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Appalachian College Association

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Research works
14
▼ 94% vs 2018-21
Citations
11
0.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
69%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Appalachian College Association

Not ranked overall: Appalachian College Association is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Appalachian College Association work in?

In all years, 90% of research at Appalachian College Association is in Social Sciences, 7% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (54%), Social Sciences (32%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 13 fractional works · 90.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 53.6% of its workReligious studies: 4 fractional works · 31.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 31.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 15.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 9.2% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workALL ITS WORKAppalachianCollege…14fractional works, all years
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences3%Social Sciences90%

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 3 domains and 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities853.6%
    2. Social Sciences531.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance14.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.3%
    1. Environmental Science02.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.8%
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 Appalachian College Association?

Ranked on the quality score, Craig Rosenbeck and Alice W. Brown lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Appalachian College Association.

  1. 1 Craig Rosenbeck United States · #3,016,054 worldwide 2 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Alice W. Brown United States · #3,162,178 worldwide 10 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Appalachian College Association

What are the most cited papers from Appalachian College Association?

The most cited paper from Appalachian College Association is "The Suspicious, Untrusting Hillbilly in Political-Economic Contexts: Stereotypes and Social Trust in the Appalachian Coalfields" (Shaunna L. Scott, Stephanie McSpirit, 2014), with 3 citations. Next come "Case study of reinvention: College of Charleston" (3) and "Case study of a college that closed: Saint Mary's College" (2).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Suspicious, Untrusting Hillbilly in Political-Economic Contexts: Stereotypes and Social Trust in the Appalachian Coalfields Shaunna L. Scott, Stephanie McSpirit · Practicing Anthropology Jul 2014 3
2 Case study of reinvention: College of Charleston Alice W. Brown · New Directions for Higher Education Dec 2011 3
3 Case study of a college that closed: Saint Mary's College Alice W. Brown · New Directions for Higher Education Dec 2011 2
4 The Pastor's Library: An Annotated Bibliography of Biblical and Theological Resources for Ministry Craig Rosenbeck · Theological Librarianship Open access 23 Oct 2018 1
All 4 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Appalachian College Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cleft Lip and Palate Research, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies and dental development and anomalies.

Cleft Lip and Palate Res…0Cleft Lip and Palate Research: 0 fractional worksForensic Anthropology an…0Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies: 0 fractional worksdental development and a…0dental development and anomalies: 0 fractional works
GeneticsArcheologyMolecular Biology

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

  1. 1 Cleft Lip and Palate Research Genetics 0 works
  2. 2 Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Archeology 0 works
  3. 3 dental development and anomalies Molecular Biology 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 available69.3%not open30.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.9%domestic only91.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Appalachian College Association's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 94% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Appalachian College Association as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2021.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Appalachian College Association0.0000090% in 20241990200020102020

Fractional works of Appalachian College Association over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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