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Scandinavian Seminar

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Research works
30
▼ 52% vs 2018-21
Citations
120
4.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
84%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%
Scandinavian Seminar

Not ranked overall: Scandinavian Seminar 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 Scandinavian Seminar work in?

In all years, 85% of research at Scandinavian Seminar is in Social Sciences, 7% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (42%), Social Sciences (33%), Psychology (8%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 25 fractional works · 85.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 12 fractional works · 41.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 4 fractional works · 15.1% of its workHistory: 3 fractional works · 11.1% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workClassics: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 33.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 13.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKScandinavianSeminar30fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences85%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities1241.8%
    2. Social Sciences1033.4%
    3. Psychology27.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance12.2%
    1. Engineering13.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.7%
    3. Environmental Science01.1%
    4. Energy00.6%
    1. Health Professions13.2%
    2. Medicine01.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences01.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology01.1%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.4%
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.

Immunology and Microbiology: 4.06× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Engineering: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 3.10× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsArts and Humanities: 10.60× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 2.01× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.74× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 10.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities10.60×2 works
  2. Immunology and Microbiology4.06×0 works
  3. Health Professions3.10×1 works
  4. Social Sciences2.74×3 works
  5. Psychology2.01×0 works
  6. Engineering0.95×1 works
  7. Environmental Science0.41×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Scandinavian Seminar?

The most cited paper from Scandinavian Seminar is "A longitudinal study of coordination in mother–infant vocal interaction from age 4 to 10 months." (Susanne Harder, Theis Lange, Gert Foget Hansen et al., 2015), with 68 citations. Next come "Rural Industrialization: A comparison of development planning in China and India" (10) and "Instant Annotations ėxtendash Applying NLP Methods to the Annotation of Spoken Language Documentation Corpora" (7).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A longitudinal study of coordination in mother–infant vocal interaction from age 4 to 10 months. Susanne Harder, Theis Lange, Gert Foget Hansen et al. · Developmental Psychology 2015 68
2 Rural Industrialization: A comparison of development planning in China and India Jon Sigurdson · World Development May 1978 10
3 Instant Annotations ėxtendash Applying NLP Methods to the Annotation of Spoken Language Documentation Corpora Ciprian Gerstenberger, Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler et al. Conference paperOpen access 2017 7
4 Bilateral Vesico‐ureteral Reflux with Pyelonephritis in Identical Twins Nehemia Hampel, Daniel Levin, Isadore Gersh · British Journal of Urology Oct 1975 7
5 CSCL – a tool to motivate foreign language learners: The Finnish application Tuija Lehtonen, Sirpa Tuomainen · ReCALL May 2003 7
All 16 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Scandinavian Seminar?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Identity, Religion, Literature, Globalization, Medieval, History, Cultural Exchange and Scandinavia.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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 38 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 38 words, with their numbers
  1. Identity5▲ 21×10 topics
  2. Religion5▲ 26×7 topics
  3. Literature4▲ 30×10 topics
  4. Globalization4▲ 7.5×9 topics
  5. Medieval3▲ 222×3 topics
  6. History3▲ 11×7 topics
  7. Cultural Exchange2▲ 59×2 topics
  8. Culture2▲ 15×5 topics
  9. Education2▲ 5.7×10 topics
  10. Scandinavia2▲ 374×1 topic
  11. Viking Age2▲ 374×1 topic
  12. Innovation2▲ 6.7×4 topics
  13. Sustainability2▲ 3.3×6 topics
  14. Detective Stories2▲ 1294×1 topic
  15. Nationalism2▲ 9.7×3 topics
  16. Sherlock Holmes2▲ 1294×1 topic
  17. Gender2▲ 9.3×5 topics
  18. Philosophy2▲ 12×3 topics
  19. Narrative2▲ 35×4 topics
  20. Society2▲ 23×4 topics
  21. Climate Change1▲ 1.68×6 topics
  22. Colonialism1▲ 9.0×4 topics
  23. Creativity1▲ 80×2 topics
  24. Knowledge Management1▲ 9.8×2 topics
  25. Economic Development1▲ 6.2×3 topics
  26. Vulnerability1▲ 26×3 topics
  27. Cultural History1▲ 25×3 topics
  28. Human Rights1▲ 4.2×2 topics
  29. Manuscripts1▲ 122×2 topics
  30. Design Thinking1▲ 120×1 topic
  31. Engineering Design1▲ 45×1 topic
  32. Ethics1▲ 7.2×4 topics
  33. Holocaust1▲ 122×2 topics
  34. Imagology1▲ 391×1 topic
  35. Israel1▲ 93×2 topics
  36. National Stereotypes1▲ 391×1 topic
  37. Social Justice1▲ 6.7×4 topics
  38. Technology1▲ 7.8×5 topics

Which research topics does Scandinavian Seminar publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Design Education and Practice, European Cultural and National Identity, Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies and Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration.

Design Education and Pra…1Design Education and Practice: 1 fractional worksEuropean Cultural and Na…1European Cultural and National Identity: 1 fractional worksJewish and Middle Eastern Studies: 0 fractional worksMemory, Trauma, and Commemoration: 0 fractional worksVisual Culture and Art Theory: 0 fractional worksIndigenous Studies and Ecology: 0 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 0 fractional worksHistorical Legal Studies and Society: 0 fractional worksCrime and Detective Fiction Studies: 0 fractional worksAlexander von Humboldt Studies: 0 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologyVisual Arts and Performing Arts5 others

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

  1. 1 Design Education and Practice Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  2. 2 European Cultural and National Identity Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  3. 3 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration Social Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Visual Culture and Art Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts 0 works
  6. 6 Indigenous Studies and Ecology General Health Professions 0 works
  7. 7 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 0 works
  8. 8 Historical Legal Studies and Society Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  9. 9 Crime and Detective Fiction Studies Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  10. 10 Alexander von Humboldt Studies Microbiology 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 available83.7%not open16.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.7%domestic only62.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Scandinavian Seminar's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 52% lower 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 Scandinavian Seminar as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000012% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Scandinavian Seminar0.000017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Scandinavian Seminar over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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