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Finnish Meteorological Institute

In research, Finnish Meteorological Institute stands highest in Environmental Science (#832 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#3,062 of 10,670 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#593 of 1,088 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Earth and Planetary Sciences (Atmospheric Science is 63.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,677
of 22,385 · #2,966 all time
Rank in Finland
#25
of 66
Research works
3.4k
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
109k
32.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.08×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
62%
world 40%
International
44%
world 18%
Finnish Meteorological Institute

What is Finnish Meteorological 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 #832 of 3,334 13.5%171 #810
Physical SciencesDomain #3,062 of 10,670 11.9%419 #1638
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #593 of 1,088 10.5%157 #401
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #310 of 544 14.3%82 #311
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #201 of 294 10.4%136 #170

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Finnish Meteorological 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#810 #832
  2. Physical Sciences#1,638 #3,062
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences#401 #593
  4. Global and Planetary Change#311 #310
  5. Atmospheric Science#170 #201
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 Meteorological Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 88% of research at Finnish Meteorological Institute is in Physical Sciences, 5% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (36%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (33%), Engineering (9%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 531 fractional works · 88.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 219 fractional works · 36.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 107 fractional works · 17.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 32 fractional works · 5.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 27 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEcology: 25 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPollution: 8 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 199 fractional works · 33.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 170 fractional works · 28.2% of its workOceanography: 16 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeophysics: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 53 fractional works · 8.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 14 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 40 fractional works · 6.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 34 fractional works · 5.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 29 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 22 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSoil Science: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 24 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 16 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEducation: 7 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 17 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMedicine: 12 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKFinnishMeteorological…602fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences88%Health Sciences3%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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science21936.4%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences19933.0%
    3. Engineering538.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy406.6%
    5. Computer Science81.3%
    6. Energy40.7%
    7. Chemistry30.6%
    8. Chemical Engineering20.3%
    9. Materials Science20.3%
    10. Mathematics10.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences223.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.0%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    1. Social Sciences162.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.5%
    3. Decision Sciences30.4%
    4. Psychology10.2%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.1%
    1. Medicine122.0%
    2. Health Professions50.9%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Finnish Meteorological Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 63.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 169.7 works64×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 106.9 works23×
  3. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 198.8 works21×
  4. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 34.2 works11×
  5. Environmental EngineeringSubfield · 31.8 works9.8×
  6. Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisSubfield · 26.6 works8.3×
  7. Environmental ScienceField · 219.1 works7.3×
← 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: 0.77× its world share, 22 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.85× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.35× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.17× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 21.07× its world share, 199 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.81× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.58× its world share, 53 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 7.33× its world share, 219 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.97× its world share, 40 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.34× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 12 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.46× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.25× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 16 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 21.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.07×199 works
  2. Environmental Science7.33×219 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy2.97×40 works
  4. Chemical Engineering0.85×2 works
  5. Energy0.81×4 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.77×22 works
  7. Engineering0.58×53 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.46×3 works
  9. Chemistry0.35×3 works
  10. Health Professions0.34×5 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.25×3 works
  12. Social Sciences0.21×16 works
  13. Mathematics0.19×1 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×6 works
  15. Computer Science0.17×8 works
  16. Medicine0.10×12 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.08×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.08×2 works
  19. Dentistry0.06×0 works
  20. Neuroscience0.05×0 works
  21. Psychology0.05×1 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.04×1 works
  23. Business, Management and Accounting0.04×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Finnish Meteorological Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Juha Aalto, Annalea Lohila and Mikhail A. Sofiev lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Finnish Meteorological Institute.

  1. 1 Juha Aalto Finland · #31,710 worldwide 8.5k citations · 254 works
  2. 2 Annalea Lohila Finland · #46,348 worldwide 18k citations · 448 works
  3. 3 Mikhail A. Sofiev Finland · #60,965 worldwide 18k citations · 428 works
  4. 4 André Welti Finland · #84,954 worldwide 5.7k citations · 236 works
  5. 5 Jarkko Ville Niemi Finland · #85,074 worldwide 6k citations · 201 works
  6. 6 Hilkka Timonen Finland · #114,038 worldwide 8.7k citations · 338 works
  7. 7 Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen Finland · #114,970 worldwide 8.8k citations · 270 works
  8. 8 Mika Aurela Finland · #126,254 worldwide 15k citations · 676 works
  9. 9 Juha‐Pekka Tuovinen Finland · #126,745 worldwide 8.7k citations · 225 works
  10. 10 Minna Aurela Finland · #133,088 worldwide 7k citations · 216 works
All ranked researchers at Finnish Meteorological Institute

What are the most cited papers from Finnish Meteorological Institute?

