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Lexington Public Library

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Research works
8
▼ 58% vs 2018-21
Citations
43
5.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
35.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
44%
world 40%
Lexington Public Library

Not ranked overall: Lexington Public Library 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 Lexington Public Library work in?

In all years, 66% of research at Lexington Public Library is in Social Sciences, 17% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (56%), Computer Science (14%), Medicine (10%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 66.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 56.2% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 3 fractional works · 33.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 17.0% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 17.2% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 14.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 12.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 16.4% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 10.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKLexington PublicLibrary8fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences66%

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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences556.2%
    2. Psychology04.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities03.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting02.1%
    1. Computer Science114.2%
    2. Engineering03.0%
    1. Medicine110.0%
    2. Health Professions16.4%
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 Lexington Public Library?

The most cited paper from Lexington Public Library is "Associations among Substance Use, Mental Health Disorders, and Self-Harm in a Prison Population: Examining Group Risk for Suicide Attempt" (Madison L. Gates, Asher Turney, Elizabeth H. Ferguson et al., 2017), with 63 citations. Next come "Multimorbidity patterns and associations with functional limitations among an aging population in prison" (49) and "Gender and race disparities in weight gain among offenders prescribed antidepressant and antipsychotic medications" (14).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Associations among Substance Use, Mental Health Disorders, and Self-Harm in a Prison Population: Examining Group Risk for Suicide Attempt Madison L. Gates, Asher Turney, Elizabeth H. Ferguson et al. · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Open access 20 Mar 2017 63
2 Multimorbidity patterns and associations with functional limitations among an aging population in prison Madison L. Gates, Elizabeth G. Hunter, Vivian G. Dicks et al. · Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 2 Apr 2018 49
3 Gender and race disparities in weight gain among offenders prescribed antidepressant and antipsychotic medications Madison L. Gates, Thad Wilkins, Elizabeth H. Ferguson et al. · Health & Justice Open access 23 May 2016 14
4 A Content Analysis of Picture Books Read During Drag Storytimes in Public Libraries Sarah Barriage, Sammie Betler, Rebekah Lawler et al. · Public Library Quarterly 27 May 2024 7
5 A Call to Develop Evidence-based Interventions to Reduce Sexually Transmitted Infections in Juvenile Justice Populations Madison L. Gates, Michelle Staples-Horne, Jeanne M. Cartier et al. · Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved May 2016 5
All 13 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Lexington Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cultural Identity and Representation, Gender Studies in Language, Translation Studies and Practices and Narrative Theory and Analysis.

Cultural Identity and Re…0Cultural Identity and Representation: 0 fractional worksGender Studies in Language0Gender Studies in Language: 0 fractional worksTranslation Studies and Practices: 0 fractional worksNarrative Theory and Ana…0Narrative Theory and Analysis: 0 fractional worksDigital Storytelling and…0Digital Storytelling and Education: 0 fractional worksMentoring and Academic D…0Mentoring and Academic Development: 0 fractional worksLibrary Science and Info…0Library Science and Information Literacy: 0 fractional worksHigher Education Researc…0Higher Education Research Studies: 0 fractional worksComics and Graphic Narra…0Comics and Graphic Narratives: 0 fractional works
PhilosophyGender StudiesLanguage and LinguisticsLiterature and Literary Theory5 others

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

  1. 1 Cultural Identity and Representation Philosophy 0 works
  2. 2 Gender Studies in Language Gender Studies 0 works
  3. 3 Translation Studies and Practices Language and Linguistics 0 works
  4. 4 Narrative Theory and Analysis Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  5. 5 Digital Storytelling and Education Speech and Hearing 0 works
  6. 6 Mentoring and Academic Development Social Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 Library Science and Information Literacy Library and Information Sciences 0 works
  8. 8 Higher Education Research Studies Education 0 works
  9. 9 Comics and Graphic Narratives Visual Arts and Performing Arts 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 available44.5%not open55.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

How has Lexington Public Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 58% 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 Lexington Public Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000045% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Lexington Public Library0.0000043% in 20251990200020102020

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

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