Research in Murmansk
Science Explorer records 10 research institutions in Murmansk, Russia. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Polar Geophysical Institute and Murmansk State Technical University.
- Research institutions
- 10 5 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 4.2k ▲ 54% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 6.0% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Murmansk?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murmansk State Technical UniversityUniversity | 1,492 | #21,301 | |
| 2 | Polar Geophysical InstituteResearch facility | 906 | #18,460 | |
| 3 | Murmansk Marine Biological InstituteResearch facility | 738 | #9,390 | |
| 4 | Murmansk Arctic State UniversityUniversity | 643 | #24,981 | |
| 5 | Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and OceanographyResearch facility | 309 | #26,186 | |
| 6 | Murmansk Regional Oncology CenterHospital / health system | 22 | not ranked | |
| 7 | International Institute of Business EducationUniversity | 21 | not ranked | |
| 8 | Murmansk Regional Clinical HospitalHospital / health system | 20 | not ranked | |
| 9 | Murmansk Academy of Economics and ManagementUniversity | 15 | not ranked | |
| 10 | Pasvik Nature ReserveInstitution | 8 | not ranked |
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.
How concentrated the city is
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What is Murmansk strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Murmansk is most concentrated in Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atmospheric Science (24.5× the world share in Oceanography).
- OceanographySubfield · 61.3 works25×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 57.5 works12×
- Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 46.5 works12×
- Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 155.1 works11×
- Food ScienceSubfield · 57.2 works8.5×
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 Murmansk?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Food Security, Nutrition, Arctic, Functional Foods, Agricultural Development and Solar Wind.
- Digitalization
- Benthic Communities
- Ecosystem Management
- Trophic Cascades
- Ionospheric Anomalies
- Black Sea
- Ocean Circulation
- Fisheries Sustainability
- Maritime Transport
- Shipping
- Sea Level
- Biodiversity
- Geopolitics
- Magnetosphere
- Electron Acceleration
- Micronutrients
- Solar Wind
- Functional Foods
- Nutrition
- Sustainable Development
- Climate Change
- Food Security
- Arctic
- Agricultural Development
- Fisheries Management
- Sustainability
- Ionosphere
- Digital Transformation
- International Relations
- Holocene
- Governance
- Oil and Gas
- Northern Sea Route
- Invasive Species
- Sedimentation
- paleoceanography
- Seismic Electromagnetics
- Biogeography
- Marine Fisheries
- Marine Biodiversity
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
- Climate Change191▲ 8.0×49 topics
- Sustainable Development90▲ 6.3×28 topics
- Food Security74▲ 15×9 topics
- Nutrition58▲ 15×4 topics
- Arctic57▲ 57×4 topics
- Functional Foods51▲ 62×4 topics
- Agricultural Development51▲ 35×3 topics
- Solar Wind50▲ 61×2 topics
- Fisheries Management50▲ 50×1 topic
- Micronutrients50▲ 155×1 topic
- Sustainability48▲ 2.2×24 topics
- Electron Acceleration34▲ 57×2 topics
- Ionosphere34▲ 68×1 topic
- Magnetosphere34▲ 68×1 topic
- Digital Transformation32▲ 6.8×13 topics
- Geopolitics30▲ 22×4 topics
- International Relations30▲ 14×4 topics
- Biodiversity29▲ 4.3×16 topics
- Holocene28▲ 27×2 topics
- Sea Level28▲ 33×2 topics
- Governance28▲ 9.5×4 topics
- Shipping27▲ 61×2 topics
- Oil and Gas27▲ 81×2 topics
- Maritime Transport27▲ 108×1 topic
- Northern Sea Route27▲ 108×1 topic
- Fisheries Sustainability26▲ 33×2 topics
- Invasive Species26▲ 6.7×11 topics
- Ocean Circulation24▲ 20×3 topics
- Sedimentation23▲ 46×2 topics
- Black Sea22▲ 63×1 topic
- paleoceanography22▲ 84×1 topic
- Ionospheric Anomalies21▲ 60×1 topic
- Seismic Electromagnetics21▲ 60×1 topic
- Trophic Cascades21▲ 24×2 topics
- Biogeography20▲ 8.7×7 topics
- Ecosystem Management20▲ 38×1 topic
- Marine Fisheries20▲ 55×1 topic
- Benthic Communities18▲ 35×2 topics
- Marine Biodiversity18▲ 35×2 topics
- Digitalization18▲ 10×9 topics
What research is done in Murmansk?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Food Industry and Aquatic Biology Food Science 50 works
- 2 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 34 works
- 3 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies Sociology and Political Science 27 works
- 4 Marine and environmental studies Oceanography 22 works
- 5 Earthquake Detection and Analysis Geophysics 21 works
- 6 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 20 works
- 7 Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 16 works
- 8 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 16 works
- 9 Educational Innovations and Challenges Information Systems 12 works
- 10 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 12 works
Research output over time
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