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Swedish Defence Research Agency

In research, Swedish Defence Research Agency stands highest in Physical Sciences (#6,580 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#3,853 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Aerospace Engineering (Aerospace Engineering is 8.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,050
of 22,385 · #4,561 all time
Rank in Sweden
#64
of 107
Research works
3.5k
▼ 5% vs 2018-21
Citations
80k
22.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.83×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Swedish Defence Research Agency

What is Swedish Defence Research Agency 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
Physical SciencesDomain #6,580 of 10,670 4.8%188 #3457
EngineeringField #3,853 of 5,901 3.3%83 #1818

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

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Swedish Defence Research Agency is in Physical Sciences, 12% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (31%), Computer Science (17%), Environmental Science (8%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 201 fractional works · 71.6% of its workEngineering: 87 fractional works · 30.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 28 fractional works · 9.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 25 fractional works · 9.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 8 fractional works · 2.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 49 fractional works · 17.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 13 fractional works · 4.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 13 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSignal Processing: 8 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInformation Systems: 7 fractional works · 2.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 23 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 17 fractional works · 5.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInstrumentation: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiation: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 fractional works · 3.9% of its workOceanography: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 34 fractional works · 12.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 11 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 25 fractional works · 9.0% of its workMedicine: 20 fractional works · 7.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOphthalmology: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 7.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 8 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInsect Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKSwedish DefenceResearch Agency281fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences72%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences12%

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. Engineering8730.9%
    2. Computer Science4917.5%
    3. Environmental Science238.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy175.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences113.9%
    6. Chemistry62.2%
    7. Materials Science51.6%
    8. Energy20.5%
    9. Mathematics10.4%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    1. Social Sciences238.2%
    2. Psychology41.3%
    3. Decision Sciences31.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.9%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting20.5%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Medicine207.2%
    2. Health Professions51.7%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    4. Nursing00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology103.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences83.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.5%
    4. Neuroscience00.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Swedish Defence Research Agency specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Aerospace Engineering takes 8.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 27.6 works8.4×
← 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: 0.62× its world share, 8 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.68× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.96× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.37× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.25× its world share, 49 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.50× its world share, 11 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.60× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.06× its world share, 87 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.67× its world share, 23 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.47× its world share, 5 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.67× its world share, 17 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.65× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.37× its world share, 20 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.03× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.43× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.44× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.64× its world share, 23 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 2.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy2.67×17 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.50×11 works
  3. Computer Science2.25×49 works
  4. Engineering2.06×87 works
  5. Environmental Science1.67×23 works
  6. Chemistry1.37×6 works
  7. Decision Sciences1.03×3 works
  8. Chemical Engineering0.96×1 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.68×10 works
  10. Health Professions0.65×5 works
  11. Social Sciences0.64×23 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.62×8 works
  13. Energy0.60×2 works
  14. Veterinary0.58×0 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.49×1 works
  16. Materials Science0.47×5 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.45×0 works
  18. Psychology0.44×4 works
  19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.43×3 works
  20. Medicine0.37×20 works
  21. Mathematics0.34×1 works
  22. Business, Management and Accounting0.17×2 works
  23. Neuroscience0.11×0 works
  24. Nursing0.09×0 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Swedish Defence Research Agency?

Ranked on the quality score, Linda Katharina Karlsson, Hedvig Sidenbladh and Christer Fureby lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Swedish Defence Research Agency.

  1. 1 Linda Katharina Karlsson Sweden · #808,040 worldwide 7.4k citations · 71 works
  2. 2 Hedvig Sidenbladh Sweden · #981,750 worldwide 2k citations · 24 works
  3. 3 Christer Fureby Sweden · #994,010 worldwide 13k citations · 268 works
  4. 4 Annika Carlsson‐Kanyama Sweden · #1,069,800 worldwide 4.9k citations · 81 works
  5. 5 Fredrik Johansson Sweden · #1,472,861 worldwide 989 citations · 58 works
  6. 6 Hannes Sonnsjö Sweden · #1,512,038 worldwide 227 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Christine Akfur Sweden · #1,517,603 worldwide 802 citations · 33 works
  8. 8 Mats Forsman Sweden · #1,655,105 worldwide 8.4k citations · 149 works
  9. 9 Jonas Hallberg Sweden · #1,728,508 worldwide 1.3k citations · 72 works
  10. 10 Thomas L. Svensson Sweden · #1,833,947 worldwide 5.5k citations · 144 works
All ranked researchers at Swedish Defence Research Agency

What are the most cited papers from Swedish Defence Research Agency?

