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Charleston County Public Library

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Research works
18
▲ 59% vs 2018-21
Citations
12
0.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
69%
world 40%
Charleston County Public Library

Not ranked overall: Charleston County 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 Charleston County Public Library work in?

In all years, 72% of research at Charleston County Public Library is in Social Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (57%), Computer Science (24%), Arts and Humanities (15%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 13 fractional works · 71.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 56.9% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 5 fractional works · 26.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 11.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 14.6% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 5.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 24.3% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 24.3% of its workInformation Systems: 4 fractional works · 24.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCharleston CountyPublic Library18fractional works, all years
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences72%

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 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1056.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities314.6%
    1. Computer Science424.3%
    1. Medicine02.4%
    2. Health Professions01.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.2%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Charleston County Public Library?

The most cited paper from Charleston County Public Library is "Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis" (Raquel E. Fleskes, Ade A. Ofunniyin, Joanna K. Gilmore et al., 2020), with 34 citations. Next come "Disaster Health Information Access and Public Libraries’ Situation-Specific Information Services: What Public Librarians and Library Users Said" (3) and "Outsourcing: a customer’s perspective on the process and the potential" (3).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ancestry, health, and lived experiences of enslaved Africans in 18th century Charleston: An osteobiographical analysis Raquel E. Fleskes, Ade A. Ofunniyin, Joanna K. Gilmore et al. · American Journal of Physical Anthropology 6 Oct 2020 34
2 Disaster Health Information Access and Public Libraries’ Situation-Specific Information Services: What Public Librarians and Library Users Said Feili Tu-Keefner, Jingjing Liu, Denise L. Lyons et al. · Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet 2 Jul 2020 3
3 Outsourcing: a customer’s perspective on the process and the potential Thomas M. Walker · The Bottom Line Managing Library Finances Jun 1996 3
4 Evaluating the WISE (Women in the South-East) Telehealth Network: A Model of Healthcare and Health Promotion at Rural Libraries Beth L. Sundstrom, Natalia Hayes, Ragan DuBose-Morris et al. · American Journal of Health Promotion Open access 9 Apr 2024 2
5 “Do you want a period?” Launching and evaluating a brief contraceptive decision-making educational intervention Beth L. Sundstrom, Angela R. Dempsey, Shira Finke et al. · Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare 7 Jul 2023 2
All 16 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Charleston County Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Digital and Cyber Forensics, Gender, Feminism, and Media, Library Science and Administration and Higher Education Learning Practices.

Digital and Cyber Forens…1Digital and Cyber Forensics: 1 fractional worksGender, Feminism, and Me…1Gender, Feminism, and Media: 1 fractional worksLibrary Science and Admi…1Library Science and Administration: 1 fractional worksHigher Education Learning Practices: 0 fractional worksSecond Language Learning and Teaching: 0 fractional worksEducation Systems and Policy: 0 fractional worksMenstrual Health and Disorders: 0 fractional worksReproductive Health and Contraception: 0 fractional worksUterine Myomas and Treatments: 0 fractional worksMobile Health and mHealth Applications: 0 fractional works
Information SystemsGender StudiesLibrary and Information SciencesEducation4 others

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

  1. 1 Digital and Cyber Forensics Information Systems 1 works
  2. 2 Gender, Feminism, and Media Gender Studies 1 works
  3. 3 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 1 works
  4. 4 Higher Education Learning Practices Education 0 works
  5. 5 Second Language Learning and Teaching Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  6. 6 Education Systems and Policy Education 0 works
  7. 7 Menstrual Health and Disorders Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  8. 8 Reproductive Health and Contraception Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  9. 9 Uterine Myomas and Treatments Obstetrics and Gynecology 0 works
  10. 10 Mobile Health and mHealth Applications General Health Professions 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 available68.9%not open31.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

How has Charleston County Public Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 59% higher 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 Charleston County Public Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000041% in 2024.

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

Other research institutions in Charleston

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