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Catawba Valley Community College

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Research works
26
▼ 67% vs 2018-21
Citations
47
1.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
1%
world 18%
Catawba Valley Community College

Not ranked overall: Catawba Valley Community College 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 Catawba Valley Community College work in?

In all years, 49% of research at Catawba Valley Community College is in Social Sciences, 31% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (24%), Physics and Astronomy (18%), Arts and Humanities (17%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 12 fractional works · 49.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 23.5% of its workEducation: 5 fractional works · 20.9% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 17.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 3 fractional works · 10.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysical Sciences: 8 fractional works · 31.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 17.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 fractional works · 15.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 9.8% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 18.3% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 8.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workALL ITS WORKCatawba ValleyCommunity College26fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences31%Health Sciences18%Social Sciences49%

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 15 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences623.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities417.0%
    3. Psychology15.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting13.3%
    1. Physics and Astronomy417.6%
    2. Computer Science29.8%
    3. Mathematics02.0%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.0%
    5. Engineering01.0%
    6. Environmental Science00.0%
    1. Medicine28.5%
    2. Health Professions14.4%
    3. Dentistry13.9%
    4. Nursing01.5%
    1. Neuroscience01.3%
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.

Environmental Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 1.94× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsNursing: 5.22× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 10.62× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 5.03× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.64× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 10.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities10.62×1 works
  2. Nursing5.22×0 works
  3. Psychology5.03×0 works
  4. Social Sciences3.64×1 works
  5. Health Professions1.94×0 works
  6. Environmental Science0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Catawba Valley Community College?

Ranked on the quality score, Joe Heafner lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Catawba Valley Community College.

  1. 1 Joe Heafner United States · #6,333,785 worldwide 13 citations · 56 works
All ranked researchers at Catawba Valley Community College

What are the most cited papers from Catawba Valley Community College?

The most cited paper from Catawba Valley Community College is "Parental Involvement in Education" (Olivia Patrice-Chante' Miller, Regina Banks-Hall, 2019), with 13 citations. Next come "Developing a collaborative regional nursing simulation hospital" (9) and "Application of the Threshold Concept Framework in Nursing" (7).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Parental Involvement in Education Olivia Patrice-Chante' Miller, Regina Banks-Hall · Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series Book chapter 2019 13
2 Developing a collaborative regional nursing simulation hospital Colleen C. Burgess · Teaching and learning in nursing Apr 2007 9
3 Application of the Threshold Concept Framework in Nursing K. Brooke Kistler, Deborah E. Tyndall · Nurse Educator 13 May 2021 7
4 Online Versus Local Password Management Applications: An Analysis of User Training and Reactions Mark Ciampa, Mark A. Revels, John D. Enamait · Journal of Applied Security Research Oct 2011 7
5 Opportunity for all? The differential impacts of North Carolina’s revised comprehensive articulation agreement by race/ethnicity Rachel E. Worsham, Melissa E. Whatley, Jonathan Edward Loss · Education Policy Analysis Archives Open access 7 Mar 2021 6
All 30 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Catawba Valley Community College?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Conceptual Change, Education, Cultural Impact, Radio Astronomy, Transits of Venus, Religion, STEM Education and Technology Integration.

▲ 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 32 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 32 words, with their numbers
  1. Conceptual Change3▲ 330×2 topics
  2. Education3▲ 8.0×5 topics
  3. Cultural Impact2▲ 118×2 topics
  4. Radio Astronomy2▲ 197×1 topic
  5. Transits of Venus2▲ 367×1 topic
  6. Religion2▲ 11×2 topics
  7. STEM Education2▲ 23×2 topics
  8. Technology Integration2▲ 33×3 topics
  9. Diversity2▲ 32×2 topics
  10. Medical Education1▲ 23×3 topics
  11. Academic Performance1▲ 72×2 topics
  12. Acceptance1▲ 621×1 topic
  13. Educational Inequality1▲ 84×2 topics
  14. Evolutionary Theory1▲ 621×1 topic
  15. Inquiry-Based Teaching1▲ 225×1 topic
  16. Relativity1▲ 105×1 topic
  17. Scientific Literacy1▲ 225×1 topic
  18. Second Language Acquisition1▲ 76×2 topics
  19. Teaching Strategies1▲ 32×2 topics
  20. Unified Field Theories1▲ 286×1 topic
  21. College Retention1▲ 216×1 topic
  22. Educational Research1▲ 62×2 topics
  23. Learning Outcomes1▲ 20×2 topics
  24. Student Engagement1▲ 18×1 topic
  25. Academic Libraries1▲ 84×1 topic
  26. COVID-191▲ 5.8×1 topic
  27. Corrective Feedback1▲ 68×1 topic
  28. Dental Practice1▲ 146×1 topic
  29. Global Access1▲ 71×1 topic
  30. Language Teaching1▲ 22×1 topic
  31. Radiotherapy1▲ 10×1 topic
  32. Web 2.01▲ 209×1 topic

Which research topics does Catawba Valley Community College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Vietnamese History and Culture Studies, Higher Education Research Studies, Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis and History of Science and Medicine.

Vietnamese History and C…0Vietnamese History and Culture Studies: 0 fractional worksHigher Education Researc…0Higher Education Research Studies: 0 fractional worksHistorical Studies and S…0Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis: 0 fractional worksHistory of Science and M…0History of Science and Medicine: 0 fractional worksMentoring and Academic D…0Mentoring and Academic Development: 0 fractional worksEducation Systems and Po…0Education Systems and Policy: 0 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementation Science: 0 fractional worksNursing education and management: 0 fractional worksHealth Sciences Research and Education: 0 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceEducationHistory and Philosophy of ScienceSocial Psychology2 others

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

  1. 1 Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  2. 2 Higher Education Research Studies Education 0 works
  3. 3 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 0 works
  4. 4 History of Science and Medicine History and Philosophy of Science 0 works
  5. 5 Mentoring and Academic Development Social Psychology 0 works
  6. 6 Education Systems and Policy Education 0 works
  7. 7 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 0 works
  8. 8 Nursing education and management Research and Theory 0 works
  9. 9 Health Sciences Research and Education General Health Professions 0 works
  10. 10 Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation Ecology 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 available17.6%not open82.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors0.7%domestic only99.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Catawba Valley Community College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 67% 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 Catawba Valley Community College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000031% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Catawba Valley Community College0.000017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Catawba Valley Community College over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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