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Institution · Reading · United Kingdom

Friends of the National Libraries

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Research works
1
▼ 64% vs 2013–17
Citations
4
4.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
91%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Friends of the National Libraries is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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.

Which research topics does Friends of the National Libraries publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies and Nuclear and radioactivity studies.

Recycling and Waste Mana…0Recycling and Waste Management Techniques: 0 fractional worksGraphite, nuclear techno…0Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies: 0 fractional worksNuclear and radioactivit…0Nuclear and radioactivity studies: 0 fractional works
Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringMaterials ChemistrySafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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

  1. 1 Recycling and Waste Management Techniques Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies Materials Chemistry 0 works
  3. 3 Nuclear and radioactivity studies Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 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 available90.7%not open9.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors100.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Friends of the National Libraries's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 64% lower than in 2013–2017.

20152020

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