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Faroe Islands vs Greenland

On research quality in 2022-now, The Faroe Islands ranks #154 in the world and Greenland #171, of 189 countries.

Research profiles alike: 0.79very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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Faroe Islands

World rank, 2022-now
#154
#150 all time
Works, 2022-now
246
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
61%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Oceanography, Linguistics and Language.

Greenland

World rank, 2022-now
#171
#138 all time
Works, 2022-now
223
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
51%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography.

Who leads, measure by measure?

The Faroe Islands leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, output, open access and growth. Greenland leads on 1 of 9 measures: international co-authorship. The two are level on top-10% rate, citations per work and institutions in the world top 100.

Faroe Islands 53 level1 Greenland
  1. #154Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#171
  2. 0.97×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.94×
  3. 246Outputfractional works, 2022-now223
  4. 9.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited9.1%
  5. 19.8Citations per workall time, per fractional work20.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 61%Open accessof its works free to read, all time51%
  8. 59%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time61%
  9. +33%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+3%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

Faroe Islands

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change28▲ 3.8×40 topics
  2. Sustainability15▲ 2.3×26 topics
  3. Globalization15▲ 2.7×21 topics
  4. Epidemiology12◆ 1.14×46 topics
  5. Mental Health8▲ 2.2×13 topics
  6. Fisheries Sustainability8▲ 36×2 topics
  7. Aquaculture8▲ 11×5 topics
  8. Governance7▲ 8.3×3 topics
  9. Renewable Energy7▲ 1.86×17 topics
  10. Invasive Species7▲ 5.7×10 topics
  11. High-Intensity Interval Training6▲ 22×2 topics
  12. Arctic6▲ 21×4 topics
  13. Depression6▲ 2.6×10 topics
  14. Vulnerability6▲ 9.3×4 topics
  15. Trophic Cascades6▲ 23×2 topics
  16. Ecosystem Management6▲ 34×1 topic
  17. Marine Fisheries6▲ 50×1 topic
  18. Anxiety5▲ 4.1×6 topics
  19. International Relations5▲ 7.7×5 topics
  20. Resistance Training5▲ 21×2 topics
  21. Social Isolation5▲ 9.3×3 topics
  22. Psychological Impact5▲ 5.7×4 topics
  23. Psychological Distress4▲ 6.7×2 topics
  24. Population Dynamics4▲ 6.3×7 topics
  25. Geopolitics4▲ 10×3 topics
  26. Marine Environment4▲ 11×3 topics
  27. Healthcare Workers4▲ 6.3×1 topic
  28. Northern Sea Route4▲ 58×1 topic
  29. Quarantine4▲ 10×1 topic
  30. Shipping4▲ 30×1 topic
  31. Cosmopolitanism4▲ 14×3 topics
  32. Fuzzy Sets4▲ 27×3 topics
  33. Molecular Phylogeny4▲ 8.9×7 topics
  34. Ocean Circulation4▲ 9.5×3 topics
  35. Bivalve Molluscs4▲ 43×1 topic
  36. Freshwater Biodiversity4▲ 21×2 topics
  37. Judicial Review4▲ 15×2 topics
  38. Oyster Reefs4▲ 43×1 topic
  39. Decolonization3▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Training Load3▲ 19×1 topic

