Research in Aarhus
Science Explorer records 37 research institutions in Aarhus, Denmark. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Aarhus University, Danish Pain Research Center and VIA University College.
- Research institutions
- 37 10 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 131k ▼ 10% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 3.3M 24.9 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 21.8% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Aarhus?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aarhus UniversityUniversity | 121,712 | #101 | |
| 2 | Aarhus MunicipalityGovernment institution | 2,491 | #14,866 all time | |
| 3 | Natural History Museum AarhusArchive | 2,128 | #9,644 | |
| 4 | VIA University CollegeUniversity | 1,394 | #7,515 | |
| 5 | Danish Pain Research CenterResearch facility | 1,328 | #6,928 | |
| 6 | Aarhus School of ArchitectureUniversity | 1,079 | #9,256 | |
| 7 | Moesgaard MuseumArchive | 830 | #13,727 | |
| 8 | Danish School of Media and JournalismUniversity | 538 | #12,073 | |
| 9 | Knowledge Centre for AgricultureCompany | 488 | #13,558 | |
| 10 | State and University LibraryArchive | 457 | #17,182 all time | |
| 11 | Vestas (Denmark)Company | 338 | #17,120 | |
| 12 | Arla Foods (Denmark)Company | 255 | #21,301 | |
| 13 | Alexandra Institute (Denmark)Company | 211 | #17,508 all time | |
| 14 | VUC AarhusUniversity | 140 | #32,984 all time | |
| 15 | Royal Academy of MusicUniversity | 136 | #24,621 all time | |
| 16 | DNA Diagnostic (Denmark)Company | 130 | #32,738 all time | |
| 17 | Danish Institute for Quality and Accreditation in HealthcareUniversity | 97 | not ranked | |
| 18 | Center for Massive Data AlgorithmicsResearch facility | 67 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Terma (Denmark)Company | 51 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Aarhus GeoSoftware (Denmark)Company | 45 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Global Health Literacy AcademyNonprofit | 41 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Unisense (Denmark)Company | 34 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Danish Dairy Research FoundationInstitution | 32 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Cryptomathic (Denmark)Company | 23 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Danish Head and Neck Cancer GroupInstitution | 17 | not ranked | |
| 26 | Energy Consulting Network (Denmark)Company | 10 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Omiics (Denmark)Company | 9 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Muscular Dystrophy FoundationNonprofit | 6 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Aarhus StadsarkivArchive | 5 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Falck FoundationNonprofit | 5 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Blue Planet Innovation (Denmark)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Danish Movement Disorder SocietyNonprofit | 3 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Capnova (Denmark)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Marimatech (Denmark)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Zebra Media (Denmark)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Ohmatex (Denmark)Company | 0 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Riisfort (Denmark)Company | 0 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Aarhus work in?
In 2022-now, 31% of research in Aarhus is in Social Sciences, 27% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (23%), Social Sciences (15%), Environmental Science (6%).
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 city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Social Sciences6,76830.6%
- Social Sciences3,30014.9%
- Psychology1,1655.3%
- Arts and Humanities1,0294.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting6372.9%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3891.8%
- Decision Sciences2471.1%
- Health Sciences6,02427.2%
- Medicine5,01622.7%
- Health Professions6242.8%
- Dentistry1340.6%
- Nursing1330.6%
- Veterinary1170.5%
- Physical Sciences5,94226.9%
- Environmental Science1,4366.5%
- Engineering1,4346.5%
- Computer Science1,1305.1%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences5352.4%
- Physics and Astronomy4502.0%
- Materials Science3041.4%
- Mathematics2461.1%
- Chemistry2331.1%
- Energy1050.5%
- Chemical Engineering690.3%
- Life Sciences3,37515.3%
What is Aarhus strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Aarhus is most concentrated in Public Administration, Small Animals and Veterinary (4.5× the world share in Public Administration).
