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Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

In research, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research stands highest in Environmental Science (#586 of 3,334 worldwide), Earth and Planetary Sciences (#195 of 1,088 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#1,976 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Atmospheric Science is 79.8× its share of world research).

bjerknes.uib.no/enROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#6,803
of 22,385 · #2,974 all time
Rank in Norway
#34
of 123
Research works
1k
▼ 20% vs 2018-21
Citations
39k
38.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.16×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
74%
world 40%
International
61%
world 18%
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

What is Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Environmental ScienceField #586 of 3,334 13.2%73 #563
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #195 of 1,088 15.0%115 #139
Physical SciencesDomain #1,976 of 10,670 14.1%196 #1437
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #74 of 294 14.8%73 #58

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Environmental Science#563 #586
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences#139 #195
  3. Physical Sciences#1,437 #1,976
  4. Atmospheric Science#58 #74
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research work in?

In 2022-now, 91% of research at Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (55%), Environmental Science (32%), Social Sciences (3%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 252 fractional works · 91.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 151 fractional works · 54.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 98 fractional works · 35.2% of its workOceanography: 41 fractional works · 14.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 90 fractional works · 32.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 52 fractional works · 18.7% of its workEcology: 13 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 3.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 2.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAnthropology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKBjerknes Centrefor Climate…277fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences91%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences4%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences15154.6%
    2. Environmental Science9032.3%
    3. Engineering62.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy20.9%
    5. Computer Science20.6%
    6. Chemistry00.2%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Social Sciences93.1%
    2. Decision Sciences10.3%
    3. Psychology10.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences72.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology31.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    4. Neuroscience00.0%
    1. Medicine20.9%
    2. Health Professions10.5%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    4. Nursing00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 79.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 97.7 works80×
  2. OceanographySubfield · 41.0 works53×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 151.3 works35×
  4. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 51.9 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 0.54× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 34.82× its world share, 151 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.51× its world share, 90 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.38× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.25× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 34.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences34.82×151 works
  2. Environmental Science6.51×90 works
  3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.54×7 works
  4. Veterinary0.44×0 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy0.38×2 works
  6. Decision Sciences0.32×1 works
  7. Social Sciences0.25×9 works
  8. Health Professions0.19×1 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×3 works
  10. Engineering0.15×6 works
  11. Chemistry0.10×0 works
  12. Computer Science0.08×2 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.08×0 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.07×0 works
  15. Psychology0.07×1 works
  16. Energy0.05×0 works
  17. Medicine0.04×2 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works
  19. Neuroscience0.02×0 works
  20. Nursing0.02×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.01×0 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research?

Ranked on the quality score, Jörg Schwinger, Jerry Fong Tjiputra and Are S. Olsen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.

  1. 1 Jörg Schwinger Norway · #30,951 worldwide 25k citations · 235 works
  2. 2 Jerry Fong Tjiputra Norway · #57,588 worldwide 14k citations · 342 works
  3. 3 Are S. Olsen Norway · #66,610 worldwide 27k citations · 460 works
  4. 4 Siv Kari Lauvset Norway · #68,707 worldwide 13k citations · 205 works
  5. 5 Mats Bentsen Norway · #98,098 worldwide 9.9k citations · 166 works
  6. 6 Chuncheng Guo Norway · #108,337 worldwide 4.6k citations · 183 works
  7. 7 Christoph Heinze Norway · #146,875 worldwide 15k citations · 215 works
  8. 8 Kerim H. Nisancioglu Norway · #187,877 worldwide 6.5k citations · 226 works
  9. 9 Camille Li Norway · #229,570 worldwide 4.9k citations · 162 works
  10. 10 Teferi D. Demissie Norway · #244,872 worldwide 1.5k citations · 89 works
All ranked researchers at Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

What are the most cited papers from Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research?

