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Research in Rovaniemi

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Rovaniemi, Finland. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Lapland.

Research institutions
2
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.1k
◆ 2% vs 2018-21
Citations
41k
13.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
23.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1963-2026
64 years on the record
Rovaniemi

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 Rovaniemi?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of LaplandUniversity 2,920 #3,172
2Lapland Central HospitalHospital / health system 189 #26,605 all time

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 Rovaniemi work in?

In 2022-now, 66% of research in Rovaniemi is in Social Sciences, 21% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (44%), Environmental Science (8%), Psychology (7%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 546 fractional works · 65.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 368 fractional works · 44.1% of its workEducation: 117 fractional works · 14.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 103 fractional works · 12.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 46 fractional works · 5.6% of its workLaw: 15 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Administration: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workUrban Studies: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCultural Studies: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 59 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 25 fractional works · 3.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 16 fractional works · 2.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 53 fractional works · 6.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMuseology: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 7 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhilosophy: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 48 fractional works · 5.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 10 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMarketing: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAccounting: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 14 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 176 fractional works · 21.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 67 fractional works · 8.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 22 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEcology: 16 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 15 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 52 fractional works · 6.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 24 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 29 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 14 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Energy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 80 fractional works · 9.6% of its workHealth Professions: 53 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 41 fractional works · 4.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedicine: 25 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 31 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 18 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInsect Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKRovaniemi833fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences21%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences66%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences36844.1%
    2. Psychology597.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities536.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting485.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance141.7%
    6. Decision Sciences50.6%
    1. Environmental Science678.1%
    2. Computer Science526.2%
    3. Engineering293.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences192.3%
    5. Energy40.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.3%
    7. Materials Science10.1%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
    9. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Health Professions536.4%
    2. Medicine253.0%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences182.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology70.8%
    3. Neuroscience50.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Rovaniemi strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Rovaniemi is most concentrated in Human-Computer Interaction and Education (13.8× the world share in Human-Computer Interaction).

  1. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 20.9 works14×
  2. EducationSubfield · 106.8 works4.8×
← 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: 0.49× its world share, 17 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.34× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.81× its world share, 46 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.46× its world share, 17 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.54× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 27 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.65× its world share, 60 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.53× its world share, 49 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 22 worksMedicineNursing: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.11× its world share, 45 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.76× its world share, 42 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.55× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.80× its world share, 13 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.31× its world share, 52 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.47× its world share, 322 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences3.47×322 works
  2. Health Professions2.53×49 works
  3. Psychology2.31×52 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.11×45 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.76×42 works
  6. Environmental Science1.65×60 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.46×17 works
  8. Computer Science0.81×46 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.80×13 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.55×4 works
  11. Energy0.54×4 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.49×17 works
  13. Neuroscience0.34×4 works
  14. Engineering0.24×27 works
  15. Nursing0.23×1 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.18×0 works
  17. Veterinary0.17×0 works
  18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.15×6 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.15×2 works
  20. Medicine0.15×22 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.14×1 works
  22. Dentistry0.11×0 works
  23. Chemistry0.03×0 works
  24. Mathematics0.03×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Rovaniemi?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Ethics, Education, Qualitative Research, Pedagogy, Healthcare, Climate Change, Communication and Social Sciences.

▲ 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. Climate Change100▲ 4.4×60 topics
  2. Education95▲ 6.7×45 topics
  3. Ethics93▲ 22×20 topics
  4. Qualitative Research80▲ 11×11 topics
  5. Pedagogy78▲ 19×13 topics
  6. Healthcare77▲ 8.1×10 topics
  7. Communication73▲ 28×8 topics
  8. Social Sciences71▲ 59×3 topics
  9. Phenomenology70▲ 78×2 topics
  10. Family Dynamics70▲ 66×1 topic
  11. Work Environment70▲ 472×1 topic
  12. Sustainability57▲ 2.8×52 topics
  13. Human Rights40▲ 4.7×44 topics
  14. Globalization33▲ 2.0×50 topics
  15. International Relations32▲ 16×15 topics
  16. Arctic30▲ 33×4 topics
  17. Sustainable Development30▲ 2.3×27 topics
  18. Vulnerability29▲ 15×6 topics
  19. Governance29▲ 11×10 topics
  20. Geopolitics29▲ 23×6 topics
  21. Artificial Intelligence26▲ 2.2×23 topics
  22. Ecological Knowledge25▲ 71×2 topics
  23. Traditional Knowledge24▲ 69×2 topics
  24. Northern Sea Route24▲ 113×1 topic
  25. Shipping24▲ 59×1 topic
  26. Food Security24▲ 5.3×5 topics
  27. Arctic Indigenous Peoples24▲ 164×1 topic
  28. Nutrition Transition24▲ 89×1 topic
  29. Reflective Practice21▲ 13×6 topics
  30. Social Justice21▲ 4.2×20 topics
  31. Stress19▲ 6.3×7 topics
  32. Professional Development18▲ 10×9 topics
  33. International Law18▲ 6.7×19 topics
  34. Biodiversity Conservation17▲ 5.3×10 topics
  35. Global Governance16▲ 7.8×14 topics
  36. Emotion15▲ 8.5×10 topics
  37. Anthropocene14▲ 28×4 topics
  38. Constitutionalism14▲ 19×3 topics
  39. Affect14▲ 39×2 topics
  40. Cultural Competence13▲ 12×5 topics

What research is done in Rovaniemi?

Research in Social Scien…66Research in Social Sciences: 66 fractional worksArctic and Russian Policy Studies: 22 fractional worksIndigenous Studies and E…22Indigenous Studies and Ecology: 22 fractional worksEuropean and International Law Studies: 9 fractional worksGeographies of human-animal interactions: 9 fractional worksInnovative Human-Technology Interaction: 8 fractional worksSocial Work Education and Practice: 8 fractional worksInternational Maritime Law Issues: 7 fractional worksVirtual Reality Applications and Impacts: 6 fractional worksDigital Innovation in Industries: 6 fractional works
EducationSociology and Political ScienceGeneral Health ProfessionsPolitical Science and International Relations5 others

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

  1. 1 Research in Social Sciences Education 66 works
  2. 2 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies Sociology and Political Science 22 works
  3. 3 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 22 works
  4. 4 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 9 works
  5. 5 Geographies of human-animal interactions Geography, Planning and Development 9 works
  6. 6 Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Human-Computer Interaction 8 works
  7. 7 Social Work Education and Practice Public Administration 8 works
  8. 8 International Maritime Law Issues Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 7 works
  9. 9 Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts Human-Computer Interaction 6 works
  10. 10 Digital Innovation in Industries Management of Technology and Innovation 6 works

Research output over time

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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%Rovaniemi23.1% 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 41.3% in 2010.

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