  2. Veterinary1.99×0 works
  3. Computer Science1.44×21 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.29×8 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.18×6 works
  6. Social Sciences1.05×25 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.03×1 works
  8. Psychology0.72×4 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.71×1 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.59×2 works
  11. Energy0.56×1 works
  12. Materials Science0.46×3 works
  13. Neuroscience0.43×1 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.29×1 works
  15. Health Professions0.22×1 works
  16. Medicine0.21×8 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.14×1 works
  18. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.10×0 works
  19. Environmental Science0.08×1 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.02×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)?

Ranked on the quality score, Daniel Oeltz, Harald Naunheimer and Gregor von Cieminski lead among researchers whose main affiliation is ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany).

  1. 1 Daniel Oeltz Germany · #2,064,845 worldwide 242 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Harald Naunheimer Germany · #2,135,621 worldwide 777 citations · 60 works
  3. 3 Gregor von Cieminski Germany · #2,561,610 worldwide 797 citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Eberhardt Hofmann Germany · #2,606,796 worldwide 27 citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Johannes Looman Germany · #2,617,399 worldwide 74 citations · 44 works
  6. 6 Peter Fietkau Germany · #2,747,684 worldwide 498 citations · 38 works
  7. 7 Joachim Ryborz Germany · #2,880,339 worldwide 381 citations · 39 works
  8. 8 Gerhard Wiebe Germany · #3,370,066 worldwide 2 citations · 24 works
  9. 9 Lothar Kiltz Germany · #3,457,579 worldwide 126 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Martin Ralf Münster Germany · #3,461,702 worldwide 27 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)

What are the most cited papers from ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)?

The most cited paper from ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany) is "MIPAS: an instrument for atmospheric and climate research" (Herbert Fischer et al., 2008), with 743 citations. Next come "A Comparison of Budesonide with Prednisolone for Active Crohn's Disease" (603) and "A Distributed Canonical Correlation Analysis-Based Fault Detection Method for Plant-Wide Process Monitoring" (168).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MIPAS: an instrument for atmospheric and climate research Herbert Fischer et al. · Atmospheric chemistry and physics Open access 16 Apr 2008 743
2 A Comparison of Budesonide with Prednisolone for Active Crohn's Disease Paul J. Rutgeerts, Robert Löfberg, Helmut A. Malchow et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 29 Sep 1994 603
3 A Distributed Canonical Correlation Analysis-Based Fault Detection Method for Plant-Wide Process Monitoring Zhiwen Chen, Yue Qin Cao, Steven X. Ding et al. · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 14 Jan 2019 168
4 Current trends on ICT technologies for enterprise information systems Soumaya El Kadiri, Bernard Grabot, Klaus‐Dieter Thoben et al. · Computers in Industry Open access 20 Aug 2015 168
5 Active Damping of Drive Train Oscillations for an Electrically Driven Vehicle N. Amann, Joachim Böcker, F. Prenner · IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics Dec 2004 142
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Model Predictive Control, Electric Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Control Systems, Power Electronics, Energy Storage Systems, Hybrid Vehicles and Power Management Strategy.

▲ 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. Model Predictive Control23▲ 48×4 topics
  2. Electric Vehicles21▲ 40×4 topics
  3. Autonomous Vehicles20▲ 52×5 topics
  4. Control Systems16▲ 48×3 topics
  5. Power Electronics14▲ 24×6 topics
  6. Deep Learning14▲ 2.2×21 topics
  7. Machine Learning10▲ 1.70×16 topics
  8. Energy Storage Systems10▲ 40×2 topics
  9. Hybrid Vehicles10▲ 145×1 topic
  10. Power Management Strategy10▲ 145×1 topic
  11. Big Data10▲ 5.4×7 topics
  12. Renewable Energy10▲ 3.6×6 topics
  13. Vehicle Dynamics9▲ 89×2 topics
  14. Smart Grid9▲ 13×3 topics
  15. Active Steering8▲ 158×1 topic
  16. Tire-Road Friction Estimation8▲ 158×1 topic
  17. Renewable Energy Integration8▲ 14×5 topics
  18. Sustainability8▲ 1.86×12 topics
  19. Artificial Intelligence8▲ 3.1×7 topics
  20. Electric Drives8▲ 107×2 topics
  21. Hardware-in-the-Loop7▲ 160×1 topic
  22. Real-Time Simulation7▲ 160×1 topic
  23. Collision Avoidance7▲ 20×2 topics
  24. Governance6▲ 11×2 topics
  25. Thermal Analysis6▲ 27×4 topics
  26. Thermal Management6▲ 9.8×5 topics
  27. Bildungsungleichheit6▲ 115×1 topic
  28. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse6▲ 81×1 topic
  29. Sensor Fusion5▲ 26×2 topics
  30. Adaptive Control5▲ 20×4 topics
  31. Driver Assistance Systems5▲ 47×1 topic
  32. Trajectory Prediction5▲ 47×1 topic
  33. Induction Motors4▲ 52×2 topics
  34. Industrial Automation4▲ 35×2 topics
  35. Electric Motor Drives4▲ 58×1 topic
  36. Fault Tolerance4▲ 14×2 topics
  37. Flexible Automation4▲ 89×1 topic
  38. Permanent Magnet Machines4▲ 58×1 topic
  39. Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems4▲ 89×1 topic
  40. Multilevel Converters4▲ 39×1 topic

Which research topics does ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies, Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems, Real-time simulation and control systems and Sociology and Education Studies.

Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies: 10 fractional worksVehicle Dynamics and Control Systems: 8 fractional worksReal-time simulation and…7Real-time simulation and control systems: 7 fractional worksSociology and Education …6Sociology and Education Studies: 6 fractional worksAutonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety: 5 fractional worksFlexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: 4 fractional worksElectric Motor Design an…4Electric Motor Design and Analysis: 4 fractional worksMultilevel Inverters and Converters: 4 fractional worksSensorless Control of Electric Motors: 3 fractional worksDigital Innovation in Industries: 3 fractional works
Automotive EngineeringControl and Systems EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering2 others

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

  1. 1 Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Automotive Engineering 10 works
  2. 2 Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems Automotive Engineering 8 works
  3. 3 Real-time simulation and control systems Control and Systems Engineering 7 works
  4. 4 Sociology and Education Studies Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  5. 5 Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety Automotive Engineering 5 works
  6. 6 Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 4 works
  7. 7 Electric Motor Design and Analysis Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
  8. 8 Multilevel Inverters and Converters Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
  9. 9 Sensorless Control of Electric Motors Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 works
  10. 10 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 3 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 available11.5%not open88.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.6%domestic only92.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% 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 ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00094% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)0.00068% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of ZF Friedrichshafen (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%all institutions10.0% in 2025ZF Friedrichshafen (Germany)4.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.0% in 2012.

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