The most cited paper from Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research is "Global Carbon Budget 2020" (Pierre Friedlingstein et al., 2020), with 2,578 citations. Next come "Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans" (2,530) and "Global Carbon Budget 2022" (1,916).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global Carbon Budget 2020 Pierre Friedlingstein et al. · Earth system science data Open access 10 Dec 2020 2,578
2 Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans Taro Takahashi et al. · INRIA a CCSD electronic archive server 2009 2,530
3 Global Carbon Budget 2022 Pierre Friedlingstein et al. · Earth system science data Open access106 authors 8 Nov 2022 1,916
4 Global Carbon Budget 2019 Pierre Friedlingstein et al. · Earth system science data Open access 3 Dec 2019 1,731
5 Multiple stressors of ocean ecosystems in the 21st century: projections with CMIP5 models Laurent Bopp, Laure Resplandy, James C. Orr et al. · Biogeosciences Open access 2 Oct 2013 1,707
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Ocean Circulation, Global Warming, Remote Sensing, Data Assimilation, Arctic, Extreme Events and Hydrological Cycle.

▲ 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 institution'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 Change150▲ 20×57 topics
  2. Ocean Circulation77▲ 201×3 topics
  3. Global Warming53▲ 45×11 topics
  4. Remote Sensing48▲ 14×18 topics
  5. Data Assimilation38▲ 84×4 topics
  6. Arctic35▲ 114×4 topics
  7. Extreme Events34▲ 135×2 topics
  8. Hydrological Cycle34▲ 119×2 topics
  9. Greenhouse Gas Emissions33▲ 43×3 topics
  10. Climate Modeling32▲ 157×1 topic
  11. Precipitation Extremes32▲ 157×1 topic
  12. Hydrology30▲ 83×4 topics
  13. Sea Level Rise26▲ 75×3 topics
  14. Decline22▲ 298×1 topic
  15. Sea Ice22▲ 298×1 topic
  16. Climate Change Impact22▲ 35×2 topics
  17. Paleoclimatology22▲ 95×2 topics
  18. Oceanic Modeling22▲ 220×1 topic
  19. Tidal Analysis22▲ 220×1 topic
  20. Holocene21▲ 69×3 topics
  21. Sea Level21▲ 82×2 topics
  22. Glacial Cycles20▲ 110×1 topic
  23. Monsoon Dynamics20▲ 110×1 topic
  24. Glacier17▲ 140×1 topic
  25. Water Availability17▲ 140×1 topic
  26. Boundary Layer16▲ 46×2 topics
  27. Probabilistic Forecasting16▲ 29×2 topics
  28. Ensemble Kalman Filter15▲ 54×2 topics
  29. Convective Parameterization15▲ 95×1 topic
  30. Mesoscale Modeling15▲ 95×1 topic
  31. Permafrost12▲ 97×2 topics
  32. Methane Emissions12▲ 81×2 topics
  33. Carbon Feedback11▲ 116×1 topic
  34. Thawing11▲ 116×1 topic
  35. Eutrophication9▲ 29×4 topics
  36. Harmful Algal Blooms9▲ 39×3 topics
  37. Microbial Communities9▲ 7.4×4 topics
  38. Satellite Observations9▲ 32×3 topics
  39. Tropical Cyclones9▲ 55×2 topics
  40. Nutrient Limitation9▲ 28×2 topics

Which research topics does Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate variability and models, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Climate variability and models: 32 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 22 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmosp…22Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 22 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimato…20Geology and Paleoclimatology Research: 20 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 17 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 15 fractional worksClimate change and perma…11Climate change and permafrost: 11 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosystems: 8 fractional worksMethane Hydrates and Related Phenomena: 8 fractional worksTropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research: 7 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceOceanographyEnvironmental Chemistry

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 32 works
  2. 2 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 22 works
  3. 3 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 22 works
  4. 4 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 20 works
  5. 5 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 17 works
  6. 6 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 15 works
  7. 7 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 11 works
  8. 8 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 8 works
  9. 9 Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena Environmental Chemistry 8 works
  10. 10 Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research Atmospheric Science 7 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 available74.1%not open25.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors61.1%domestic only38.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00099% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research0.0011% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research14.0% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 24.5% in 2005.

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