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Los Rios Community College District

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Research works
14
▲ 146% vs 2018-21
Citations
70
4.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
20%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Los Rios Community College District

Not ranked overall: Los Rios Community College District 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 Los Rios Community College District work in?

In all years, 67% of research at Los Rios Community College District is in Social Sciences, 17% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (46%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Environmental Science (11%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 10 fractional works · 67.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 46.0% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 24.2% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 9.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 12.6% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 17.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 10.8% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 8.0% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workALL ITS WORKLos RiosCommunity Colleg…14fractional works, all years
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences67%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences746.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities212.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance14.6%
    4. Decision Sciences03.5%
    5. Psychology00.6%
    1. Environmental Science210.8%
    2. Engineering16.3%
    1. Medicine17.5%
    2. Health Professions00.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.3%
    2. Neuroscience01.2%
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: 1.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 1.56× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceEngineering: 0.68× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.82× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 3.51× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.37× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 2.20× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 4.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science4.82×2 works
  2. Arts and Humanities3.51×1 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.37×0 works
  4. Social Sciences2.20×2 works
  5. Neuroscience1.56×0 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.07×0 works
  7. Medicine0.79×1 works
  8. Engineering0.68×1 works

What are the most cited papers from Los Rios Community College District?

The most cited paper from Los Rios Community College District is "Islam-based legal language and state governance: democracy, strength of the judiciary and human rights" (Emilia Justyna Powell, Steven McDowell, Robert O’Brien et al., 2020), with 23 citations. Next come "The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes dataset, 1945–2015" (22) and "Moving on: A cooperative study of student transfer" (20).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Islam-based legal language and state governance: democracy, strength of the judiciary and human rights Emilia Justyna Powell, Steven McDowell, Robert O’Brien et al. · Constitutional Political Economy 18 Jan 2020 23
2 The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes dataset, 1945–2015 Krista E. Wiegand, Emilia Justyna Powell, Steven McDowell · Journal of Peace Research 27 Apr 2020 22
3 Moving on: A cooperative study of student transfer Janis Cox Jones, Beth S. Lee · Research in Higher Education Feb 1992 20
4 Geographic and taxonomic variation in adaptive capacity among mountain-dwelling small mammals: Implications for conservation status and actions Erik A. Beever et al. · Biological Conservation Open access 14 Apr 2023 14
5 LOOKING INWARD: BUILDING A CULTURE FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Brice W. Harris · Community College Journal of Research and Practice 1998 14
All 22 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Los Rios Community College District publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Water Quality Monitoring Technologies, Archaeology and Natural History and Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics.

Artificial Intelligence …1Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 1 fractional worksWater Quality Monitoring Technologies: 0 fractional worksArchaeology and Natural History: 0 fractional worksGender, Labor, and Family Dynamics: 0 fractional worksScottish History and National Identity: 0 fractional worksHistorical Economic and Social Studies: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental and Cultur…0Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond: 0 fractional worksDemographic Trends and Gender Preferences: 0 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engineering: 0 fractional worksUrban Heat Island Mitiga…0Urban Heat Island Mitigation: 0 fractional works
Health InformaticsWater Science and TechnologyAnthropologyGender Studies5 others

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

  1. 1 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 1 works
  2. 2 Water Quality Monitoring Technologies Water Science and Technology 0 works
  3. 3 Archaeology and Natural History Anthropology 0 works
  4. 4 Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics Gender Studies 0 works
  5. 5 Scottish History and National Identity History 0 works
  6. 6 Historical Economic and Social Studies Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  7. 7 Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences Gender Studies 0 works
  9. 9 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 0 works
  10. 10 Urban Heat Island Mitigation Environmental Engineering 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 available20.1%not open79.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.1%domestic only95.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Los Rios Community College District's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 146% higher 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 Los Rios Community College District as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000027% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Los Rios Community College District0.000015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Los Rios Community College District over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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