Mistra Geopolitics Director and researchers among Sweden's top scholars

Mistra Geopolitics Programme Director and researchers are among the top 25 scholars in Sweden on the topic sustainability, according to the global ScholarGPS® ranking for the year 2024.

Professor Victoria Wibeck and Professor Björn-Ola Linnér, both at Linköping University, and Dr. Björn Nykvist at Stockholm Environment Institute, are all ranked among the top 25 scholars on sustainability in Sweden.

It is gratifying that research conducted within Mistra Geopolitics over the past five years is being recognized, said Victoria Wibeck, Professor at Linköping University and researcher in the Mistra Geopolitics programme.

Academic award. Photo by Gül Işık / Pexels.

Top scholars by expertise – ScholarGPS® ranking

Top scholars by expertise are individuals whose publication records associate them with the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide, in their respective field, discipline, or specialty. In this case the research area sustainability.

Victoria Wibeck – place 7 in Sweden and place 235 on the global ranking.
Professor at Linköping University and researcher in Mistra Geopolitics.

Björn-Ola Linnér – place 9 in Sweden and place 247 on the global ranking.
Programme Director of Mistra Geopolitics and Professor at Linköping University.

Björn Nykvist – place 11 in Sweden and place 261 on the global ranking.
Dr. and Head of Division for Global Agendas, Climate and Systems at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), researcher in Mistra Geopolitics.

The identification of top scholars by expertise is based on lifetime or prior five-year activity, with each publication and citation weighted by the number of authors, and self-citations excluded. The prior five years evaluation period includes all works published by individual scholars during the preceding five years.

Victoria Wibeck, Björn-Ola Linnér and Björn Nykvist have all contributed significantly to the Mistra Geopolitics research programme, running 2017 until 2025.

The programme is hosted by SEI and funded by Mistra – The Swedish foundation for strategic environmental research. Consortium partners include SEI, SIPRI, Linköping University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, Lund University, adelphi and E3G.

This news story is written by Ylva Rylander, Communications and Impact Officer at SEI.

More about the Scholar GPS ranking

Featured researchers

Linköping University

Victoria Wibeck

Victoria Wibeck is a professor at Linköping University. The overarching aim of her research is to analyze challenges and opportunities involved, as science-based knowledge on environment, climate and new and emerging technologies move from the scientific arena to recontextualization, such as in political decisions, implementation of environmental objectives at different societal levels, media, and citizens’ everyday decisions. Victoria is leading Work Package 5; Foresight – Sweden in a changing, geopolitical landscape.

Telephone:+4611363285

Linköping University

Professor Björn-Ola Linnér

Björn-Ola Linnér is the Deputy Programme Director of Mistra Geopolitics and Professor at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research at Linköping University. He analyses how the political processes and actors affect conditions for social changes towards sustainable development in different parts of the world. He has a long experience in research dialogues with various societal actors, such as the climate convention’s secretariat, governments, businesses and environmental organizations.

Björn Nykvist

Dr. Björn Nykvist is Head of Division – Global Agendas, Climate, and Systems at Stockholm Environment Institute, and an affiliated researcher at the Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, Sweden.

Email:bjorn.nykvist@sei.org

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SEI

Ylva Rylander

Ylva Rylander is the press contact for Mistra Geopolitics. Ylva is a Communications and Impact Officer at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). As a core member of SEI’s communications team and previous Press Officer of SEI, Ylva writes and edits press releases and creates news stories. With over 15 years of experience in public relations, awareness raising and external communication, she also provides strategic advice to SEI and Mistra Geopolitics researchers to help them maximize the impact of their research.

Telephone:+4673 150 33 84

SEI

Maria Cole

Maria Cole is a Senior Communications and Impact Officer at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in Stockholm. Maria is the Communications Lead for Mistra Geopolitics and leads the work package on Communications and Stakeholder engagement.

Telephone:+46 70 224 20 22