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North Denmark Region

In research, North Denmark Region stands highest in Health Sciences (#3,463 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#3,135 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,545
of 22,385 · #17,743 all time
Rank in Denmark
#69
of 93
Research works
319
▲ 15% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.8k
18.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.08×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
North Denmark Region

What is North Denmark Region 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
Health SciencesDomain #3,463 of 9,902 17.1%72 #4407
MedicineField #3,135 of 8,541 18.5%62 #3934

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

In 2022-now, 76% of research at North Denmark Region is in Health Sciences, 10% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (66%), Health Professions (9%), Psychology (4%). It does 3.0× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 81 fractional works · 75.8% of its workMedicine: 70 fractional works · 65.5% of its workSurgery: 7 fractional works · 6.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 6.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 3.7% of its workRheumatology: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInternal Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 8.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 6 fractional works · 5.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 10.3% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 4.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 7.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workToxicology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 7 fractional works · 6.6% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNorth DenmarkRegion106fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences76%Social Sciences10%

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. Medicine7065.5%
    2. Health Professions108.9%
    3. Nursing11.1%
    4. Dentistry00.2%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Psychology44.2%
    2. Social Sciences43.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting21.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology43.6%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology21.5%
    3. Neuroscience11.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.7%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.2%
    1. Engineering33.2%
    2. Computer Science21.7%
    3. Environmental Science11.1%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    5. Chemistry00.2%
    6. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    7. Energy00.1%
    8. Materials Science00.1%
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: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.68× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.51× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.05× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 3.39× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.41× its world share, 70 worksMedicineNursing: 2.25× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.77× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.45× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.38× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Medicine, 3.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Medicine3.41×70 works
  2. Health Professions3.39×10 works
  3. Nursing2.25×1 works
  4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.05×1 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology1.51×2 works
  6. Psychology1.38×4 works
  7. Veterinary0.77×0 works
  8. Neuroscience0.74×1 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.68×4 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.48×2 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.45×1 works
  12. Dentistry0.33×0 works
  13. Social Sciences0.28×4 works
  14. Computer Science0.22×2 works
  15. Environmental Science0.22×1 works
  16. Engineering0.21×3 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.11×0 works
  18. Chemistry0.10×0 works
  19. Energy0.09×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.07×0 works
  21. Decision Sciences0.07×0 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.03×0 works
  23. Arts and Humanities0.03×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at North Denmark Region?

Ranked on the quality score, Signe Westmark, Claus Vitrup Rasmussen and Peter Derek Christian Leutscher lead among researchers whose main affiliation is North Denmark Region.

  1. 1 Signe Westmark Denmark · #1,450,149 worldwide 296 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Claus Vitrup Rasmussen Denmark · #2,621,308 worldwide 1.3k citations · 91 works
  3. 3 Peter Derek Christian Leutscher Denmark · #3,240,136 worldwide 2.7k citations · 178 works
  4. 4 Willem Gielen Denmark · #4,020,292 worldwide 162 citations · 41 works
  5. 5 Karen Lyng Larsen Denmark · #4,516,423 worldwide 55 citations · 16 works
  6. 6 Michael Kanstrup Dahl Denmark · #4,647,312 worldwide 127 citations · 38 works
All ranked researchers at North Denmark Region

What are the most cited papers from North Denmark Region?

