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Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration

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Research works
16
▼ 5% vs 2018-21
Citations
118
7.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
34%
world 40%
International
46%
world 18%
Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration

Not ranked overall: Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration work in?

In all years, 95% of research at Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration is in Physical Sciences, 3% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (44%), Engineering (38%), Environmental Science (13%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 15 fractional works · 95.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 fractional works · 44.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 5 fractional works · 31.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 38.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 27.1% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 13.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workALL ITS WORKIcelandic Roadand Coastal…16fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences95%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences1%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences744.0%
    2. Engineering638.1%
    3. Environmental Science213.4%
    1. Medicine01.5%
    2. Health Professions01.1%
    1. Social Sciences01.1%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting00.1%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.7%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration?

Ranked on the quality score, Omar Bjarki Smarason, Gisli Viggosson and Sigurður Sigurðarson lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration.

  1. 1 Omar Bjarki Smarason Iceland · #3,499,084 worldwide 72 citations · 17 works
  2. 2 Gisli Viggosson Iceland · #4,350,613 worldwide 72 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Sigurður Sigurðarson Iceland · #6,275,762 worldwide 1.1k citations · 86 works
All ranked researchers at Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration

What are the most cited papers from Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration?

The most cited paper from Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration is "The ecology of Lake Myvatn and the River Laxá: Variation in space and time" (Árni Einarsson, Gerður Stefánsdóttir, Helgi Jóhannesson et al., 2004), with 132 citations. Next come "Ice‐volcano interactions during the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, as revealed by airborne imaging radar" (73) and "Identification of development areas in a warming Arctic with respect to natural resources, transportation, protected areas, and geography" (49).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The ecology of Lake Myvatn and the River Laxá: Variation in space and time Árni Einarsson, Gerður Stefánsdóttir, Helgi Jóhannesson et al. · Aquatic Ecology Jun 2004 132
2 Ice‐volcano interactions during the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption, as revealed by airborne imaging radar Eyjólfur Magnússon, Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, Matthew J. Roberts et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 4 Jun 2012 73
3 Identification of development areas in a warming Arctic with respect to natural resources, transportation, protected areas, and geography Kjartan Elíasson, Gudmundur F. Úlfarsson, Trausti Valsson et al. · Futures 18 Nov 2016 49
4 Some aspects of the seafloor morphology at Surtsey volcano: The new multibeam bathymetric survey of 2007 Sveinn Peter Jakobsson, Kjartan Thors, Árni Th. Vésteinsson et al. · Surtsey research Open access 2009 31
5 BERM RECESSION OF THE ICELANDIC-TYPE BERM BREAKWATER Sigurður Sigurðarson, Jentsje Wouter Van der Meer, Alf Tørum et al. Conference paper May 2009 14
All 40 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization and Earthquake and Tsunami Effects.

Coastal and Marine Dynam…1Coastal and Marine Dynamics: 1 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment an…0Flood Risk Assessment and Management: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering…0Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization: 0 fractional worksEarthquake and Tsunami Effects: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Analysis: 0 fractional worksStructural Engineering a…0Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis: 0 fractional worksGeophysics and Gravity Measurements: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical and construction materials studies: 0 fractional worksInnovative concrete reinforcement materials: 0 fractional worksStructural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete: 0 fractional works
Earth-Surface ProcessesGlobal and Planetary ChangeCivil and Structural EngineeringSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality2 others

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

  1. 1 Coastal and Marine Dynamics Earth-Surface Processes 1 works
  2. 2 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  3. 3 Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Earthquake and Tsunami Effects Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  6. 6 Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  7. 7 Geophysics and Gravity Measurements Oceanography 0 works
  8. 8 Geotechnical and construction materials studies Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Building and Construction 0 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 available34.5%not open65.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors45.6%domestic only54.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000033% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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