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Nebraska Academy of Sciences

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Research works
6
▲ 79% vs 2018-21
Citations
27
4.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
54%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Nebraska Academy of Sciences

Not ranked overall: Nebraska Academy of Sciences 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 Nebraska Academy of Sciences work in?

In all years, 40% of research at Nebraska Academy of Sciences is in Health Sciences, 35% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (29%), Social Sciences (25%), Environmental Science (14%).

Health Sciences: 2 fractional works · 40.3% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 29.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 8.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 5.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 8.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 8.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 34.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 25.0% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 14.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 8.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 4.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 14.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 13.5% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 7.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 6.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNebraska Academyof Sciences6fractional works, all years
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences40%Social Sciences35%

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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine229.2%
    2. Health Professions08.2%
    3. Nursing03.0%
    1. Social Sciences125.0%
    2. Psychology08.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities01.4%
    1. Environmental Science113.5%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences06.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology03.1%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.52× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Environmental Science: 1.88× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 4.78× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.24× its world share, 1 worksMedicineNursing: 14.27× its world share, 0 worksNursingPsychology: 6.43× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.60× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 14.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Nursing14.27×0 works
  2. Psychology6.43×0 works
  3. Health Professions4.78×0 works
  4. Environmental Science1.88×0 works
  5. Social Sciences1.60×0 works
  6. Medicine1.24×1 works
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.98×0 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.52×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Nebraska Academy of Sciences?

The most cited paper from Nebraska Academy of Sciences is "Seasonality of the Scottsbluff and Lipscomb Bison Bonebeds: Implications for Modeling Paleoindian Subsistence" (Lawrence C. Todd, Jack L. Hofman, C. Bertrand Schultz, 1990), with 44 citations. Next come "Testing Practices and Attitudes Toward Tests and Testing: An International Survey" (25) and "Faunal Analysis and Paleoindian Studies: A Reexamination of the Lipscomb Bison Bone bed" (22).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Seasonality of the Scottsbluff and Lipscomb Bison Bonebeds: Implications for Modeling Paleoindian Subsistence Lawrence C. Todd, Jack L. Hofman, C. Bertrand Schultz · American Antiquity Oct 1990 44
2 Testing Practices and Attitudes Toward Tests and Testing: An International Survey Arne Evers et al. · International Journal of Testing Open access 3 Sep 2016 25
3 Faunal Analysis and Paleoindian Studies: A Reexamination of the Lipscomb Bison Bone bed Lawrence C. Todd, Jack L. Hofman, C. Bertrand Schultz · Plains Anthropologist May 1992 22
4 Exploring Integrative Learning in Service-Based Alternative Breaks Elizabeth K. Niehaus, Courtney Holder, Mark D. Rivera et al. · The Journal of Higher Education 8 May 2017 16
5 Estimation of Minimal Wrestling Weight Using Measures of Body Build and Body Composition W. Thorland, G Johnson, C. Cisar et al. · International Journal of Sports Medicine Dec 1987 9
All 17 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Nebraska Academy of Sciences publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Mental Health Treatment and Access, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

Food Security and Health…0Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations: 0 fractional worksMental Health Treatment …0Mental Health Treatment and Access: 0 fractional worksChild and Adolescent Psy…0Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development: 0 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Wate…0Child Nutrition and Water Access: 0 fractional worksNutritional Studies and …0Nutritional Studies and Diet: 0 fractional worksEarly Childhood Educatio…0Early Childhood Education and Development: 0 fractional worksSoil erosion and sediment transport: 0 fractional worksWork-Family Balance Challenges: 0 fractional worksPlant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics: 0 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife Management: 0 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsSocial PsychologyClinical PsychologyNutrition and Dietetics6 others

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

  1. 1 Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations General Health Professions 0 works
  2. 2 Mental Health Treatment and Access Social Psychology 0 works
  3. 3 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 0 works
  4. 4 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 0 works
  5. 5 Nutritional Studies and Diet Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 0 works
  6. 6 Early Childhood Education and Development Education 0 works
  7. 7 Soil erosion and sediment transport Soil Science 0 works
  8. 8 Work-Family Balance Challenges Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 0 works
  10. 10 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 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 available53.6%not open46.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.4%domestic only91.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Nebraska Academy of Sciences's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 79% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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 Nebraska Academy of Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000063% in 2022.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%Nebraska Academy of Sciences0.000022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nebraska Academy of Sciences over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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