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Finnish Environment Institute

In research, Finnish Environment Institute stands highest in Environmental Science (#686 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#4,139 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#4,183 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology (Oceanography is 17.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,507
of 22,385 · #4,037 all time
Rank in Finland
#21
of 66
Research works
3.4k
▼ 9% vs 2018-21
Citations
144k
42.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.17×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
40%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
Finnish Environment Institute

What is Finnish Environment Institute 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 #686 of 3,334 17.5%189 #750
Physical SciencesDomain #4,139 of 10,670 16.4%265 #3459
Social SciencesDomain #4,183 of 9,585 19.7%89 #4555

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Finnish Environment Institute 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#750 #686
  2. Physical Sciences#3,459 #4,139
  3. Social Sciences#4,555 #4,183
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 Finnish Environment Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 66% of research at Finnish Environment Institute is in Physical Sciences, 22% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (47%), Social Sciences (13%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 304 fractional works · 66.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 215 fractional works · 46.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 51 fractional works · 11.1% of its workEcology: 43 fractional works · 9.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 23 fractional works · 4.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 17 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 16 fractional works · 3.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 16 fractional works · 3.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 13 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPollution: 12 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 40 fractional works · 8.7% of its workOceanography: 22 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 13 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 24 fractional works · 5.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Energy: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 101 fractional works · 21.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 59 fractional works · 12.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 22 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEducation: 12 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workTransportation: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 21 fractional works · 4.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 12 fractional works · 2.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 46 fractional works · 10.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 40 fractional works · 8.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSoil Science: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInsect Science: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKFinnishEnvironment…461fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences66%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences22%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science21546.7%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences408.7%
    3. Engineering245.2%
    4. Energy102.1%
    5. Computer Science92.0%
    6. Materials Science20.5%
    7. Chemistry20.4%
    8. Mathematics20.4%
    9. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences5912.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting214.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance102.2%
    4. Decision Sciences40.9%
    5. Psychology40.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities20.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences408.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    4. Neuroscience00.0%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Health Professions51.0%
    2. Medicine40.9%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Finnish Environment Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Oceanography takes 17.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. OceanographySubfield · 22.0 works17×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 51.1 works15×
  3. EcologySubfield · 43.4 works12×
  4. Environmental ScienceField · 215.2 works9.4×
← 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: 1.81× its world share, 40 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.26× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.27× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.26× its world share, 9 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.53× its world share, 40 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.29× its world share, 10 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 24 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 9.41× its world share, 215 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.35× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.38× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.05× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.44× its world share, 21 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.04× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.30× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.01× its world share, 59 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 9.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science9.41×215 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.53×40 works
  3. Energy2.29×10 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.81×40 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.44×21 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.04×10 works
  7. Social Sciences1.01×59 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.98×4 works
  9. Health Professions0.38×5 works
  10. Mathematics0.35×2 works
  11. Engineering0.34×24 works
  12. Psychology0.30×4 works
  13. Chemistry0.27×2 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.26×6 works
  15. Computer Science0.26×9 works
  16. Veterinary0.20×0 works
  17. Materials Science0.13×2 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.13×2 works
  19. Chemical Engineering0.09×0 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.06×0 works
  21. Nursing0.06×0 works
  22. Medicine0.05×4 works
  23. Physics and Astronomy0.04×0 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.02×0 works
  25. Dentistry0.02×0 works
  26. Neuroscience0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Finnish Environment Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Jani Heino, Juha Pöyry and Timothy R. Carter lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Finnish Environment Institute.

  1. 1 Jani Heino Finland · #8,113 worldwide 25k citations · 403 works
  2. 2 Juha Pöyry Finland · #47,927 worldwide 6.6k citations · 112 works
  3. 3 Timothy R. Carter Finland · #68,943 worldwide 25k citations · 290 works
  4. 4 Paula Kivimaa Finland · #78,488 worldwide 7.7k citations · 148 works
  5. 5 Risto K. Heikkinen Finland · #117,312 worldwide 15k citations · 180 works
  6. 6 Mikko Kuussaari Finland · #129,657 worldwide 14k citations · 184 works
  7. 7 Stefan Fronzek Finland · #184,817 worldwide 4.7k citations · 115 works
  8. 8 Janne Heliölä Finland · #251,422 worldwide 3.2k citations · 70 works
  9. 9 Suvi Huttunen Finland · #284,943 worldwide 2.5k citations · 100 works
  10. 10 Eeva Primmer Finland · #315,249 worldwide 4.1k citations · 113 works
All ranked researchers at Finnish Environment Institute

What are the most cited papers from Finnish Environment Institute?

