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Minnesota Historical Society

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World rank, all time
#33,861
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#7,111
of 7,310
Research works
126
▲ 26% vs 2018-21
Citations
635
5.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.91×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
33%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Minnesota Historical Society

Which fields of science does Minnesota Historical Society work in?

In all years, 69% of research at Minnesota Historical Society is in Social Sciences, 27% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (28%), Arts and Humanities (27%), Computer Science (11%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 87 fractional works · 69.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 36 fractional works · 28.3% of its workAnthropology: 10 fractional works · 8.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 6.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 7 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPublic Administration: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 34 fractional works · 27.1% of its workConservation: 14 fractional works · 11.2% of its workHistory: 9 fractional works · 7.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMarketing: 5 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 34 fractional works · 26.8% of its workComputer Science: 13 fractional works · 10.6% of its workInformation Systems: 12 fractional works · 9.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 9.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 fractional works · 7.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKMinnesotaHistorical…126fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences27%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences69%

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 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3628.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities3427.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting65.0%
    4. Psychology64.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance32.6%
    6. Decision Sciences21.8%
    1. Computer Science1310.6%
    2. Environmental Science129.5%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences32.5%
    4. Engineering32.2%
    5. Mathematics21.9%
    1. Medicine21.6%
    2. Health Professions11.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.9%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology00.0%
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: 0.58× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Computer Science: 0.98× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.14× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.05× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 9.72× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.45× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsArts and Humanities: 5.28× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.67× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.75× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 9.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 12 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics9.72×1 works
  2. Arts and Humanities5.28×1 works
  3. Psychology3.75×1 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.67×0 works
  5. Environmental Science2.05×1 works
  6. Health Professions1.45×0 works
  7. Engineering1.14×2 works
  8. Computer Science0.98×1 works
  9. Social Sciences0.95×1 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.59×0 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.58×0 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.41×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Minnesota Historical Society?

Ranked on the quality score, Grace Lee Nute, James E. Fogerty and Sarah Quimby lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Minnesota Historical Society.

  1. 1 Grace Lee Nute United States · #2,561,762 worldwide 230 citations · 74 works
  2. 2 James E. Fogerty United States · #3,686,520 worldwide 44 citations · 24 works
  3. 3 Sarah Quimby United States · #3,920,046 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Scott F. Anfinson United States · #4,059,406 worldwide 198 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 R. Clouse United States · #4,080,540 worldwide 24 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Michael Brook United States · #4,157,450 worldwide 19 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 Brian Horrigan United States · #4,255,455 worldwide 78 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 D. A. Birk United States · #4,522,768 worldwide 21 citations · 20 works
  9. 9 Mark J. Dudzik United States · #4,756,765 worldwide 10 citations · 20 works
  10. 10 Lucile M. Kane United States · #4,768,547 worldwide 48 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Minnesota Historical Society

What are the most cited papers from Minnesota Historical Society?

