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Research in Kirkkonummi

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Kirkkonummi, Finland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Finnish Geospatial Research Institute.

Research institutions
4
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.3k
▼ 18% vs 2018-21
Citations
37k
28.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
24.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Kirkkonummi

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 Kirkkonummi?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Finnish Geospatial Research InstituteResearch facility 944 #11,349
2Ericsson (Finland)Company 219 #25,852 all time
3DuPont (Finland)Company 94 not ranked
4Nordic Sugar (Finland)Company 7 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.

Finnish Geospatial Research Institute: 74.7%Ericsson (Finland): 17.3%DuPont (Finland): 7.4%Nordic Sugar (Finland): 0.6%75%largest
Finnish Geospatial Research Institute944 · 74.7%Ericsson (Finland)219 · 17.3%DuPont (Finland)94 · 7.4%Nordic Sugar (Finland)7 · 0.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does Kirkkonummi work in?

In 2022-now, 85% of research in Kirkkonummi is in Physical Sciences, 7% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (31%), Environmental Science (24%), Computer Science (14%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 193 fractional works · 85.5% of its workEngineering: 70 fractional works · 31.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 30 fractional works · 13.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 17 fractional works · 7.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 54 fractional works · 23.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 23 fractional works · 10.3% of its workEcology: 13 fractional works · 5.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 fractional works · 3.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 31 fractional works · 13.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 8 fractional works · 3.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 22 fractional works · 9.7% of its workGeology: 8 fractional works · 3.7% of its workOceanography: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 13 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 fractional works · 3.8% of its workInstrumentation: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 7.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 4.4% of its workInsect Science: 4 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKirkkonummi225fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences85%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences7%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering7031.1%
    2. Environmental Science5423.8%
    3. Computer Science3113.9%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences229.7%
    5. Physics and Astronomy136.0%
    6. Materials Science10.6%
    7. Chemistry10.4%
    8. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences83.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting31.2%
    3. Decision Sciences21.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.7%
    6. Psychology00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences104.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.1%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Medicine20.9%
    2. Dentistry10.3%
    3. Health Professions00.2%
    4. Veterinary00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Kirkkonummi strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Kirkkonummi is most concentrated in Environmental Engineering and Aerospace Engineering (18.8× the world share in Environmental Engineering).

  1. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 20.4 works19×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 28.3 works12×
← 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 25 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: 0.94× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.79× its world share, 28 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.71× its world share, 18 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 2.20× its world share, 66 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.64× its world share, 46 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.61× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksMedicineVeterinary: 1.22× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.34× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 7 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 5.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.71×18 works
  2. Environmental Science4.64×46 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy2.61×12 works
  4. Engineering2.20×66 works
  5. Computer Science1.79×28 works
  6. Veterinary1.22×0 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.94×9 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.73×1 works
  9. Dentistry0.68×1 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.40×3 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.34×2 works
  12. Social Sciences0.29×7 works
  13. Chemistry0.27×1 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.26×2 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.24×0 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.20×2 works
  17. Neuroscience0.12×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.12×1 works
  19. Health Professions0.08×0 works
  20. Medicine0.04×2 works
  21. Mathematics0.03×0 works
  22. Psychology0.03×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Kirkkonummi?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biomass Estimation, Remote Sensing, Terrestrial Laser Scanning, Aboveground Biomass, Forest Carbon Stocks, Lidar Remote Sensing, Climate Change and Orbit Determination.

▲ 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. Biomass Estimation32▲ 93×3 topics
  2. Remote Sensing29▲ 11×25 topics
  3. Terrestrial Laser Scanning27▲ 101×2 topics
  4. Aboveground Biomass25▲ 130×2 topics
  5. Forest Carbon Stocks20▲ 149×1 topic
  6. Lidar Remote Sensing20▲ 149×1 topic
  7. Climate Change19▲ 3.1×29 topics
  8. Machine Learning18▲ 2.4×22 topics
  9. Deep Learning15▲ 1.87×28 topics
  10. Orbit Determination12▲ 115×2 topics
  11. GNSS11▲ 218×1 topic
  12. Global Navigation Satellite Systems11▲ 183×1 topic
  13. Wireless Sensor Networks10▲ 9.5×7 topics
  14. Hydrological Modeling9▲ 17×4 topics
  15. Cultural Heritage9▲ 7.2×5 topics
  16. Climate8▲ 39×2 topics
  17. 3D Reconstruction8▲ 37×2 topics
  18. Global Change8▲ 13×3 topics
  19. Point Clouds8▲ 37×2 topics
  20. Phenology8▲ 48×1 topic
  21. Vegetation Monitoring8▲ 48×1 topic
  22. Photogrammetry7▲ 53×1 topic
  23. UAV7▲ 53×1 topic
  24. Sea Level Rise7▲ 24×2 topics
  25. Biodiversity Conservation6▲ 7.5×7 topics
  26. Mobile Robots6▲ 28×2 topics
  27. Robotics6▲ 11×2 topics
  28. 3D Mapping6▲ 39×1 topic
  29. SLAM6▲ 39×1 topic
  30. Geodetic Measurements6▲ 24×2 topics
  31. Allometric Models6▲ 53×2 topics
  32. GRACE6▲ 53×1 topic
  33. groundwater depletion6▲ 53×1 topic
  34. Inertial Sensors5▲ 37×2 topics
  35. Indoor Localization5▲ 53×1 topic
  36. RF-Based Positioning5▲ 53×1 topic
  37. Climate Change Impact5▲ 9.8×2 topics
  38. Carbon Stocks5▲ 84×1 topic
  39. Tropical Forests5▲ 64×1 topic
  40. Semantic Web5▲ 22×3 topics

What research is done in Kirkkonummi?

Remote Sensing and LiDAR…18Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 18 fractional worksGNSS positioning and int…10GNSS positioning and interference: 10 fractional works3D Surveying and Cultura…63D Surveying and Cultural Heritage: 6 fractional worksRemote Sensing in Agriculture: 6 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 5 fractional worksRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization: 5 fractional worksIndoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies: 5 fractional worksForest ecology and management: 5 fractional worksGeographic Information Systems Studies: 4 fractional worksIonosphere and magnetosphere dynamics: 4 fractional works
Environmental EngineeringAerospace EngineeringGeologyEcology5 others

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

  1. 1 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 18 works
  2. 2 GNSS positioning and interference Aerospace Engineering 10 works
  3. 3 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage Geology 6 works
  4. 4 Remote Sensing in Agriculture Ecology 6 works
  5. 5 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 5 works
  6. 6 Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization Aerospace Engineering 5 works
  7. 7 Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  8. 8 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 5 works
  9. 9 Geographic Information Systems Studies Geography, Planning and Development 4 works
  10. 10 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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 counting20%40%60%Kirkkonummi16.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 51.3% in 2009.

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