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Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway)

In research, Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,310 of 12,888 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#4,157 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Organic Chemistry and Chemistry — Organic Chemistry is 20.1× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,295
of 28,054 · #7,176 all time
Rank in Norway
#34
of 133
Research works
858
▲ 36% vs 2013–17
Citations
29k
33.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
24.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
49%
world 28%

What is Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #5,310 of 12,888 23.8%66 #8730
Life SciencesDomain #4,157 of 7,800 23.9%85 #3530

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway) 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Organic Chemistry takes 20.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Organic ChemistrySubfield · 32.0 works20×
  2. ChemistryField · 40.0 works12×
← 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: 0.61× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5.27× its world share, 60 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.73× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.29× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 12.93× its world share, 10 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 12.05× its world share, 40 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.53× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.22× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.30× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.71× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.33× its world share, 54 worksMedicineNursing: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.87× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.33× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 12.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway)?

Ranked on the composite score, Toichi Takenaka lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway).

  1. 1 Toichi Takenaka Norway · #595,670 worldwide 65 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway)

Which keywords describe research at Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway)?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Medicinal Chemistry, Anticancer Agents, Drug Discovery, Cancer Therapy, Heterocyclic Compounds, Pharmacokinetics, Synthesis and Molecular Docking.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Medicinal Chemistry22▲ 37×12 topics
  2. Anticancer Agents15▲ 46×11 topics
  3. Drug Discovery13▲ 28×9 topics
  4. Cancer12▲ 4.1×37 topics
  5. Cancer Therapy11▲ 9.0×17 topics
  6. Heterocyclic Compounds11▲ 58×4 topics
  7. Pharmacokinetics10▲ 19×8 topics
  8. Synthesis10▲ 13×20 topics
  9. Inflammation10▲ 2.2×53 topics
  10. Oxidative Stress10▲ 2.9×34 topics
  11. Molecular Docking10▲ 36×3 topics
  12. Machine Learning10▲ 1.37×8 topics
  13. Tubulin Inhibitors9▲ 93×1 topic
  14. Vascular Targeting Agents9▲ 93×1 topic
  15. Pharmacology9▲ 17×13 topics
  16. Antioxidant8▲ 5.7×27 topics
  17. Drug Target Identification8▲ 39×1 topic
  18. Virtual Screening8▲ 39×1 topic
  19. Anti-inflammatory7▲ 12×20 topics
  20. Nanoparticles7▲ 2.5×14 topics
  21. Heterocycles6▲ 32×9 topics
  22. Anticancer6▲ 18×13 topics
  23. Biological Activities6▲ 17×9 topics
  24. Catalysis6▲ 4.0×19 topics
  25. Medicinal Plants6▲ 6.6×12 topics
  26. Transcriptional Regulation6▲ 16×9 topics
  27. Reactive Oxygen Species6▲ 6.4×9 topics
  28. Antioxidant Activity5▲ 3.9×20 topics
  29. Cell Signaling5▲ 16×8 topics
  30. Apoptosis5▲ 8.0×13 topics
  31. Antimicrobial4▲ 7.4×9 topics
  32. Metal-Catalyzed Reactions4▲ 34×3 topics
  33. Cytotoxicity4▲ 14×8 topics
  34. Click Chemistry4▲ 35×3 topics
  35. Transition Metal Catalysis4▲ 22×4 topics
  36. Biological Evaluation4▲ 31×5 topics
  37. Flavonoids4▲ 6.8×5 topics
  38. Organic Synthesis4▲ 15×6 topics
  39. Tumor Targeting4▲ 9.6×3 topics
  40. In Vivo Imaging3▲ 19×2 topics

Which research topics does Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Synthesis and biological activity, Computational Drug Discovery Methods, Click Chemistry and Applications and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods.

Synthesis and biological…9Synthesis and biological activity: 9 fractional worksComputational Drug Disco…8Computational Drug Discovery Methods: 8 fractional worksClick Chemistry and Applications: 3 fractional worksCatalytic C–H Functional…3Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods: 3 fractional worksProtein Degradation and …3Protein Degradation and Inhibitors: 3 fractional worksChemical Synthesis and A…2Chemical Synthesis and Analysis: 2 fractional worksHistone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research: 2 fractional worksReceptor Mechanisms and Signaling: 2 fractional worksAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques: 2 fractional worksPharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism: 2 fractional works
Organic ChemistryComputational Theory and MathematicsMolecular BiologyPharmacology

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

  1. 1 Synthesis and biological activity Organic Chemistry 9 works
  2. 2 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 8 works
  3. 3 Click Chemistry and Applications Organic Chemistry 3 works
  4. 4 Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods Organic Chemistry 3 works
  5. 5 Protein Degradation and Inhibitors Molecular Biology 3 works
  6. 6 Chemical Synthesis and Analysis Molecular Biology 2 works
  7. 7 Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research Molecular Biology 2 works
  8. 8 Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling Molecular Biology 2 works
  9. 9 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques Molecular Biology 2 works
  10. 10 Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism Pharmacology 2 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 available49.1%not open50.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors62.9%domestic only37.1%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Drug Discovery Laboratory (Norway)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 36% higher than in 2013–2017.

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

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