Norway dominates polar research

Norway has one of the world’s best competence on polar research. The country contributes with six percent of the world’s total polar research, which is the fifth most in the world and more than Russia.

In research statistics Norway normally is far behind larger nations like Russia and USA, when it comes to the number of published scientific articles in international magazines. But there is one topic where Norway is among the most active nations in the world. Between 1981 and 2007 Norwegian scientists produced 4 000 articles which dealt with various topics within polar research, writes Norwegian newspaper Nordlys. This is six percent of the total global amount of such articles. In comparison Norwegian researchers contributes with only 0.6 of the worlds total research publications.

The leader of the National Committee for Polar Research, Harald Loeng, says to Nordlys that compared to the territorial demands Norway claims in arctic areas, the research should have been even larger.

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