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 48.5 works4.5×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 103.7 works4.3×
- VeterinaryField · 106.3 works3.9×
- Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 147.8 works3.4×
- PaleontologySubfield · 76.5 works3.2×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 3.9×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary3.94×106 works
- Psychology1.75×1,055 works
- Arts and Humanities1.65×947 works
- Neuroscience1.49×479 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.46×455 works
- Environmental Science1.26×1,239 works
- Nursing1.24×120 works
- Dentistry1.20×115 works
- Social Sciences1.20×3,005 works
- Medicine1.17×4,476 works
- Decision Sciences1.17×224 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.16×1,096 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.11×1,176 works
- Health Professions1.10×572 works
- Mathematics0.93×218 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.93×412 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.92×588 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.90×180 works
- Chemical Engineering0.90×62 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.87×371 works
- Chemistry0.67×209 works
- Computer Science0.65×1,004 works
- Energy0.53×96 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.51×36 works
- Engineering0.44×1,310 works
- Materials Science0.40×276 works
Which keywords describe research in Aarhus?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Social Sciences, Embodiment, Tacit Knowledge, Epidemiology, Education, Pedagogy and Ethical Guidelines.
- Animal Welfare
- Archaeology
- ECHR
- Constitutionalism
- Special Education
- Gender Studies
- Interactional Expertise
- Pragmatism
- Ethical Guidelines
- Learning
- Biodiversity
- Democracy
- Social Sciences
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Human Rights
- Oxidative Stress
- Quality of Life
- Inflammation
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Education
- Sustainability
- Machine Learning
- Qualitative Research
- Pedagogy
- Treatment
- Embodiment
- Ethics
- Tacit Knowledge
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Discourse Analysis
- Social Science
- Dementia Care
- Technical Decision-making
- Methodology
- Quantitative Methods
- Judicial Review
- European Legal Systems
- Phenomenology
Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city'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
- Climate Change1,017▲ 1.69×116 topics
- Epidemiology862◆ 0.98×133 topics
- Education591▲ 1.56×103 topics
- Globalization545▲ 1.25×137 topics
- Sustainability507◆ 0.94×105 topics
- Inflammation501◆ 1.07×83 topics
- Machine Learning495▼ 0.67×88 topics
- Quality of Life389▲ 1.22×59 topics
- Qualitative Research389▲ 2.1×32 topics
- Oxidative Stress381◆ 1.05×63 topics
- Pedagogy374▲ 3.4×22 topics
- Human Rights355▲ 1.57×66 topics
- Treatment350▲ 1.30×52 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease336▲ 1.33×38 topics
- Embodiment316▲ 7.6×7 topics
- Social Sciences316▲ 9.9×11 topics
- Ethics302▲ 2.7×48 topics
- Democracy300▲ 3.9×23 topics
- Tacit Knowledge279▲ 27×3 topics
- Biodiversity278▲ 1.65×34 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome266▲ 1.49×23 topics
- Learning258▲ 4.0×12 topics
- Discourse Analysis252▲ 4.7×8 topics
- Ethical Guidelines247▲ 21×3 topics
- Social Science247▲ 30×7 topics
- Pragmatism241▲ 44×3 topics
- Dementia Care236▲ 88×2 topics
- Interactional Expertise236▲ 99×1 topic
- Technical Decision-making236▲ 99×1 topic
- Gender Studies224▲ 6.6×10 topics
- Methodology220▲ 20×5 topics
- Special Education218▲ 17×5 topics
- Quantitative Methods212▲ 73×1 topic
- Constitutionalism189▲ 9.7×4 topics
- Judicial Review176▲ 9.4×4 topics
- ECHR173▲ 23×1 topic
- European Legal Systems173▲ 23×1 topic
- Archaeology149▲ 5.2×11 topics
- Phenomenology138▲ 5.9×5 topics
- Animal Welfare130▲ 6.6×4 topics
What research is done in Aarhus?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research Social Psychology 228 works
- 2 Social and Educational Sciences Education 212 works
- 3 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 173 works
- 4 Research in Social Sciences Education 92 works
- 5 Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies Small Animals 78 works
- 6 Historical and Archaeological Studies History 67 works
- 7 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 62 works
- 8 Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact Ecology 54 works
- 9 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 51 works
- 10 Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock Genetics 50 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 26.9% in 2010.
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