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Ilisimatusarfik

In research, Ilisimatusarfik stands highest in Social Sciences (#7,441 of 14,833 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#8,389 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,646
of 22,385 · #11,697 all time
Rank in Greenland
#1
of 2
Research works
402
▲ 15% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.5k
16.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.96×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
53%
world 40%
International
58%
world 18%
Ilisimatusarfik

What is Ilisimatusarfik 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 #7,441 of 14,833 9.9%142
Health SciencesDomain #8,389 of 16,688 6.7%166

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

In 2022-now, 40% of research at Ilisimatusarfik is in Social Sciences, 39% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (30%), Medicine (23%), Health Professions (15%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Social Sciences: 45 fractional works · 39.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 34 fractional works · 29.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 13 fractional works · 11.3% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 5.5% of its workHealth: 4 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 4.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 44 fractional works · 39.5% of its workMedicine: 26 fractional works · 23.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 17 fractional works · 15.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 15 fractional works · 13.8% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 17 fractional works · 14.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 9.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKIlisimatusarfik112fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences39%Social Sciences40%

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. Social Sciences3429.9%
    2. Psychology54.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities43.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting10.8%
    5. Decision Sciences00.4%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.4%
    1. Medicine2623.3%
    2. Health Professions1715.1%
    3. Nursing11.0%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Environmental Science109.0%
    2. Engineering32.8%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.9%
    4. Mathematics00.4%
    5. Computer Science00.3%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology43.5%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.2%
    3. Neuroscience10.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
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: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.65× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.23× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.19× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.82× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 5.75× its world share, 17 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.21× its world share, 26 worksMedicineNursing: 2.08× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.24× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.54× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.36× its world share, 34 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions5.75×17 works
  2. Social Sciences2.36×34 works
  3. Nursing2.08×1 works
  4. Environmental Science1.82×10 works
  5. Psychology1.54×5 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.24×4 works
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.23×2 works
  8. Medicine1.21×26 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.65×4 works
  10. Neuroscience0.50×1 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.46×0 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×0 works
  13. Mathematics0.34×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.26×1 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.26×1 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.21×0 works
  17. Engineering0.19×3 works
  18. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.11×0 works
  19. Energy0.11×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.08×0 works
  21. Veterinary0.07×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.04×0 works
  23. Computer Science0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ilisimatusarfik?

Ranked on the quality score, Henning Sloth Pedersen, Birgit Vollmer-Larsen Niclasen and Javier L. Arnaut lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ilisimatusarfik.

  1. 1 Henning Sloth Pedersen Greenland · #1,324,619 worldwide 4.2k citations · 113 works
  2. 2 Birgit Vollmer-Larsen Niclasen Greenland · #2,141,889 worldwide 1.4k citations · 56 works
  3. 3 Javier L. Arnaut Greenland · #2,501,613 worldwide 72 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Birger Poppel Greenland · #2,753,254 worldwide 465 citations · 52 works
  5. 5 Gert Mulvad Greenland · #3,000,082 worldwide 2.8k citations · 111 works
  6. 6 Ole Marquardt Greenland · #3,001,033 worldwide 60 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Ruth Montgomery-Andersen Greenland · #3,033,998 worldwide 398 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Flemming A. J. Nielsen Greenland · #3,191,376 worldwide 45 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Kathrine Kjærgaard Greenland · #3,323,703 worldwide 3 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Klaus Georg Hansen Greenland · #3,646,639 worldwide 75 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Ilisimatusarfik

What are the most cited papers from Ilisimatusarfik?

