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VARD (Norway)

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Research works
8
▼ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
74
9.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
18%
world 18%
VARD (Norway)

Not ranked overall: VARD (Norway) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does VARD (Norway) work in?

In all years, 70% of research at VARD (Norway) is in Social Sciences, 27% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (27%), Engineering (22%), Decision Sciences (18%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 6 fractional works · 70.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 26.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 16.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 18.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 18.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 17.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 27.3% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 21.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workALL ITS WORKVARD (Norway)8fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences27%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences70%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 3 domains and 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting226.7%
    2. Decision Sciences218.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities117.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance04.1%
    5. Social Sciences02.1%
    6. Psychology01.7%
    1. Engineering221.9%
    2. Chemistry04.1%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.4%
    1. Medicine02.3%
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.

Chemistry: 10.75× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEngineering: 1.32× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringMedicine: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 7.30× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7.89× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.31× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.67× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemistry, 10.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 7 fields, with their numbers
  1. Chemistry10.75×0 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance7.89×0 works
  3. Arts and Humanities7.30×0 works
  4. Psychology2.31×0 works
  5. Engineering1.32×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.67×0 works
  7. Medicine0.51×0 works

What are the most cited papers from VARD (Norway)?

The most cited paper from VARD (Norway) is "Digital Twins in Wind Energy: Emerging Technologies and Industry-Informed Future Directions" (Florian Stadtmann et al., 2023), with 96 citations. Next come "Lean Project Planning in Shipbuilding" (36) and "Implementing Lean in Engineer-to-Order Industry: A Case Study" (13).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Digital Twins in Wind Energy: Emerging Technologies and Industry-Informed Future Directions Florian Stadtmann et al. · IEEE Access Open access 2023 96
2 Lean Project Planning in Shipbuilding Jan Emblemsvåg · Journal of Ship Production and Design May 2014 36
3 Implementing Lean in Engineer-to-Order Industry: A Case Study Kristina Kjersem, Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse, Peter Kiekebos et al. · IFIP advances in information and communication technology Conference paperOpen access 2015 13
4 Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Ship Roll Damping With and Without Bilge Keels Trygve Kristiansen, Eivind Ruth, Reza Firoozkoohi et al. Conference paper 8 Jun 2014 11
5 Implementation of Lean Project Planning: A Knowledge Transfer Perspective Lise Lillebrygfjeld Halse, Kristina Kjersem, Jan Emblemsvåg · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paperOpen access 2014 5
All 7 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does VARD (Norway) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Chemistry and Stereochemistry Studies, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Human auditory perception and evaluation and Multilingual Education and Policy.

Chemistry and Stereochemistry Studies: 0 fractional worksDiverse Scientific and Economic Studies: 0 fractional worksHuman auditory perceptio…0Human auditory perception and evaluation: 0 fractional worksMultilingual Education a…0Multilingual Education and Policy: 0 fractional worksSecond Language Learning…0Second Language Learning and Teaching: 0 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Lea…0EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 0 fractional worksMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation: 0 fractional worksPosttraumatic Stress Disorder Research: 0 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Care Studies: 0 fractional worksArt Therapy and Mental Health: 0 fractional works
Organic ChemistryEconomics and EconometricsAerospace EngineeringLinguistics and Language6 others

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

  1. 1 Chemistry and Stereochemistry Studies Organic Chemistry 0 works
  2. 2 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  3. 3 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 0 works
  5. 5 Second Language Learning and Teaching Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  6. 6 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 0 works
  7. 7 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 0 works
  8. 8 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Clinical Psychology 0 works
  9. 9 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 0 works
  10. 10 Art Therapy and Mental Health Conservation 0 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 available36.5%not open63.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.1%domestic only81.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has VARD (Norway)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% lower than in 2018-2021.

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