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CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)

In research, CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,619 of 17,446 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#17,129
of 22,385 · #13,566 all time
Rank in Finland
#52
of 66
Research works
310
▲ 54% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.5k
17.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
62%
world 40%
International
44%
world 18%
CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)

What is CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Physical SciencesDomain #5,619 of 17,446 10.3%203

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) 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 fields of science does CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research at CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) is in Physical Sciences, 30% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (26%), Decision Sciences (12%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (11%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 55 fractional works · 53.9% of its workComputer Science: 27 fractional works · 25.9% of its workInformation Systems: 12 fractional works · 12.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 4.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 fractional works · 8.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 8 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 6.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 6.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 30.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 12 fractional works · 11.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 8 fractional works · 7.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 4.7% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 14 fractional works · 13.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 11.2% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 3.8% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCSC - IT Centerfor Science…103fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences54%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences30%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science2725.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences98.3%
    3. Engineering76.7%
    4. Environmental Science66.1%
    5. Physics and Astronomy33.2%
    6. Materials Science21.8%
    7. Chemistry11.2%
    8. Mathematics10.7%
    1. Decision Sciences1211.7%
    2. Social Sciences98.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities54.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting33.4%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.5%
    6. Psychology00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1111.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.3%
    3. Neuroscience11.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
    1. Medicine22.1%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
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: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.09× its world share, 12 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.75× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 3.33× its world share, 27 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.29× its world share, 8 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.45× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.23× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.51× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.43× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.63× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.05× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 12.10× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.72× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.67× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 12.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences12.10×12 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.29×8 works
  3. Computer Science3.33×27 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.09×12 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.63×5 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy1.43×3 works
  7. Environmental Science1.23×6 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting1.05×4 works
  9. Chemistry0.78×1 works
  10. Neuroscience0.75×1 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.72×2 works
  12. Social Sciences0.67×9 works
  13. Mathematics0.57×1 works
  14. Materials Science0.51×2 works
  15. Engineering0.45×7 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.27×1 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.19×0 works
  18. Medicine0.11×2 works
  19. Health Professions0.09×0 works
  20. Psychology0.05×0 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)?

Ranked on the quality score, Jussi Enkovaara, Thomas Zwinger and Jan A. Åström lead among researchers whose main affiliation is CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland).

  1. 1 Jussi Enkovaara Finland · #179,371 worldwide 5.2k citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Thomas Zwinger Finland · #197,948 worldwide 7.7k citations · 276 works
  3. 3 Jan A. Åström Finland · #955,608 worldwide 3.4k citations · 167 works
  4. 4 Per Öster Finland · #1,026,591 worldwide 726 citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Eija Korpelainen Finland · #1,253,989 worldwide 2.9k citations · 68 works
  6. 6 Hanna-Mari Puuska Finland · #1,552,877 worldwide 408 citations · 33 works
  7. 7 Juha Ruokolainen Finland · #1,605,068 worldwide 1.2k citations · 38 works
  8. 8 Laura Himanen Finland · #1,985,790 worldwide 110 citations · 32 works
  9. 9 Aleksi Kallio Finland · #2,071,852 worldwide 653 citations · 43 works
  10. 10 Hanna Koivula Finland · #2,073,817 worldwide 124 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)

What are the most cited papers from CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)?

The most cited paper from CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) is "Electronic structure calculations with GPAW: a real-space implementation of the projector augmented-wave method" (Jussi Enkovaara et al., 2010), with 2,332 citations. Next come "MED12 , the Mediator Complex Subunit 12 Gene, Is Mutated at High Frequency in Uterine Leiomyomas" (668) and "Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise" (617).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Electronic structure calculations with GPAW: a real-space implementation of the projector augmented-wave method Jussi Enkovaara et al. · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter Open access 10 Jun 2010 2,332
2 MED12 , the Mediator Complex Subunit 12 Gene, Is Mutated at High Frequency in Uterine Leiomyomas Netta Mäkinen, Miika M. Mehine, Jaana Tolvanen et al. · Science 25 Aug 2011 668
3 Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise Tamsin Edwards et al. · Nature Open access 5 May 2021 617
4 Retreat of Pine Island Glacier controlled by marine ice-sheet instability Lionel Favier, Gaël Durand, Stephen Cornford et al. · Nature Climate Change 10 Jan 2014 572
5 ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century Helene L. Seroussi et al. · ˜The œcryosphere Open access 17 Sep 2020 519
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Digital Repositories, Ecology, Bioinformatics, Data Sharing, Scientific Data Management, Workflow Management, Climate Change and Reproducibility.

