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Statistics Norway

In research, Statistics Norway stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,102 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Economics and Econometrics and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Economics and Econometrics is 9.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,633
of 22,385 · #5,356 all time
Rank in Norway
#66
of 123
Research works
1.3k
▼ 4% vs 2018-21
Citations
40k
29.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
51%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Statistics Norway

What is Statistics Norway 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 #5,102 of 9,585 13.8%94 #2304

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Statistics Norway 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 Statistics Norway work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research at Statistics Norway is in Social Sciences, 26% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (26%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (18%), Medicine (7%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 104 fractional works · 55.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 48 fractional works · 25.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 14 fractional works · 7.6% of its workDemography: 8 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGender Studies: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 33 fractional works · 17.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 29 fractional works · 15.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 10 fractional works · 5.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAccounting: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 49 fractional works · 26.3% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 6.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 11 fractional works · 5.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMathematics: 10 fractional works · 5.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 24 fractional works · 13.1% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 7.1% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 5.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 8 fractional works · 4.5% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKStatistics Norway187fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences26%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences56%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences4825.8%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3317.8%
    3. Psychology105.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting73.6%
    5. Decision Sciences42.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.7%
    1. Engineering116.1%
    2. Environmental Science115.8%
    3. Mathematics105.3%
    4. Computer Science73.7%
    5. Energy63.0%
    6. Materials Science20.8%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.7%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.6%
    9. Chemistry10.3%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine137.1%
    2. Health Professions105.3%
    3. Dentistry10.4%
    4. Nursing10.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences52.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.1%
    3. Neuroscience20.9%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Statistics Norway specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Economics and Econometrics takes 9.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Economics and EconometricsSubfield · 28.6 works9.7×
  2. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 33.2 works8.3×
← 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: 0.56× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.56× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.48× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.29× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.40× its world share, 11 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.17× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 4.46× its world share, 10 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.83× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.00× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.37× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 0.69× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.13× its world share, 7 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.42× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8.32× its world share, 33 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.74× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.04× its world share, 48 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 8.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance8.32×33 works
  2. Mathematics4.46×10 works
  3. Energy3.29×6 works
  4. Decision Sciences2.42×4 works
  5. Social Sciences2.04×48 works
  6. Health Professions2.00×10 works
  7. Psychology1.74×10 works
  8. Environmental Science1.17×11 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting1.13×7 works
  10. Dentistry0.83×1 works
  11. Nursing0.69×1 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.56×5 works
  13. Neuroscience0.56×2 works
  14. Computer Science0.48×7 works
  15. Engineering0.40×11 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.39×1 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.38×1 works
  18. Medicine0.37×13 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.31×1 works
  20. Materials Science0.24×2 works
  21. Arts and Humanities0.24×1 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.21×2 works
  23. Chemistry0.19×0 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.13×0 works
  25. Chemical Engineering0.10×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Statistics Norway?

Ranked on the quality score, Trude Lappegård, Kjetil Elias Telle and Andreas Fagereng lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Statistics Norway.

  1. 1 Trude Lappegård Norway · #86,458 worldwide 6.2k citations · 121 works
  2. 2 Kjetil Elias Telle Norway · #220,682 worldwide 3.9k citations · 149 works
  3. 3 Andreas Fagereng Norway · #221,861 worldwide 2.2k citations · 60 works
  4. 4 Lars Dommermuth Norway · #320,268 worldwide 1.8k citations · 67 works
  5. 5 Marit Rønsen Norway · #412,513 worldwide 2.4k citations · 70 works
  6. 6 Knut Einar Rosendahl Norway · #685,153 worldwide 4.4k citations · 268 works
  7. 7 Rolf Aaberge Norway · #905,398 worldwide 3.9k citations · 194 works
  8. 8 Eilev Sandvik Jansen Norway · #921,636 worldwide 1.8k citations · 70 works
  9. 9 Ola Lotherington Vestad Norway · #959,994 worldwide 542 citations · 38 works
  10. 10 Andreas Kostøl Norway · #1,012,899 worldwide 897 citations · 48 works
All ranked researchers at Statistics Norway

What are the most cited papers from Statistics Norway?

