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Charleston Museum

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Research works
38
▲ 25% vs 2018-21
Citations
486
12.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
3%
world 18%
Charleston Museum

Not ranked overall: Charleston Museum 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 Museum work in?

In all years, 54% of research at Charleston Museum is in Physical Sciences, 31% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (42%), Social Sciences (20%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 21 fractional works · 53.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 16 fractional works · 41.8% of its workEcology: 10 fractional works · 25.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 fractional works · 7.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 10.3% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 7.0% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 31.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 19.9% of its workAnthropology: 6 fractional works · 14.6% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 8.7% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 14.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 12.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 fractional works · 8.2% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCharleston Museum38fractional works, all years
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences54%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences31%

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 13 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science1641.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences410.3%
    3. Engineering11.8%
    1. Social Sciences819.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities38.7%
    3. Psychology11.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences512.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    1. Medicine00.5%
    2. Health Professions00.2%
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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.87× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 3.82× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.35× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 4.15× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.66× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.08× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities4.15×0 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.82×0 works
  3. Environmental Science3.35×1 works
  4. Social Sciences3.08×2 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.87×0 works
  6. Engineering0.80×0 works
  7. Health Professions0.76×0 works
  8. Psychology0.66×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.53×0 works
  10. Medicine0.24×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Charleston Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, Edward B. Chamberlain, Paul Marshall Rea and Albert E. Sanders lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Charleston Museum.

  1. 1 Edward B. Chamberlain United States · #1,327,804 worldwide 214 citations · 224 works
  2. 2 Paul Marshall Rea United States · #3,089,313 worldwide 53 citations · 25 works
  3. 3 Albert E. Sanders United States · #3,450,029 worldwide 872 citations · 40 works
  4. 4 Martha A. Zierden United States · #5,012,768 worldwide 225 citations · 52 works
  5. 5 William Post United States · #5,056,380 worldwide 1.5k citations · 106 works
All ranked researchers at Charleston Museum

What are the most cited papers from Charleston Museum?

The most cited paper from Charleston Museum is "Morphological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Cetacea" (Jonathan H. Geisler, Albert E. Sanders, 2003), with 205 citations. Next come "A New Protocetid Whale (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from the Late Middle Eocene of South Carolina" (77) and "Evolution of monogamy in seaside sparrows, Ammodramus maritimus: tests of hypotheses" (43).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Morphological Evidence for the Phylogeny of Cetacea Jonathan H. Geisler, Albert E. Sanders · Journal of Mammalian Evolution Jun 2003 205
2 A New Protocetid Whale (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from the Late Middle Eocene of South Carolina Jonathan H. Geisler, Albert E. Sanders, Zhe‐Xi Luo · American Museum Novitates Open access 2005 77
3 Evolution of monogamy in seaside sparrows, Ammodramus maritimus: tests of hypotheses Jon S. Greenlaw, William Post · Animal Behaviour May 1985 43
4 Oligocene pancheloniid sea turtles from the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A. Robert E. Weems, Albert E. Sanders · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Open access 2014 38
5 Nestling diets of coexisting salt marsh sparrows: Opportunism in a food-rich environment William Post, Jon S. Greenlaw · Estuaries and Coasts Oct 2006 37
All 55 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Charleston Museum?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Population Dynamics, Conservation, Habitat Selection, African Diaspora, Social Inequality, Archaeology of Resistance and Black Feminist Theory.

▲ 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. Climate Change11▲ 11×14 topics
  2. Population Dynamics6▲ 52×6 topics
  3. Conservation6▲ 31×9 topics
  4. Habitat Selection6▲ 157×2 topics
  5. African Diaspora5▲ 328×2 topics
  6. Social Inequality4▲ 55×2 topics
  7. Archaeology of Resistance4▲ 1322×1 topic
  8. Black Feminist Theory4▲ 1322×1 topic
  9. Invasive Species4▲ 17×5 topics
  10. Avian Ecology4▲ 288×1 topic
  11. Migration Patterns4▲ 252×1 topic
  12. Biodiversity3▲ 9.6×7 topics
  13. Predator-Prey Interactions2▲ 71×2 topics
  14. Trophic Cascades2▲ 54×2 topics
  15. Conservation Biology2▲ 53×2 topics
  16. Sustainability2▲ 3.4×3 topics
  17. Molecular Phylogeny2▲ 29×4 topics
  18. Fisheries Sustainability2▲ 43×2 topics
  19. Habitat Fragmentation2▲ 19×2 topics
  20. Animal Movement2▲ 84×1 topic
  21. Biogeography2▲ 15×5 topics
  22. Occupancy Rates2▲ 84×1 topic
  23. Agricultural Origins2▲ 115×1 topic
  24. Conservation Challenges2▲ 60×1 topic
  25. Freshwater Biodiversity2▲ 49×1 topic
  26. Radiocarbon Dating2▲ 115×1 topic
  27. History2▲ 4.9×4 topics
  28. Phylogeny2▲ 22×2 topics
  29. Ecosystem Services1▲ 11×3 topics
  30. Fisheries1▲ 83×2 topics
  31. Island Ecosystems1▲ 81×2 topics
  32. Adaptive Evolution1▲ 40×2 topics
  33. Architecture1▲ 289×2 topics
  34. Holocene1▲ 21×2 topics
  35. Mast Seeding1▲ 108×1 topic
  36. Rodent Eradication1▲ 108×1 topic
  37. Anthropogenic Noise1▲ 97×1 topic
  38. Bats1▲ 78×1 topic
  39. Hibernation1▲ 145×1 topic
  40. Marine Mammals1▲ 97×1 topic

Which research topics does Charleston Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies, Architecture, Design, and Social History, Architecture, Modernity, and Design and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Historical and Cultural …1Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies: 1 fractional worksArchitecture, Design, and Social History: 0 fractional worksArchitecture, Modernity,…0Architecture, Modernity, and Design: 0 fractional worksArchaeology and ancient …0Archaeology and ancient environmental studies: 0 fractional worksArchaeology and Rock Art Studies: 0 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 0 fractional worksInfection Control and Ventilation: 0 fractional worksHuman Rights and Development: 0 fractional worksClimate Change and Health Impacts: 0 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 0 fractional works
AnthropologyConservationArchitecturePaleontology6 others

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

  1. 1 Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Anthropology 1 works
  2. 2 Architecture, Design, and Social History Conservation 0 works
  3. 3 Architecture, Modernity, and Design Architecture 0 works
  4. 4 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 0 works
  5. 5 Archaeology and Rock Art Studies Archeology 0 works
  6. 6 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Infection Control and Ventilation Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 0 works
  8. 8 Human Rights and Development Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 0 works
  10. 10 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 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 available26.9%not open73.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.6%domestic only97.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Charleston Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% 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 Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000049% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Charleston Museum0.0000056% in 20251990200020102020

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

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