Question 1

What is Roskilde University known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Roskilde University stands highest in Social Sciences (#360 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#386 of 5,988 worldwide) and Arts and Humanities (#260 of 1,896 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Public Administration, Communication and Political Science and International Relations (Public Administration is 24.8× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Roskilde University rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Roskilde University ranks #1,193 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#1,472 all time), and #10 of 93 in Denmark.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Roskilde University?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Jacob Torfing, Kristian Syberg and Eva Sørensen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Roskilde University.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Roskilde University?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Roskilde University is "dbCAN2: a meta server for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation" (Han Zhang, Tanner Yohe, Le Huang et al., 2018), with 2,550 citations. Next come "Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs" (2,374) and "An effective implementation of the Lin–Kernighan traveling salesman heuristic" (1,648).

Question 5

Which research topics does Roskilde University publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Social and Educational Sciences, Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research, Social Policy and Reform Studies and Social Media and Politics.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Roskilde University?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Pedagogy, Qualitative Research, Social Sciences, Education, Ethics, Neoliberalism and Discourse Analysis.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Roskilde University work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 68% of research at Roskilde University is in Social Sciences, 18% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (42%), Business, Management and Accounting (7%), Arts and Humanities (7%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Question 8

Is Roskilde University's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021.