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Research in Kristiansand

Science Explorer records 32 research institutions in Kristiansand, Norway. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Agder, Sørlandet Sykehus and Agder Research.

Research institutions
32
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
10k
▲ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
159k
15.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
27.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Kristiansand

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 Kristiansand?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of AgderUniversity 7,025 #917
2Sørlandet SykehusHospital / health system 808 #15,245
3Agder ResearchResearch facility 751 #16,413
4Norwegian Association for Development ResearchInstitution 406 #18,603
5Oxford Research (Norway)Company 309 #14,314 all time
6Ansgar University CollegeUniversity 183 #23,249 all time
7Portal (Norway)Company 113 not ranked
8Seamless (Norway)Company 106 not ranked
9Viking Development Group (Norway)Company 94 not ranked
10TeknovaNonprofit 44 not ranked
11National Oilwell Varco (Norway)Company 37 not ranked
12Glencore (Norway)Company 33 not ranked
13Agder Energi (Norway)Company 33 not ranked
14Kristiansand MunicipalityGovernment institution 30 not ranked
15MHWirth (Norway)Company 12 not ranked
16Vest-Agder fylkeskommuneGovernment institution 8 not ranked
17Wireless Power & Communication (Norway)Company 5 not ranked
18Trilobite (Norway)Company 5 not ranked
19TEGma (Norway)Company 5 not ranked
20Kruse Smith (Norway)Company 3 not ranked
21Gce Node Service (Norway)Company 3 not ranked
22Meventus (Norway)Company 3 not ranked
23SmartCare (Norway)Company 2 not ranked
24Stimline (Norway)Company 2 not ranked
25Snøgg (Norway)Company 1 not ranked
26Sørlandet KunnskapsparkArchive 1 not ranked
27Norwegian Society of Automatic ControlInstitution 1 not ranked
28Strømme FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
29Voca (Norway)Company 1 not ranked
30Go Mobile (Norway)Company 1 not ranked
31WebstudentInstitution 1 not ranked
32KappabelInstitution 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.

University of Agder: 70.1%Sørlandet Sykehus: 8.1%Agder Research: 7.5%Norwegian Association for Development Research: 4.0%27 others listed: 10.3%70%largest
University of Agder7,025 · 70.1%Sørlandet Sykehus808 · 8.1%Agder Research751 · 7.5%Norwegian Association for Development Research406 · 4.0%27 others listed1,037 · 10.3%

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

Which fields of science does Kristiansand work in?

In 2022-now, 46% of research in Kristiansand is in Social Sciences, 35% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (21%), Engineering (17%), Computer Science (11%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1,286 fractional works · 45.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 589 fractional works · 21.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 191 fractional works · 6.8% of its workEducation: 135 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 82 fractional works · 2.9% of its workCommunication: 21 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Administration: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCultural Studies: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLinguistics and Language: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 229 fractional works · 8.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 90 fractional works · 3.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 60 fractional works · 2.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 39 fractional works · 1.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 27 fractional works · 1.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 195 fractional works · 7.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 34 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 32 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhilosophy: 29 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workReligious studies: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMusic: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 163 fractional works · 5.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 42 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 30 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMarketing: 24 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 23 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAccounting: 21 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 60 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 41 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFinance: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 50 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 28 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 995 fractional works · 35.5% of its workEngineering: 472 fractional works · 16.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 108 fractional works · 3.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 81 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 42 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 40 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 34 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 33 fractional works · 1.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 28 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 28 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 20 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 321 fractional works · 11.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 108 fractional works · 3.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 59 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems: 49 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 45 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 91 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 22 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 29 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics and Probability: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 23 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 22 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOceanography: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 398 fractional works · 14.2% of its workMedicine: 262 fractional works · 9.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 50 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysiology: 24 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 17 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRheumatology: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 46 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 113 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 69 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workResearch and Theory: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 127 fractional works · 4.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 46 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 16 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCell Biology: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 39 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPlant Science: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 30 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 21 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKristiansand2,805fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences35%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences46%

