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Council on Library and Information Resources

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Research works
88
▼ 22% vs 2018-21
Citations
244
2.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
17%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Council on Library and Information Resources

Not ranked overall: Council on Library and Information Resources 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 Council on Library and Information Resources work in?

In all years, 55% of research at Council on Library and Information Resources is in Social Sciences, 36% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (40%), Computer Science (29%), Arts and Humanities (9%). It does 2.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 49 fractional works · 55.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 35 fractional works · 40.2% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 12 fractional works · 13.7% of its workPublic Administration: 7 fractional works · 8.0% of its workUrban Studies: 6 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 9.3% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 3.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 32 fractional works · 35.9% of its workComputer Science: 25 fractional works · 28.7% of its workInformation Systems: 22 fractional works · 24.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 7.6% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 4 fractional works · 4.2% 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: 2 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMedical Terminology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCouncil onLibrary and…88fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences36%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences55%

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 Sciences3540.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities89.3%
    3. Decision Sciences33.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting22.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.5%
    1. Computer Science2528.7%
    2. Engineering22.8%
    3. Mathematics22.8%
    4. Physics and Astronomy10.7%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.6%
    6. Environmental Science00.2%
    1. Medicine44.8%
    2. Health Professions22.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.9%
    2. Neuroscience00.1%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Council on Library and Information Resources?

Ranked on the quality score, Abby L Smith, FRED C. COLE and Charles Henry lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Council on Library and Information Resources.

  1. 1 Abby L Smith United States · #2,200,892 worldwide 603 citations · 52 works
  2. 2 FRED C. COLE United States · #2,626,395 worldwide 38 citations · 22 works
  3. 3 Charles Henry United States · #2,759,334 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Verner W. Clapp United States · #2,930,494 worldwide 194 citations · 68 works
  5. 5 Hermán Liebaers United States · #3,659,179 worldwide 25 citations · 48 works
  6. 6 Deanna Marcum United States · #3,861,606 worldwide 527 citations · 112 works
  7. 7 Warren J. Haas United States · #4,110,856 worldwide 43 citations · 47 works
  8. 8 W. David Penniman United States · #5,331,525 worldwide 155 citations · 54 works
All ranked researchers at Council on Library and Information Resources

What are the most cited papers from Council on Library and Information Resources?

The most cited paper from Council on Library and Information Resources is "Readiness of U.S. Nurses for Evidence-Based Practice" (Diane S. Pravikoff, Annelle Tanner, Susan T. Pierce, 2005), with 584 citations. Next come "Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities" (87) and "The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), Academic Libraries, and Access to Government Information" (37).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Readiness of U.S. Nurses for Evidence-Based Practice Diane S. Pravikoff, Annelle Tanner, Susan T. Pierce · AJN American Journal of Nursing Sep 2005 584
2 Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities Donald West King, Carol Tenopir, Carol Hansen Montgomery et al. · D-Lib Magazine Open access Oct 2003 87
3 The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), Academic Libraries, and Access to Government Information Paul T. Jaeger, John Carlo Bertot, John A. Shuler · The Journal of Academic Librarianship 23 Sep 2010 37
4 Mughal historians and the memory of the Islamic conquest of India Ali Anooshahr · The Indian Economic & Social History Review Sep 2006 20
5 Digital libraries: For whom? For what? Deanna Marcum · The Journal of Academic Librarianship Mar 1997 15
All 67 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Council on Library and Information Resources?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Academic Libraries, Cultural Competence, Digital Divide, Diversity, Library Services, Social Inclusion, Digital Textbooks and E-Books.

▲ 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 Libraries15▲ 363×3 topics
  2. Cultural Competence10▲ 90×2 topics
  3. Digital Divide10▲ 58×2 topics
  4. Diversity10▲ 60×2 topics
  5. Library Services10▲ 667×1 topic
  6. Social Inclusion10▲ 308×1 topic
  7. Digital Textbooks8▲ 760×1 topic
  8. E-Books8▲ 760×1 topic
  9. Digital Repositories8▲ 340×2 topics
  10. Globalization7▲ 4.5×2 topics
  11. Labor Movement7▲ 211×1 topic
  12. Union Revitalization7▲ 211×1 topic
  13. Economic Impact7▲ 24×2 topics
  14. Entrepreneurship7▲ 29×3 topics
  15. Social Media6▲ 9.4×7 topics
  16. Social Capital6▲ 17×2 topics
  17. Creative Economy6▲ 195×1 topic
  18. Urban Development6▲ 21×1 topic
  19. Linked Data6▲ 83×2 topics
  20. Semantic Web6▲ 43×2 topics
  21. User Engagement5▲ 119×2 topics
  22. Bibliographic Framework4▲ 512×1 topic
  23. Library 2.04▲ 259×1 topic
  24. Resource Description and Access4▲ 512×1 topic
  25. Web 2.04▲ 259×1 topic
  26. Archives3▲ 276×1 topic
  27. Data Sharing3▲ 182×1 topic
  28. Digital Literacy3▲ 12×2 topics
  29. Digital Preservation3▲ 237×1 topic
  30. Scientific Data Management3▲ 234×1 topic
  31. Data Visualization3▲ 71×2 topics
  32. Information Behavior3▲ 183×1 topic
  33. Information Literacy3▲ 23×1 topic
  34. Knowledge Management2▲ 6.1×2 topics
  35. Digital Humanities2▲ 189×1 topic
  36. Literary History2▲ 71×1 topic
  37. Data Integration2▲ 9.6×3 topics
  38. International Law2▲ 6.9×4 topics
  39. Ontology2▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Infertility2▲ 12×1 topic

Which research topics does Council on Library and Information Resources publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Research Data Management Practices, ICT in Developing Communities, Library Science and Information Systems and Libraries and Information Services.

Research Data Management Practices: 1 fractional worksICT in Developing Communities: 1 fractional worksLibrary Science and Info…1Library Science and Information Systems: 1 fractional worksLibraries and Informatio…1Libraries and Information Services: 1 fractional worksHomelessness and Social Issues: 0 fractional worksSocial Media and Politics: 0 fractional worksParticipatory Visual Research Methods: 0 fractional worksLibrary Science and Administration: 0 fractional worksFocus Groups and Qualitative Methods: 0 fractional worksDigital and Traditional Archives Management: 0 fractional works
Information SystemsMuseologyGeneral Health ProfessionsCommunication3 others

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

  1. 1 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 1 works
  2. 2 ICT in Developing Communities Information Systems 1 works
  3. 3 Library Science and Information Systems Information Systems 1 works
  4. 4 Libraries and Information Services Museology 1 works
  5. 5 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 0 works
  6. 6 Social Media and Politics Communication 0 works
  7. 7 Participatory Visual Research Methods Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  8. 8 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 0 works
  9. 9 Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 Digital and Traditional Archives Management Conservation 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 available17.0%not open83.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.8%domestic only96.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Council on Library and Information Resources's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% 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 Council on Library and Information Resources as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2023.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%Council on Library and Information Resources0.000034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Council on Library and Information Resources over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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