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Virginia Western Community College

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Research works
34
▲ 165% vs 2013–17
Citations
274
8.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
37%
world 28%

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

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4.98× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.96× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.61× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.59× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.24× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.43× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksMedicineDecision Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.35× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Virginia Western Community College?

Ranked on the composite score, Richard A. Clark lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Virginia Western Community College.

  1. 1 Richard A. Clark United States · #1,371,457 worldwide 12 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Virginia Western Community College

Which keywords describe research at Virginia Western Community College?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Globalization, Student Engagement, Online Learning, Education, STEM Education and Genomics.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization3▲ 5.1×7 topics
  2. Engineering Education3▲ 92×4 topics
  3. Higher Education3▲ 21×6 topics
  4. Education2▲ 5.3×7 topics
  5. Student Engagement2▲ 26×4 topics
  6. Online Learning2▲ 13×3 topics
  7. STEM Education2▲ 20×4 topics
  8. Genomics2▲ 14×4 topics
  9. Curriculum Development2▲ 13×3 topics
  10. Distance Learning2▲ 20×2 topics
  11. Educational Inequality2▲ 72×2 topics
  12. Remote Laboratories2▲ 108×1 topic
  13. Virtual Labs2▲ 108×1 topic
  14. Diversity1▲ 22×3 topics
  15. Educational Technology1▲ 6.2×4 topics
  16. Project-Based Learning1▲ 112×3 topics
  17. Curriculum1▲ 43×2 topics
  18. Human Rights1▲ 4.5×3 topics
  19. Innovation1▲ 4.3×4 topics
  20. Legal Education1▲ 61×2 topics
  21. Professionalism1▲ 30×2 topics
  22. Academic Performance1▲ 48×1 topic
  23. College Retention1▲ 165×1 topic
  24. Lifelong Learning1▲ 24×4 topics
  25. Teacher Preparation1▲ 48×2 topics
  26. Training1▲ 19×2 topics
  27. Academic Achievement1▲ 22×3 topics
  28. Academic Identity1▲ 99×1 topic
  29. Internationalization1▲ 51×1 topic
  30. Agricultural Education1▲ 134×1 topic
  31. Bioinformatics1▲ 25×1 topic
  32. Decision Making1▲ 13×2 topics
  33. E-Waste1▲ 60×1 topic
  34. Entrepreneurship1▲ 11×2 topics
  35. Health Impacts1▲ 45×1 topic
  36. Leadership1▲ 8.5×2 topics
  37. Recycling1▲ 12×1 topic
  38. School Gardens1▲ 134×1 topic
  39. Sovereignty1▲ 27×2 topics
  40. Welfare Rights Advice1▲ 113×1 topic

Which research topics does Virginia Western Community College publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Island Studies and Pacific Affairs, Law, AI, and Intellectual Property and Irish and British Studies.

Animal Nutrition and Phy…0Animal Nutrition and Physiology: 0 fractional worksIsland Studies and Pacif…0Island Studies and Pacific Affairs: 0 fractional worksLaw, AI, and Intellectua…0Law, AI, and Intellectual Property: 0 fractional worksIrish and British Studies0Irish and British Studies: 0 fractional worksDutch Social and Cultural Studies: 0 fractional worksRabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health: 0 fractional worksCriminal Law and Evidence0Criminal Law and Evidence: 0 fractional worksComparative and International Law Studies: 0 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 0 fractional worksMoringa oleifera research and applications: 0 fractional works
Animal Science and ZoologyDemographyArtificial IntelligenceSociology and Political Science4 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 0 works
  2. 2 Island Studies and Pacific Affairs Demography 0 works
  3. 3 Law, AI, and Intellectual Property Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  4. 4 Irish and British Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Dutch Social and Cultural Studies Education 0 works
  6. 6 Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health Animal Science and Zoology 0 works
  7. 7 Criminal Law and Evidence Law 0 works
  8. 8 Comparative and International Law Studies Law 0 works
  9. 9 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology Infectious Diseases 0 works
  10. 10 Moringa oleifera research and applications Plant Science 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 available36.7%not open63.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Virginia Western Community College's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 165% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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