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Louisville Free Public Library

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Research works
3
fractional, all time
Citations
7
2.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
62%
world 40%
International
25%
world 18%
Louisville Free Public Library

Not ranked overall: Louisville Free 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 Louisville Free Public Library work in?

In all years, 56% of research at Louisville Free Public Library is in Social Sciences, 44% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (50%), Engineering (29%), Chemistry (9%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 55.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 50.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 44.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 29.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 8.8% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workALL ITS WORKLouisville FreePublic Library3fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences44%Social Sciences56%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 2 domains and 5 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences250.0%
    2. Decision Sciences05.9%
    1. Engineering129.4%
    2. Chemistry08.8%
    3. Computer Science05.9%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What are the most cited papers from Louisville Free Public Library?

The most cited paper from Louisville Free Public Library is "A Semi-autonomous System for Creating a Human-Machine Interaction Corpus in Virtual Reality: Application to the ACORFORMed System for Training Doctors to Break Bad News" (Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache, Grégoire de Montcheuil et al., 2018), with 4 citations. Next come "Diversifying the Publishing Academy: Increasing Access to Scholarly Publishing Education for Graduate Students" (3) and "Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity" (1).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Semi-autonomous System for Creating a Human-Machine Interaction Corpus in Virtual Reality: Application to the ACORFORMed System for Training Doctors to Break Bad News Magalie Ochs, Philippe Blache, Grégoire de Montcheuil et al. Conference paperOpen access May 2018 4
2 Diversifying the Publishing Academy: Increasing Access to Scholarly Publishing Education for Graduate Students Lidiya Grote, Alexandra Howard, Latisha Reynolds et al. · Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication Open access 4 Oct 2022 3
3 Women Preachers and Prophets through Two Millennia of Christianity Lee S. Burchfield · Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions Apr 2000 1
4 Huckster of culture Clarence R. Graham · Peabody Journal of Education Mar 1951 1
5 Performance and uses of the Refimeve metrological signal, 1000 km from the source C. Mathieu, Etienne Cantin, Hagel Gaëtan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 11 Jun 2025 0
All 5 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Louisville Free Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Open Source Software Innovations, Academic Publishing and Open Access, Wikis in Education and Collaboration and Synthesis of Tetrazole Derivatives.

Open Source Software Inn…0Open Source Software Innovations: 0 fractional worksAcademic Publishing and …0Academic Publishing and Open Access: 0 fractional worksWikis in Education and C…0Wikis in Education and Collaboration: 0 fractional worksSynthesis of Tetrazole D…0Synthesis of Tetrazole Derivatives: 0 fractional worksSynthesis and biological…0Synthesis and biological activity: 0 fractional worksInorganic and Organometallic Chemistry: 0 fractional works
Computer Science ApplicationsInformation Systems and ManagementCommunicationOrganic Chemistry

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

  1. 1 Open Source Software Innovations Computer Science Applications 0 works
  2. 2 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 0 works
  3. 3 Wikis in Education and Collaboration Communication 0 works
  4. 4 Synthesis of Tetrazole Derivatives Organic Chemistry 0 works
  5. 5 Synthesis and biological activity Organic Chemistry 0 works
  6. 6 Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Organic Chemistry 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 available62.5%not open37.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.0%domestic only75.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Louisville Free Public Library's research output changed?

2005201020152020

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