The most cited paper from Finnish Environment Institute is "The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment" (Richard H. Moss, Jae Edmonds, Kathy A. Hibbard et al., 2010), with 6,734 citations. Next come "Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget" (4,079) and "On the separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and ecosystem respiration: review and improved algorithm" (4,072).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment Richard H. Moss, Jae Edmonds, Kathy A. Hibbard et al. · Nature Feb 2010 6,734
2 Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget J. J. Cole, Yves T. Prairie, N. F. Caraco et al. · Ecosystems Feb 2007 4,079
3 On the separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and ecosystem respiration: review and improved algorithm Markus Reichstein et al. · Global Change Biology Open access 25 Jul 2005 4,072
4 Circular Economy: The Concept and its Limitations Jouni Korhonen, Antero Honkasalo, Jyri Seppälä · Ecological Economics 12 Jul 2017 3,897
5 A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways Brian C. O’Neill, Elmar Kriegler, Keywan Riahi et al. · Climatic Change Open access 14 Oct 2013 2,814
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Finnish Environment Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Sustainability, Biodiversity Conservation, Global Warming, Renewable Energy, Environmental Impact, Eutrophication and Social-Ecological Systems.

▲ 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 Change126▲ 10×70 topics
  2. Sustainability44▲ 3.9×49 topics
  3. Environmental Impact32▲ 4.0×30 topics
  4. Biodiversity Conservation31▲ 18×9 topics
  5. Renewable Energy30▲ 4.6×21 topics
  6. Global Warming24▲ 12×12 topics
  7. Eutrophication22▲ 42×4 topics
  8. Ecosystem Services22▲ 12×10 topics
  9. Social-Ecological Systems22▲ 34×2 topics
  10. Biodiversity21▲ 6.0×20 topics
  11. Ecosystem Functioning21▲ 22×7 topics
  12. Invasive Species20▲ 10×16 topics
  13. Remote Sensing18▲ 3.3×25 topics
  14. Water Quality18▲ 9.5×9 topics
  15. Ecosystem Resilience16▲ 23×5 topics
  16. Land Use Change16▲ 12×6 topics
  17. Hydrology16▲ 26×4 topics
  18. Circular Economy15▲ 12×6 topics
  19. Waste Management15▲ 8.2×6 topics
  20. Harmful Algal Blooms15▲ 39×2 topics
  21. Nutrient Limitation15▲ 29×2 topics
  22. Resilience14▲ 6.4×4 topics
  23. Climate Change Adaptation14▲ 17×2 topics
  24. Sustainability Transitions14▲ 96×2 topics
  25. Adaptive Governance14▲ 104×1 topic
  26. Habitat Fragmentation14▲ 14×4 topics
  27. Policy Mixes14▲ 104×1 topic
  28. Greenhouse Gas Emissions14▲ 11×6 topics
  29. Ethics13▲ 5.7×6 topics
  30. Methane Emissions13▲ 54×2 topics
  31. Environmental Policy12▲ 13×7 topics
  32. Recycling12▲ 6.9×5 topics
  33. Fisheries Sustainability12▲ 30×2 topics
  34. Microbial Processes12▲ 44×2 topics
  35. Communication12▲ 7.9×3 topics
  36. Climate Change Impacts11▲ 20×5 topics
  37. Freshwater Biodiversity11▲ 39×2 topics
  38. Wetlands11▲ 72×2 topics
  39. Environmental Impacts11▲ 8.8×7 topics
  40. Phenomenology11▲ 22×1 topic

Which research topics does Finnish Environment Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Research in Social Sciences, Marine and coastal ecosystems and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology.

Sustainability and Clima…14Sustainability and Climate Change Governance: 14 fractional worksResearch in Social Scien…11Research in Social Sciences: 11 fractional worksMarine and coastal ecosy…10Marine and coastal ecosystems: 10 fractional worksPeatlands and Wetlands E…10Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology: 10 fractional worksForest Management and Policy: 8 fractional worksLand Use and Ecosystem Services: 8 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…7Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 7 fractional worksEnvironmental Conservation and Management: 7 fractional worksSustainable Supply Chain Management: 7 fractional worksSoil and Water Nutrient …7Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics: 7 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeEducationOceanographyEcology4 others

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

  1. 1 Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Global and Planetary Change 14 works
  2. 2 Research in Social Sciences Education 11 works
  3. 3 Marine and coastal ecosystems Oceanography 10 works
  4. 4 Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology Ecology 10 works
  5. 5 Forest Management and Policy Global and Planetary Change 8 works
  6. 6 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 8 works
  7. 7 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 7 works
  8. 8 Environmental Conservation and Management Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 7 works
  9. 9 Sustainable Supply Chain Management Strategy and Management 7 works
  10. 10 Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 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 available40.3%not open59.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.7%domestic only75.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Finnish Environment Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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 Finnish Environment Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0020% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Finnish Environment Institute0.0018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Finnish Environment Institute 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%Finnish Environment Institute14.0% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 21.3% in 2022.

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