Greenland

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change82▲ 12×43 topics
  2. Arctic23▲ 79×4 topics
  3. Food Security21▲ 15×3 topics
  4. Vulnerability19▲ 31×3 topics
  5. Ecological Knowledge19▲ 168×2 topics
  6. Nutrition Transition18▲ 219×2 topics
  7. Arctic Indigenous Peoples18▲ 403×1 topic
  8. Traditional Knowledge18▲ 166×1 topic
  9. Population Dynamics17▲ 25×6 topics
  10. Remote Sensing16▲ 5.0×12 topics
  11. Conservation14▲ 13×12 topics
  12. Sustainability12▲ 1.88×17 topics
  13. Predator-Prey Interactions12▲ 57×2 topics
  14. Acoustic Communication11▲ 84×2 topics
  15. Ocean Circulation11▲ 31×3 topics
  16. Anthropogenic Noise11▲ 147×1 topic
  17. Marine Mammals11▲ 147×1 topic
  18. Fisheries Sustainability10▲ 46×2 topics
  19. Decline10▲ 144×1 topic
  20. Sea Ice10▲ 144×1 topic
  21. Trophic Cascades9▲ 39×2 topics
  22. Governance8▲ 9.3×3 topics
  23. Geopolitics8▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Hydrology8▲ 22×3 topics
  25. International Relations8▲ 12×2 topics
  26. Northern Sea Route7▲ 108×1 topic
  27. Shipping7▲ 57×1 topic
  28. Ecosystem Management7▲ 45×1 topic
  29. Marine Fisheries7▲ 66×1 topic
  30. Invasive Species7▲ 6.0×11 topics
  31. Health Effects6▲ 4.1×14 topics
  32. Permafrost6▲ 51×2 topics
  33. Health Equity5▲ 6.5×4 topics
  34. Biogeography5▲ 6.5×7 topics
  35. Social Sciences4▲ 12×2 topics
  36. Habitat Selection4▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Benthic Communities4▲ 26×2 topics
  38. Marine Biodiversity4▲ 26×2 topics
  39. Decolonization4▲ 19×3 topics
  40. Methane Emissions4▲ 30×2 topics

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

The Faroe Islands has out-published Greenland every year since 2024, when it overtook it.

still counting50100Faroe Islands58 in 2025Greenland44 in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Faroe Islands0.00098% in 2025Greenland0.00075% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting10%20%Greenland12.0% in 2025Faroe Islands6.9% in 202520102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Who holds more of the world's best institutions?

A country's average quality and the number of institutions it holds at the very top can disagree, and both are worth knowing. The counts are nested: an institution in the top 50 is also in the top 100.

Faroe Islands 05 level0 Greenland
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 0In the top 1,0000
  5. #51Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#51

Institutions ranked on research quality, 2022-now. Elite capacity counts a country's institutions by their worldwide rank, weighted so a place at #1 counts for more than one at #480.

Which publishes more research, Faroe Islands or Greenland?

The Faroe Islands publishes 1.1× as much research as Greenland in 2022-now (246 against 223 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Faroe Islands or Greenland?

9.2% of the Faroe Islands's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 9.1% for Greenland.

Is Faroe Islands or Greenland growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +33% against 2018-21 for the Faroe Islands, and +3% for Greenland.

Which has more open access research, Faroe Islands or Greenland?

61% of the Faroe Islands's research is free to read, against 51% of Greenland's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Faroe Islands or Greenland?

The Faroe Islands holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Greenland 0; in the top 1,000 it is 0 against 0.

Which institutions lead in each country?

The highest-ranked institutions on each side on research quality, 2022-now. The percentage is each institution's own top-10% rate: the share of its works that are among the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. Every figure stands alone, so they do not add up to 100%.

Greenland

  1. 1Ilisimatusarfik7.5% top 10% · 99 works
  2. 2Grønlands Naturinstitut11.5% top 10% · 88 works

The number is the rank inside the country. The track on each row is the top-10% rate; the tick is the average of all institutions, 10.0% (how it is set): teal above it, red below. The ranking is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each institution's own topics predict and adds a small reward for size, so the rates do not fall in order.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

Faroe Islands

  1. 1 Pál Weihe #107,757 worldwide 21k citations · 331 works
  2. 2 Fróði Debes #283,705 worldwide 5.7k citations · 55 works
  3. 3 Ulrike Steuerwald #445,529 worldwide 3.4k citations · 64 works
  4. 4 Anna Maria Fosaa #496,956 worldwide 3.2k citations · 37 works
  5. 5 Toke Meier Carlsen #515,762 worldwide 893 citations · 69 works

Greenland

  1. 1 Lorenz Meire #298,354 worldwide 3.2k citations · 174 works
  2. 2 John Mortensen #323,266 worldwide 3.8k citations · 99 works
  3. 3 Alexandra Messerli #413,578 worldwide 351 citations · 1,945 works
  4. 4 Erik W. Born #443,074 worldwide 11k citations · 227 works
  5. 5 Malene J. Simon #444,230 worldwide 2.8k citations · 88 works