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Swedish Transport Administration

In research, Swedish Transport Administration stands highest in Physical Sciences (#8,875 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Civil and Structural Engineering (Civil and Structural Engineering is 16.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#16,990
of 22,385 · #16,121 all time
Rank in Sweden
#83
of 107
Research works
363
▲ 62% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.5k
17.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
40%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
Swedish Transport Administration

What is Swedish Transport Administration 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 #8,875 of 10,670 7.8%66 #9425

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

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Swedish Transport Administration is in Physical Sciences, 20% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (52%), Computer Science (9%), Social Sciences (7%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 75 fractional works · 71.8% of its workEngineering: 55 fractional works · 52.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 20 fractional works · 19.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 8.1% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 7 fractional works · 6.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 5 fractional works · 4.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 3.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 9.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 6.5% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNuclear Energy and Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 21 fractional works · 20.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 7.2% of its workTransportation: 4 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 5.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 8 fractional works · 7.5% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSwedish TransportAdministration105fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences72%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences20%

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 20 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering5552.5%
    2. Computer Science109.2%
    3. Environmental Science76.5%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.5%
    5. Materials Science10.8%
    6. Energy10.6%
    7. Chemistry00.3%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.3%
    9. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    1. Social Sciences87.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting55.0%
    3. Psychology43.7%
    4. Decision Sciences43.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.3%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.3%
    1. Medicine54.8%
    2. Health Professions32.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.4%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Swedish Transport Administration specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Civil and Structural Engineering takes 16.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 20.0 works16×
← 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: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.18× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.50× its world share, 55 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.31× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.03× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.25× its world share, 5 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.56× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.71× its world share, 4 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.22× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.57× its world share, 8 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences3.71×4 works
  2. Engineering3.50×55 works
  3. Business, Management and Accounting1.56×5 works
  4. Environmental Science1.31×7 works
  5. Psychology1.22×4 works
  6. Computer Science1.18×10 works
  7. Health Professions1.03×3 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.95×2 works
  9. Chemical Engineering0.76×0 works
  10. Energy0.68×1 works
  11. Social Sciences0.57×8 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.30×0 works
  13. Medicine0.25×5 works
  14. Materials Science0.22×1 works
  15. Chemistry0.20×0 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.16×0 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.09×0 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Swedish Transport Administration?

Ranked on the quality score, Eric Berggren, Anders Danielsen Lie and Jan Ifver lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Swedish Transport Administration.

  1. 1 Eric Berggren Sweden · #959,377 worldwide 765 citations · 26 works
  2. 2 Anders Danielsen Lie Sweden · #1,986,629 worldwide 2.2k citations · 96 works
  3. 3 Jan Ifver Sweden · #2,088,507 worldwide 833 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Maria Krafft Sweden · #2,435,894 worldwide 1.7k citations · 69 works
  5. 5 Arne Nissen Sweden · #2,754,685 worldwide 775 citations · 56 works
  6. 6 Simon Sternlund Sweden · #2,854,590 worldwide 357 citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Hannes Salin Sweden · #3,478,954 worldwide 44 citations · 32 works
  8. 8 Johan Strandroth Sweden · #3,592,133 worldwide 625 citations · 53 works
  9. 9 Stefan Grudemo Sweden · #3,793,835 worldwide 15 citations · 28 works
  10. 10 Rikard Granström Sweden · #4,160,459 worldwide 49 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Swedish Transport Administration

What are the most cited papers from Swedish Transport Administration?

The most cited paper from Swedish Transport Administration is "The effects of attitudes and personality traits on mode choice" (Maria Vredin Johansson, Tobias Heldt, Per Johansson, 2005), with 577 citations. Next come "Using mobile telephones: cognitive workload and attention resource allocation" (460) and "Measuring the contribution of randomness, exposure, weather, and daylight to the variation in road accident counts" (427).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The effects of attitudes and personality traits on mode choice Maria Vredin Johansson, Tobias Heldt, Per Johansson · Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice Open access 18 Nov 2005 577
2 Using mobile telephones: cognitive workload and attention resource allocation Christopher Patten, Albert Kircher, Joakim Östlund et al. · Accident Analysis & Prevention 24 Apr 2003 460
3 Measuring the contribution of randomness, exposure, weather, and daylight to the variation in road accident counts Lasse Fridstrøm, Jan Ifver, Siv Ingebrigtsen et al. · Accident Analysis & Prevention Feb 1995 427
4 Effectiveness of low speed autonomous emergency braking in real-world rear-end crashes Brian Fildes, Michael Keall, Niels M. Bos et al. · Accident Analysis & Prevention Open access 6 May 2015 316
5 A link based network route choice model with unrestricted choice set Mogens Fosgerau, Emma Frejinger, Anders Karlström · Transportation Research Part B Methodological 22 Aug 2013 301
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Swedish Transport Administration?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: High-Speed Trains, Dynamic Interaction, Rolling Contact Fatigue, Ground Vibration, Railway Dynamics, Injury Severity, Driver Behavior and Road Safety.