▲ 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 Change10▲ 3.5×28 topics
  2. Digital Repositories9▲ 246×2 topics
  3. Ecology8▲ 46×2 topics
  4. Bioinformatics8▲ 67×3 topics
  5. Data Sharing8▲ 243×1 topic
  6. Scientific Data Management8▲ 293×1 topic
  7. Workflow Management7▲ 95×2 topics
  8. Reproducibility6▲ 156×1 topic
  9. Scientific Workflows6▲ 156×1 topic
  10. Remote Sensing6▲ 4.9×8 topics
  11. Big Data6▲ 6.1×9 topics
  12. Machine Learning6▲ 1.74×21 topics
  13. Education6▲ 3.2×5 topics
  14. Healthcare4▲ 3.7×4 topics
  15. Hydrology4▲ 26×3 topics
  16. Ethics3▲ 5.8×3 topics
  17. Genetic Variants3▲ 16×1 topic
  18. Sequence Interpretation3▲ 76×1 topic
  19. Arctic3▲ 25×2 topics
  20. Data Integration3▲ 16×4 topics
  21. Higher Education3▲ 5.0×7 topics
  22. Communication3▲ 8.5×2 topics
  23. Distributed Systems3▲ 15×6 topics
  24. Social Sciences3▲ 18×1 topic
  25. Sea Level Rise3▲ 20×3 topics
  26. Glacier2▲ 56×1 topic
  27. Water Availability2▲ 56×1 topic
  28. Interdisciplinary Research2▲ 26×3 topics
  29. Ocean Circulation2▲ 17×3 topics
  30. Semantic Web2▲ 23×5 topics
  31. Cloud Computing2▲ 7.2×4 topics
  32. Data Visualization2▲ 38×3 topics
  33. Genomics2▲ 6.9×3 topics
  34. Text Mining2▲ 15×2 topics
  35. Decline2▲ 72×1 topic
  36. Sea Ice2▲ 72×1 topic
  37. Digital Humanities2▲ 115×1 topic
  38. Literary History2▲ 57×1 topic
  39. Metadata Standards2▲ 85×2 topics
  40. Social Network Analysis2▲ 15×2 topics

Which research topics does CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Research Data Management Practices, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Genomics and Rare Diseases and Research in Social Sciences.

Research Data Management…8Research Data Management Practices: 8 fractional worksScientific Computing and…6Scientific Computing and Data Management: 6 fractional worksGenomics and Rare Diseases: 3 fractional worksResearch in Social Sciences: 3 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 2 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice…2Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 2 fractional worksDigital Humanities and Scholarship: 2 fractional worksGenetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research: 2 fractional worksData Quality and Management: 1 fractional worksDigital and Traditional Archives Management: 1 fractional works
Information SystemsInformation Systems and ManagementGeneticsEducation5 others

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

  1. 1 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 8 works
  2. 2 Scientific Computing and Data Management Information Systems and Management 6 works
  3. 3 Genomics and Rare Diseases Genetics 3 works
  4. 4 Research in Social Sciences Education 3 works
  5. 5 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 2 works
  6. 6 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 2 works
  7. 7 Digital Humanities and Scholarship Literature and Literary Theory 2 works
  8. 8 Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research Molecular Biology 2 works
  9. 9 Data Quality and Management Management Science and Operations Research 1 works
  10. 10 Digital and Traditional Archives Management Conservation 1 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 available62.5%not open37.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors44.2%domestic only55.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 54% higher 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 CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00026% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland)0.00049% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of CSC - IT Center for Science (Finland) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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