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Tuscaloosa Public Library

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Research works
8
▲ 45% vs 2018-21
Citations
81
10.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
25%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%
Tuscaloosa Public Library

Not ranked overall: Tuscaloosa Public 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 Tuscaloosa Public Library work in?

In all years, 66% of research at Tuscaloosa Public Library is in Social Sciences, 27% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (38%), Computer Science (27%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (13%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 66.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 38.0% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 14.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 9.1% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 12.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 12.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 3.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 27.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 27.3% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 25.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workALL ITS WORKTuscaloosa PublicLibrary8fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences27%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences66%

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. Social Sciences338.0%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance112.7%
    3. Decision Sciences17.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting03.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities02.2%
    6. Psychology02.2%
    1. Computer Science227.3%
    1. Medicine03.4%
    2. Health Professions03.2%
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 Tuscaloosa Public Library?

The most cited paper from Tuscaloosa Public Library is "Framing a discussion on paradigm shift(s) in the field of information" (Rong Tang, Bharat Mehra, Jia Tina Du et al., 2020), with 33 citations. Next come "Visual information seeking" (24) and "Toward an impact‐driven framework to operationalize social justice and implement ICT4D in the field of information" (18).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Framing a discussion on paradigm shift(s) in the field of information Rong Tang, Bharat Mehra, Jia Tina Du et al. · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 27 Aug 2020 33
2 Visual information seeking Dan Albertson · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 6 Nov 2014 24
3 Toward an impact‐driven framework to operationalize social justice and implement ICT4D in the field of information Bharat Mehra · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 21 Jun 2022 18
4 “Don't Say Gay” in Alabama: A taxonomic framework of LGBTQ + information support services in public libraries—An exploratory website content analysis of critical resistance Bharat Mehra, Baheya S. Jaber · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 15 May 2023 15
5 Comparing retrieval of systematic review searches in health sciences areas using two major databases Arian Abdulla, Mangala Krishnamurthy · Reference Reviews Review 3 Oct 2016 13
All 18 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Tuscaloosa Public Library publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Social Media and Politics, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Library Science and Administration and ICT in Developing Communities.

Social Media and Politics1Social Media and Politics: 1 fractional worksDigital Economy and Work…0Digital Economy and Work Transformation: 0 fractional worksLibrary Science and Admi…0Library Science and Administration: 0 fractional worksICT in Developing Communities: 0 fractional worksE-Government and Public Services: 0 fractional worksLGBTQ Health, Identity, …0LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy: 0 fractional worksEducation Methods and Practices: 0 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 0 fractional worksMisinformation and Its Impacts: 0 fractional worksExpert finding and Q&A systems: 0 fractional works
CommunicationSociology and Political ScienceLibrary and Information SciencesInformation Systems4 others

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

  1. 1 Social Media and Politics Communication 1 works
  2. 2 Digital Economy and Work Transformation Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 0 works
  4. 4 ICT in Developing Communities Information Systems 0 works
  5. 5 E-Government and Public Services Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  6. 6 LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Social Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 Education Methods and Practices Education 0 works
  8. 8 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 0 works
  9. 9 Misinformation and Its Impacts Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 Expert finding and Q&A systems Information Systems 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 available24.7%not open75.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.8%domestic only88.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Tuscaloosa Public Library's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% 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 Tuscaloosa Public Library as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000023% in 2022.

0.00010%0.00020%Tuscaloosa Public Library0.000015% in 20231990200020102020

Fractional works of Tuscaloosa Public Library over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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