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Södertörn University

In research, Södertörn University stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,041 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#859 of 5,988 worldwide) and Sociology and Political Science (#705 of 2,526 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Communication, History and Political Science and International Relations (Communication is 11.6× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,126
of 22,385 · #4,864 all time
Rank in Sweden
#27
of 107
Research works
2.9k
▲ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
44k
15.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
15.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.12×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
56%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Södertörn University

What is Södertörn University 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 #1,041 of 9,585 14.9%609 #1476
Social SciencesField #859 of 5,988 14.2%394 #1137
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #705 of 2,526 13.8%139 #1005
Arts and HumanitiesField #540 of 1,896 17.3%101 #895
Political Science and International RelationsSubfield #433 of 1,187 15.2%82 #847
Physical SciencesDomain #6,982 of 10,670 21.6%95 #12248

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Södertörn University 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. Social Sciences#1,476 #1,041
  2. Social Sciences#1,137 #859
  3. Sociology and Political Science#1,005 #705
  4. Arts and Humanities#895 #540
  5. Political Science and International Relations#847 #433
  6. Physical Sciences#12,248 #6,982
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 Södertörn University work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Södertörn University is in Social Sciences, 13% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (52%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Psychology (7%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 686 fractional works · 78.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 449 fractional works · 51.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 162 fractional works · 18.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 92 fractional works · 10.5% of its workEducation: 62 fractional works · 7.1% of its workCommunication: 28 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGender Studies: 22 fractional works · 2.5% of its workDemography: 11 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety Research: 10 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPublic Administration: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workUrban Studies: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCultural Studies: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 8 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLinguistics and Language: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 113 fractional works · 13.0% of its workPhilosophy: 26 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHistory: 22 fractional works · 2.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 21 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMusic: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 57 fractional works · 6.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 19 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 18 fractional works · 2.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 37 fractional works · 4.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 22 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFinance: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 111 fractional works · 12.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 40 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 34 fractional works · 3.9% of its workInformation Systems: 12 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 17 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 49 fractional works · 5.6% of its workHealth Professions: 28 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 23 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 20 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 26 fractional works · 2.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSödertörnUniversity871fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences79%

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. Social Sciences44951.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities11313.0%
    3. Psychology576.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting374.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance222.5%
    6. Decision Sciences80.9%
    1. Environmental Science404.6%
    2. Computer Science343.9%
    3. Engineering172.0%
    4. Energy60.7%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences50.6%
    6. Mathematics30.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy30.3%
    8. Materials Science10.2%
    9. Chemistry10.1%
    1. Health Professions283.2%
    2. Medicine202.3%
    3. Nursing10.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences111.2%
    2. Neuroscience70.8%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology60.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Södertörn University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Communication takes 11.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. CommunicationSubfield · 27.6 works12×
  2. HistorySubfield · 22.4 works8.0×
  3. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 91.9 works7.1×
  4. PhilosophySubfield · 26.2 works7.0×
  5. Gender StudiesSubfield · 21.7 works6.9×
← 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: 0.26× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.14× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.50× its world share, 7 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.50× its world share, 34 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 5 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.74× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.13× its world share, 17 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.93× its world share, 40 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.25× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.22× its world share, 28 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.12× its world share, 20 worksMedicineNursing: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 4.51× its world share, 113 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.30× its world share, 37 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.93× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.17× its world share, 22 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.14× its world share, 57 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 4.08× its world share, 449 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities4.51×113 works
  2. Social Sciences4.08×449 works
  3. Psychology2.14×57 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.30×37 works
  5. Health Professions1.22×28 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.17×22 works
  7. Environmental Science0.93×40 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.93×8 works
  9. Energy0.74×6 works
  10. Neuroscience0.50×7 works
  11. Computer Science0.50×34 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.39×5 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.26×11 works
  14. Mathematics0.25×3 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.14×6 works
  16. Nursing0.14×1 works
  17. Veterinary0.14×0 works
  18. Engineering0.13×17 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.13×3 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.12×1 works
  21. Medicine0.12×20 works
  22. Chemistry0.09×1 works
  23. Materials Science0.04×1 works
  24. Dentistry0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Södertörn University?

Ranked on the quality score, Pejvak Oghazi, Romina Rodela and Martin Dahl lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Södertörn University.

  1. 1 Pejvak Oghazi Sweden · #113,095 worldwide 7.7k citations · 165 works
  2. 2 Romina Rodela Sweden · #560,981 worldwide 1.7k citations · 93 works
  3. 3 Martin Dahl Sweden · #589,656 worldwide 1.4k citations · 67 works
  4. 4 Elżbieta Korolczuk Sweden · #617,060 worldwide 2k citations · 87 works
  5. 5 Rana Mostaghel Sweden · #618,453 worldwide 1.5k citations · 57 works
  6. 6 Ralph Tafon Sweden · #689,053 worldwide 658 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 Ingrid Forsler Sweden · #744,872 worldwide 258 citations · 42 works
  8. 8 Anne Kaun Sweden · #818,627 worldwide 2k citations · 158 works
  9. 9 Alireza Behtoui Sweden · #865,625 worldwide 941 citations · 61 works
  10. 10 Fred P. Saunders Sweden · #978,827 worldwide 1.3k citations · 70 works
All ranked researchers at Södertörn University

What are the most cited papers from Södertörn University?

