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Västerbotten County

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World rank, all time
#28,915
of 34,923
Rank in Sweden
#210
of 259
Research works
133
▲ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.3k
24.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
46%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Västerbotten County

Which fields of science does Västerbotten County work in?

In 2022-now, 63% of research at Västerbotten County is in Health Sciences, 15% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (37%), Health Professions (14%), Dentistry (10%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 13 fractional works · 63.2% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 36.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 13.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 7.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComplementary and Manual Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 10.4% of its workOral Surgery: 1 fractional works · 6.5% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrthodontics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 14.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 10.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 12.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 8.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 9.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBehavioral Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKVästerbottenCounty20fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences63%Social Sciences13%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine836.7%
    2. Health Professions313.9%
    3. Dentistry210.4%
    4. Nursing02.2%
    1. Environmental Science210.1%
    2. Computer Science14.6%
    1. Social Sciences28.0%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting02.2%
    3. Psychology01.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.7%
    5. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.0%
    3. Neuroscience01.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
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: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.13× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.65× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEnvironmental Science: 2.04× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceDentistry: 21.47× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.26× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.91× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 4.54× its world share, 0 worksNursingBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Dentistry, 21.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 15 fields, with their numbers
  1. Dentistry21.47×2 works
  2. Health Professions5.26×3 works
  3. Nursing4.54×0 works
  4. Environmental Science2.04×2 works
  5. Medicine1.91×8 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.13×1 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.69×0 works
  8. Neuroscience0.65×0 works
  9. Social Sciences0.63×2 works
  10. Computer Science0.60×1 works
  11. Psychology0.59×0 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.41×0 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.32×0 works
  14. Decision Sciences0.31×0 works
  15. Immunology and Microbiology0.10×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Västerbotten County?

The most cited paper from Västerbotten County is "Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults" (Honor Bixby et al., 2019), with 758 citations. Next come "Socioeconomic conditions, lifestyle factors, and self-rated health among men and women in Sweden" (353) and "Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol" (302).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults Honor Bixby et al. · Nature Open access1,155 authors 8 May 2019 758
2 Socioeconomic conditions, lifestyle factors, and self-rated health among men and women in Sweden Anu Molarius, Kenneth Berglund, Charli C-G Eriksson et al. · European Journal of Public Health Open access 4 Jun 2006 353
3 Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol Cristina Taddei et al. · Nature Open access888 authors 3 Jun 2020 302
4 Fracture resistance of yttrium oxide partially-stabilized zirconia all-ceramic bridges after veneering and mechanical fatigue testing Anders Sundh, Margareta Molin, Göran Sjögren · Dental Materials 3 Dec 2004 288
5 Comparison of two self-rating scales to detect depression: HADS and PHQ-9 Maja Hansson, Jayanti Chotai, Annika Nordstöm et al. · British Journal of General Practice Open access 29 Aug 2009 255
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Which keywords describe research at Västerbotten County?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Chronic Disease Management, Complications, Quality of Life, Healthcare Access, Patient Satisfaction, Digital Divide, Inflammation and Epidemiology.

▲ 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 8 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 8 words, with their numbers
  1. Chronic Disease Management2▲ 44×4 topics
  2. Quality of Life1▲ 4.9×9 topics
  3. Complications1▲ 11×3 topics
  4. Epidemiology1▲ 1.37×10 topics
  5. Healthcare Access1▲ 20×2 topics
  6. Inflammation1▲ 2.6×8 topics
  7. Patient Satisfaction1▲ 17×4 topics
  8. Digital Divide1▲ 19×2 topics

Which research topics does Västerbotten County publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, Endodontics and Root Canal Treatments, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation: 1 fractional worksEndodontics and Root Canal Treatments: 1 fractional worksMobile Health and mHealt…1Mobile Health and mHealth Applications: 1 fractional worksFish Ecology and Managem…0Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksHernia repair and management: 0 fractional worksDental Radiography and Imaging: 0 fractional worksCongenital Diaphragmatic…0Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies: 0 fractional worksAppendicitis Diagnosis and Management: 0 fractional worksMarine and fisheries research: 0 fractional worksNeonatal Respiratory Health Research: 0 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthOral SurgeryGeneral Health ProfessionsNature and Landscape Conservation4 others

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

  1. 1 Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  2. 2 Endodontics and Root Canal Treatments Oral Surgery 1 works
  3. 3 Mobile Health and mHealth Applications General Health Professions 1 works
  4. 4 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  5. 5 Hernia repair and management Surgery 0 works
  6. 6 Dental Radiography and Imaging Oral Surgery 0 works
  7. 7 Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies Surgery 0 works
  8. 8 Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management Emergency Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  10. 10 Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 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 available45.7%not open54.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.7%domestic only87.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Västerbotten County's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Västerbotten County as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000064% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%Västerbotten County0.000068% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Västerbotten County over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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