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Florida Southern College

In research, Florida Southern College stands highest in Social Sciences (#8,542 of 14,833 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#7,429 of 9,330 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#14,453
of 22,385 · #13,269 all time
Rank in United States
#2,037
of 3,332
Research works
489
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
4.4k
9.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Florida Southern College

What is Florida Southern College known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #8,542 of 14,833 8.4%257
Social SciencesField #7,429 of 9,330 7.1%124

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Florida Southern College sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Florida Southern College work in?

In 2022-now, 49% of research at Florida Southern College is in Social Sciences, 25% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (25%), Medicine (15%), Computer Science (8%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 48 fractional works · 48.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 25 fractional works · 25.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 10.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 8.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 6.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 fractional works · 3.9% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 24 fractional works · 24.7% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 8.4% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 16 fractional works · 16.1% of its workMedicine: 14 fractional works · 14.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 10 fractional works · 10.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKFlorida SouthernCollege98fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences25%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences49%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. 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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2525.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting88.3%
    3. Psychology66.2%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance55.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities21.8%
    6. Decision Sciences21.7%
    1. Computer Science88.4%
    2. Environmental Science76.7%
    3. Engineering43.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.8%
    5. Chemistry11.4%
    6. Physics and Astronomy11.1%
    7. Materials Science10.8%
    8. Mathematics10.5%
    9. Energy00.3%
    1. Medicine1414.6%
    2. Health Professions10.7%
    3. Veterinary00.4%
    4. Nursing00.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences54.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology32.9%
    3. Neuroscience22.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.7%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.99× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.54× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.72× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.27× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.92× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.09× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.17× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.35× its world share, 7 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.76× its world share, 14 worksMedicineNursing: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 2.99× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2.59× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.75× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.59× its world share, 6 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.03× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.00× its world share, 25 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 3.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary2.99×0 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting2.59×8 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.59×6 works
  4. Psychology2.03×6 works
  5. Social Sciences2.00×25 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.75×2 works
  7. Environmental Science1.35×7 works
  8. Neuroscience1.27×2 works
  9. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.17×2 works
  10. Computer Science1.09×8 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.99×5 works
  12. Chemistry0.92×1 works
  13. Medicine0.76×14 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.72×1 works
  15. Nursing0.69×0 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.63×2 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.54×3 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.49×1 works
  19. Mathematics0.45×0 works
  20. Energy0.37×0 works
  21. Health Professions0.27×1 works
  22. Engineering0.24×4 works
  23. Materials Science0.22×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Florida Southern College?

Ranked on the quality score, Krista B. Lewellyn, Joseph M. Macedonia and Erika Vause lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Florida Southern College.

  1. 1 Krista B. Lewellyn United States · #183,445 worldwide 1.6k citations · 50 works
  2. 2 Joseph M. Macedonia United States · #1,346,258 worldwide 3.1k citations · 61 works
  3. 3 Erika Vause United States · #2,196,512 worldwide 91 citations · 21 works
  4. 4 Christian Roberson United States · #3,019,723 worldwide 60 citations · 22 works
  5. 5 Clarence C. Saelhof United States · #3,025,095 worldwide 174 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Patrick Newman United States · #3,151,161 worldwide 330 citations · 51 works
  7. 7 W. Alan Smith United States · #3,179,383 worldwide 46 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Shawn Hedman United States · #3,330,441 worldwide 105 citations · 19 works
  9. 9 Catherine R. Eskin United States · #3,340,174 worldwide 173 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Shameka J. Shelby United States · #3,376,149 worldwide 273 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Florida Southern College

What are the most cited papers from Florida Southern College?

