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Santa Monica Public Library

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Research works
5
fractional, all time
Citations
294
56.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
8%
world 40%
International
5%
world 18%
Santa Monica Public Library

Not ranked overall: Santa Monica Public 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 Santa Monica Public Library work in?

In all years, 51% of research at Santa Monica Public Library is in Social Sciences, 36% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (32%), Computer Science (26%), Social Sciences (13%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 3 fractional works · 51.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 32.2% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 19.3% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.9% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 35.8% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 25.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 25.6% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 12.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 6.4% of its workALL ITS WORKSanta MonicaPublic Library5fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences36%Health Sciences13%Social Sciences51%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities232.2%
    2. Social Sciences112.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance06.4%
    1. Computer Science125.6%
    2. Materials Science06.4%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences02.5%
    4. Environmental Science01.3%
    1. Health Professions06.4%
    2. Medicine06.4%
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 Santa Monica Public Library?

The most cited paper from Santa Monica Public Library is "The reconfigured eye: Visual truth in the post-photographic era" (Cynni Murphy, 1993), with 285 citations. Next come "Envisioning information" (5) and "Reference Collections and Staff: Retaining Relevance" (4).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The reconfigured eye: Visual truth in the post-photographic era Cynni Murphy · Journal of the American Society for Information Science Oct 1993 285
2 Envisioning information Wendy Miller · Journal of the American Society for Information Science May 1993 5
3 Reference Collections and Staff: Retaining Relevance Wright Rix · The Reference Librarian 20 Jun 2009 4
4 Identifying falls risk using wearables data in older adults: an observational cohort study Atul Anand, Marie Guglielminetti, Greig Fotheringham et al. · medRxiv PreprintOpen access 30 Nov 2025 0
5 Part I Carol Aronoff · Journal of Library Administration 30 Oct 1985 0
All 6 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Santa Monica Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate change and permafrost, Polar Research and Ecology and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Climate change and perma…0Climate change and permafrost: 0 fractional worksPolar Research and Ecology0Polar Research and Ecology: 0 fractional worksCryospheric studies and …0Cryospheric studies and observations: 0 fractional works
Atmospheric ScienceEcology

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

  1. 1 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 0 works
  2. 2 Polar Research and Ecology Ecology 0 works
  3. 3 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 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 available8.3%not open91.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors4.6%domestic only95.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Santa Monica Public Library's research output changed?

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