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The Urbana Free Library

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Research works
13
fractional, all time
Citations
218
16.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
15%
world 40%
International
1%
world 18%
The Urbana Free Library

Not ranked overall: The Urbana Free Library 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 The Urbana Free Library work in?

In all years, 60% of research at The Urbana Free Library is in Social Sciences, 21% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (43%), Computer Science (13%), Health Professions (10%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 8 fractional works · 60.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 42.6% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 2 fractional works · 18.8% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 10.0% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 21.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 10.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 7.5% of its workMedical Terminology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 8.8% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 14.8% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 12.9% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 10.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workALL ITS WORKThe Urbana FreeLibrary13fractional works, all years
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences15%Health Sciences21%Social Sciences60%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences642.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities110.0%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting03.8%
    4. Decision Sciences03.8%
    1. Health Professions110.0%
    2. Medicine18.8%
    3. Nursing02.5%
    1. Computer Science212.9%
    2. Environmental Science01.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy00.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology03.8%
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.

What are the most cited papers from The Urbana Free Library?

The most cited paper from The Urbana Free Library is "Above‐ground biomass is driven by mass‐ratio effects and stand structural attributes in a temperate deciduous forest" (Alexander T. Fotis, Stephen J. Murphy, Raleigh D. Ricart et al., 2017), with 210 citations. Next come "Why Aren't E-Books Gaining More Ground in Academic Libraries? E-Book Use and Perceptions: A Review of Published Literature and Research" (74) and "Libraries, Low-Income People, and Social Exclusion" (42).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Above‐ground biomass is driven by mass‐ratio effects and stand structural attributes in a temperate deciduous forest Alexander T. Fotis, Stephen J. Murphy, Raleigh D. Ricart et al. · Journal of Ecology 9 Aug 2017 210
2 Why Aren't E-Books Gaining More Ground in Academic Libraries? E-Book Use and Perceptions: A Review of Published Literature and Research Robert Slater · Journal of Web Librarianship 30 Nov 2010 74
3 Libraries, Low-Income People, and Social Exclusion John Gehner · Public Library Quarterly 26 Feb 2010 42
4 The impact of library instruction: do first-year medical students use library resources specifically highlighted during instructional sessions? Ryan S. Rafferty · Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA Open access Jul 2013 21
5 Outreach to Health Professionals in a Rural Area Victoria Pifalo · Medical Reference Services Quarterly 4 Aug 1994 20
All 26 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does The Urbana Free Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders, Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders, Glaucoma and retinal disorders and Quantum Information and Cryptography.

Botulinum Toxin and Rela…0Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders: 0 fractional worksOphthalmology and Eye Di…0Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders: 0 fractional worksGlaucoma and retinal dis…0Glaucoma and retinal disorders: 0 fractional worksQuantum Information and Cryptography: 0 fractional worksQuantum Mechanics and Applications: 0 fractional worksQuantum Computing Algori…0Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture: 0 fractional works
NeurologyPathology and Forensic MedicineOphthalmologyArtificial Intelligence1 others

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

  1. 1 Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders Neurology 0 works
  2. 2 Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders Pathology and Forensic Medicine 0 works
  3. 3 Glaucoma and retinal disorders Ophthalmology 0 works
  4. 4 Quantum Information and Cryptography Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  5. 5 Quantum Mechanics and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 0 works
  6. 6 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 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 available14.8%not open85.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors1.1%domestic only98.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has The Urbana Free Library's research output changed?

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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 The Urbana Free Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000035% in 2017.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%The Urbana Free Library0.000023% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of The Urbana Free Library over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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