The most cited paper from Swedish Defence Research Agency is "A tensorial approach to computational continuum mechanics using object-oriented techniques" (Henry G. Weller, Gavin Tabor, Hrvoje Jasak et al., 1998), with 5,434 citations. Next come "Subjective and Objective Sleepiness in the Active Individual" (3,124) and "Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition" (2,031).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A tensorial approach to computational continuum mechanics using object-oriented techniques Henry G. Weller, Gavin Tabor, Hrvoje Jasak et al. · Computers in Physics Nov 1998 5,434
2 Subjective and Objective Sleepiness in the Active Individual Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Mats Gillberg · International Journal of Neuroscience 1990 3,124
3 Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990–2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition Christopher J L Murray et al. · The Lancet Open access610 authors 28 Aug 2015 2,031
4 Distance transformations in digital images Gunilla Borgefors · Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing Jun 1986 1,904
5 Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences The Bioconda Team, Björn Andreas Grüning, Ryan Dale et al. · Nature Methods Open access 25 Jun 2018 1,827
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Swedish Defence Research Agency?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Health Effects, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Wireless Sensor Networks, Signal Processing, Cybersecurity, Beamforming and Information Security.

▲ 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. Deep Learning20▲ 2.1×26 topics
  2. Machine Learning18▲ 1.92×28 topics
  3. Health Effects11▲ 6.7×9 topics
  4. Climate Change9▲ 1.18×28 topics
  5. Wireless Sensor Networks9▲ 7.1×6 topics
  6. Neural Networks9▲ 2.0×12 topics
  7. Remote Sensing7▲ 2.1×19 topics
  8. Signal Processing7▲ 18×4 topics
  9. Cybersecurity6▲ 9.3×2 topics
  10. Risk Assessment6▲ 3.4×9 topics
  11. Beamforming6▲ 21×4 topics
  12. Security6▲ 3.1×11 topics
  13. Convolutional Neural Networks6▲ 2.8×7 topics
  14. Risk Management5▲ 4.0×3 topics
  15. Information Security5▲ 19×3 topics
  16. Game Theory5▲ 10×4 topics
  17. International Relations5▲ 7.2×5 topics
  18. MIMO Radar5▲ 49×2 topics
  19. IoT Security5▲ 5.3×2 topics
  20. Acoustic Techniques4▲ 51×1 topic
  21. Seafloor Mapping4▲ 51×1 topic
  22. Wireless Communications4▲ 9.2×4 topics
  23. Cognitive Radar4▲ 60×1 topic
  24. Policy Compliance4▲ 37×1 topic
  25. Radionuclides4▲ 39×2 topics
  26. Security Awareness4▲ 37×1 topic
  27. Waveform Design4▲ 40×1 topic
  28. Ionic Liquids4▲ 5.2×4 topics
  29. Detection4▲ 5.0×4 topics
  30. Food Safety4▲ 5.0×5 topics
  31. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition4▲ 27×1 topic
  32. Channel Modeling4▲ 12×5 topics
  33. Photon Counting4▲ 21×3 topics
  34. Sensor Fusion4▲ 13×2 topics
  35. Speech Enhancement4▲ 27×1 topic
  36. Information Warfare3▲ 35×2 topics
  37. Resource Allocation3▲ 6.9×5 topics
  38. Indoor Localization3▲ 28×1 topic
  39. RF-Based Positioning3▲ 28×1 topic
  40. LiDAR3▲ 26×2 topics

Which research topics does Swedish Defence Research Agency publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Underwater Acoustics Research, Radar Systems and Signal Processing, Information and Cyber Security and Speech and Audio Processing.

Underwater Acoustics Res…4Underwater Acoustics Research: 4 fractional worksRadar Systems and Signal…4Radar Systems and Signal Processing: 4 fractional worksInformation and Cyber Se…4Information and Cyber Security: 4 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Process…4Speech and Audio Processing: 4 fractional worksIndoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Optical Sensing Technologies: 3 fractional worksUnderwater Vehicles and …3Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems: 3 fractional worksAdvanced SAR Imaging Techniques: 2 fractional worksTarget Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks: 2 fractional worksPesticide Exposure and T…2Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity: 2 fractional works
OceanographyAerospace EngineeringInformation SystemsSignal Processing5 others

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

  1. 1 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 4 works
  2. 2 Radar Systems and Signal Processing Aerospace Engineering 4 works
  3. 3 Information and Cyber Security Information Systems 4 works
  4. 4 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 4 works
  5. 5 Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 works
  6. 6 Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies Instrumentation 3 works
  7. 7 Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Ocean Engineering 3 works
  8. 8 Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  9. 9 Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  10. 10 Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity Plant Science 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 available18.3%not open81.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.3%domestic only84.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Swedish Defence Research Agency's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Defence Research Agency as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Swedish Defence Research Agency0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Swedish Defence Research Agency 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Swedish Defence Research Agency6.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 15.3% in 1997.

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