Top 50 German Institutions

The table shows the top 50 German institutions ranked by their article share (Share) in 2019. Also listed are each institution’s number of articles (Count) in 2019, its global rank and highest subject rank(s) within Germany.

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Rank	Institution	Share 2019	Count 2019	Global Rank	Highest subject rank^*
1	Max Planck Society	764.83	2,613	3	C1, L1, P1
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres	485.75	2,200	7	E1
3	Leibniz Association	199.38	822	56	C3, E3
4	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU)	183.69	674	61	L3
5	Technical University of Munich (TUM)	155.45	592	75	P3
6	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg)	137.46	564	92	L5
7	University of Würzburg (JMU)	115.51	344	117	C8
8	University of Münster (WWU)	109.32	321	126	E6
9	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg)	105.20	344	136	L7
10	Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin)	102.80	556	139	E9
11	University of Göttingen	101.32	357	141	C9
12	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen)	101.31	381	142	C5
13	University of Hamburg (UHH)	92.10	423	158	L8
14	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden)	92.06	417	159	P7
15	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)	90.57	252	162	P11
16	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)	85.65	365	180	P8
17	University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen)	84.11	308	187	L9
18	Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU)	84.04	298	188	E11
19	University of Regensburg (UR)	79.91	173	198	P12
20	University of Bonn (Uni Bonn)	72.20	337	226	L15
21	University of Cologne (UoC)	70.17	262	230	L12
22	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin)	59.18	512	266	L17
23	Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)	58.41	191	268	C18
24	Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg)	56.69	151	274	C16
25	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	56.31	150	275	C15
26	University of Konstanz	52.51	106	293	C21
27	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)	46.96	283	321	L6
28	University of Kiel (CAU)	41.97	174	362	E13
29	Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU)	41.59	193	368	P23
30	University of Bayreuth (UBT)	39.92	105	379	E4
31	Ulm University	37.67	151	393	C26
32	University of Stuttgart	37.45	118	395	C24, P24
33	TU Dortmund University	34.78	176	410	C23
34	University of Hannover (LUH)	33.70	113	419	E22
35	Leipzig University	33.22	140	422	C30
36	University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)	33.10	124	423	E28
37	Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt)	30.30	114	448	P27
38	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU)	30.18	135	449	L21
39	University of Potsdam	28.32	154	465	E8
40	Giessen University (JLU)	28.17	194	466	C27
41	Saarland University (Saar-Uni)	27.64	78	471	L31
42	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen)	27.59	110	473	E5
43	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)	24.15	114	>500	P37
44	Braunschweig University of Technology (TU Braunschweig)	21.78	68	>500	C35
45	Fraunhofer Society	21.62	133	>500	P30
46	University of Siegen	20.83	87	>500	P34
47	Bielefeld University	20.06	57	>500	C40
48	University of Rostock	16.19	91	>500	C45
49	Hannover Medical School (MHH)	14.75	81	>500	L26
50	University of Kaiserslautern (TU Kaiserslautern)	13.65	45	>500	L42

^*C: Chemistry; E: Earth & environmental sciences; L: Life sciences; P: Physical sciences.