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Moesgaard Museum

In research, Moesgaard Museum stands highest in Social Sciences (#6,747 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Earth and Planetary Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences is 11.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,727
of 22,385 · #7,336 all time
Rank in Denmark
#55
of 93
Research works
830
▼ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.3k
8.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.02×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
46%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Moesgaard Museum

What is Moesgaard Museum 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
Social SciencesDomain #6,747 of 9,585 11.0%76 #3552

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

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Moesgaard Museum is in Social Sciences, 30% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (27%), Social Sciences (23%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (18%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 79 fractional works · 56.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 38 fractional works · 26.8% of its workHistory: 15 fractional works · 10.9% of its workArcheology: 14 fractional works · 10.1% of its workMuseology: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 33 fractional works · 23.5% of its workAnthropology: 9 fractional works · 6.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workArcheology: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 42 fractional works · 29.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 25 fractional works · 17.6% of its workPaleontology: 16 fractional works · 11.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 5 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 12 fractional works · 8.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKMoesgaard Museum142fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences30%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences56%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities3826.8%
    2. Social Sciences3323.5%
    3. Psychology42.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance42.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2517.6%
    2. Environmental Science96.4%
    3. Engineering42.7%
    4. Computer Science32.2%
    5. Materials Science10.4%
    6. Energy00.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences64.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.7%
    4. Neuroscience10.6%
    1. Medicine43.1%
    2. Health Professions32.1%
    3. Nursing10.6%
    4. Veterinary00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Moesgaard Museum specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Earth and Planetary Sciences takes 11.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 24.9 works11×
← 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: 0.91× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.47× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.29× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11.21× its world share, 25 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.18× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.29× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.81× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 1.28× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.32× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 9.29× its world share, 38 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.18× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.87× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.85× its world share, 33 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 11.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.21×25 works
  2. Arts and Humanities9.29×38 works
  3. Social Sciences1.85×33 works
  4. Veterinary1.32×0 works
  5. Environmental Science1.29×9 works
  6. Nursing1.28×1 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.18×4 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.91×6 works
  9. Psychology0.87×4 works
  10. Health Professions0.81×3 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.74×1 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.47×4 works
  13. Neuroscience0.36×1 works
  14. Computer Science0.29×3 works
  15. Energy0.26×0 works
  16. Engineering0.18×4 works
  17. Medicine0.16×4 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.16×1 works
  19. Materials Science0.11×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  21. Chemistry0.09×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Moesgaard Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, Anders Fischer, Søren H. Andersen and Lutz Klassen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Moesgaard Museum.

  1. 1 Anders Fischer Denmark · #306,876 worldwide 2.5k citations · 53 works
  2. 2 Søren H. Andersen Denmark · #332,793 worldwide 2.8k citations · 79 works
  3. 3 Lutz Klassen Denmark · #855,062 worldwide 1.4k citations · 92 works
  4. 4 Peter Moe Astrup Denmark · #1,193,533 worldwide 292 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Heide Wrobel Nørgaard Denmark · #1,567,161 worldwide 461 citations · 58 works
  6. 6 Bjarne Henning Nielsen Denmark · #1,772,455 worldwide 544 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Jacob Kveiborg Denmark · #1,877,591 worldwide 213 citations · 33 works
  8. 8 Jens‐Henrik Bech Denmark · #1,897,245 worldwide 305 citations · 42 works
  9. 9 Welmoed A. Out Denmark · #2,036,988 worldwide 927 citations · 59 works
  10. 10 Claus Feveile Denmark · #2,318,308 worldwide 213 citations · 48 works
All ranked researchers at Moesgaard Museum

What are the most cited papers from Moesgaard Museum?

