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Metropolitan Library System

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Research works
13
▼ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
33
2.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
10%
world 40%
Metropolitan Library System

Not ranked overall: Metropolitan Library System 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 Metropolitan Library System work in?

In all years, 77% of research at Metropolitan Library System is in Social Sciences, 23% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (63%), Computer Science (15%), Arts and Humanities (9%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 10 fractional works · 76.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 8 fractional works · 63.2% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 5 fractional works · 43.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 10.6% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 9.3% of its workConservation: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 3 fractional works · 22.8% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 14.5% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 11.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 8.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKMetropolitanLibrary System13fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences23%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences77%

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 7 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences863.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities19.3%
    3. Decision Sciences02.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting01.4%
    1. Computer Science214.5%
    2. Engineering18.3%
    1. Medicine00.6%
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 Metropolitan Library System?

    Ranked on the quality score, Lee B. Brawner lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Metropolitan Library System.

    1. 1 Lee B. Brawner United States · #3,957,287 worldwide 16 citations · 18 works
    All ranked researchers at Metropolitan Library System

    What are the most cited papers from Metropolitan Library System?

    The most cited paper from Metropolitan Library System is "Youth Disclosure of Sexual Orientation to Siblings and Extended Family" (Erika L. Grafsky, Katherine A. Hickey, Hoa Nha Nguyen et al., 2018), with 65 citations. Next come "The Information Behavior of Catholic Women Discerning a Vocation to Religious Life" (7) and "Designing Library Buildings for the 21st Century" (3).

    Most cited papers
    #PaperReleasedCitations
    1 Youth Disclosure of Sexual Orientation to Siblings and Extended Family Erika L. Grafsky, Katherine A. Hickey, Hoa Nha Nguyen et al. · Family Relations Open access 4 Jan 2018 65
    2 The Information Behavior of Catholic Women Discerning a Vocation to Religious Life Katherine A. Hickey · Journal of Religious & Theological Information 2 Jan 2017 7
    3 Designing Library Buildings for the 21st Century Lee B. Brawner · Journal of Library Administration 30 Sep 1989 3
    4 MANAGING OVERDUES: Facts From Four Studies Paul M. Little · The Bottom Line Managing Library Finances Feb 1989 3
    5 Interlibrary Loan on a Shoestring Gretel Stock-Kupperman · Journal of Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve Jun 2008 2
    All 14 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

    Which research topics does Metropolitan Library System publish most on?

    By volume: Library Science and Administration, Library Collection Development and Digital Resources, Library Science and Information Literacy and Law, Rights, and Freedoms.

    Library Science and Admi…4Library Science and Administration: 4 fractional worksLibrary Collection Development and Digital Resources: 1 fractional worksLibrary Science and Information Literacy: 1 fractional worksLaw, Rights, and Freedoms: 1 fractional worksArchitecture, Design, an…0Architecture, Design, and Social History: 0 fractional worksEarthquake and Disaster Impact Studies: 0 fractional worksEducational Robotics and Engineering: 0 fractional worksHuman auditory perception and evaluation: 0 fractional worksDigital and Traditional Archives Management: 0 fractional worksICT Impact and Policies: 0 fractional works
    Library and Information SciencesInformation SystemsSociology and Political ScienceConservation4 others

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

    1. 1 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 4 works
    2. 2 Library Collection Development and Digital Resources Information Systems 1 works
    3. 3 Library Science and Information Literacy Library and Information Sciences 1 works
    4. 4 Law, Rights, and Freedoms Sociology and Political Science 1 works
    5. 5 Architecture, Design, and Social History Conservation 0 works
    6. 6 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies Transportation 0 works
    7. 7 Educational Robotics and Engineering Artificial Intelligence 0 works
    8. 8 Human auditory perception and evaluation Aerospace Engineering 0 works
    9. 9 Digital and Traditional Archives Management Conservation 0 works
    10. 10 ICT Impact and Policies Media Technology 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 available10.0%not open90.0%

    World: 40% of research is openly available.

    How has Metropolitan Library System's research output changed?

    Output in 2022-2025 was 100% lower than in 2018-2021.

    199020002010
    grewheldshrank

    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 Metropolitan Library System as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000025% in 2017.

    0.00020%0.00040%Metropolitan Library System0.0000059% in 2018199020002010

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

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