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Research in Hafnarfjordur

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Marine and Freshwater Research Institute.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
504
▲ 38% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
18.8%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Hafnarfjordur?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Marine and Freshwater Research InstituteResearch facility 504 #21,511

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

What is Hafnarfjordur strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Hafnarfjordur is most concentrated in Environmental Science (11.8× the world share in Environmental Science).

  1. Environmental ScienceField · 43.5 works12×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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.

Which keywords describe research in Hafnarfjordur?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Fisheries Sustainability, Conservation, Invasive Species, Trophic Cascades, Ecosystem Management, Fish Population Dynamics and Marine Fisheries.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Climate Change29▲ 14×26 topics
  2. Fisheries Sustainability17▲ 252×2 topics
  3. Conservation10▲ 31×8 topics
  4. Invasive Species10▲ 31×8 topics
  5. Trophic Cascades10▲ 138×2 topics
  6. Ecosystem Management9▲ 209×2 topics
  7. Fish Population Dynamics9▲ 299×1 topic
  8. Marine Fisheries9▲ 299×1 topic
  9. Population Dynamics9▲ 47×6 topics
  10. Freshwater Biodiversity8▲ 190×2 topics
  11. Aquaculture8▲ 39×6 topics
  12. Conservation Challenges8▲ 211×1 topic
  13. Flow Regulation8▲ 211×1 topic
  14. Habitat Fragmentation8▲ 46×2 topics
  15. Sustainability6▲ 3.1×11 topics
  16. Environmental Impact5▲ 3.7×8 topics
  17. Biogeography4▲ 24×3 topics
  18. Food Security4▲ 11×5 topics
  19. Biodiversity4▲ 8.0×11 topics
  20. Acoustic Communication4▲ 109×2 topics
  21. Anthropogenic Noise4▲ 190×1 topic
  22. Marine Mammals4▲ 190×1 topic
  23. Predator-Prey Interactions4▲ 70×2 topics
  24. Genetic Diversity4▲ 12×3 topics
  25. Marine Environment4▲ 38×3 topics
  26. Ecosystem Services4▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Bivalve Molluscs4▲ 179×1 topic
  28. Oyster Reefs4▲ 179×1 topic
  29. Marine Ecosystems4▲ 95×2 topics
  30. Fisheries4▲ 123×2 topics
  31. Ecosystem Functioning3▲ 24×4 topics
  32. Ocean Acidification3▲ 60×3 topics
  33. Benthic Communities3▲ 72×2 topics
  34. Marine Biodiversity3▲ 72×2 topics
  35. Phylogeny3▲ 27×3 topics
  36. DNA Barcoding3▲ 24×4 topics
  37. Morphology3▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Phylogenetic Analysis3▲ 13×3 topics
  39. Freshwater3▲ 73×2 topics
  40. Nutrition3▲ 8.2×2 topics

What research is done in Hafnarfjordur?

  1. 1 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 9 works
  2. 2 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 8 works
  3. 3 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 4 works
  4. 4 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 4 works
  5. 5 Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth Aquatic Science 3 works
  6. 6 Ichthyology and Marine Biology Nature and Landscape Conservation 2 works
  7. 7 Fish Biology and Ecology Studies Aquatic Science 2 works
  8. 8 Isotope Analysis in Ecology Ecology 2 works
  9. 9 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 2 works
  10. 10 Marine and coastal plant biology Oceanography 2 works

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