The most cited paper from Moesgaard Museum is "The genetic history of Ice Age Europe" (Qiaomei Fu et al., 2016), with 1,011 citations. Next come "Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers" (676) and "The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes" (424).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The genetic history of Ice Age Europe Qiaomei Fu et al. · Nature Open access 29 Apr 2016 1,011
2 Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe’s first farmers Amy Bogaard, Rebecca Fraser, T.H.E. Heaton et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 15 Jul 2013 676
3 The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes Pablo Librado et al. · Nature Open access163 authors 20 Oct 2021 424
4 Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management Philip S. Hammond et al. · Biological Conservation Open access 11 Jun 2013 418
5 Population genomics of the Viking world Ashot Margaryan et al. · Nature Open access 16 Sep 2020 363
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Moesgaard Museum?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Archaeology, Religion, Material Culture, Trade, Cultural Exchange, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating and Medieval.

▲ 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. Archaeology19▲ 102×8 topics
  2. Religion16▲ 24×11 topics
  3. Material Culture14▲ 244×2 topics
  4. Trade14▲ 127×2 topics
  5. Cultural Exchange14▲ 78×4 topics
  6. Agricultural Origins14▲ 300×1 topic
  7. Radiocarbon Dating14▲ 300×1 topic
  8. Climate Change14▲ 3.5×36 topics
  9. Medieval13▲ 263×2 topics
  10. Scandinavia13▲ 662×1 topic
  11. Viking Age13▲ 662×1 topic
  12. Education7▲ 2.9×8 topics
  13. Holocene7▲ 43×3 topics
  14. Cultural Heritage6▲ 8.6×8 topics
  15. Qualitative Research6▲ 4.9×3 topics
  16. Pedagogy6▲ 7.9×2 topics
  17. Social Sciences6▲ 27×2 topics
  18. Hominin Genetics5▲ 172×1 topic
  19. Paleolithic Archaeology5▲ 172×1 topic
  20. Urban Development4▲ 8.9×4 topics
  21. Sea Level4▲ 34×2 topics
  22. International Relations4▲ 13×5 topics
  23. Bronze Age4▲ 75×3 topics
  24. Paleoclimatology4▲ 36×2 topics
  25. Cultural Sustainability4▲ 52×2 topics
  26. Biodiversity4▲ 3.7×14 topics
  27. Identity4▲ 3.9×13 topics
  28. Ethics4▲ 5.4×7 topics
  29. Mediterranean4▲ 30×3 topics
  30. Archaeological Finds4▲ 175×1 topic
  31. Corded Ware Culture4▲ 175×1 topic
  32. Glacial Cycles4▲ 38×1 topic
  33. Monsoon Dynamics4▲ 38×1 topic
  34. Conservation3▲ 5.4×14 topics
  35. Learning3▲ 7.4×1 topic
  36. Methodology3▲ 45×1 topic
  37. Community Participation3▲ 6.0×3 topics
  38. Embodiment3▲ 10×3 topics
  39. Adaptive Reuse3▲ 49×1 topic
  40. Intangible Heritage3▲ 49×1 topic

Which research topics does Moesgaard Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Historical and Archaeological Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies.

Archaeology and ancient …14Archaeology and ancient environmental studies: 14 fractional worksHistorical and Archaeolo…13Historical and Archaeological Studies: 13 fractional worksPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology: 5 fractional worksAncient and Medieval Archaeology Studies: 4 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 4 fractional worksSocial and Educational Sciences: 3 fractional worksCultural Heritage Management and Preservation: 3 fractional worksResearch in Social Sciences: 2 fractional worksMaritime and Coastal Archaeology: 2 fractional worksImage Processing and 3D Reconstruction: 2 fractional works
PaleontologyHistoryAnthropologyArcheology3 others

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

  1. 1 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 14 works
  2. 2 Historical and Archaeological Studies History 13 works
  3. 3 Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Anthropology 5 works
  4. 4 Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies Archeology 4 works
  5. 5 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 4 works
  6. 6 Social and Educational Sciences Education 3 works
  7. 7 Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation Archeology 3 works
  8. 8 Research in Social Sciences Education 2 works
  9. 9 Maritime and Coastal Archaeology Archeology 2 works
  10. 10 Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 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 available45.9%not open54.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.9%domestic only70.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Moesgaard Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% 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 Moesgaard Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00069% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Moesgaard Museum0.00034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Moesgaard Museum 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 counting5%10%15%Moesgaard Museum11.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.6% in 2023.

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