The most cited paper from Minnesota Historical Society is "Assessing Validity and Application Scope of the Intrinsic Estimator Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort Problem" (Liying Luo, 2013), with 280 citations. Next come "The Child Neurology Workforce Study: Pediatrician Access and Satisfaction" (38) and "First Things First: Reengineering Finding Aids for Implementation of EAD" (34).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Assessing Validity and Application Scope of the Intrinsic Estimator Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort Problem Liying Luo · Demography Open access 25 Sep 2013 280
2 The Child Neurology Workforce Study: Pediatrician Access and Satisfaction James F. Bale, Mary Currey, Sean D. Firth et al. · The Journal of Pediatrics 4 Dec 2008 38
3 First Things First: Reengineering Finding Aids for Implementation of EAD Dennis Meißner · The American Archivist Sep 1997 34
4 More Application while Less Appreciation: The Adopters and Antagonists of MPLP Dennis Meißner, Mark A. Greene · Journal of Archival Organization Jul 2010 30
5 A cooperative governance network for crop genome editing Nicholas R. Jordan, Kevin Dorn, Timothy M. Smith et al. · EMBO Reports Open access 19 Sep 2017 17
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Which keywords describe research at Minnesota Historical Society?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Archives, Digital Preservation, History, Cultural Heritage, Globalization, Conservation, Environmental Movement and Sustainability.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Archives13▲ 783×1 topic
  2. Digital Preservation13▲ 674×1 topic
  3. Globalization12▲ 5.3×11 topics
  4. History12▲ 12×9 topics
  5. Sustainability11▲ 5.0×6 topics
  6. Cultural Heritage11▲ 20×6 topics
  7. Conservation9▲ 15×1 topic
  8. Environmental Movement9▲ 370×1 topic
  9. Ecosystem Services8▲ 19×2 topics
  10. Community Resilience8▲ 55×2 topics
  11. Traditional Irrigation7▲ 470×1 topic
  12. Water Sustainability7▲ 470×1 topic
  13. Digital Repositories7▲ 227×2 topics
  14. Semantic Web6▲ 35×2 topics
  15. Nationalism6▲ 8.8×4 topics
  16. Linked Data6▲ 66×1 topic
  17. Resource Description and Access6▲ 519×1 topic
  18. Entrepreneurship5▲ 16×2 topics
  19. Branding5▲ 285×1 topic
  20. Gender5▲ 7.1×6 topics
  21. Identity5▲ 5.2×10 topics
  22. Marketing5▲ 67×1 topic
  23. Cultural Identity5▲ 9.0×6 topics
  24. Education5▲ 3.0×9 topics
  25. Public Opinion5▲ 21×2 topics
  26. American founding4▲ 49×1 topic
  27. Constitutional government4▲ 49×1 topic
  28. Ethics4▲ 7.7×4 topics
  29. Feminism4▲ 12×2 topics
  30. Social Change4▲ 23×2 topics
  31. Social Movements4▲ 9.6×2 topics
  32. Archaeology4▲ 20×4 topics
  33. Literature4▲ 5.9×6 topics
  34. Black Studies4▲ 91×1 topic
  35. Civil Rights Movement4▲ 91×1 topic
  36. Labor Movement4▲ 74×1 topic
  37. Union Revitalization4▲ 74×1 topic
  38. Academic Libraries3▲ 53×3 topics
  39. Memory3▲ 9.5×3 topics
  40. Social Inequality3▲ 10×2 topics

Which research topics does Minnesota Historical Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy, American Sports and Literature, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis.

LGBTQ Health, Identity, …1LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy: 1 fractional worksAmerican Sports and Lite…1American Sports and Literature: 1 fractional worksSoil Geostatistics and Mapping: 0 fractional worksSpatial and Panel Data Analysis: 0 fractional worksInfrared Target Detection Methodologies: 0 fractional worksHomotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology: 0 fractional worksUAV Applications and Optimization: 0 fractional worksICT in Developing Communities: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Topology and Set Theory: 0 fractional worksHistorical and Cultural Archaeology Studies: 0 fractional works
Social PsychologyHistoryEnvironmental EngineeringEconomics and Econometrics5 others

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

  1. 1 LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Social Psychology 1 works
  2. 2 American Sports and Literature History 1 works
  3. 3 Soil Geostatistics and Mapping Environmental Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Spatial and Panel Data Analysis Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  5. 5 Infrared Target Detection Methodologies Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology Mathematical Physics 0 works
  7. 7 UAV Applications and Optimization Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 ICT in Developing Communities Information Systems 0 works
  9. 9 Advanced Topology and Set Theory Geometry and Topology 0 works
  10. 10 Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Anthropology 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 available33.2%not open66.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.5%domestic only96.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Minnesota Historical Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% 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 Minnesota Historical Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000039% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Minnesota Historical Society0.000015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Minnesota Historical Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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