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Sciencenter

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Research works
12
▼ 80% vs 2018-21
Citations
34
2.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
13%
world 40%
International
4%
world 18%
Sciencenter

Not ranked overall: Sciencenter is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Sciencenter work in?

In all years, 59% of research at Sciencenter is in Social Sciences, 36% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (23%), Business, Management and Accounting (18%), Engineering (17%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 7 fractional works · 59.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 22.7% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 11.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 9.8% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 18.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 8.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 8.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 13.2% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 8.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 35.7% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 16.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 12.6% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 12.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.8% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workALL ITS WORKSciencenter12fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences36%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences59%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences322.7%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting218.3%
    3. Arts and Humanities213.2%
    4. Psychology14.8%
    5. Decision Sciences00.3%
    1. Engineering216.6%
    2. Chemistry212.6%
    3. Environmental Science15.1%
    4. Computer Science01.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences02.8%
    2. Neuroscience00.6%
    1. Health Professions01.7%
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 Sciencenter?

Ranked on the quality score, Robert G. Silberman lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sciencenter.

  1. 1 Robert G. Silberman United States · #2,889,372 worldwide 237 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Sciencenter

What are the most cited papers from Sciencenter?

The most cited paper from Sciencenter is "Laboratory Modeling of Laterally-Loaded Drilled Shafts in Clay" (Paul W. Mayne, Fred H. Kulhawy, Charles H. Trautmann, 1995), with 39 citations. Next come "Chemistry at a Science Museum" (15) and "A New Method for Analyzing Data From Visual Artwork" (9).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Laboratory Modeling of Laterally-Loaded Drilled Shafts in Clay Paul W. Mayne, Fred H. Kulhawy, Charles H. Trautmann · Journal of Geotechnical Engineering Dec 1995 39
2 Chemistry at a Science Museum Robert G. Silberman, Charles H. Trautmann, Susan M. Merkel · Journal of Chemical Education 2004 15
3 A New Method for Analyzing Data From Visual Artwork Donna J. DiBartolomeo, Zachary Clark, Katie S. Davis · Visitor Studies 2 Jan 2015 9
4 Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold Robert G. Silberman · Journal of Chemical Education 2004 6
5 On Large-Scale Model Testing of Laterally Loaded Drilled Shafts in Sand S.W. Agaiby, F.H. Kulhawy, CH Trautmann · Geotechnical Testing Journal Mar 1996 4
All 19 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Sciencenter publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Museums and Cultural Heritage, Identity, Memory, and Therapy, Children's Rights and Participation and Child Welfare and Adoption.

Museums and Cultural Her…0Museums and Cultural Heritage: 0 fractional worksIdentity, Memory, and Therapy: 0 fractional worksChildren's Rights and Participation: 0 fractional worksChild Welfare and Adoption: 0 fractional works
MuseologyDevelopmental and Educational PsychologySociology and Political ScienceSafety Research

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

  1. 1 Museums and Cultural Heritage Museology 0 works
  2. 2 Identity, Memory, and Therapy Developmental and Educational Psychology 0 works
  3. 3 Children's Rights and Participation Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Child Welfare and Adoption Safety Research 0 works
  5. 5 Community Health and Development General Health Professions 0 works
  6. 6 Evaluation and Performance Assessment Management Science and Operations Research 0 works
  7. 7 Service-Learning and Community Engagement Education 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 available12.6%not open87.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.6%domestic only96.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sciencenter's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 80% 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Sciencenter as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Sciencenter over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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