The most cited paper from Florida Southern College is "A Systematic Literature Review of Servant Leadership Theory in Organizational Contexts" (Denise Linda Parris, Jon Welty Peachey, 2012), with 947 citations. Next come "A supermolecular building approach for the design and construction of metal–organic frameworks" (842) and "Zeolite-like metal–organic frameworks (ZMOFs): design, synthesis, and properties" (777).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Systematic Literature Review of Servant Leadership Theory in Organizational Contexts Denise Linda Parris, Jon Welty Peachey · Journal of Business Ethics ReviewOpen access 21 Apr 2012 947
2 A supermolecular building approach for the design and construction of metal–organic frameworks Vincent Guillerm, Dongwook Kim, Jarrod F. Eubank et al. · Chemical Society Reviews ReviewOpen access 10 Jul 2014 842
3 Zeolite-like metal–organic frameworks (ZMOFs): design, synthesis, and properties Mohamed Eddaoudi, Dorina F. Sava, Jarrod F. Eubank et al. · Chemical Society Reviews ReviewOpen access 24 Oct 2014 777
4 Conceptualization and measurement of celebrity worship Lynn E. McCutcheon, Rense Lange, James Houran · British Journal of Psychology Feb 2002 455
5 Quandle cohomology and state-sum invariants of knotted curves and surfaces J. Scott Carter, Daniel Jelsovsky, Seiichi Kamada et al. · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society Open access 24 Jun 2003 427
All 63 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Florida Southern College?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Political Economy, Climate Change, Corporate Governance, Globalization, Economic Growth, Governance, Technology Integration and Corruption.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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 Change6▲ 2.2×18 topics
  2. Globalization5▲ 2.5×13 topics
  3. Political Economy4▲ 17×3 topics
  4. Corporate Governance4▲ 4.9×8 topics
  5. Economic Growth4▲ 4.3×7 topics
  6. Biodiversity3▲ 3.5×8 topics
  7. Cardiovascular Disease3▲ 2.3×6 topics
  8. Governance3▲ 8.1×2 topics
  9. Technology Integration2▲ 8.2×2 topics
  10. Corruption2▲ 16×2 topics
  11. Regulation2▲ 4.5×3 topics
  12. Emotion Regulation2▲ 7.4×3 topics
  13. Democracy2▲ 6.3×2 topics
  14. Cross-National Study2▲ 97×1 topic
  15. Institutions2▲ 27×1 topic
  16. STEM Education2▲ 4.6×5 topics
  17. Economy2▲ 27×1 topic
  18. Heart Rate Variability2▲ 18×2 topics
  19. Learning Analytics2▲ 17×2 topics
  20. Russia2▲ 48×1 topic
  21. Student Engagement2▲ 4.8×6 topics
  22. Autonomic Nervous System2▲ 33×1 topic
  23. High-Intensity Interval Training2▲ 17×2 topics
  24. Invasive Species2▲ 4.3×5 topics
  25. Physiological Time Series2▲ 33×1 topic
  26. Reflective Practice2▲ 9.9×4 topics
  27. Academic Libraries2▲ 81×3 topics
  28. Gender Differences2▲ 4.7×3 topics
  29. Computational Thinking2▲ 46×1 topic
  30. Library 2.02▲ 217×1 topic
  31. Programming Education2▲ 46×1 topic
  32. Web 2.02▲ 217×1 topic
  33. Professional Development1▲ 7.1×3 topics
  34. Professional Learning Communities1▲ 29×2 topics
  35. Cultural Competence1▲ 10×3 topics
  36. Developmental Trajectories1▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Diversity1▲ 7.6×3 topics
  38. Mega Events1▲ 38×1 topic
  39. Molecular Phylogeny1▲ 8.3×4 topics
  40. Toxins1▲ 13×3 topics

Which research topics does Florida Southern College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Corruption and Economic Development, Russia and Soviet political economy, Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control and Web and Library Services.

Corruption and Economic …2Corruption and Economic Development: 2 fractional worksRussia and Soviet politi…2Russia and Soviet political economy: 2 fractional worksHeart Rate Variability a…2Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control: 2 fractional worksWeb and Library Services2Web and Library Services: 2 fractional worksTeaching and Learning Programming: 2 fractional worksSport and Mega-Event Impacts: 1 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts1COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 1 fractional worksLibrary Science and Administration: 1 fractional worksFlowering Plant Growth and Cultivation: 1 fractional worksTeacher Education and Le…1Teacher Education and Leadership Studies: 1 fractional works
Sociology and Political SciencePolitical Science and International RelationsCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineInformation Systems5 others

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

  1. 1 Corruption and Economic Development Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  2. 2 Russia and Soviet political economy Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  3. 3 Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 works
  4. 4 Web and Library Services Information Systems 2 works
  5. 5 Teaching and Learning Programming Computer Science Applications 2 works
  6. 6 Sport and Mega-Event Impacts Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  8. 8 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 1 works
  9. 9 Flowering Plant Growth and Cultivation Plant Science 1 works
  10. 10 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 1 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 available30.8%not open69.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.9%domestic only92.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Florida Southern College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Florida Southern College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00032% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Florida Southern College0.00039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Florida Southern College over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Florida Southern College7.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.0% in 2021.

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