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
  1. Social Sciences1,28645.8%
    1. Social Sciences58921.0%
    2. Psychology2298.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities1957.0%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting1635.8%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance602.2%
    6. Decision Sciences501.8%
    1. Engineering47216.8%
    2. Computer Science32111.4%
    3. Environmental Science913.2%
    4. Mathematics291.0%
    5. Energy230.8%
    6. Physics and Astronomy220.8%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences190.7%
    8. Materials Science150.5%
    9. Chemical Engineering20.1%
    10. Chemistry10.0%
    1. Medicine2629.3%
    2. Health Professions1134.0%
    3. Nursing150.5%
    4. Dentistry70.2%
    5. Veterinary10.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology461.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences391.4%
    3. Neuroscience301.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology110.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Kristiansand?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Globalization, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Social Capital, Renewable Energy, Tacit Knowledge and Sustainability.

▲ 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. Deep Learning176▲ 1.82×72 topics
  2. Machine Learning121▲ 1.30×77 topics
  3. Globalization101▲ 1.84×88 topics
  4. Sustainability91▲ 1.33×70 topics
  5. Neural Networks90▲ 2.1×35 topics
  6. Renewable Energy77▲ 1.90×42 topics
  7. Mental Health72▲ 1.81×37 topics
  8. Education71▲ 1.48×60 topics
  9. Climate Change64▼ 0.84×79 topics
  10. Public Health64▲ 1.56×43 topics
  11. Social Capital55▲ 3.8×15 topics
  12. Social Media54▲ 1.39×27 topics
  13. Qualitative Research53▲ 2.2×21 topics
  14. Educational Technology47▲ 1.41×24 topics
  15. Ethics45▲ 3.1×29 topics
  16. Social Justice44▲ 2.6×28 topics
  17. Religion40▲ 3.1×24 topics
  18. Tacit Knowledge37▲ 28×3 topics
  19. Identity37▲ 1.81×39 topics
  20. Resilience34▲ 2.5×12 topics
  21. Embodiment34▲ 6.5×7 topics
  22. Well-being34▲ 3.1×13 topics
  23. Physical Activity32▲ 2.4×9 topics
  24. Adolescents32▲ 3.1×9 topics
  25. Governance28▲ 3.1×13 topics
  26. Pragmatism26▲ 38×3 topics
  27. Teacher Professional Development26▲ 5.7×3 topics
  28. Social Science25▲ 25×4 topics
  29. Ethical Guidelines24▲ 16×3 topics
  30. Dementia Care23▲ 69×1 topic
  31. Interactional Expertise23▲ 77×1 topic
  32. Self-Regulation23▲ 4.6×6 topics
  33. Mathematics Education22▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Academic Achievement22▲ 4.6×10 topics
  35. Informal Learning21▲ 5.8×5 topics
  36. Accountability20▲ 5.6×4 topics
  37. Teacher Knowledge17▲ 19×2 topics
  38. Pedagogical Content Knowledge17▲ 21×1 topic
  39. Special Education17▲ 10×5 topics
  40. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge17▲ 21×1 topic

What research is done in Kristiansand?

Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research: 21 fractional worksMathematics Education and Teaching Techniques: 15 fractional worksSocial and Educational Sciences: 12 fractional worksAdvanced Battery Technologies Research: 10 fractional worksInnovative Education and…10Innovative Education and Learning Practices: 10 fractional worksObesity, Physical Activity, Diet: 10 fractional worksEuropean and International Law Studies: 10 fractional worksEuropean Union Policy an…10European Union Policy and Governance: 10 fractional worksFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance: 10 fractional worksMachine Fault Diagnosis Techniques: 9 fractional works
Social PsychologyEducationAutomotive EngineeringHuman Factors and Ergonomics4 others

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

  1. 1 Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research Social Psychology 21 works
  2. 2 Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques Education 15 works
  3. 3 Social and Educational Sciences Education 12 works
  4. 4 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 10 works
  5. 5 Innovative Education and Learning Practices Human Factors and Ergonomics 10 works
  6. 6 Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 10 works
  7. 7 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 10 works
  8. 8 European Union Policy and Governance Political Science and International Relations 10 works
  9. 9 FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance Management Information Systems 10 works
  10. 10 Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques Control and Systems Engineering 9 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%Kristiansand20.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 35.0% in 2013.

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