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Idaho Falls Public Library

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Research works
10
▼ 61% vs 2018-21
Citations
74
7.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
31%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Idaho Falls Public Library

Not ranked overall: Idaho Falls 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 Idaho Falls Public Library work in?

In all years, 55% of research at Idaho Falls Public Library is in Social Sciences, 40% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (30%), Computer Science (29%), Arts and Humanities (14%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 55.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 29.8% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.0% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workHuman Factors and Ergonomics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 14.2% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 10.3% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 39.7% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 29.0% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 21.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 3.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workALL ITS WORKIdaho FallsPublic Library10fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences40%Social Sciences55%

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 3 domains and 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences329.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities114.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting03.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.1%
    5. Psychology02.6%
    6. Decision Sciences02.2%
    1. Computer Science329.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences05.1%
    3. Environmental Science04.3%
    4. Engineering01.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology05.1%
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 Idaho Falls Public Library?

Ranked on the quality score, Grove Koger lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Idaho Falls Public Library.

  1. 1 Grove Koger United States · #4,048,785 worldwide 5 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Idaho Falls Public Library

What are the most cited papers from Idaho Falls Public Library?

The most cited paper from Idaho Falls Public Library is "Giving Pleasure Its Due: Collection Promotion and Readers’ Advisory in Academic Libraries" (Rochelle Smith, Nancy J. Young, 2008), with 44 citations. Next come "Using Blackboard to Assess Course-Specific Asynchronous Library Instruction" (28) and "Collection Policy or Documentation Strategy: Theory and Practice" (25).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Giving Pleasure Its Due: Collection Promotion and Readers’ Advisory in Academic Libraries Rochelle Smith, Nancy J. Young · The Journal of Academic Librarianship 13 Oct 2008 44
2 Using Blackboard to Assess Course-Specific Asynchronous Library Instruction Kristin J. Henrich, Ramirose Ilene Attebury · Internet Reference Services Quarterly Jul 2012 28
3 Collection Policy or Documentation Strategy: Theory and Practice Terry Abraham · The American Archivist 1991 25
4 Why Social Interaction and Good Communication in Academic Libraries Matters Maria Anna Jankowska, Linnea Marshall · The Reference Librarian 24 Mar 2004 11
5 Electronic Journals as a Potential Solution to Escalating Serials Costs Robert A. Pikowsky · The Serials Librarian 7 Nov 1997 11
All 22 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Idaho Falls Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Digital Accessibility for Disabilities, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Digital Accessibility fo…0Digital Accessibility for Disabilities: 0 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife M…0Rangeland and Wildlife Management: 0 fractional worksWildlife Ecology and Con…0Wildlife Ecology and Conservation: 0 fractional worksSpecies Distribution and…0Species Distribution and Climate Change: 0 fractional works
Human Factors and ErgonomicsEcologyEcological Modeling

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

  1. 1 Digital Accessibility for Disabilities Human Factors and Ergonomics 0 works
  2. 2 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 0 works
  3. 3 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 0 works
  4. 4 Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecological Modeling 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 available30.8%not open69.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.8%domestic only96.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Idaho Falls Public Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 61% 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 Idaho Falls Public Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000024% in 2024.

still counting0.000050%0.00010%Idaho Falls Public Library0.0000056% in 2025200020102020

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

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