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Washington County Museum

Research works
7
▲ 1233% vs 2018-21
Citations
23
3.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%

Not ranked overall: Washington County 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 Washington County Museum work in?

In all years, 65% of research at Washington County Museum is in Social Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (57%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (10%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 64.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 57.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 16.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 13.6% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 13.6% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 6.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 6.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 23.9% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 5.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 11.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 7.9% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKWashington CountyMuseum7fractional works, all years
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences24%Social Sciences65%

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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities457.4%
    2. Social Sciences04.5%
    3. Psychology02.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences17.9%
    2. Materials Science06.8%
    3. Environmental Science04.5%
    4. Engineering02.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy02.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences110.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.4%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.78× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.69× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Earth and Planetary Sciences: 14.96× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Arts and Humanities: 17.96× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 2.84× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 18.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 6 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities17.96×1 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.96×0 works
  3. Psychology2.84×0 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.78×0 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.69×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.68×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Washington County Museum?

The most cited paper from Washington County Museum is "Lissamphibians from the late Eocene – early Oligocene transition of the Transylvanian Basin (Romania)" (Márton Venczel, Vlad Codrea, Alexandru Adrian Solomon et al., 2024), with 3 citations. Next come "The toothbrush plant." (3) and "An Analysis of Metal Artifacts Using Xeroradiography" (2).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Lissamphibians from the late Eocene – early Oligocene transition of the Transylvanian Basin (Romania) Márton Venczel, Vlad Codrea, Alexandru Adrian Solomon et al. · Historical Biology 27 Aug 2024 3
2 The toothbrush plant. Ellis J. Neiburger · PubMed 2009 3
3 An Analysis of Metal Artifacts Using Xeroradiography Ellis J. Neiburger · North American Archaeologist Jul 1987 2
4 Museum Administration: An Introduction Carola Rupert Enriquez · The Public Historian Open access 2005 1
5 New Evidence Concerning the Ala Illyricorum from Brâncovenești / Marosvécs Muzeul Județean Mureș, Târgu Mureș, Katalin Sidó, Szilamér-Péter Pánczél et al. · MARISIA Archaeologia Historia Patrimonium Open access 7 May 2025 0
All 7 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Washington County Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: American and British Literature Analysis, Poetry Analysis and Criticism, Contemporary Literature and Criticism and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

  1. 1 American and British Literature Analysis Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  2. 2 Poetry Analysis and Criticism Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  3. 3 Contemporary Literature and Criticism Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  4. 4 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 0 works
  5. 5 Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Anthropology 0 works
  6. 6 Primate Behavior and Ecology Social Psychology 0 works
  7. 7 Geological Formations and Processes Exploration Geophysics 0 works
  8. 8 Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies Archeology 0 works
  9. 9 Bat Biology and Ecology Studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 0 works
  10. 10 Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies Molecular Biology 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 available51.8%not open48.2%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.9%domestic only72.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Washington County Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1233% 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 Washington County Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000061% in 2023.

0.000050%0.00010%0.00015%Washington County Museum0.000021% in 20241990200020102020

Fractional works of Washington County Museum over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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