▲ 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. High-Speed Trains8▲ 113×3 topics
  2. Dynamic Interaction7▲ 112×2 topics
  3. Rolling Contact Fatigue7▲ 111×2 topics
  4. Ground Vibration6▲ 224×1 topic
  5. Railway Dynamics6▲ 224×1 topic
  6. Deep Learning6▲ 1.76×8 topics
  7. Energy Efficiency5▲ 5.0×7 topics
  8. Risk Factors5▲ 4.1×2 topics
  9. Injury Severity5▲ 54×2 topics
  10. Driver Behavior4▲ 53×2 topics
  11. Road Safety4▲ 94×1 topic
  12. Traffic Accidents4▲ 84×1 topic
  13. Defect Detection4▲ 28×2 topics
  14. Crack Detection4▲ 48×1 topic
  15. Image Processing4▲ 7.7×2 topics
  16. Pavement4▲ 48×1 topic
  17. Nonlinear Dynamics3▲ 14×3 topics
  18. Risk Management3▲ 6.3×3 topics
  19. Supply Chain Management3▲ 3.3×5 topics
  20. Sensor Networks3▲ 12×2 topics
  21. Risk Perception3▲ 9.8×3 topics
  22. Transportation3▲ 15×3 topics
  23. Corrosion3▲ 21×4 topics
  24. Reinforced Concrete3▲ 33×2 topics
  25. Injury Prevention2▲ 20×2 topics
  26. Physical Activity2▲ 4.7×3 topics
  27. Railway Timetabling2▲ 127×1 topic
  28. Train Scheduling2▲ 127×1 topic
  29. Vibration-based Damage Identification2▲ 36×1 topic
  30. Wireless Sensors2▲ 36×1 topic
  31. Chloride-induced2▲ 48×1 topic
  32. Construction2▲ 16×3 topics
  33. Structural Reliability2▲ 48×1 topic
  34. Efficiency2▲ 7.2×2 topics
  35. Travel Behavior2▲ 24×2 topics
  36. Accessibility2▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Soil Properties2▲ 11×3 topics
  38. Vibration Analysis2▲ 7.2×4 topics
  39. Health Impact Assessment2▲ 22×2 topics
  40. User Satisfaction2▲ 9.5×3 topics

Which research topics does Swedish Transport Administration publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Traffic and Road Safety, Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring and Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency.

Railway Engineering and …6Railway Engineering and Dynamics: 6 fractional worksTraffic and Road Safety: 4 fractional worksInfrastructure Maintenan…4Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring: 4 fractional worksRailway Systems and Ener…2Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency: 2 fractional worksStructural Health Monitoring Techniques: 2 fractional worksConcrete Corrosion and Durability: 2 fractional worksInjury Epidemiology and …2Injury Epidemiology and Prevention: 2 fractional worksUrban Transport and Accessibility: 2 fractional worksConstruction Project Management and Performance: 2 fractional worksTransport and Economic Policies: 2 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringSafety, Risk, Reliability and QualityCivil and Structural EngineeringIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Railway Engineering and Dynamics Mechanical Engineering 6 works
  2. 2 Traffic and Road Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 4 works
  3. 3 Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring Civil and Structural Engineering 4 works
  4. 4 Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 2 works
  5. 5 Structural Health Monitoring Techniques Civil and Structural Engineering 2 works
  6. 6 Concrete Corrosion and Durability Civil and Structural Engineering 2 works
  7. 7 Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  8. 8 Urban Transport and Accessibility Transportation 2 works
  9. 9 Construction Project Management and Performance Management Science and Operations Research 2 works
  10. 10 Transport and Economic Policies Strategy and Management 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 available40.5%not open59.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.0%domestic only78.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Swedish Transport Administration's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 62% higher 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 Transport Administration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00044% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Swedish Transport Administration0.00026% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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