The most cited paper from Ilisimatusarfik is "Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults" (Honor Bixby et al., 2019), with 758 citations. Next come "Precipitation manipulation experiments – challenges and recommendations for the future" (551) and "Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation" (547).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults Honor Bixby et al. · Nature Open access1,155 authors 8 May 2019 758
2 Precipitation manipulation experiments – challenges and recommendations for the future Claus Beier, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Thomas Wohlgemuth et al. · Ecology Letters 4 May 2012 551
3 Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation Matteo Fumagalli, Ida Moltke, Niels Grarup et al. · Science 18 Sep 2015 547
4 Local Participation in Natural Resource Monitoring: a Characterization of Approaches Finn Danielsen et al. · Conservation Biology 16 Sep 2008 526
5 The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene Martin Sikora et al. · Nature Open access 5 Jun 2019 461
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ilisimatusarfik?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Vulnerability, Ecological Knowledge, Food Security, Nutrition Transition, Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge 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 Change21▲ 6.9×21 topics
  2. Vulnerability13▲ 48×3 topics
  3. Ecological Knowledge12▲ 260×2 topics
  4. Food Security12▲ 20×3 topics
  5. Nutrition Transition12▲ 336×2 topics
  6. Arctic Indigenous Peoples12▲ 616×1 topic
  7. Traditional Knowledge12▲ 253×1 topic
  8. Sustainability8▲ 2.8×12 topics
  9. Arctic6▲ 48×4 topics
  10. Epidemiology5▲ 1.20×44 topics
  11. Governance5▲ 15×2 topics
  12. Geopolitics5▲ 31×2 topics
  13. International Relations5▲ 19×2 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease5▲ 4.0×22 topics
  15. Northern Sea Route5▲ 176×1 topic
  16. Shipping5▲ 92×1 topic
  17. Education5▲ 2.4×9 topics
  18. Qualitative Research5▲ 4.9×7 topics
  19. Health Effects4▲ 6.5×12 topics
  20. Health Equity4▲ 13×4 topics
  21. Inflammation4▲ 1.80×25 topics
  22. Globalization4▲ 1.81×13 topics
  23. Metabolic Syndrome4▲ 4.3×15 topics
  24. Pedagogy4▲ 6.7×4 topics
  25. Decolonization4▲ 40×3 topics
  26. Public Health4▲ 2.2×21 topics
  27. Social Sciences4▲ 22×2 topics
  28. Healthcare3▲ 2.7×5 topics
  29. Historical Trauma3▲ 196×1 topic
  30. Indigenous Health3▲ 196×1 topic
  31. Indigenous Knowledge Systems3▲ 89×2 topics
  32. Communication3▲ 8.2×3 topics
  33. Ethics3▲ 5.0×3 topics
  34. Family Dynamics3▲ 19×1 topic
  35. Phenomenology3▲ 22×1 topic
  36. Global Distribution3▲ 34×2 topics
  37. Religion2▲ 4.8×3 topics
  38. Race2▲ 18×4 topics
  39. Environmental Exposure2▲ 19×3 topics
  40. Psychiatric Disorders2▲ 12×3 topics

Which research topics does Ilisimatusarfik publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Arctic and Russian Policy Studies, Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights and Research in Social Sciences.

Indigenous Studies and E…12Indigenous Studies and Ecology: 12 fractional worksArctic and Russian Policy Studies: 5 fractional worksIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights: 3 fractional worksResearch in Social Sciences: 3 fractional worksMoravian Church and Will…2Moravian Church and William Blake: 2 fractional worksEuropean and International Law Studies: 2 fractional worksPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research: 1 fractional worksToxic Organic Pollutants Impact: 1 fractional worksThyroid Disorders and Treatments: 1 fractional worksEffects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals: 1 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSociology and Political ScienceHealthEducation5 others

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

  1. 1 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 12 works
  2. 2 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  3. 3 Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights Health 3 works
  4. 4 Research in Social Sciences Education 3 works
  5. 5 Moravian Church and William Blake Literature and Literary Theory 2 works
  6. 6 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  7. 7 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research Environmental Chemistry 1 works
  8. 8 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works
  9. 9 Thyroid Disorders and Treatments Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 1 works
  10. 10 Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 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 available53.1%not open46.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors57.8%domestic only42.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ilisimatusarfik's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher 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 Ilisimatusarfik as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00071% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Ilisimatusarfik0.00025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ilisimatusarfik 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.

5%10%all institutions10.0% in 2024Ilisimatusarfik3.7% in 20242020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.7% in 2019.

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