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Allen County Public Library

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Research works
9
▲ 49% vs 2018-21
Citations
91
10.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
49%
world 40%
International
5%
world 18%
Allen County Public Library

Not ranked overall: Allen County Public Library is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Allen County Public Library work in?

In all years, 43% of research at Allen County Public Library is in Social Sciences, 28% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (26%), Medicine (25%), Arts and Humanities (15%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 43.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 26.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 15.0% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 5.0% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 15.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 7.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 28.5% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 24.6% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 14.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 13.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.0% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 5.6% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workALL ITS WORKAllen CountyPublic Library9fractional works, all years
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences28%Social Sciences43%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences226.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities115.0%
    3. Psychology01.8%
    1. Medicine224.6%
    2. Health Professions03.1%
    3. Nursing00.8%
    1. Environmental Science18.2%
    2. Physics and Astronomy03.7%
    3. Computer Science02.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences18.0%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology03.7%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.9%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

What are the most cited papers from Allen County Public Library?

The most cited paper from Allen County Public Library is "INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC SCIENCE" (Phillip E. O'Shaughnessy, 2001), with 51 citations. Next come "Changing Public Library Staff and Patron Needs Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic" (31) and "Lead Poisoning Among Burmese Refugee Children—Indiana, 2009" (17).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC SCIENCE Phillip E. O'Shaughnessy · Dental Clinics of North America Apr 2001 51
2 Changing Public Library Staff and Patron Needs Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Elizabeth A. Wahler, Rebecca Spuller, Jacob D. Ressler et al. · Journal of Library Administration 29 Nov 2021 31
3 Lead Poisoning Among Burmese Refugee Children—Indiana, 2009 Matthew D. Ritchey, Marissa Scalia Sucosky, Taran Jefferies et al. · Clinical Pediatrics 11 Mar 2011 17
4 Trends in volunteerism Georgean C. Johnson‐Coffey · The Bottom Line Managing Library Finances Jun 1997 17
5 CONCENTRATION AND SOURCES OF FECAL AND ORGANIC POLLUTION IN AN AGRICULTURAL WATERSHED1 Daniel R. Dudley, James R. Karr · JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association Aug 1979 13
All 19 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Allen County Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology, Orthopedic Infections and Treatments, Poisoning and overdose treatments and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation.

Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology: 0 fractional worksOrthopedic Infections and Treatments: 0 fractional worksPoisoning and overdose treatments: 0 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 0 fractional worksHealth disparities and o…0Health disparities and outcomes: 0 fractional worksHealth, psychology, and well-being: 0 fractional worksMycobacterium research and diagnosis: 0 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Trea…0Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: 0 fractional worksInfectious Diseases and Tuberculosis: 0 fractional worksFood Security and Health in Diverse Populations: 0 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesSurgeryEmergency MedicineHealth3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology Infectious Diseases 0 works
  2. 2 Orthopedic Infections and Treatments Surgery 0 works
  3. 3 Poisoning and overdose treatments Emergency Medicine 0 works
  4. 4 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 0 works
  5. 5 Health disparities and outcomes Health 0 works
  6. 6 Health, psychology, and well-being General Health Professions 0 works
  7. 7 Mycobacterium research and diagnosis Epidemiology 0 works
  8. 8 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis Surgery 0 works
  10. 10 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available48.8%not open51.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.0%domestic only95.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Allen County Public Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Allen County Public Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000025% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Allen County Public Library0.0000034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Allen County Public Library over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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