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Filson Historical Society

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Research works
9
▼ 67% vs 2018-21
Citations
34
3.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
4%
world 40%
Filson Historical Society

Not ranked overall: Filson Historical Society 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 Filson Historical Society work in?

In all years, 88% of research at Filson Historical Society is in Social Sciences, 12% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (62%), Business, Management and Accounting (17%), Environmental Science (11%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 8 fractional works · 87.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 62.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 22.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 20.0% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 10.1% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 8.2% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 17.3% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 17.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 4.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 10.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 10.9% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workALL ITS WORKFilson HistoricalSociety9fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences12%Social Sciences88%

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 2 domains and 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences662.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting217.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance04.8%
    4. Arts and Humanities03.6%
    1. Environmental Science110.9%
    2. Engineering01.2%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Filson Historical Society?

Ranked on the quality score, Mark V. Wetherington lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Filson Historical Society.

  1. 1 Mark V. Wetherington United States · #3,975,242 worldwide 51 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at Filson Historical Society

What are the most cited papers from Filson Historical Society?

The most cited paper from Filson Historical Society is "Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860" (A. Glenn Crothers, 2007), with 46 citations. Next come ""If I See Some of This in Writing, I'm Going to Shoot You": Reluctant Narrators, Taboo Topics, and the Ethical Dilemmas of the Oral Historian" (40) and "Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside" (9).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Planting a Capitalist South: Masters, Merchants, and Manufacturers in the Southern Interior, 1790-1860 A. Glenn Crothers · Journal of American History Mar 2007 46
2 "If I See Some of This in Writing, I'm Going to Shoot You": Reluctant Narrators, Taboo Topics, and the Ethical Dilemmas of the Oral Historian Tracy E. K’Meyer, A. Glenn Crothers · The Oral History Review 2007 40
3 Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside Mark V. Wetherington · Journal of American History Jun 2007 9
4 Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean A. Glenn Crothers · Journal of American History Jun 2011 2
5 Jefferson's Freeholders and the Politics of Ownership in the Old Dominion A. Glenn Crothers · Journal of American History Nov 2013 1
All 8 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Filson Historical Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies and Human auditory perception and evaluation.

Diverse Scientific and E…0Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies: 0 fractional worksEarthquake and Disaster …0Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies: 0 fractional worksHuman auditory perceptio…0Human auditory perception and evaluation: 0 fractional works
Economics and EconometricsTransportationAerospace Engineering

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

  1. 1 Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  2. 2 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies Transportation 0 works
  3. 3 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 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 available3.6%not open96.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

How has Filson Historical Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 67% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Filson Historical Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000024% in 2018.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Filson Historical Society0.0000063% in 2022200020102020

Fractional works of Filson Historical Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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