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American Folklore Society

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Research works
15
▼ 33% vs 2018-21
Citations
31
2.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
33%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
American Folklore Society

Not ranked overall: American Folklore Society 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 American Folklore Society work in?

In all years, 78% of research at American Folklore Society is in Social Sciences, 11% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (35%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (7%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 12 fractional works · 77.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 41.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 21.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 7.8% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 35.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 13.3% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 8.8% of its workMusic: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workALL ITS WORKAmerican FolkloreSociety15fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences78%

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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences641.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities535.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting01.1%
    1. Environmental Science15.5%
    2. Engineering02.2%
    3. Mathematics02.2%
    4. Computer Science01.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.6%
    1. Health Professions02.2%
    2. Medicine02.2%
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.

Who are the top researchers at American Folklore Society?

Ranked on the quality score, Timothy C. Lloyd lead among researchers whose main affiliation is American Folklore Society.

  1. 1 Timothy C. Lloyd United States · #5,262,654 worldwide 44 citations · 46 works
All ranked researchers at American Folklore Society

What are the most cited papers from American Folklore Society?

The most cited paper from American Folklore Society is "Computational folkloristics" (James M. Abello, Peter M. Broadwell, Timothy R. Tangherlini, 2012), with 69 citations. Next come "The American Folklore Society-China Folklore Society Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, 2013-2016" (4) and "From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States" (2).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Computational folkloristics James M. Abello, Peter M. Broadwell, Timothy R. Tangherlini · Communications of the ACM 20 Jun 2012 69
2 The American Folklore Society-China Folklore Society Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, 2013-2016 C. Kurt Dewhurst, Timothy C. Lloyd · Museum Anthropology Review Open access 13 Mar 2019 4
3 From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United States T. G. B. Lloyd · Journal of American Folklore Jul 2017 2
4 Performing Ireland: A Performative Approach to the Study of Irish Culture Jack Santino · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks Book chapter 2009 2
5 The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 7: Foodways Timothy C. Lloyd · Journal of Folklore Research Reviews 23 Jul 2008 2
All 19 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does American Folklore Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence, Health and Conflict Studies and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis.

Folklore, Mythology, and…1Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies: 1 fractional worksTerrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence: 0 fractional worksHealth and Conflict Studies: 0 fractional worksCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis: 0 fractional works
Literature and Literary TheorySociology and Political ScienceGeneral Health Professions

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

  1. 1 Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies Literature and Literary Theory 1 works
  2. 2 Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Health and Conflict Studies General Health Professions 0 works
  4. 4 Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Sociology and Political Science 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 available33.1%not open66.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.3%domestic only95.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has American Folklore Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% lower 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 American Folklore Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2023.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%American Folklore Society0.000017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of American Folklore Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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