Swedish resarch and development from three perspectives
- Funding – how much money is spent on research and development?
- Personnel – what is the composition of the research personnel?
- Research results – how big an impact does the research have?
Statistics from several sources
The Swedish Research Barometer gathers together statistics from Statistics Sweden, the Swedish Higher Education Authority, OECD and the EU Commission (e-CORDA), and the publication database Web of Science. In this way, the report provides an overall description of the Swedish R&D system.
Supplement: Citation impact for the humanities
The 2025 Research Barometer does not contain citation statistics for the humanities. This is because citation levels in the field are too low to generate stable calculations of the standard metric ‘Share of highly cited publications’.
We have now produced an analysis that uses an alternative metric to show the citation impact for the humanities. The analysis, which shows that Sweden has a strong international impact in the fields, is included as a supplement on the same page as the 2025 Research Barometer.
We publish the Research Barometer every second year
So far, we have produced the Swedish Research Barometer for the years 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025. The next Research Barometer is planned for 2027.
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