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Akureyri Hospital

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World rank, all time
#23,322
of 34,923
Rank in Iceland
#10
of 23
Research works
147
▼ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.4k
23.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.03×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
40%
world 18%
Akureyri Hospital

Which fields of science does Akureyri Hospital work in?

In 2022-now, 55% of research at Akureyri Hospital is in Health Sciences, 24% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (46%), Social Sciences (12%), Health Professions (9%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 13 fractional works · 55.2% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 45.9% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 6.5% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 9.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 24.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 12.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 7.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 11.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 9.6% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKAkureyri Hospital24fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences55%Social Sciences24%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1145.9%
    2. Health Professions29.4%
    1. Social Sciences312.1%
    2. Psychology27.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities01.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting01.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.1%
    6. Decision Sciences00.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology15.3%
    2. Neuroscience14.3%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology01.2%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.4%
    1. Engineering12.7%
    2. Environmental Science12.3%
    3. Computer Science02.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.5%
    5. Mathematics00.6%
    6. Chemistry00.3%
    7. Chemical Engineering00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.00× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.18× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.65× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.99× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 3.56× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.38× its world share, 11 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.52× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.96× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions3.56×2 works
  2. Neuroscience2.65×1 works
  3. Psychology2.52×2 works
  4. Medicine2.38×11 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.18×0 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.00×1 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.99×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.96×3 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.51×0 works
  10. Mathematics0.49×0 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.48×0 works
  12. Environmental Science0.46×0 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.42×0 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.40×0 works
  15. Computer Science0.26×0 works
  16. Chemical Engineering0.23×0 works
  17. Chemistry0.22×0 works
  18. Engineering0.18×1 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.09×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Akureyri Hospital?

Ranked on the quality score, Þorvaldur Ingvarsson, Gunnar Þór Gunnarsson and Nick Cariglia lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Akureyri Hospital.

  1. 1 Þorvaldur Ingvarsson Iceland · #145,464 worldwide 6.8k citations · 68 works
  2. 2 Gunnar Þór Gunnarsson Iceland · #1,830,017 worldwide 6.4k citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Nick Cariglia Iceland · #2,489,464 worldwide 513 citations · 29 works
  4. 4 E.T. Eliasson Iceland · #3,607,834 worldwide 192 citations · 15 works
  5. 5 Bjarni E. Guðleifsson Iceland · #4,849,761 worldwide 327 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Akureyri Hospital

What are the most cited papers from Akureyri Hospital?

The most cited paper from Akureyri Hospital is "Neuregulin 1 and Susceptibility to Schizophrenia" (Hreinn Stefánsson et al., 2002), with 1,697 citations. Next come "Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture" (1,223) and "Variants in ELL2 influencing immunoglobulin levels associate with multiple myeloma" (1,215).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Neuregulin 1 and Susceptibility to Schizophrenia Hreinn Stefánsson et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics Open access Oct 2002 1,697
2 Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture Karol Estrada et al. · Nature Genetics Open access180 authors 15 Apr 2012 1,223
3 Variants in ELL2 influencing immunoglobulin levels associate with multiple myeloma Bhairavi Swaminathan et al. · Nature Communications Open access 26 May 2015 1,215
4 Variants conferring risk of atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25 Daniel Fannar Gudbjartsson et al. · Nature Jul 2007 964
5 Large-scale whole-genome sequencing of the Icelandic population Daniel Fannar Gudbjartsson et al. · Nature Genetics 24 Mar 2015 852
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Akureyri Hospital publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments, Sleep and related disorders, Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention and Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes.

Multiple Myeloma Researc…1Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments: 1 fractional worksSleep and related disorders: 1 fractional worksBalance, Gait, and Falls Prevention: 1 fractional worksAmyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes: 1 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 0 fractional worksChronic Lymphocytic Leuk…0Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research: 0 fractional worksBipolar Disorder and Treatment: 0 fractional worksSperm and Testicular Function: 0 fractional worksSepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 0 fractional worksEastern European Communism and Reforms: 0 fractional works
HematologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and RehabilitationMolecular Biology6 others

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

  1. 1 Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments Hematology 1 works
  2. 2 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1 works
  3. 3 Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation 1 works
  4. 4 Amyloidosis: Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes Molecular Biology 1 works
  5. 5 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 0 works
  6. 6 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Genetics 0 works
  7. 7 Bipolar Disorder and Treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 0 works
  8. 8 Sperm and Testicular Function Reproductive Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 0 works
  10. 10 Eastern European Communism and Reforms Sociology and Political Science 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available47.2%not open52.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors39.8%domestic only60.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Akureyri Hospital's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Akureyri Hospital as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00012% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Akureyri Hospital0.000078% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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