The most cited paper from Statistics Norway is "Distribution and intensity of constraint in mammalian genomic sequence" (Gregory M. Cooper, Eric A. Stone, George Asimenos et al., 2005), with 1,466 citations. Next come "The Gender Revolution: A Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior" (1,222) and "From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes" (1,163).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Distribution and intensity of constraint in mammalian genomic sequence Gregory M. Cooper, Eric A. Stone, George Asimenos et al. · Genome Research Open access 17 Jun 2005 1,466
2 The Gender Revolution: A Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior Frances Kobrin Goldscheider, Éva Bernhardt, Trude Lappegård · Population and Development Review Jun 2015 1,222
3 From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access Feb 2007 1,163
4 Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes · American Economic Review Open access Feb 2005 821
5 The impact of social approval and framing on cooperation in public good situations Mari S. Rege, Kjetil Elias Telle · Journal of Public Economics 27 May 2003 675
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Statistics Norway?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Economic Growth, Fiscal Policy, Income Tax, Labor Market, Climate Change, Economic Development, Labor Force Participation and Health Outcomes.

▲ 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. Economic Growth13▲ 8.6×10 topics
  2. Climate Change12▲ 2.3×32 topics
  3. Fiscal Policy8▲ 22×6 topics
  4. Income Tax8▲ 55×2 topics
  5. Economic Development8▲ 5.1×12 topics
  6. Labor Market8▲ 14×6 topics
  7. Globalization7▲ 1.99×19 topics
  8. Environmental Impact7▲ 2.1×16 topics
  9. Renewable Energy6▲ 2.3×12 topics
  10. Health Outcomes6▲ 11×6 topics
  11. Labor Force Participation6▲ 68×2 topics
  12. Energy Transition5▲ 20×3 topics
  13. Gender Inequality5▲ 21×5 topics
  14. Energy Efficiency5▲ 3.0×6 topics
  15. Greenhouse Gas Emissions5▲ 9.5×3 topics
  16. Income Inequality5▲ 18×5 topics
  17. Regional Development5▲ 7.3×3 topics
  18. Social Policy5▲ 27×2 topics
  19. Global Warming4▲ 5.7×6 topics
  20. Social Support4▲ 4.5×8 topics
  21. Taxation4▲ 30×2 topics
  22. Transport Infrastructure4▲ 29×2 topics
  23. Environmental Policy4▲ 11×3 topics
  24. Unemployment4▲ 28×2 topics
  25. Household Behavior4▲ 25×2 topics
  26. Infrastructure4▲ 19×1 topic
  27. Public Investment4▲ 42×1 topic
  28. Consumption4▲ 39×1 topic
  29. Rebound Effect4▲ 39×1 topic
  30. Life Expectancy4▲ 40×2 topics
  31. Parenting4▲ 17×2 topics
  32. Economic Impacts4▲ 30×1 topic
  33. Gender Roles4▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Policy Instruments4▲ 33×1 topic
  35. Household Decision Making4▲ 87×1 topic
  36. Welfare Reform4▲ 87×1 topic
  37. Fertility3▲ 21×2 topics
  38. Divorce3▲ 96×1 topic
  39. Family Structure3▲ 82×1 topic
  40. Neighborhood Effects3▲ 16×3 topics

Which research topics does Statistics Norway publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Climate Change Policy and Economics and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.

Fiscal Policy and Econom…4Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: 4 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, and…4Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies: 4 fractional worksClimate Change Policy an…4Climate Change Policy and Economics: 4 fractional worksGender, Labor, and Famil…4Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics: 4 fractional worksFamily Dynamics and Relationships: 3 fractional worksCensus and Population Estimation: 3 fractional worksGlobal Health Care Issues3Global Health Care Issues: 3 fractional worksEmployment and Welfare S…2Employment and Welfare Studies: 2 fractional worksLabor market dynamics an…2Labor market dynamics and wage inequality: 2 fractional worksRetirement, Disability, …2Retirement, Disability, and Employment: 2 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the EnvironmentGender StudiesDemography2 others

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

  1. 1 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  2. 2 Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 4 works
  3. 3 Climate Change Policy and Economics Economics and Econometrics 4 works
  4. 4 Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Gender Studies 4 works
  5. 5 Family Dynamics and Relationships Demography 3 works
  6. 6 Census and Population Estimation Statistics and Probability 3 works
  7. 7 Global Health Care Issues General Health Professions 3 works
  8. 8 Employment and Welfare Studies General Health Professions 2 works
  9. 9 Labor market dynamics and wage inequality Economics and Econometrics 2 works
  10. 10 Retirement, Disability, and Employment Demography 2 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 available51.0%not open49.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.5%domestic only77.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Statistics Norway's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 Statistics Norway as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00063% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Statistics Norway0.00082% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Statistics Norway 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%Statistics Norway14.6% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 21.5% in 2011.

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