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Finnish Literature Society

In research, Finnish Literature Society stands highest in Social Sciences (#11,223 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#32,096
of 34,923
Rank in Finland
#150
of 159
Research works
155
▲ 18% vs 2018-21
Citations
367
2.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%
Finnish Literature Society

What is Finnish Literature Society 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
Social SciencesDomain #11,223 of 14,833 10.9%123

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Finnish Literature Society 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 Finnish Literature Society work in?

In 2022-now, 74% of research at Finnish Literature Society is in Social Sciences, 13% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (30%), Computer Science (10%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 37 fractional works · 74.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 40.7% of its workEducation: 11 fractional works · 22.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 6.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 15 fractional works · 30.0% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 4 fractional works · 8.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 fractional works · 6.1% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 5.6% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical Sciences: 6 fractional works · 12.9% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 9.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 8.3% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKFinnishLiterature…50fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences74%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2040.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities1530.0%
    3. Psychology11.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.7%
    1. Computer Science59.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy12.0%
    3. Engineering00.9%
    4. Environmental Science00.5%
    1. Health Professions24.6%
    2. Medicine23.5%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences24.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.2%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
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: 0.93× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.22× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.90× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.74× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 10.40× its world share, 15 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.21× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 10.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities10.40×15 works
  2. Social Sciences3.21×20 works
  3. Health Professions1.74×2 works
  4. Computer Science1.22×5 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.93×2 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy0.90×1 works
  7. Psychology0.57×1 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.47×0 works
  9. Nursing0.34×0 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.21×0 works
  11. Medicine0.18×2 works
  12. Environmental Science0.10×0 works
  13. Neuroscience0.08×0 works
  14. Engineering0.06×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Finnish Literature Society?

Ranked on the quality score, Kati Kallio, Irma-Riitta Järvinen and Seppo Sipilä lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Finnish Literature Society.

  1. 1 Kati Kallio Finland · #3,175,757 worldwide 121 citations · 58 works
  2. 2 Irma-Riitta Järvinen Finland · #3,445,662 worldwide 31 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Seppo Sipilä Finland · #3,650,332 worldwide 6 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen Finland · #3,858,681 worldwide 58 citations · 35 works
  5. 5 Senni Timonen Finland · #3,904,760 worldwide 86 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Lauri Harvilahti Finland · #3,964,491 worldwide 75 citations · 29 works
  7. 7 Outi Hupaniittu Finland · #4,083,791 worldwide 19 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Ulriikka Puura Finland · #4,140,720 worldwide 14 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Ilona Pikkanen Finland · #4,157,020 worldwide 145 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Sakari Katajamäki Finland · #4,501,390 worldwide 19 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Finnish Literature Society

What are the most cited papers from Finnish Literature Society?

The most cited paper from Finnish Literature Society is "PREVALENCE OF MIGRAINE AND OTHER HEADACHE IN FINNISH CHILDREN STARTING SCHOOL" (Matti L Sillanpää, 1976), with 145 citations. Next come "Influence of Content Knowledge on Pedagogical Content Knowledge: The case of teaching photosynthesis and plant growth" (138) and "The Brussels Declaration: the need for change in asthma management" (110).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PREVALENCE OF MIGRAINE AND OTHER HEADACHE IN FINNISH CHILDREN STARTING SCHOOL Matti L Sillanpää · Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain 1976 145
2 Influence of Content Knowledge on Pedagogical Content Knowledge: The case of teaching photosynthesis and plant growth Markku Käpylä, Jussi‐Pekka Heikkinen, Tuula Asunta · International Journal of Science Education Open access 19 May 2008 138
3 The Brussels Declaration: the need for change in asthma management Stephen T. Holgate, Hans Bisgaard, Leif Bjermer et al. · European Respiratory Journal Open access 28 Nov 2008 110
4 Validity and reliability of the Fatigue Severity Scale in Finnish multiple sclerosis patients Eija M Rosti-Otajärvi, Päivi I Hämäläinen, Anna S. Wiksten et al. · Brain and Behavior Open access 9 Jun 2017 90
5 Understanding Artificial Intelligence in Research Libraries – Extensive Literature Review Andrea Alessandro Gasparini, Heli Kautonen · LIBER Quarterly The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries Open access 31 Jan 2022 84
All 70 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Finnish Literature Society?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Ethics, Education, Healthcare, Phenomenology, Social Sciences, Qualitative Research, Pedagogy and Communication.