The most cited paper from Finnish Meteorological Institute is "Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere" (Jose Luis Jimenez et al., 2009), with 4,903 citations. Next come "On the separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and ecosystem respiration: review and improved algorithm" (4,072) and "European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern" (3,200).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Evolution of Organic Aerosols in the Atmosphere Jose Luis Jimenez et al. · Science 10 Dec 2009 4,903
2 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
3 European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern Annette Menzel et al. · Global Change Biology Open access 6 Jul 2006 3,200
4 The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979 Mika Rantanen, Alexey Yu. Karpechko, Antti Lipponen et al. · Communications Earth & Environment Open access 11 Aug 2022 3,087
5 An Adaptive Metropolis Algorithm Heikki Haario, Eero Saksman, Johanna Tamminen · Bernoulli Apr 2001 2,788
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Finnish Meteorological Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Air Quality, Hydrology, Satellite Observations, Ocean Circulation, Hydrological Cycle and Arctic.

▲ 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 Change196▲ 12×70 topics
  2. Remote Sensing109▲ 15×28 topics
  3. Air Quality79▲ 70×6 topics
  4. Hydrology56▲ 72×4 topics
  5. Satellite Observations52▲ 87×3 topics
  6. Ocean Circulation49▲ 59×3 topics
  7. Hydrological Cycle47▲ 76×2 topics
  8. Arctic44▲ 66×4 topics
  9. Chemical Composition42▲ 73×2 topics
  10. Atmospheric Aerosols42▲ 122×1 topic
  11. Black Carbon42▲ 122×1 topic
  12. Global Warming42▲ 16×13 topics
  13. Data Assimilation36▲ 36×3 topics
  14. Ecosystem Resilience32▲ 35×5 topics
  15. Methane Emissions32▲ 99×2 topics
  16. Climate32▲ 54×2 topics
  17. Boundary Layer31▲ 41×3 topics
  18. Sea Level Rise29▲ 38×3 topics
  19. Water Quality28▲ 12×10 topics
  20. Probabilistic Forecasting28▲ 24×3 topics
  21. Greenhouse Gas Emissions28▲ 17×7 topics
  22. Health Effects27▲ 7.5×11 topics
  23. Emissions27▲ 23×6 topics
  24. Ice Nucleation27▲ 107×2 topics
  25. Aerosols26▲ 62×2 topics
  26. Atmospheric Dust26▲ 159×1 topic
  27. Radiative Forcing26▲ 159×1 topic
  28. Convective Parameterization25▲ 74×1 topic
  29. Ensemble Kalman Filter25▲ 41×1 topic
  30. Particulate Matter24▲ 27×2 topics
  31. Glacier24▲ 91×1 topic
  32. Water Availability24▲ 91×1 topic
  33. Decline23▲ 139×1 topic
  34. Sea Ice23▲ 139×1 topic
  35. Extreme Events22▲ 40×2 topics
  36. Shale Gas22▲ 31×2 topics
  37. Solar Wind22▲ 40×2 topics
  38. Carbon Dioxide22▲ 23×2 topics
  39. Natural Gas22▲ 39×2 topics
  40. Atmospheric22▲ 76×1 topic

Which research topics does Finnish Meteorological Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Atmospheric chemistry an…42Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 42 fractional worksAtmospheric aerosols and…26Atmospheric aerosols and clouds: 26 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 25 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 24 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 23 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 22 fractional worksClimate variability and models: 21 fractional worksClimate change and perma…20Climate change and permafrost: 20 fractional worksAtmospheric Ozone and Climate: 19 fractional worksAir Quality and Health Impacts: 17 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary ChangeHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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

  1. 1 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 42 works
  2. 2 Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Global and Planetary Change 26 works
  3. 3 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 25 works
  4. 4 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 24 works
  5. 5 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 23 works
  6. 6 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 22 works
  7. 7 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 21 works
  8. 8 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 20 works
  9. 9 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate Atmospheric Science 19 works
  10. 10 Air Quality and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 17 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 available61.6%not open38.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors43.9%domestic only56.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Finnish Meteorological Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% 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 Meteorological Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0023% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Finnish Meteorological Institute0.0023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Finnish Meteorological 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Finnish Meteorological Institute9.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.2% in 1996.

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