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National History Day

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Research works
5
▲ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
85
17.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
51%
world 40%
National History Day

Not ranked overall: National History Day 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 National History Day work in?

In all years, 59% of research at National History Day is in Social Sciences, 41% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (47%), Engineering (35%), Physics and Astronomy (6%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 3 fractional works · 59.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 46.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 40.8% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 34.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 6.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNational HistoryDay5fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences41%Social Sciences59%

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 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences246.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting04.1%
    3. Decision Sciences04.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance04.1%
    1. Engineering234.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy06.1%
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 National History Day?

The most cited paper from National History Day is "Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s" (Lois Scharf, Susan Ware, 1983), with 83 citations. Next come "Anchoring Bias in Large Language Models: An Experimental Study" (5) and "An analysis of the free-rider problem under different perspectives based on game theory" (0).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s Lois Scharf, Susan Ware · Journal of American History Sep 1983 83
2 Anchoring Bias in Large Language Models: An Experimental Study Jiaxu Lou, Yifan Sun · Qeios Open access 28 Jan 2025 5
3 An analysis of the free-rider problem under different perspectives based on game theory Wu, Ruishan · Cambridge journal for junior scientists. Open access 2024 0
4 Choosing a Topic for National History Day: History vs. Current Events Cathy Gorn · OAH Magazine of History Open access Jun 1988 0
5 National History Day on the Move—1983 David Van Tassel · The Social Studies Feb 1983 0
All 5 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does National History Day publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Scientific Research and Discoveries, Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems and Heat Transfer and Numerical Methods.

Scientific Research and …0Scientific Research and Discoveries: 0 fractional worksControl and Stability of…0Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems: 0 fractional worksHeat Transfer and Numeri…0Heat Transfer and Numerical Methods: 0 fractional works
Statistical and Nonlinear PhysicsControl and Systems EngineeringComputational Mechanics

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

  1. 1 Scientific Research and Discoveries Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 0 works
  2. 2 Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Heat Transfer and Numerical Methods Computational Mechanics 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 available51.4%not open48.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

How has National History Day's research output changed?

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

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