Publications

University rankings (i.e., Shanghai Ranking, Times Higher Education, QS World University Ranking) assess the research quality of universities by different indicators, such as the number of publications, while the research influence of universities is evaluated by indicators such as the number of citations. TUM is proud to be among the top-rated German universities in international rankings.

Since 2007, TUM-IAS Fellows have contributed 4,030 publications to TUM’s total number of publications (based on the Scopus database). These publications have been cited almost 223,00 times (status: March 31, 2025). Citation analysis reveals that publications produced by TUM-IAS Fellows (often in cooperation with their respective TUM hosts) have a considerably higher average citation impact than publications by the whole of TUM in the same period (2007 to present): 56.8 vs. 32.6 average number of citations per publication.

These data demonstrate that the research performance of the TUM-IAS has a positive effect on TUM's ranking indicators:

Table 1

Entity	Publications	Citations	Number of Citations per Publication
TUM-IAS	4,030	228,724	56.8
TUM incl. IAS	146,180	4,772,674	32.6
Mean: 2007–2024		Data Source: Scopus © 2022 Elsevier

The presence of publications in the most influential journals in the world is shown by the “number of publications in top journal percentiles.” Bibliometric analysis reveals that the percentage of publications in the 5 percent most-cited journals (defined by the journal metrics SCImago Journal Rank SJR, see Tab. 2) is notably higher for publications from TUM-IAS Fellows compared to the overall publications by TUM. These data indicate that the research output generated by TUM-IAS Fellows contributes significantly toward TUM’s national and international reputation as one of Germany’s top universities.

Table 2

Entity	Publications in Top 5% Journal Percentiles (using SciVal/SJR metrics)
	in %	absolute
TUM-IAS	38.2	1,374
	23.8	28,445
Mean: 2007–2024	Data Source: Scopus © 2022 Elsevier