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California State Library

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Research works
42
▼ 36% vs 2018-21
Citations
169
4.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
15%
world 40%
International
2%
world 18%
California State Library

Not ranked overall: California State 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 California State Library work in?

In all years, 70% of research at California State Library is in Social Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (52%), Computer Science (20%), Arts and Humanities (6%). It does 2.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 29 fractional works · 69.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 51.7% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 12 fractional works · 28.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 5.8% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 5.9% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 24.3% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 19.8% of its workInformation Systems: 7 fractional works · 16.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKCalifornia StateLibrary42fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences70%

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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2251.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities25.9%
    3. Psychology23.9%
    4. Decision Sciences23.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance13.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting11.6%
    1. Computer Science819.8%
    2. Environmental Science24.0%
    3. Engineering00.3%
    4. Materials Science00.3%
    1. Medicine13.0%
    2. Health Professions00.8%
    1. Neuroscience11.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.4%
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.

Neuroscience: 12.32× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.71× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceMedicine: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 13.80× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 6.56× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.11× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 13.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences13.80×0 works
  2. Neuroscience12.32×0 works
  3. Psychology6.56×0 works
  4. Social Sciences2.11×0 works
  5. Computer Science1.71×0 works
  6. Medicine0.35×0 works

Who are the top researchers at California State Library?

Ranked on the quality score, Kathleen Yi Jia Low, Gail McGovern and Richard H. Dillon lead among researchers whose main affiliation is California State Library.

  1. 1 Kathleen Yi Jia Low United States · #2,845,515 worldwide 118 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Gail McGovern United States · #5,189,208 worldwide 218 citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Richard H. Dillon United States · #5,585,870 worldwide 247 citations · 105 works
All ranked researchers at California State Library

What are the most cited papers from California State Library?

The most cited paper from California State Library is "How Does Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Perform with Conventional National Surveys?" (Matthew K. Buttice, Benjamin Highton, 2013), with 110 citations. Next come "Extracting Wisdom from Experts and Small Crowds: Strategies for Improving Informant-based Measures of Political Concepts" (52) and "A review exploring the facets of the value of public libraries" (29).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 How Does Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Perform with Conventional National Surveys? Matthew K. Buttice, Benjamin Highton · Political Analysis Open access 2013 110
2 Extracting Wisdom from Experts and Small Crowds: Strategies for Improving Informant-based Measures of Political Concepts Cherie D. Maestas, Matthew K. Buttice, Walter J. Stone · Political Analysis 2014 52
3 A review exploring the facets of the value of public libraries Cheryl Stenström, Natalie Cole, Rachel Hanson · Library Management 29 Jul 2019 29
4 Vaccine Medical Exemptions Are a Delegated Public Health Authority Richard J. D. Pan, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss · PEDIATRICS 29 Oct 2018 17
5 Legal Aspects of Migraine in the Workplace Nina Riggins, Lorenzo Paris · Current Pain and Headache Reports Open access 18 Nov 2022 14
All 58 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at California State Library?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Academic Libraries, Diversity, Digital Divide, Library Services, Social Inclusion, Digital Literacy, Information Literacy and Information Behavior.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Academic Libraries11▲ 547×3 topics
  2. Digital Divide7▲ 91×2 topics
  3. Diversity7▲ 97×2 topics
  4. Library Services7▲ 1069×1 topic
  5. Social Inclusion7▲ 494×1 topic
  6. Digital Literacy5▲ 42×3 topics
  7. Information Literacy5▲ 92×2 topics
  8. Information Behavior5▲ 679×1 topic
  9. Library Instruction5▲ 679×1 topic
  10. Educational Technology4▲ 14×3 topics
  11. Digital Textbooks4▲ 678×1 topic
  12. E-Books4▲ 678×1 topic
  13. Technology Integration3▲ 37×2 topics
  14. Social Media3▲ 9.0×3 topics
  15. Library 2.03▲ 351×1 topic
  16. Web 2.03▲ 351×1 topic
  17. Identity2▲ 7.2×3 topics
  18. Sustainability2▲ 2.7×4 topics
  19. Social Capital2▲ 9.2×4 topics
  20. Colonialism1▲ 6.3×2 topics
  21. History1▲ 4.0×2 topics
  22. Immigration1▲ 27×2 topics
  23. Race1▲ 25×2 topics
  24. Community1▲ 25×2 topics
  25. Cultural Identity1▲ 6.6×3 topics
  26. Biodiversity Offsets1▲ 274×1 topic
  27. Canada1▲ 86×1 topic
  28. Chicano1▲ 160×1 topic
  29. Child-Centered1▲ 159×1 topic
  30. Latino1▲ 160×1 topic
  31. Legal Education1▲ 37×1 topic
  32. Math Search1▲ 263×1 topic
  33. Mathematical Information Retrieval1▲ 263×1 topic
  34. No Net Loss1▲ 274×1 topic
  35. Play Therapy1▲ 159×1 topic
  36. Prosocial Behavior1▲ 104×1 topic
  37. Social Policy1▲ 18×1 topic
  38. Volunteer Tourism1▲ 201×1 topic
  39. Volunteering1▲ 171×1 topic
  40. Welfare Rights Advice1▲ 91×1 topic

Which research topics does California State Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Library Science and Administration, Web and Library Services, Stuttering Research and Treatment and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation.

Library Science and Admi…0Library Science and Administration: 0 fractional worksWeb and Library Services0Web and Library Services: 0 fractional worksStuttering Research and …0Stuttering Research and Treatment: 0 fractional worksHearing Loss and Rehabil…0Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional worksLibrary Science and Info…0Library Science and Information Literacy: 0 fractional worksMeta-analysis and system…0Meta-analysis and systematic reviews: 0 fractional worksNeuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations: 0 fractional worksHealthcare Decision-Making and Restraints: 0 fractional worksMigraine and Headache Studies: 0 fractional works
Library and Information SciencesInformation SystemsClinical PsychologyCognitive Neuroscience2 others

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

  1. 1 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 0 works
  2. 2 Web and Library Services Information Systems 0 works
  3. 3 Stuttering Research and Treatment Clinical Psychology 0 works
  4. 4 Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  5. 5 Library Science and Information Literacy Library and Information Sciences 0 works
  6. 6 Meta-analysis and systematic reviews Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 0 works
  7. 7 Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  8. 8 Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints Clinical Psychology 0 works
  9. 9 Migraine and Headache Studies Psychiatry and Mental health 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 available14.7%not open85.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors1.8%domestic only98.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has California State Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% 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 California State Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000093% in 2023.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%California State Library0.0000085% in 202519801990200020102020

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

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