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Research works
7
▼ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
49
7.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
7%
world 18%

Not ranked overall: Russell 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 Russell Library work in?

In all years, 68% of research at Russell Library is in Social Sciences, 31% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (56%), Computer Science (25%), Business, Management and Accounting (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 67.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 56.5% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 2 fractional works · 34.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 9.9% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 7.4% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 8.6% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 4.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 31.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 24.6% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 24.6% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workALL ITS WORKRussell Library7fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences31%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences68%

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 8 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences456.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting18.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities02.5%
    1. Computer Science224.6%
    2. Engineering03.7%
    3. Environmental Science01.9%
    4. Chemistry01.0%
    1. Health Professions01.2%
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 Russell Library?

Ranked on the quality score, Lynn M. Fountain and Arthur S. Meyers lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Russell Library.

  1. 1 Lynn M. Fountain United States · #3,974,050 worldwide 15 citations · 16 works
  2. 2 Arthur S. Meyers United States · #4,159,390 worldwide 5 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Russell Library

What are the most cited papers from Russell Library?

The most cited paper from Russell Library is "The art of the real: fact checking as information literacy instruction" (Jamie Addy, 2020), with 29 citations. Next come "Corporate Annual Reports and the Information Needs of Individual Investors" (13) and "The Textbooks-in-College-Libraries Mystery" (7).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The art of the real: fact checking as information literacy instruction Jamie Addy · Reference Services Review 2 Jan 2020 29
2 Corporate Annual Reports and the Information Needs of Individual Investors Rosemary Scott, Charles Hamilton Smith · Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship 14 Apr 1992 13
3 The Textbooks-in-College-Libraries Mystery Jeremy W. Sayles · College & Undergraduate Libraries 19 Apr 1994 7
4 Trends in Web-Based Services in Academic Libraries Lynn M. Fountain · IGI Global eBooks Book chapter 24 May 2011 3
5 Digital futures: Strategies for the information age Lisa A. Ennis · Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 2 Jun 2003 1
All 8 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Russell Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Library Science and Administration.

  1. 1 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 1 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 available18.4%not open81.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.6%domestic only93.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Russell Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% lower 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.

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