▲ 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. Ethics12▲ 48×6 topics
  2. Education12▲ 14×8 topics
  3. Healthcare11▲ 20×4 topics
  4. Phenomenology11▲ 205×2 topics
  5. Social Sciences11▲ 150×3 topics
  6. Pedagogy11▲ 43×2 topics
  7. Qualitative Research11▲ 25×3 topics
  8. Communication11▲ 68×1 topic
  9. Family Dynamics11▲ 167×1 topic
  10. Religion3▲ 14×4 topics
  11. Corpus Linguistics3▲ 28×3 topics
  12. Cultural Exchange3▲ 45×3 topics
  13. Globalization3▲ 2.9×8 topics
  14. Trade3▲ 69×2 topics
  15. Climate Change3▲ 1.89×4 topics
  16. Cultural Transmission2▲ 65×2 topics
  17. Feminism2▲ 16×2 topics
  18. Scandinavia2▲ 317×1 topic
  19. Viking Age2▲ 317×1 topic
  20. Folklore2▲ 83×2 topics
  21. Literary Analysis2▲ 216×2 topics
  22. Children's Literature2▲ 101×1 topic
  23. Fairy Tales2▲ 266×1 topic
  24. Social Change2▲ 32×3 topics
  25. Food Security2▲ 6.2×2 topics
  26. Traditional Knowledge2▲ 79×2 topics
  27. Neural Machine Translation2▲ 35×1 topic
  28. Statistical Machine Translation2▲ 35×1 topic
  29. Legal History2▲ 109×1 topic
  30. Religious Influence2▲ 168×1 topic
  31. Arctic Indigenous Peoples1▲ 154×1 topic
  32. Digital Humanities1▲ 172×1 topic
  33. Literary History1▲ 84×1 topic
  34. Migration1▲ 7.5×5 topics
  35. Nutrition Transition1▲ 83×1 topic
  36. Audio Signal Classification1▲ 65×1 topic
  37. Music Information Retrieval1▲ 65×1 topic
  38. Lexicography1▲ 24×2 topics
  39. Translation1▲ 13×1 topic
  40. Translator Competence1▲ 52×1 topic

Which research topics does Finnish Literature Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Research in Social Sciences, Historical and Archaeological Studies, Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies and Natural Language Processing Techniques.

Research in Social Scien…11Research in Social Sciences: 11 fractional worksHistorical and Archaeological Studies: 2 fractional worksFolklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies: 2 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 2 fractional worksHistorical Legal Studies and Society: 2 fractional worksIndigenous Studies and Ecology: 1 fractional worksDigital Humanities and Scholarship: 1 fractional worksMusic and Audio Processing: 1 fractional worksTranslation Studies and Practices: 1 fractional worksSpace Science and Extraterrestrial Life: 1 fractional works
EducationHistoryLiterature and Literary TheoryArtificial Intelligence5 others

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

  1. 1 Research in Social Sciences Education 11 works
  2. 2 Historical and Archaeological Studies History 2 works
  3. 3 Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies Literature and Literary Theory 2 works
  4. 4 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  5. 5 Historical Legal Studies and Society Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  6. 6 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 1 works
  7. 7 Digital Humanities and Scholarship Literature and Literary Theory 1 works
  8. 8 Music and Audio Processing Signal Processing 1 works
  9. 9 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 1 works
  10. 10 Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life Astronomy and Astrophysics 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 available75.3%not open24.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.5%domestic only90.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Finnish Literature Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% 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 Finnish Literature Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00024% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Finnish Literature Society0.00019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Finnish Literature Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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