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Birmingham Public Library

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Research works
10
fractional, all time
Citations
27
2.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
21%
world 18%
Birmingham Public Library

Not ranked overall: Birmingham Public Library 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 Birmingham Public Library work in?

In all years, 60% of research at Birmingham Public Library is in Social Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (33%), Computer Science (24%), Arts and Humanities (14%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 6 fractional works · 59.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 32.5% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 2 fractional works · 15.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 13.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 29.4% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 24.4% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 14.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 5.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 5.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.7% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workALL ITS WORKBirmingham PublicLibrary10fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences29%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences60%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences332.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities113.9%
    3. Psychology19.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.3%
    1. Computer Science224.4%
    2. Engineering05.0%
    1. Health Professions16.1%
    2. Medicine01.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences03.3%
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 Birmingham Public Library?

The most cited paper from Birmingham Public Library is "The changing image of Birmingham libraries: marketing strategy into action" (Brian Gambles, Heike Schuster, 2003), with 14 citations. Next come "A web-based community-building archives project: a case study of Kids in Birmingham 1963" (9) and "INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR THROUGH INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN LIBRARY USERS, CHIDAMBARAM TOWN" (3).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The changing image of Birmingham libraries: marketing strategy into action Brian Gambles, Heike Schuster · Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 30 Sep 2003 14
2 A web-based community-building archives project: a case study of Kids in Birmingham 1963 Sonia Yaco, Ann Jimerson, Laura Caldwell Anderson et al. · Archives and Museum Informatics Open access 20 Apr 2015 9
3 INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR THROUGH INTERNET TECHNOLOGY IN LIBRARY USERS, CHIDAMBARAM TOWN Ramamoorthy Kavitha, Sneha Aravind · Emperor International Journal of Library and Information Technology Research Open access 2021 3
4 Collection Development in Alabama's Academic Libraries Linda McNair Cohen · Collection Management 27 Oct 1988 3
5 Resource Sharing and Coordinated Collection Development in the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries Linda McNair Cohen · Collection Management 27 Oct 1988 3
All 17 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Birmingham Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: AI in Service Interactions, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, COVID-19 diagnosis using AI and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources.

AI in Service Interactions: 0 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 0 fractional worksCOVID-19 diagnosis using AI: 0 fractional worksLibrary Collection Development and Digital Resources: 0 fractional worksInnovations in Educational Methods: 0 fractional worksLibrary Science and Information Literacy: 0 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceHealth InformaticsRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingInformation Systems2 others

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

  1. 1 AI in Service Interactions Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  2. 2 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 0 works
  3. 3 COVID-19 diagnosis using AI Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  4. 4 Library Collection Development and Digital Resources Information Systems 0 works
  5. 5 Innovations in Educational Methods Education 0 works
  6. 6 Library Science and Information Literacy Library and Information Sciences 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 available17.7%not open82.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors20.7%domestic only79.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Birmingham Public Library's research output changed?

1990200020102020
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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 Birmingham Public Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000046% in 2023.

0.00020%0.00040%Birmingham Public Library0.0000045% in 20241990200020102020

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

Other research institutions in Birmingham

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