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South Carolina State Museum

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Research works
19
▲ 69% vs 2018-21
Citations
650
35.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
34%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
South Carolina State Museum

Not ranked overall: South Carolina State Museum 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 South Carolina State Museum work in?

In all years, 69% of research at South Carolina State Museum is in Physical Sciences, 15% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (46%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (23%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (13%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 13 fractional works · 69.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 46.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 5 fractional works · 28.9% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 9.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 22.9% of its workPaleontology: 4 fractional works · 20.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workLife Sciences: 3 fractional works · 15.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 13.2% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 5.1% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 13.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 8.7% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKSouth CarolinaState Museum19fractional works, all years
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences69%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences14%

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 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science946.3%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences422.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences213.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology02.3%
    1. Social Sciences28.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities02.4%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting01.8%
    4. Psychology00.7%
    1. Medicine01.8%
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 South Carolina State Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, Herbert Hutchinson Brimley lead among researchers whose main affiliation is South Carolina State Museum.

  1. 1 Herbert Hutchinson Brimley United States · #2,683,785 worldwide 19 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at South Carolina State Museum

What are the most cited papers from South Carolina State Museum?

The most cited paper from South Carolina State Museum is "Diversity, Distribution, and Conservation Status of the Native Freshwater Fishes of the Southern United States" (Melvin L. Warren, Brooks M. Burr, Stephen Joseph Walsh et al., 2000), with 407 citations. Next come "Factors Influencing Vascular Plant Zonation in North Carolina Salt Marshes" (367) and "Dining in the Pleistocene—Who's on the menu?" (90).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Diversity, Distribution, and Conservation Status of the Native Freshwater Fishes of the Southern United States Melvin L. Warren, Brooks M. Burr, Stephen Joseph Walsh et al. · Fisheries Oct 2000 407
2 Factors Influencing Vascular Plant Zonation in North Carolina Salt Marshes David A. Adams · Ecology Jul 1963 367
3 Dining in the Pleistocene—Who's on the menu? Matthew J. Kohn, Moriah P. McKay, James L. Knight · Geology Aug 2005 90
4 Late Oligocene Sharks and Rays from the Chandler Bridge Formation, Dorchester County, South Carolina, USA David J. Cicimurri, James L. Knight · Acta Palaeontologica Polonica Open access 21 Aug 2009 67
5 New records and species of leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) from North and South Carolina Roy T. Sawyer, Rowland M. Shelley · Journal of Natural History Feb 1976 59
All 46 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does South Carolina State Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies.

Paleontology and Evoluti…1Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology: 1 fractional worksIchthyology and Marine Biology: 1 fractional worksPaleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils: 1 fractional worksFish Biology and Ecology Studies: 0 fractional worksCommunism, Protests, Social Movements: 0 fractional worksFish biology, ecology, a…0Fish biology, ecology, and behavior: 0 fractional worksHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis: 0 fractional worksVietnamese History and Culture Studies: 0 fractional worksFish Ecology and Management Studies: 0 fractional worksPlant Diversity and Evolution: 0 fractional works
PaleontologyNature and Landscape ConservationAquatic ScienceSociology and Political Science2 others

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

  1. 1 Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology Paleontology 1 works
  2. 2 Ichthyology and Marine Biology Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  3. 3 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Paleontology 1 works
  4. 4 Fish Biology and Ecology Studies Aquatic Science 0 works
  5. 5 Communism, Protests, Social Movements Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  6. 6 Fish biology, ecology, and behavior Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  7. 7 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 0 works
  8. 8 Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 0 works
  10. 10 Plant Diversity and Evolution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 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 available34.1%not open65.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.3%domestic only93.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has South Carolina State Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 69% 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 South Carolina State Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000020% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%South Carolina State Museum0.000039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of South Carolina State Museum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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