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Natural History Museum Aarhus

In research, Natural History Museum Aarhus stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,178 of 6,403 worldwide), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#1,061 of 3,157 worldwide) and Environmental Science (#1,323 of 3,334 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology (Paleontology is 68.5× its share of world research).

naturhistoriskmuseum.dkROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#9,644
of 22,385 · #2,125 all time
Rank in Denmark
#37
of 93
Research works
2.1k
▼ 26% vs 2018-21
Citations
73k
34.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.11×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
49%
world 18%
Natural History Museum Aarhus

What is Natural History Museum Aarhus 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
Life SciencesDomain #1,178 of 6,403 19.7%112 #880
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,061 of 3,157 21.2%82 #690
Environmental ScienceField #1,323 of 3,334 13.0%66 #904
Physical SciencesDomain #7,937 of 10,670 12.0%110 #1958

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Natural History Museum Aarhus 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. Life Sciences#880 #1,178
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#690 #1,061
  3. Environmental Science#904 #1,323
  4. Physical Sciences#1,958 #7,937
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 Natural History Museum Aarhus work in?

In 2022-now, 47% of research at Natural History Museum Aarhus is in Physical Sciences, 45% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (33%), Environmental Science (27%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (16%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 134 fractional works · 47.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 77 fractional works · 26.9% of its workEcology: 35 fractional works · 12.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 15 fractional works · 5.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 13 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEcological Modeling: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 46 fractional works · 16.3% of its workPaleontology: 24 fractional works · 8.3% of its workOceanography: 13 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 128 fractional works · 44.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 93 fractional works · 32.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 64 fractional works · 22.4% of its workInsect Science: 16 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPlant Science: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAquatic Science: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workForestry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 33 fractional works · 11.7% of its workGenetics: 20 fractional works · 6.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 3.5% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 17 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 1.9% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKNatural HistoryMuseum Aarhus285fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences47%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences6%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science7726.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4616.3%
    3. Engineering31.0%
    4. Materials Science31.0%
    5. Physics and Astronomy20.7%
    6. Computer Science20.6%
    7. Chemistry10.3%
    8. Mathematics10.2%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences9332.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3311.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    4. Neuroscience10.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences82.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities51.9%
    3. Psychology31.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.2%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting10.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Medicine41.4%
    2. Health Professions10.4%
    3. Veterinary10.2%
    4. Nursing00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Natural History Museum Aarhus specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Paleontology takes 68.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PaleontologySubfield · 23.6 works68×
  2. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 63.9 works48×
  3. EcologySubfield · 34.7 works15×
← 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: 6.85× its world share, 93 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.19× its world share, 33 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10.38× its world share, 46 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.42× its world share, 77 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.58× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.64× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 10.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.38×46 works
  2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences6.85×93 works
  3. Environmental Science5.42×77 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.19×33 works
  5. Veterinary1.58×1 works
  6. Arts and Humanities0.64×5 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.36×1 works
  8. Psychology0.32×3 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.31×0 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.30×2 works
  11. Materials Science0.28×3 works
  12. Social Sciences0.22×8 works
  13. Mathematics0.19×1 works
  14. Chemistry0.17×1 works
  15. Health Professions0.16×1 works
  16. Neuroscience0.13×1 works
  17. Nursing0.10×0 works
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.10×1 works
  19. Energy0.09×0 works
  20. Computer Science0.08×2 works
  21. Engineering0.07×3 works
  22. Medicine0.07×4 works
  23. Business, Management and Accounting0.06×1 works
  24. Decision Sciences0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Natural History Museum Aarhus?

Ranked on the quality score, Cristina Gamba, Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza and D. Bridgwater lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Natural History Museum Aarhus.

  1. 1 Cristina Gamba Denmark · #218,788 worldwide 5k citations · 35 works
  2. 2 Marie Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza Denmark · #300,601 worldwide 2.6k citations · 44 works
  3. 3 D. Bridgwater Denmark · #373,173 worldwide 6.7k citations · 145 works
  4. 4 Julia T. Vilstrup Denmark · #376,040 worldwide 2.7k citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Nikolaj Scharff Denmark · #455,881 worldwide 4.4k citations · 102 works
  6. 6 Thomas Pape Denmark · #545,518 worldwide 10k citations · 598 works
  7. 7 M. Soares Denmark · #886,903 worldwide 777 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Lars Vilhelmsen Denmark · #979,655 worldwide 4k citations · 164 works
  9. 9 Eliana Buenaventura Denmark · #1,220,172 worldwide 808 citations · 48 works
  10. 10 Andrew Hart Reeve Denmark · #1,239,031 worldwide 1.2k citations · 36 works
All ranked researchers at Natural History Museum Aarhus

What are the most cited papers from Natural History Museum Aarhus?

