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Evanston Public Library

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Research works
4
fractional, all time
Citations
27
7.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
13%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Evanston Public Library

Not ranked overall: Evanston Public Library is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Evanston Public Library work in?

In all years, 74% of research at Evanston Public Library is in Social Sciences, 20% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (69%), Engineering (20%), Health Professions (3%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 3 fractional works · 74.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 68.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 20.0% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 20.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workALL ITS WORKEvanston PublicLibrary4fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences74%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 3 domains and 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences268.6%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance02.9%
    3. Psychology02.9%
    1. Engineering120.0%
    1. Health Professions02.9%
    2. Medicine02.9%
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 Evanston Public Library?

The most cited paper from Evanston Public Library is "Educational correlates of adolescents' sexual attitudes and behavior" (Brent C. Miller, Karen R. Sneesby, 1988), with 75 citations. Next come "Atrioventricular nodal reentry with an antegrade slow pathway and retrograde slow pathway: Clinical and electrophysiologic properties" (12) and "Incorporating Nonfiction into Readers’ Advisory Services" (9).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Educational correlates of adolescents' sexual attitudes and behavior Brent C. Miller, Karen R. Sneesby · Journal of Youth and Adolescence Dec 1988 75
2 Atrioventricular nodal reentry with an antegrade slow pathway and retrograde slow pathway: Clinical and electrophysiologic properties Jeffrey M. Baerman, Xunzhang Wang, Warren M. Jackman · Journal of the American College of Cardiology Open access Feb 1991 12
3 Incorporating Nonfiction into Readers’ Advisory Services Barry Trott, Abby E. Alpert · Reference & User Services Quarterly Open access Sep 2006 9
4 Is time of the essence? A temporal meta-synthesis of seven media effects theories Nathan Walter, Christopher M. Dobmeier, Stephen A. Rains et al. · Journal of Communication 17 Jul 2025 2
5 Teens and Social Networking Services Maryann Mori · IGI Global eBooks Book chapter 2009 1
All 8 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Evanston Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Human auditory perception and evaluation, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Legal case studies and regulations and Media Studies and Communication.

Human auditory perceptio…0Human auditory perception and evaluation: 0 fractional worksDiverse Scientific and E…0Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies: 0 fractional worksLegal case studies and r…0Legal case studies and regulations: 0 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringEconomics and EconometricsPolitical Science and International Relations

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

  1. 1 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  3. 3 Legal case studies and regulations Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  4. 4 Media Studies and Communication Communication 0 works
  5. 5 Social Media and Politics Communication 0 works
  6. 6 Media Influence and Health Literature and Literary Theory 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 available12.8%not open87.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors12.8%domestic only87.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Evanston Public Library's research output changed?

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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.

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