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Kjartan Ólafsson

Kjartan Ólafsson publishes mostly in Education, Sociology and Political Science and Communication, on topics such as Child Development and Digital Technology, Social Media and Politics and Impact of Technology on Adolescents.

World rank
#181,058
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Iceland
#72
of 411
Works
44
Citations
171
Citations per work
3.9

What does Kjartan Ólafsson research?

Education: 18.9%Sociology and Political Science: 18.9%Communication: 13.2%Information Systems: 9.4%other fields: 39.6%19%top field
Education18.9%Sociology and Political Science18.9%Communication13.2%Information Systems9.4%other fields39.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Education19% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science19% of their works
  3. 3Communication13% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems9% of their works
  5. 5Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism4% of their works
  6. 6Ecology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kjartan Ólafsson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Online Communication, Social Media, Digital Technology, Parental Mediation, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Climate Change and Addiction.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Online Communication102 topics
  2. Social Media102 topics
  3. Digital Technology81 topic
  4. Parental Mediation81 topic
  5. Digital Divide71 topic
  6. Political Participation71 topic
  7. Climate Change42 topics
  8. Addiction31 topic
  9. Biodiversity32 topics
  10. Sustainability32 topics
  11. Well-being31 topic
  12. Arctic21 topic
  13. Ecosystem21 topic
  14. Focus Group21 topic
  15. Land Cover21 topic
  16. Mobile Technology21 topic
  17. Qualitative Interviewing21 topic
  18. Rural Communities21 topic
  19. Shipping21 topic
  20. Common Agricultural Policy11 topic
  21. Multifunctionality11 topic

Where does Kjartan Ólafsson work?

Kjartan Ólafsson's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Akureyri, Iceland.

How many publications and citations does Kjartan Ólafsson have?

Science Explorer counts 44 works and 171 citations for Kjartan Ólafsson, ranking #181,058 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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