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Des Moines Public Library

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Research works
12
▼ 78% vs 2018-21
Citations
37
3.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
36.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
15%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%
Des Moines Public Library

Not ranked overall: Des Moines 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 Des Moines Public Library work in?

In all years, 49% of research at Des Moines Public Library is in Social Sciences, 25% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (24%), Computer Science (22%), Psychology (14%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 6 fractional works · 48.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 24.4% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 16.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 13.9% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 7.0% of its workGeneral Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 25.4% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 21.8% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 19.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 13.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 10.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 6.1% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKDes Moines PublicLibrary12fractional works, all years
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences25%Health Sciences12%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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences324.4%
    2. Psychology213.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities14.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting03.6%
    5. Decision Sciences01.4%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.8%
    1. Computer Science321.8%
    2. Mathematics02.1%
    3. Engineering00.8%
    4. Environmental Science00.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences19.1%
    2. Neuroscience04.2%
    1. Health Professions110.3%
    2. Medicine01.9%
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 Des Moines Public Library?

The most cited paper from Des Moines Public Library is "Engaging Middle School Students through Locally Focused Environmental Science Project-Based Learning" (Andrea Basche, Vincent R. Genareo, Adah Leshem et al., 2016), with 21 citations. Next come "Changes in referral interviews with teachers after behavioral consultation training" (19) and "A Demonstration of Generalization of Performance Across Settings, Materials, and Motor Responses for Students with Profound Mental Retardation" (14).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Engaging Middle School Students through Locally Focused Environmental Science Project-Based Learning Andrea Basche, Vincent R. Genareo, Adah Leshem et al. · Natural sciences education Open access Dec 2016 21
2 Changes in referral interviews with teachers after behavioral consultation training Linda M. McDougall, Daniel J. Reschly, Julie Madison Corkery · Journal of School Psychology Sep 1988 19
3 A Demonstration of Generalization of Performance Across Settings, Materials, and Motor Responses for Students with Profound Mental Retardation Wendy K. Berg, David P. Wacker, Barbara Ebbers et al. · Behavior Modification 1995 14
4 A Preliminary Evaluation of Independence in a Competitive Employment Setting David P. Wacker, Wendy K. Berg, Melissa B. Visser et al. · Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities Dec 1986 7
5 Asian American Students’ Perceptions of Social Studies Jing Gao · International Journal of Multicultural Education Open access 31 Dec 2020 5
All 17 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Des Moines Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies, Digital Games and Media and Libraries and Information Services.

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 0 fractional worksSexual Assault and Victimization Studies: 0 fractional worksDigital Games and Media: 0 fractional worksLibraries and Information Services: 0 fractional worksDigital Humanities and Scholarship: 0 fractional worksSex work and related issues: 0 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsGender StudiesSociology and Political ScienceMuseology1 others

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

  1. 1 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 0 works
  2. 2 Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies Gender Studies 0 works
  3. 3 Digital Games and Media Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Libraries and Information Services Museology 0 works
  5. 5 Digital Humanities and Scholarship Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  6. 6 Sex work and related issues Sociology and Political Science 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 available14.8%not open85.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.4%domestic only92.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Des Moines Public Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 78% 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 Des Moines Public Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000020% in 2020.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Des Moines Public Library0.0000061% in 20231990200020102020

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

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