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Kohala Center

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Research works
7
▼ 72% vs 2018-21
Citations
108
15.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
31.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
34%
world 40%
International
5%
world 18%
Kohala Center

Not ranked overall: Kohala Center is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Kohala Center work in?

In all years, 55% of research at Kohala Center is in Social Sciences, 25% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (26%), Psychology (20%), Environmental Science (15%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 54.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 25.6% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 5.2% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 20.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 15.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 6.2% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 25.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 15.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.7% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workPeriodontics: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKKohala Center7fractional works, all years
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences25%Health Sciences7%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 4 domains and 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences225.6%
    2. Psychology120.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities06.2%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting02.4%
    1. Environmental Science115.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences19.1%
    3. Engineering01.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences112.7%
    1. Dentistry07.1%
    2. Medicine00.4%
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 Kohala Center?

The most cited paper from Kohala Center is "Beach showers as sources of contamination for sunscreen pollution in marine protected areas and areas of intensive beach tourism in Hawaii, USA" (Craig A. Downs, Silvia Díaz, William T. White et al., 2022), with 88 citations. Next come "Return to Freedom: Anti-GMO Aloha ‘Āina Activism on Molokai as an Expression of Place-based Food Sovereignty" (57) and "Mapping pollution exposure and chemistry during an extreme air quality event (the 2018 Kīlauea eruption) using a low-cost sensor network" (41).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Beach showers as sources of contamination for sunscreen pollution in marine protected areas and areas of intensive beach tourism in Hawaii, USA Craig A. Downs, Silvia Díaz, William T. White et al. · Journal of Hazardous Materials Open access 9 Jul 2022 88
2 Return to Freedom: Anti-GMO Aloha ‘Āina Activism on Molokai as an Expression of Place-based Food Sovereignty Clare Gupta · Globalizations 15 Sep 2014 57
3 Mapping pollution exposure and chemistry during an extreme air quality event (the 2018 Kīlauea eruption) using a low-cost sensor network Ben Crawford, David H. Hagan, Ilene Grossman et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 21 Jun 2021 41
4 Becoming a New Farmer: Agrarianism and the Contradictions of Diverse Economies* Krisnawati Suryanata, Mary Mostafanezhad, Nicole Milne · Rural Sociology 4 Nov 2020 31
5 Secondary English Students' Engagement in Reading and Writing About a Multicultural Novel Thomas W. Bean, Paul Cantú Valerio, Helen Money Senior et al. · The Journal of Educational Research Sep 1999 25
All 11 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Kohala Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Educational Environments and Student Outcomes, Indigenous and Place-Based Education, Skin Protection and Aging and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

  1. 1 Educational Environments and Student Outcomes Education 0 works
  2. 2 Indigenous and Place-Based Education Education 0 works
  3. 3 Skin Protection and Aging Dermatology 0 works
  4. 4 Microplastics and Plastic Pollution Pollution 0 works
  5. 5 Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts Pollution 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 available34.0%not open66.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.3%domestic only94.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kohala Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 72% 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 Kohala Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000017% in 2022.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Kohala Center0.0000036% in 20241990200020102020

Fractional works of Kohala Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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