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Swedish Academy

In research, Swedish Academy stands highest in Social Sciences (#12,254 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#17,108
of 34,923
Rank in Sweden
#133
of 259
Research works
283
▼ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.9k
24.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
47%
world 40%
International
27%
world 18%
Swedish Academy

What is Swedish Academy known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #12,254 of 14,833 8.1%133

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

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Swedish Academy is in Social Sciences, 24% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (30%), Medicine (20%), Environmental Science (12%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 33 fractional works · 52.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 30.2% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 8.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 4.0% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 9.9% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 6.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 16 fractional works · 24.4% of its workMedicine: 13 fractional works · 20.4% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workRheumatology: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEquine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 13 fractional works · 19.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 11.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 5.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKSwedish Academy64fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences24%Social Sciences52%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1930.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities69.9%
    3. Psychology46.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance23.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting22.4%
    6. Decision Sciences00.5%
    1. Medicine1320.4%
    2. Health Professions22.8%
    3. Nursing00.6%
    4. Veterinary00.6%
    1. Environmental Science711.6%
    2. Computer Science22.8%
    3. Engineering11.6%
    4. Physics and Astronomy11.3%
    5. Energy11.1%
    6. Materials Science00.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.6%
    8. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.9%
    2. Neuroscience00.7%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
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: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.36× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.24× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.33× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.06× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.06× its world share, 13 worksMedicineNursing: 1.21× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.44× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 3.41× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.75× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.43× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.12× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.39× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 4.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary4.44×0 works
  2. Arts and Humanities3.41×6 works
  3. Social Sciences2.39×19 works
  4. Environmental Science2.33×7 works
  5. Psychology2.12×4 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.43×2 works
  7. Energy1.24×1 works
  8. Nursing1.21×0 works
  9. Health Professions1.06×2 works
  10. Medicine1.06×13 works
  11. Business, Management and Accounting0.75×2 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.60×1 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.48×0 works
  14. Neuroscience0.42×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.36×1 works
  16. Computer Science0.36×2 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.35×0 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×0 works
  19. Materials Science0.19×0 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.11×0 works
  21. Mathematics0.11×0 works
  22. Engineering0.10×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Swedish Academy?

Ranked on the quality score, Erik Lönnroth, Sture Allén and Horace Engdahl lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Swedish Academy.

  1. 1 Erik Lönnroth Sweden · #2,632,267 worldwide 183 citations · 18 works
  2. 2 Sture Allén Sweden · #3,010,899 worldwide 258 citations · 38 works
  3. 3 Horace Engdahl Sweden · #3,240,520 worldwide 50 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Per Wästberg Sweden · #3,700,488 worldwide 37 citations · 32 works
  5. 5 Pär Nilsson Sweden · #4,102,503 worldwide 6 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Paweł Smółka Sweden · #5,217,753 worldwide 27 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Yrjö Blomstedt Sweden · #5,365,190 worldwide 0 citations · 29 works
  8. 8 Kjell Espmark Sweden · #5,447,578 worldwide 60 citations · 36 works
All ranked researchers at Swedish Academy

What are the most cited papers from Swedish Academy?

The most cited paper from Swedish Academy is "A safe operating space for humanity" (Johan Rockström et al., 2009), with 13,302 citations. Next come "Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems" (10,973) and "Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction" (7,135).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A safe operating space for humanity Johan Rockström et al. · Nature Open access 23 Sep 2009 13,302
2 Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems Walter Churchill Willett et al. · The Lancet Open access 16 Jan 2019 10,973
3 Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction John J.V. McMurray et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 19 Sep 2019 7,135
4 Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, Brian Walker et al. · Ecology and Society Open access 2010 4,722
5 Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services Boris Worm, Edward B. Barbier, Nicola Beaumont et al. · Science 2 Nov 2006 4,566
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Swedish Academy?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Education, Ethics, Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, Climate Change, Social Sciences and Resilience.

▲ 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. Globalization7▲ 5.3×21 topics
  2. Education5▲ 4.8×15 topics
  3. Climate Change5▲ 2.9×33 topics
  4. Ethics4▲ 13×8 topics
  5. Cultural Studies4▲ 17×5 topics
  6. Pedagogy3▲ 9.9×4 topics
  7. Social Sciences3▲ 33×4 topics
  8. Epidemiology3◆ 1.13×18 topics
  9. Sustainability3▲ 1.70×19 topics
  10. Resilience2▲ 7.8×6 topics
  11. Renewable Energy2▲ 2.3×10 topics
  12. Inflammation2▲ 1.51×6 topics
  13. Consumer Behavior2▲ 4.7×2 topics
  14. Corpus Linguistics2▲ 14×4 topics
  15. Economic Development2▲ 3.7×3 topics
  16. Entrepreneurship2▲ 7.6×2 topics
  17. Human Aging2▲ 345×1 topic
  18. Social Science2▲ 75×1 topic
  19. Lifelong Learning2▲ 13×2 topics
  20. Global Burden2▲ 4.6×5 topics
  21. Human Rights2▲ 2.4×10 topics
  22. Regeneration2▲ 13×2 topics
  23. Cartilage2▲ 47×1 topic
  24. Global Governance2▲ 9.8×5 topics
  25. Osteoarthritis2▲ 18×1 topic
  26. Qualitative Research2▲ 2.7×4 topics
  27. Health Effects1▲ 3.5×4 topics
  28. Language1▲ 8.2×4 topics
  29. Media Literacy1▲ 4.0×1 topic
  30. Religion1▲ 4.6×5 topics
  31. Youth Development1▲ 23×1 topic
  32. Coping Strategies1▲ 7.5×2 topics
  33. Public Perception1▲ 14×2 topics
  34. Caregiver Well-Being1▲ 31×1 topic
  35. Environmental Ethics1▲ 24×2 topics
  36. Health Outcomes1▲ 5.9×3 topics
  37. Parenting Stress1▲ 24×1 topic
  38. Phenomenology1▲ 15×1 topic
  39. Reformation1▲ 56×2 topics
  40. Translation1▲ 9.8×3 topics

Which research topics does Swedish Academy publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Social Issues in Poland, Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms, Education and Cultural Studies and Family and Disability Support Research.

Social Issues in Poland: 2 fractional worksOsteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms: 2 fractional worksEducation and Cultural S…1Education and Cultural Studies: 1 fractional worksFamily and Disability Su…1Family and Disability Support Research: 1 fractional worksResearch in Social Sciences: 1 fractional worksClimate Change and Geoengineering: 1 fractional worksSustainability and Clima…1Sustainability and Climate Change Governance: 1 fractional worksHistorical Legal Studies and Society: 1 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 1 fractional worksRetirement, Disability, and Employment: 1 fractional works
General Social SciencesRheumatologyEducationClinical Psychology4 others

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

  1. 1 Social Issues in Poland General Social Sciences 2 works
  2. 2 Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms Rheumatology 2 works
  3. 3 Education and Cultural Studies Education 1 works
  4. 4 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 1 works
  5. 5 Research in Social Sciences Education 1 works
  6. 6 Climate Change and Geoengineering Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  7. 7 Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Global and Planetary Change 1 works
  8. 8 Historical Legal Studies and Society Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  9. 9 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  10. 10 Retirement, Disability, and Employment Demography 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 available47.3%not open52.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.3%domestic only72.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Swedish Academy's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% 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 Swedish Academy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00019% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Swedish Academy0.00029% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Swedish Academy over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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