Germany is usually underrepresented in these rankings since a lot of the research is not done by the university itself but by collaborating institutes like Fraunhofer, Max Planck, RKI and similar. It is just a different organizational setup that international comparisons do not take into account.
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Germany is usually underrepresented in these rankings since a lot of the research is not done by the university itself but by collaborating institutes like Fraunhofer, Max Planck, RKI and similar. It is just a different organizational setup that international comparisons do not take into account.