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Metas (Norway)

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Research works
8
▲ 126% vs 2018-21
Citations
67
7.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
75%
world 40%
International
49%
world 18%
Metas (Norway)

Not ranked overall: Metas (Norway) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Metas (Norway) work in?

In all years, 61% of research at Metas (Norway) is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (28%), Engineering (17%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 60.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 27.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 17.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 11.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.6% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 5.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 27.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.2% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 6.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 5.8% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workALL ITS WORKMetas (Norway)8fractional works, all years
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences61%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences27%

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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science227.6%
    2. Engineering117.3%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences110.6%
    4. Chemistry03.3%
    5. Computer Science02.0%
    1. Social Sciences110.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting16.8%
    3. Decision Sciences04.5%
    4. Psychology03.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance02.0%
    1. Medicine05.8%
    2. Health Professions00.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology04.9%
    2. 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.76× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Chemistry: 5.21× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.34× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.63× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 6.51× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.74× its world share, 0 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 2.54× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science6.51×1 works
  2. Chemistry5.21×0 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.34×0 works
  4. Decision Sciences2.54×0 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.76×0 works
  6. Engineering1.63×1 works
  7. Medicine0.74×0 works
  8. Health Professions0.37×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×0 works
  10. Social Sciences0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Metas (Norway)?

Ranked on the quality score, Hitoshi YAMAGUCHI and 孝義 豊田 lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Metas (Norway).

  1. 1 Hitoshi YAMAGUCHI Norway · #3,862,606 worldwide 0 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 孝義 豊田 Norway · #4,165,881 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Metas (Norway)

What are the most cited papers from Metas (Norway)?

The most cited paper from Metas (Norway) is "The genetic basis for ecological adaptation of the Atlantic herring revealed by genome sequencing" (Álvaro Martínez Barrio et al., 2016), with 235 citations. Next come "Dual symbiosis in the cold-seep thyasirid clam Maorithyas hadalis from the hadal zone in the Japan Trench, western Pacific" (87) and "Borealization impacts shelf ecosystems across the Arctic" (38).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The genetic basis for ecological adaptation of the Atlantic herring revealed by genome sequencing Álvaro Martínez Barrio et al. · eLife Open access 2 May 2016 235
2 Dual symbiosis in the cold-seep thyasirid clam Maorithyas hadalis from the hadal zone in the Japan Trench, western Pacific Yoshihiro Fujiwara, Chiaki Kato, Noriaki Masui et al. · Marine Ecology Progress Series Open access 2001 87
3 Borealization impacts shelf ecosystems across the Arctic Bérengère Husson, Bodil A. Bluhm, Frédéric Cyr et al. · Frontiers in Environmental Science Open access 24 Oct 2024 38
4 Is designing independent of domain? Comparing models of engineering, software and service design Udo Kannengiesser, John S. Gero · Research in Engineering Design 19 May 2015 35
5 A Flexible Autonomous Robotic Observatory Infrastructure for Bentho-Pelagic Monitoring Jacopo Aguzzi, Jan Albiez, Sascha Flögel et al. · Sensors Open access 13 Mar 2020 30
All 26 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Metas (Norway) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Offshore Engineering and Technologies, Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies, Oil and Gas Production Techniques and Marine and fisheries research.

Offshore Engineering and…0Offshore Engineering and Technologies: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Antenna and Met…0Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies: 0 fractional worksOil and Gas Production T…0Oil and Gas Production Techniques: 0 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…0Marine and fisheries research: 0 fractional worksClick Chemistry and Applications: 0 fractional worksBrain Metastases and Treatment: 0 fractional worksMarine Bivalve and Aquac…0Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies: 0 fractional worksNicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study: 0 fractional worksCholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringAerospace EngineeringGlobal and Planetary ChangeOrganic Chemistry4 others

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

  1. 1 Offshore Engineering and Technologies Ocean Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Oil and Gas Production Techniques Ocean Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  5. 5 Click Chemistry and Applications Organic Chemistry 0 works
  6. 6 Brain Metastases and Treatment Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  7. 7 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  8. 8 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study Molecular Biology 0 works
  9. 9 Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases Pharmacology 0 works
  10. 10 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 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 available74.6%not open25.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors48.8%domestic only51.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Metas (Norway)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 126% 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 Metas (Norway) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

still counting0.000020%0.000040%Metas (Norway)0.0000029% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Metas (Norway) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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