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Shelton State Community College

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Research works
15
▼ 86% vs 2018-21
Citations
239
15.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
45%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Shelton State Community College

Not ranked overall: Shelton State Community College 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 Shelton State Community College work in?

In all years, 46% of research at Shelton State Community College is in Social Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (22%), Social Sciences (19%), Health Professions (12%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 7 fractional works · 45.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 19.0% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 11.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 10.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 29.2% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 22.5% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 9.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 6.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 4.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 4 fractional works · 23.2% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 11.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 8.8% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workALL ITS WORKShelton StateCommunity College15fractional works, all years
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences29%Health Sciences23%Social Sciences46%

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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences319.0%
    2. Psychology210.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities16.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting16.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.3%
    1. Computer Science322.5%
    2. Engineering14.5%
    3. Materials Science01.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.1%
    1. Health Professions211.6%
    2. Medicine17.3%
    3. Nursing14.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.1%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.9%
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 Shelton State Community College?

The most cited paper from Shelton State Community College is "Worries with the Web: A Look at Student Use of Web Resources" (Deborah J. Grimes, Carl H. Boening, 2001), with 166 citations. Next come "Social Support and Health Promotion Lifestyles of Rural Women" (72) and "Xrays: A fuzzy expert system for qualitative XRD analysis" (8).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Worries with the Web: A Look at Student Use of Web Resources Deborah J. Grimes, Carl H. Boening · College & Research Libraries Open access 2001 166
2 Social Support and Health Promotion Lifestyles of Rural Women Marsha Howell Adams, Andrea Bowden, D. Layne Humphrey et al. · Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care Open access Feb 2000 72
3 Xrays: A fuzzy expert system for qualitative XRD analysis David K. Wright, C. L. Liu, Damian A. Stanley et al. · Computers & Geosciences Nov 1993 8
4 Modification of a Nutritional Questionnaire for Older Adults and the Ability of Its Knowledge and Attitude Evaluations to Predict Dietary Adequacy Susan E. Thomas, Olivia W. Kendrick, J. Mark Eddy · Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly 21 Dec 1990 7
5 The “Double‐Whammy”: How Cuts in State Appropriations and Federal Pell Grants Harm Rural Community College Students and the Institutions That Serve Them Jonathan Koh, Stephen G. Katsinas, Nathaniel J. Bray et al. · New Directions for Community Colleges Sep 2019 6
All 26 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Shelton State Community College publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors, Health disparities and outcomes, Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery.

Cardiovascular Health an…0Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors: 0 fractional worksHealth disparities and o…0Health disparities and outcomes: 0 fractional worksAssistive Technology in …0Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility: 0 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation an…0Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 0 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 0 fractional works
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineHealthOccupational TherapyRehabilitation1 others

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

  1. 1 Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 0 works
  2. 2 Health disparities and outcomes Health 0 works
  3. 3 Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility Occupational Therapy 0 works
  4. 4 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 0 works
  5. 5 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 0 works
  6. 6 Behavioral and Psychological Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 0 works
  8. 8 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 0 works
  9. 9 Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring Surgery 0 works
  10. 10 Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices Biomedical Engineering 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 available45.1%not open54.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.0%domestic only94.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Shelton State Community College's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 86% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Shelton State Community College as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000090% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%Shelton State Community College0.00000051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Shelton State Community College over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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