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Research in Volda

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Volda, Norway. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Volda University College.

Research institutions
2
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
884
▲ 18% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.4k
10.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
20.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1968-2026
59 years on the record
Volda

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 Volda?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Volda University CollegeUniversity 784 #8,598
2Møreforsking (Norway)Company 100 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.

Which fields of science does Volda work in?

In 2022-now, 68% of research in Volda is in Social Sciences, 13% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (12%), Psychology (11%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 210 fractional works · 68.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 127 fractional works · 41.4% of its workEducation: 51 fractional works · 16.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 26 fractional works · 8.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 22 fractional works · 7.1% of its workCommunication: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLinguistics and Language: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnthropology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 37 fractional works · 12.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 15 fractional works · 4.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhilosophy: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMusic: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReligious studies: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 32 fractional works · 10.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 13 fractional works · 4.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 11 fractional works · 3.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 41 fractional works · 13.5% of its workComputer Science: 17 fractional works · 5.4% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 11 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 36 fractional works · 11.8% of its workMedicine: 17 fractional works · 5.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 16 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 12 fractional works · 3.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 19 fractional works · 6.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAquatic Science: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% 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: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKVolda307fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences68%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences12741.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities3712.0%
    3. Psychology3210.5%
    4. Decision Sciences62.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting41.4%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance41.2%
    1. Computer Science175.4%
    2. Environmental Science113.6%
    3. Engineering82.6%
    4. Mathematics20.6%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.4%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.4%
    7. Energy10.3%
    8. Materials Science10.2%
    9. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Medicine175.6%
    2. Health Professions165.2%
    3. Nursing20.5%
    4. Dentistry10.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences154.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.1%
    3. Neuroscience10.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Volda?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Democracy, Education, Constitutionalism, Educational Technology, Pedagogy, Judicial Review, ECHR and European Legal Systems.

▲ 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. Education17▲ 3.2×25 topics
  2. Globalization15▲ 2.4×31 topics
  3. Educational Technology14▲ 3.9×15 topics
  4. Democracy12▲ 12×7 topics
  5. Human Rights11▲ 3.4×7 topics
  6. Pedagogy10▲ 6.8×13 topics
  7. Constitutionalism10▲ 38×3 topics
  8. Judicial Review9▲ 36×2 topics
  9. ECHR9▲ 87×1 topic
  10. European Legal Systems9▲ 87×1 topic
  11. Qualitative Research9▲ 3.5×12 topics
  12. Social Media9▲ 2.1×15 topics
  13. Professional Development9▲ 14×6 topics
  14. Tacit Knowledge8▲ 55×2 topics
  15. Learning Outcomes8▲ 6.1×6 topics
  16. Higher Education8▲ 4.7×10 topics
  17. Reflective Practice8▲ 13×7 topics
  18. Identity8▲ 3.4×18 topics
  19. Religion7▲ 5.2×14 topics
  20. Social Justice7▲ 4.0×14 topics
  21. Teacher Education7▲ 18×5 topics
  22. Literature7▲ 4.0×12 topics
  23. Technology Integration7▲ 7.1×5 topics
  24. Social Science6▲ 58×3 topics
  25. Informal Learning6▲ 16×4 topics
  26. Student Perceptions6▲ 11×5 topics
  27. Aquaculture6▲ 7.9×6 topics
  28. Teacher Professional Development6▲ 12×3 topics
  29. Social Sciences6▲ 13×4 topics
  30. Embodiment6▲ 10×4 topics
  31. Metacognition6▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Self-Regulated Learning6▲ 57×2 topics
  33. Dementia Care6▲ 152×2 topics
  34. Self-Regulation5▲ 9.8×4 topics
  35. Discourse Analysis5▲ 6.7×5 topics
  36. Ethical Guidelines5▲ 30×1 topic
  37. Interactional Expertise5▲ 145×1 topic
  38. Special Education5▲ 26×3 topics
  39. Student Achievement5▲ 18×4 topics
  40. Narrative5▲ 9.7×5 topics

What research is done in Volda?

European and Internation…9European and International Law Studies: 9 fractional worksEducation, Healthcare and Sociology Research: 4 fractional worksStudent Assessment and Feedback: 4 fractional worksInnovative Teaching and Learning Methods: 4 fractional worksInnovative Education and Learning Practices: 3 fractional worksSocial and Educational Sciences: 3 fractional worksReflective Practices in …3Reflective Practices in Education: 3 fractional worksTeacher Education and Leadership Studies: 3 fractional worksEducator Training and Historical Pedagogy: 3 fractional worksParental Involvement in …3Parental Involvement in Education: 3 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSocial PsychologyEducationDevelopmental and Educational Psychology2 others

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

  1. 1 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 9 works
  2. 2 Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research Social Psychology 4 works
  3. 3 Student Assessment and Feedback Education 4 works
  4. 4 Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods Developmental and Educational Psychology 4 works
  5. 5 Innovative Education and Learning Practices Human Factors and Ergonomics 3 works
  6. 6 Social and Educational Sciences Education 3 works
  7. 7 Reflective Practices in Education Education 3 works
  8. 8 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 3 works
  9. 9 Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  10. 10 Parental Involvement in Education Education 3 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%Volda17.1% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 39.1% in 2010.

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