Examples

Bifrost® produces reports for several different types of search. Choose a starting point according to your question: the same analyses (co-authorship, keywords, trends, journal profiles) are generated regardless of category, but the selection principle and the data source differ.

The examples are grouped by starting point: first those that start from what is published in a field (subject searches, national and international), then those that start from who publishes (organisation, institution, person), then in which channel (journal profiles). Last come student theses, which follow a different analytical logic.

The data source depends on the purpose of the analysis: SwePub gives broad national coverage, DiVA is used for institution-specific analyses (dissertations, theses, person or organisation IDs), and OpenAlex for international coverage and citation analysis. See data sources for a full comparison. Whatever the source, the data is enriched with citations, NPI and SJR.

Subject searches, national (SwePub)

Answers: "What do we know about this research field in Sweden? Who publishes, in which journals, and how is the field developing?"

Data source: SwePub.

• Religious education.
• Social studies education.
• Swedish teacher education (peer-reviewed).

Subject searches, international (OpenAlex)

Answers: "What does the field look like globally? Who are the leading researchers and institutions? How cited is the research?"

Data source: OpenAlex.

• Flooding in Earth and Related Environmental Sciences.

Organisation searches

Answers: "What does our department, division or research group publish, and how do we collaborate internally and externally?"

• Centre for Social Science Didactics (2025): research-group level, with focus-year analysis.
• Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (2025): department level, with focus-year analysis.

Would you like a report for your research group or department? Contact Kristian Niemi <kristian.niemi@kau.se>.

Institution searches (DiVA)

Answers: "What does our institution publish, within which subjects, and how is it developing over time?"

• Karlstad University 2025: an overview of the entire institution's publishing, with focus-year analysis.
• Örebro University 2025: the corresponding analysis for another institution, useful for comparisons.

Person searches

Answers: "What has this person published, with whom, and within which fields?"

• Kerstin von Brömssen: an individual researcher. A bibliometric analysis based on this report has appeared as a book chapter (Niemi, 2025).
• Niklas Gericke: an individual researcher with a longer publication history and broader subject spread.

Journal profiles

Answers: "What does this journal publish, who authors most often, and how does it position itself in the field?"

• Nordidactica.
• Nordina (Nordic Studies in Science Education).

Student theses

Answers: "What do our students write about? Which subjects, supervisors and methods dominate?"

• Student theses in social studies education at KAU (until 2025): institution-specific thesis output.
• Degree projects in social studies education (national, until 2025): a national overview by institution.

Would you like your own analysis? Contact Kristian Niemi <kristian.niemi@kau.se>.