The most cited paper from Natural History Museum Aarhus is "PAST: PALEONTOLOGICAL STATISTICAL SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR EDUCATION AND DATA ANALYSIS" (Øyvind Hammer, David A. T. Harper, Paul D. Ryan, 2001), with 17,990 citations. Next come "Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet" (12,569) and "DnaSP 6: DNA Sequence Polymorphism Analysis of Large Data Sets" (8,112).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PAST: PALEONTOLOGICAL STATISTICAL SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR EDUCATION AND DATA ANALYSIS Øyvind Hammer, David A. T. Harper, Paul D. Ryan · Palaeontologia Electronica Open access 2001 17,990
2 Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet Will Steffen, Katherine Anne Koren Richardson, Johan Rockström et al. · Science Open access 15 Jan 2015 12,569
3 DnaSP 6: DNA Sequence Polymorphism Analysis of Large Data Sets Julio Rozas, Albert Ferrer-Mata, Juan Carlos Sánchez-DelBarrio et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution Open access 18 Sep 2017 8,112
4 ANGSD: Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Anders Albrechtsen, Rasmus O. Nielsen · BMC Bioinformatics Open access 24 Nov 2014 3,383
5 Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene Will Steffen, Johan Rockström, Katherine Anne Koren Richardson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 6 Aug 2018 3,157
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Natural History Museum Aarhus?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Biogeography, Phylogeny, Evolution, DNA Barcoding, Invasive Species and Taxonomy.

▲ 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. Biodiversity57▲ 26×22 topics
  2. Climate Change54▲ 6.9×55 topics
  3. Biogeography48▲ 60×20 topics
  4. Phylogeny40▲ 84×15 topics
  5. Evolution40▲ 52×13 topics
  6. DNA Barcoding38▲ 78×9 topics
  7. Invasive Species38▲ 32×19 topics
  8. Taxonomy32▲ 77×13 topics
  9. Molecular Phylogeny27▲ 58×9 topics
  10. Morphology26▲ 51×6 topics
  11. Conservation25▲ 20×20 topics
  12. Population Dynamics25▲ 34×11 topics
  13. Ecology21▲ 43×9 topics
  14. Phylogenetic Analysis20▲ 23×15 topics
  15. Ecosystem Functioning18▲ 30×7 topics
  16. Cretaceous16▲ 233×2 topics
  17. Habitat Fragmentation16▲ 26×5 topics
  18. Global Change14▲ 19×6 topics
  19. Phylogenetics14▲ 102×2 topics
  20. Coleoptera14▲ 190×2 topics
  21. Speciation14▲ 109×2 topics
  22. Diversification14▲ 109×2 topics
  23. Amber Fossils14▲ 452×1 topic
  24. Insect Evolution14▲ 452×1 topic
  25. Conservation Biology13▲ 42×4 topics
  26. beetles13▲ 267×1 topic
  27. Biological Control11▲ 24×8 topics
  28. Adaptation10▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Groundwater10▲ 38×4 topics
  30. Species Delimitation10▲ 75×3 topics
  31. Cavefish10▲ 178×1 topic
  32. Subterranean10▲ 178×1 topic
  33. Benthic Communities10▲ 56×2 topics
  34. Marine Biodiversity10▲ 56×2 topics
  35. Ecosystem Services9▲ 8.0×6 topics
  36. Phylogenetic Relationships9▲ 43×2 topics
  37. Cryptic Species8▲ 112×2 topics
  38. Deep-Sea Ecology8▲ 94×1 topic
  39. Estuarine Quality8▲ 94×1 topic
  40. Hydrothermal Vents8▲ 71×2 topics

Which research topics does Natural History Museum Aarhus publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Fossil Insects in Amber, Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution, Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Fossil Insects in Amber: 14 fractional worksColeoptera Taxonomy and Distribution: 13 fractional worksSubterranean biodiversit…10Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy: 10 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecolo…8Marine Biology and Ecology Research: 8 fractional worksPlant and animal studies: 8 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and Climate Change: 8 fractional worksLepidoptera: Biology and…7Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy: 7 fractional worksIchthyology and Marine Biology: 6 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 5 fractional worksDiptera species taxonomy and behavior: 4 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsPaleontologyOceanographyEcological Modeling2 others

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

  1. 1 Fossil Insects in Amber Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 14 works
  2. 2 Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 13 works
  3. 3 Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy Paleontology 10 works
  4. 4 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 8 works
  5. 5 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 8 works
  6. 6 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 8 works
  7. 7 Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy Genetics 7 works
  8. 8 Ichthyology and Marine Biology Nature and Landscape Conservation 6 works
  9. 9 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 5 works
  10. 10 Diptera species taxonomy and behavior Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 4 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 available47.1%not open52.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors48.7%domestic only51.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Natural History Museum Aarhus's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% 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 Natural History Museum Aarhus as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00090% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Natural History Museum Aarhus0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Natural History Museum Aarhus 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%30%Natural History Museum Aarhus12.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 20.4% in 2019.

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