The most cited paper from North Denmark Region is "Associations of health literacy with socioeconomic position, health risk behavior, and health status: a large national population-based survey among Danish adults" (Majbritt Svendsen, Carsten Kronborg Bak, Kristine Sørensen et al., 2020), with 685 citations. Next come "Backpacker ethnography" (285) and "Measuring patient voice matters: setting the scene for patient-reported indicators" (257).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Associations of health literacy with socioeconomic position, health risk behavior, and health status: a large national population-based survey among Danish adults Majbritt Svendsen, Carsten Kronborg Bak, Kristine Sørensen et al. · BMC Public Health Open access 28 Apr 2020 685
2 Backpacker ethnography Anders Ravn Sørensen · Annals of Tourism Research Oct 2003 285
3 Measuring patient voice matters: setting the scene for patient-reported indicators Katherine De Bienassis, Solvejg Kristensen, Emily Hewlett et al. · International Journal for Quality in Health Care Open access 11 Feb 2021 257
4 A nationwide non-medical switch from originator infliximab to biosimilar CT-P13 in 802 patients with inflammatory arthritis: 1-year clinical outcomes from the DANBIO registry Bente Glintborg et al. · Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 5 May 2017 250
5 Can quality improvement improve the quality of care? A systematic review of reported effects and methodological rigor in plan-do-study-act projects Søren Valgreen Knudsen, Henrik Vitus Bering Laursen, Søren Paaske Johnsen et al. · BMC Health Services Research ReviewOpen access 4 Oct 2019 232
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at North Denmark Region?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Management, Inflammation, Diagnosis, Cardiovascular Risk, Global Burden, Treatment and Cardiovascular Disease.

▲ 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. Epidemiology11▲ 2.7×64 topics
  2. Inflammation7▲ 3.0×33 topics
  3. Management6▲ 6.6×15 topics
  4. Diagnosis5▲ 4.9×20 topics
  5. Treatment4▲ 3.4×24 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease4▲ 3.5×21 topics
  7. Quality of Life4▲ 2.5×22 topics
  8. Healthcare4▲ 3.1×7 topics
  9. Global Burden4▲ 6.2×9 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Risk3▲ 10×6 topics
  11. Depression3▲ 3.5×12 topics
  12. Guidelines3▲ 6.0×7 topics
  13. Mortality3▲ 5.0×9 topics
  14. Precision Medicine3▲ 5.7×7 topics
  15. Critical Care3▲ 11×7 topics
  16. Resuscitation3▲ 18×3 topics
  17. Health Equity2▲ 8.2×4 topics
  18. Patient Satisfaction2▲ 7.5×5 topics
  19. Primary Care2▲ 6.3×9 topics
  20. Complications2▲ 4.6×9 topics
  21. Heart Failure2▲ 5.1×11 topics
  22. Quality Improvement2▲ 12×7 topics
  23. Autoantibodies2▲ 9.1×7 topics
  24. Ethical Challenges2▲ 10×3 topics
  25. Neuroprotection2▲ 6.1×9 topics
  26. Anxiety2▲ 4.4×7 topics
  27. Children2▲ 8.8×6 topics
  28. Chronic Disease Management2▲ 10×5 topics
  29. Clinical Decision Support2▲ 13×1 topic
  30. Endothelial Dysfunction2▲ 8.7×5 topics
  31. Health Outcomes2▲ 7.3×3 topics
  32. Radiology2▲ 14×1 topic
  33. Clinical Outcomes2▲ 8.0×5 topics
  34. Glycemic Control2▲ 10×4 topics
  35. Hypothermia2▲ 23×2 topics
  36. Infection2▲ 6.9×3 topics
  37. Cardiac Arrest2▲ 28×1 topic
  38. End-of-Life2▲ 18×3 topics
  39. Palliative Care2▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Respiratory2▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does North Denmark Region publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research and Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies.

Artificial Intelligence …2Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 2 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…2Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 2 fractional worksChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research: 1 fractional worksRheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies: 1 fractional worksGout, Hyperuricemia, Uri…1Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid: 1 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 1 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 1 fractional worksSepsis Diagnosis and Tre…1Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment: 1 fractional worksEmergency and Acute Care Studies: 1 fractional worksFamily and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units: 1 fractional works
Health InformaticsEmergency MedicinePulmonary and Respiratory MedicineRheumatology4 others

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

  1. 1 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 2 works
  2. 2 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 2 works
  3. 3 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  4. 4 Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies Rheumatology 1 works
  5. 5 Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid Nephrology 1 works
  6. 6 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  7. 7 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Epidemiology 1 works
  9. 9 Emergency and Acute Care Studies Emergency Medicine 1 works
  10. 10 Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 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 available54.5%not open45.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.6%domestic only78.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has North Denmark Region's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is North Denmark Region as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00051% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%North Denmark Region0.00048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of North Denmark Region over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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