The most cited paper from Södertörn University is "Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries" (Johan P. Mackenbach, Irina Stirbu, Albert-Jan R. Roskam et al., 2008), with 3,379 citations. Next come "A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity" (2,968) and "Political participation and civic engagement: Towards a new typology" (1,097).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health in 22 European Countries Johan P. Mackenbach, Irina Stirbu, Albert-Jan R. Roskam et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 4 Jun 2008 3,379
2 A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity Luke Thompson et al. · Nature Open access303 authors 30 Oct 2017 2,968
3 Political participation and civic engagement: Towards a new typology Joakim Ekman, Erik Amnå · Human Affairs Open access 23 Jun 2012 1,097
4 A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes Stephen Nayfach et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access267 authors 9 Nov 2020 1,007
5 Artificial intelligence in supply chain management: A systematic literature review Reza Toorajipour, Vahid Sohrabpour, Ali Nazarpour et al. · Journal of Business Research ReviewOpen access 24 Sep 2020 989
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Södertörn University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Identity, Social Media, Education, Gender, Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Human Rights.

▲ 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. Globalization88▲ 5.1×87 topics
  2. Education56▲ 3.7×50 topics
  3. Social Media53▲ 4.4×25 topics
  4. Identity44▲ 7.0×44 topics
  5. Human Rights39▲ 4.4×32 topics
  6. Qualitative Research36▲ 4.9×17 topics
  7. Gender34▲ 7.3×28 topics
  8. Neoliberalism31▲ 10×20 topics
  9. Nationalism31▲ 7.9×24 topics
  10. Ethics30▲ 6.9×28 topics
  11. Pedagogy30▲ 6.9×10 topics
  12. Discourse Analysis29▲ 14×7 topics
  13. Gender Studies28▲ 21×11 topics
  14. Social Sciences28▲ 22×8 topics
  15. Learning27▲ 11×5 topics
  16. Special Education25▲ 48×3 topics
  17. International Relations25▲ 12×18 topics
  18. Methodology25▲ 58×2 topics
  19. Quantitative Methods24▲ 212×1 topic
  20. Colonialism23▲ 5.5×29 topics
  21. Democracy21▲ 6.9×15 topics
  22. Feminism21▲ 8.1×17 topics
  23. Religion20▲ 5.0×21 topics
  24. Citizenship20▲ 19×8 topics
  25. Social Justice20▲ 3.8×24 topics
  26. Cultural Studies18▲ 5.7×22 topics
  27. Politics18▲ 8.0×12 topics
  28. Public Opinion18▲ 17×6 topics
  29. Ethnicity18▲ 5.5×10 topics
  30. Philosophy18▲ 4.5×24 topics
  31. Multiculturalism17▲ 10×5 topics
  32. Global Governance16▲ 7.9×14 topics
  33. Deliberative Democracy16▲ 25×2 topics
  34. Political Economy16▲ 7.1×9 topics
  35. Income Inequality16▲ 13×4 topics
  36. National Identity15▲ 15×8 topics
  37. Political Communication15▲ 31×2 topics
  38. European Union15▲ 7.7×12 topics
  39. Memory15▲ 6.8×13 topics
  40. Immigration14▲ 15×4 topics

Which research topics does Södertörn University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Social and Educational Sciences, Social Media and Politics, Social Policy and Reform Studies and Migration, Refugees, and Integration.

Social and Educational S…24Social and Educational Sciences: 24 fractional worksSocial Media and Politics: 12 fractional worksSocial Policy and Reform…10Social Policy and Reform Studies: 10 fractional worksMigration, Refugees, and…9Migration, Refugees, and Integration: 9 fractional worksPopulism, Right-Wing Movements: 8 fractional worksMedia Studies and Communication: 7 fractional worksEuropean Union Policy an…6European Union Policy and Governance: 6 fractional worksEastern European Communism and Reforms: 6 fractional worksGender, Feminism, and Media: 6 fractional worksPeacebuilding and International Security: 6 fractional works
EducationCommunicationPolitical Science and International RelationsSociology and Political Science1 others

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

  1. 1 Social and Educational Sciences Education 24 works
  2. 2 Social Media and Politics Communication 12 works
  3. 3 Social Policy and Reform Studies Political Science and International Relations 10 works
  4. 4 Migration, Refugees, and Integration Sociology and Political Science 9 works
  5. 5 Populism, Right-Wing Movements Political Science and International Relations 8 works
  6. 6 Media Studies and Communication Communication 7 works
  7. 7 European Union Policy and Governance Political Science and International Relations 6 works
  8. 8 Eastern European Communism and Reforms Sociology and Political Science 6 works
  9. 9 Gender, Feminism, and Media Gender Studies 6 works
  10. 10 Peacebuilding and International Security Sociology and Political Science 6 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 available56.5%not open43.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.7%domestic only81.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Södertörn University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher 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 Södertörn University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0031% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Södertörn University0.0034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Södertörn University 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%Södertörn University13.5% 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 19.5% in 2006.

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