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Researcher · Norwegian School of Sport Sciences · Norway

Ulf Ekelund

Ulf Ekelund publishes mostly in Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Complementary and alternative medicine, on topics such as Physical Activity and Health, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet and Cardiovascular and exercise physiology.

ORCID 0000-0003-2115-9267 OpenAlex
World rank
#6,256
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#19
of 33,005
Works
733
Citations
105k
Citations per work
143.0
h-index
128
i10-index 444Top 0.1% in Physiology (Medicine)
Ulf Ekelund

What does Ulf Ekelund research?

Ulf Ekelund's work is mostly in Medicine (62%), Psychology (6%), Health Professions (5%).

Health Sciences: 490 works · 66.9% of their workMedicine: 455 works · 62.1% of their workPhysiology: 202 works · 27.6% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 169 works · 23.1% of their workComplementary and alternative medicine: 51 works · 6.9% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 33 works · 4.5% of their workHealth Professions: 35 works · 4.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 35 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 201 works · 27.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 42 works · 5.7% of their workPsychology: 42 works · 5.7% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 42 works · 5.7% of their workTHEIR WORKUlf Ekelund733works
Health Sciences67%Social Sciences6%

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. Medicine45562.1%
    2. Health Professions354.8%
  2. Everything else20127.4%
    1. Psychology425.7%
  1. 1Physiology28% of their works
  2. 2Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health23% of their works
  3. 3Complementary and alternative medicine7% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions5% of their works
  6. 6Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ulf Ekelund's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Physical Activity, Public Health, Chronic Diseases, Mental Health, Obesity, Exercise, Sedentary Behavior and Childhood.

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. Physical Activity1,0124 topics
  2. Public Health8582 topics
  3. Chronic Diseases4942 topics
  4. Mental Health4942 topics
  5. Obesity4753 topics
  6. Exercise4561 topic
  7. Sedentary Behavior4561 topic
  8. Childhood4021 topic
  9. Overweight4021 topic
  10. Cardiorespiratory Fitness1391 topic
  11. Exercise Capacity1391 topic
  12. Developmental Coordination Disorder1161 topic
  13. Motor Skill Competence1161 topic
  14. Early-Life Conditions431 topic
  15. Fetal Programming431 topic
  16. Healthy Lifestyles381 topic
  17. University Students381 topic
  18. Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis351 topic
  19. Body Mass Index351 topic
  20. Mobile Health351 topic
  21. mHealth351 topic

Where does Ulf Ekelund work?

Ulf Ekelund's main affiliation in the publication record is Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Ulf Ekelund have?

OpenAlex counts 733 works and 104,834 citations for Ulf Ekelund, an h-index of 128, ranking #6,256 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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