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Research in Fornebu

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Fornebu, Norway. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Aker BP (Norway).

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
335
▲ 67% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.9k
5.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Fornebu

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 Fornebu?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Aker BP (Norway)Company 335 #16,436

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.

Which fields of science does Fornebu work in?

In 2022-now, 96% of research in Fornebu is in Physical Sciences, 2% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (53%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (26%), Environmental Science (7%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 172 fractional works · 95.8% of its workEngineering: 96 fractional works · 53.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 54 fractional works · 30.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 20 fractional works · 11.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 46 fractional works · 25.8% of its workGeophysics: 30 fractional works · 16.9% of its workOceanography: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 13 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 5.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 3.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMetals and Alloys: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKFornebu179fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences96%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences2%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering9653.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4625.8%
    3. Environmental Science137.4%
    4. Computer Science105.7%
    5. Materials Science21.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy21.0%
    7. Chemistry10.8%
    8. Mathematics00.3%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Social Sciences21.0%
    2. Decision Sciences10.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    4. Psychology00.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    1. Medicine10.6%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
    3. Nursing00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Fornebu strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Fornebu is most concentrated in Ocean Engineering, Geophysics and Earth and Planetary Sciences (57.5× the world share in Ocean Engineering).

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 48.5 works57×
  2. GeophysicsSubfield · 28.6 works50×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 41.9 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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 23 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.76× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 16.45× its world share, 42 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.53× its world share, 86 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.56× its world share, 13 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.45× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 16.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences16.45×42 works
  2. Engineering3.53×86 works
  3. Environmental Science1.56×13 works
  4. Computer Science0.76×10 works
  5. Decision Sciences0.64×1 works
  6. Chemistry0.52×1 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy0.45×2 works
  8. Materials Science0.36×2 works
  9. Mathematics0.25×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.21×2 works
  11. Nursing0.14×0 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.14×0 works
  13. Neuroscience0.13×0 works
  14. Energy0.11×0 works
  15. Social Sciences0.06×1 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.05×0 works
  17. Health Professions0.04×0 works
  18. Medicine0.03×1 works
  19. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works
  20. Psychology0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Fornebu?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Geophysical Imaging, Machine Learning, Inverse Problems, CO2 Sequestration, Full-Waveform Tomography, Seismic Waveform Inversion, Hydraulic Fracturing and Optimization.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

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
  1. Machine Learning24▲ 4.1×17 topics
  2. Geophysical Imaging18▲ 191×2 topics
  3. CO2 Sequestration18▲ 51×4 topics
  4. Inverse Problems18▲ 89×2 topics
  5. Full-Waveform Tomography18▲ 237×1 topic
  6. Seismic Waveform Inversion18▲ 237×1 topic
  7. Hydraulic Fracturing17▲ 91×2 topics
  8. Optimization16▲ 21×5 topics
  9. Data Assimilation16▲ 55×2 topics
  10. Drilling Fluids16▲ 169×1 topic
  11. Ensemble Kalman Filter16▲ 87×1 topic
  12. Well Integrity16▲ 169×1 topic
  13. Well Placement16▲ 198×1 topic
  14. Fracture Propagation16▲ 148×1 topic
  15. Shale Gas Reservoirs16▲ 148×1 topic
  16. Fault Diagnosis12▲ 46×2 topics
  17. Predictive Maintenance12▲ 89×2 topics
  18. Artificial Lift Systems12▲ 235×1 topic
  19. Electric Submersible Pumps12▲ 235×1 topic
  20. Tomography10▲ 32×4 topics
  21. Seismic Noise9▲ 108×1 topic
  22. Surface Wave9▲ 108×1 topic
  23. Shale Gas6▲ 30×2 topics
  24. Microbial Communities6▲ 7.2×2 topics
  25. Anaerobic6▲ 48×1 topic
  26. Methane Oxidation6▲ 39×1 topic
  27. Tectonics5▲ 24×3 topics
  28. Marine Sediments5▲ 45×2 topics
  29. Pore Structure5▲ 23×3 topics
  30. Gas Permeability5▲ 28×2 topics
  31. Mudstones5▲ 37×1 topic
  32. Thermal Maturity5▲ 37×1 topic
  33. Acoustic Techniques4▲ 74×1 topic
  34. Seafloor Mapping4▲ 74×1 topic
  35. Oil and Gas4▲ 64×1 topic
  36. Subsea4▲ 239×1 topic
  37. Continental Margin3▲ 31×2 topics
  38. Crustal Structure3▲ 31×2 topics
  39. Plate Tectonics3▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Porous Media3▲ 14×3 topics

What research is done in Fornebu?

Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 17 fractional worksReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 15 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engineering: 14 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 14 fractional worksOil and Gas Production Techniques: 11 fractional worksSeismic Waves and Analysis: 9 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 5 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 4 fractional worksUnderwater Acoustics Research: 4 fractional worksOffshore Engineering and Technologies: 4 fractional works
GeophysicsOcean EngineeringMechanical EngineeringEnvironmental Chemistry2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques Geophysics 17 works
  2. 2 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 15 works
  3. 3 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 14 works
  4. 4 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 14 works
  5. 5 Oil and Gas Production Techniques Ocean Engineering 11 works
  6. 6 Seismic Waves and Analysis Geophysics 9 works
  7. 7 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 5 works
  8. 8 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 4 works
  9. 9 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 4 works
  10. 10 Offshore Engineering and Technologies Ocean Engineering 4 works

Research output over time

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

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.

still counting5%10%15%Fornebu13.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.1% in 2025.

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