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Digital Innovation in Industries

Digital Innovation in Industries is a research topic within Management of Technology and Innovation. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the multifaceted aspects of digital transformation, including the development of business models, the role of artificial intelligence, customer experience management, technology innovation, big data utilization, e-commerce strategies, mobile health applications, omni-channel retailing, and the impact on sustainable development goals.

  • Digital Transformation
  • Business Models
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Customer Experience
  • Technology Innovation
  • Big Data
  • E-commerce
  • Mobile Health
  • Omni-Channel Strategy
  • Sustainable Development
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
76% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Innovation in Industries

Which countries lead Digital Innovation in Industries research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (3.6k and 292 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 3.6k works
  2. 2 United States 292 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 249 works
  4. 4 Austria 232 works
  5. 5 India 103 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 83 works
  7. 7 China 52 works
  8. 8 Italy 38 works
  9. 9 France 30 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 30 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Germany: 76.4%United States: 6.2%Switzerland: 5.3%Austria: 4.9%6 others listed: 7.1%76%largest
Germany3,586 · 76.4%United States292 · 6.2%Switzerland249 · 5.3%Austria232 · 4.9%6 others listed335 · 7.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Digital Innovation in Industries research?

By volume in 2022-now, München Klinik publishes the most Digital Innovation in Industries research, followed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and IU International University of Applied Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 München KlinikGermany 87 works
  2. 2 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 69 works
  3. 3 IU International University of Applied SciencesGermany 62 works
  4. 4 FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and ManagementGermany 57 works
  5. 5 Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied SciencesGermany 47 works
  6. 6 Berlin School of Economics and LawGermany 44 works
  7. 7 Stuttgart ObservatoryGermany 38 works
  8. 8 LVR-Klinik KölnGermany 37 works
  9. 9 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 34 works
  10. 10 Hochschule NiederrheinGermany 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Innovation in Industries?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Innovation in Industries include Florian Fischer, Marko Sarstedt and Christian M. Ringle.

  1. 1 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  2. 2 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  3. 3 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
  4. 4 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Jens Juul Holst Denmark 163k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Digital Innovation in Industries?

The most cited paper in Digital Innovation in Industries is "Digital communications" (L. A. A. Warnes, 1994), with 6,530 citations. Next come "Design Principles for Industrie 4.0 Scenarios" (2,970) and "About The Importance of Autonomy and Digital Twins for the Future of Manufacturing" (1,465).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Digital communications L. A. A. Warnes Book chapter 1994 6,530
2 Design Principles for Industrie 4.0 Scenarios Mario Hermann, Tobias Pentek, Boris Otto Conference paper 2016 2,970
3 About The Importance of Autonomy and Digital Twins for the Future of Manufacturing Roland Rosen, Georg V. Wichert, George Lo et al. · IFAC-PapersOnLine Open access 2015 1,465
4 Holistic Approach for Human Resource Management in Industry 4.0 Fabian Hecklau, Mila Galeitzke, Sebastian Flachs et al. · Procedia CIRP Open access 2016 945
5 Change Through Digitization—Value Creation in the Age of Industry 4.0 Henning Kagermann Book chapter 9 Dec 2014 834
All 96 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital Innovation in Industries research done?

The largest centres of Digital Innovation in Industries research in 2022-now are Munich (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Stuttgart (Germany) and Hamburg (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Speyer.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MunichGermany 269 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 252 works
  3. 3 StuttgartGermany 185 works
  4. 4 HamburgGermany 121 works
  5. 5 EssenGermany 111 works
  6. 6 ViennaAustria 107 works
  7. 7 CologneGermany 99 works
  8. 8 DüsseldorfGermany 88 works
  9. 9 DortmundGermany 85 works
  10. 10 Frankfurt am MainGermany 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SpeyerDE · 21.3 works264×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital Innovation in Industries than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Digital Innovation in Industries?

Among universities, judged by research, Universität Hamburg, TU Dortmund University and IU International University of Applied Sciences score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →TU Dortmund UniversityUniversität HamburgBerlin School of Eco…IU International Uni…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universität HamburgGermany 67.517.1%8.0×25 +32.9%
2TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 67.417.8%28.0×31 +39.3%
3IU International University of Applied SciencesGermany 66.710.1%326.2×62 +334.3%
4Berlin School of Economics and LawGermany 66.612.7%292.1×44 +22.8%
5Offenburg University of Applied SciencesGermany 65.520.3%199.7×23 +13.9%
6University of BremenGermany 63.115.5%25.9×27 +16.4%
7RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 62.418.2%10.2×34 -45.8%
8University of St.GallenSwitzerland 60.713.2%68.9×31 -42.0%
9Folkwang University of the ArtsGermany 60.234.0%61.9×10 +60.8%
10University of BaselSwitzerland 59.36.2%14.8×24 +28.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Digital Innovation in Industries, country by country

Is Digital Innovation in Industries research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Innovation in Industries.

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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 Digital Innovation in Industries as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Digital Innovation in Industries0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Digital Innovation in Industries 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.

still counting5%10%15%Digital Innovation in Industries9.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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