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Researcher · Institute of Transport Economics · Norway

Torkel Bjørnskau

Torkel Bjørnskau publishes mostly in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Transportation and Social Psychology, on topics such as Traffic and Road Safety, Urban Transport and Accessibility and Occupational Health and Safety Research.

ORCID 0000-0003-1388-6501 OpenAlex
World rank
#565,071
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#3,513
of 33,005
Works
108
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
19.6
h-index
24
i10-index 35Top 7.1% in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Torkel Bjørnskau

What does Torkel Bjørnskau research?

Torkel Bjørnskau's work is mostly in Engineering (21%), Social Sciences (18%), Psychology (11%).

Everything else: 38 works · 35.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 29.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 20 works · 18.4% of their workTransportation: 15 works · 13.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 4.8% of their workPsychology: 12 works · 11.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 12 works · 11.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 22 works · 20.6% of their workEngineering: 22 works · 20.6% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 22 works · 20.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 16 works · 14.4% of their workHealth Professions: 8 works · 7.4% of their workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 8 works · 7.4% of their workMedicine: 8 works · 7.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 works · 7.0% of their workTHEIR WORKTorkel Bjørnskau108works
Physical Sciences21%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences29%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else3835.6%
    1. Social Sciences2018.4%
    2. Psychology1211.0%
    1. Engineering2220.6%
    1. Health Professions87.4%
    2. Medicine87.0%
  1. 1Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality21% of their works
  2. 2Transportation14% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology11% of their works
  4. 4Radiological and Ultrasound Technology7% of their works
  5. 5Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health7% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Torkel Bjørnskau's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Driver Behavior, Injury Severity, Traffic Accidents, Risk Perception, Active Travel, Built Environment, Occupational Safety and Safety Culture.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Driver Behavior702 topics
  2. Injury Severity561 topic
  3. Traffic Accidents561 topic
  4. Risk Perception332 topics
  5. Active Travel281 topic
  6. Built Environment281 topic
  7. Occupational Safety201 topic
  8. Safety Culture201 topic
  9. Child Injury191 topic
  10. Unintentional Injuries191 topic
  11. Automation141 topic
  12. Trust141 topic
  13. Traffic Signs131 topic
  14. Warning Design131 topic
  15. Public Transport81 topic
  16. Travel Behavior81 topic
  17. Bayesian Networks71 topic
  18. Fault Tree Analysis71 topic

Where does Torkel Bjørnskau work?

Torkel Bjørnskau's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute of Transport Economics, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Torkel Bjørnskau have?

OpenAlex counts 108 works and 2,122 citations for Torkel Bjørnskau, an h-index of 24, ranking #565,071 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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