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Wisconsin Historical Society

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Research works
97
▼ 82% vs 2018-21
Citations
375
3.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
33%
world 40%
International
3%
world 18%
Wisconsin Historical Society

Not ranked overall: Wisconsin Historical Society 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 Wisconsin Historical Society work in?

In all years, 71% of research at Wisconsin Historical Society is in Social Sciences, 20% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (34%), Arts and Humanities (25%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 69 fractional works · 71.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 33 fractional works · 33.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 12.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 fractional works · 9.4% of its workAnthropology: 9 fractional works · 9.4% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 24 fractional works · 25.1% of its workConservation: 15 fractional works · 15.8% of its workHistory: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 7.9% of its workMarketing: 7 fractional works · 7.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 20 fractional works · 20.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 fractional works · 8.8% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 5 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 6.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 5.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 5.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKWisconsinHistorical…97fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences71%

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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3333.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities2425.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting87.9%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance32.6%
    5. Decision Sciences11.0%
    6. Psychology10.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences98.8%
    2. Environmental Science66.6%
    3. Computer Science44.1%
    4. Engineering10.7%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences33.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.8%
    1. Health Professions22.0%
    2. Medicine11.4%
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.

Who are the top researchers at Wisconsin Historical Society?

Ranked on the quality score, Clifford L. Lord, Louise Phelps Kellogg and James P. Danky lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Wisconsin Historical Society.

  1. 1 Clifford L. Lord United States · #2,040,419 worldwide 478 citations · 34 works
  2. 2 Louise Phelps Kellogg United States · #2,077,288 worldwide 440 citations · 101 works
  3. 3 James P. Danky United States · #2,645,730 worldwide 167 citations · 25 works
  4. 4 Leslie E. Eisenberg United States · #2,927,456 worldwide 1.4k citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Max Evans United States · #3,706,653 worldwide 40 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 Powell A. Moore United States · #3,992,439 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  7. 7 John T. Penman United States · #4,423,546 worldwide 51 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Donald R. Hoke United States · #4,664,262 worldwide 106 citations · 28 works
  9. 9 Marlin F. Hawley United States · #5,273,269 worldwide 47 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at Wisconsin Historical Society

What are the most cited papers from Wisconsin Historical Society?

The most cited paper from Wisconsin Historical Society is "Encyclopedia of the American Left." (ROBERT D. MYERS, M. Buhle, Paul M. Buhle et al., 1991), with 90 citations. Next come "Taphonomic perspectives on hominid site use and foraging strategies during Bed II times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania" (65) and "National Tuberculosis Association, 1904-1954: A Study of the Voluntary Health Movement in the United States" (37).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Encyclopedia of the American Left. ROBERT D. MYERS, M. Buhle, Paul M. Buhle et al. · Journal of American History Mar 1991 90
2 Taphonomic perspectives on hominid site use and foraging strategies during Bed II times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Charles P. Egeland, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo · Journal of Human Evolution 10 Oct 2008 65
3 National Tuberculosis Association, 1904-1954: A Study of the Voluntary Health Movement in the United States Donald R. McNeil, Richard Harrison Shryock · Journal of American History Dec 1957 37
4 Multidisciplinary medical identification of a French king's head (Henri IV) Philippe Charlier, Isabelle Huynh‐Charlier, Joël Poupon et al. · BMJ Open access 14 Dec 2010 32
5 Archival Choices: Managing the Historical Record in an Age of Abundance F. Ham · The American Archivist Open access 1984 25
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Wisconsin Historical Society?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Archives, Digital Preservation, History, Cultural Heritage, Nationalism, Globalization, Advertising and American founding.

▲ 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. Archives15▲ 1171×1 topic
  2. Digital Preservation15▲ 1008×1 topic
  3. Globalization10▲ 5.6×8 topics
  4. History10▲ 13×5 topics
  5. Cultural Heritage10▲ 22×5 topics
  6. Nationalism9▲ 15×2 topics
  7. Advertising8▲ 182×2 topics
  8. American founding8▲ 105×1 topic
  9. Constitutional government8▲ 105×1 topic
  10. Branding7▲ 532×1 topic
  11. Marketing7▲ 126×1 topic
  12. Social Movements7▲ 21×3 topics
  13. Feminism6▲ 24×2 topics
  14. Sustainability6▲ 3.6×3 topics
  15. Public Policy6▲ 14×2 topics
  16. Conservation6▲ 12×3 topics
  17. Environmental Movement5▲ 283×1 topic
  18. Renewable Energy5▲ 5.6×1 topic
  19. Black Studies5▲ 176×1 topic
  20. Civil Rights Movement5▲ 176×1 topic
  21. Archaeology5▲ 32×2 topics
  22. Remote Sensing5▲ 4.3×2 topics
  23. LiDAR4▲ 123×1 topic
  24. Satellite Imagery4▲ 49×1 topic
  25. Community Resilience4▲ 41×2 topics
  26. Traditional Irrigation4▲ 341×1 topic
  27. Water Sustainability4▲ 341×1 topic
  28. Cultural Identity4▲ 8.6×2 topics
  29. Agricultural Origins3▲ 91×1 topic
  30. Radiocarbon Dating3▲ 91×1 topic
  31. Social Inequality3▲ 14×2 topics
  32. Identity3▲ 3.7×6 topics
  33. Intersectionality3▲ 19×2 topics
  34. African Diaspora2▲ 64×1 topic
  35. Black Feminist Theory2▲ 295×1 topic
  36. Hominin Genetics2▲ 87×1 topic
  37. Paleolithic Archaeology2▲ 87×1 topic
  38. Cultural Diversity2▲ 11×2 topics
  39. Mormonism2▲ 348×1 topic
  40. Semantic Web2▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does Wisconsin Historical Society publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Public Health Policies and Education, Influenza Virus Research Studies and Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression.

Vaccine Coverage and Hes…0Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 0 fractional worksPublic Health Policies a…0Public Health Policies and Education: 0 fractional worksInfluenza Virus Research…0Influenza Virus Research Studies: 0 fractional works
HealthGeneral Health ProfessionsEpidemiology

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

  1. 1 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 0 works
  2. 2 Public Health Policies and Education General Health Professions 0 works
  3. 3 Influenza Virus Research Studies Epidemiology 0 works
  4. 4 Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression Social Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Youth Development and Social Support Safety Research 0 works
  6. 6 Education Discipline and Inequality Education 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 available32.9%not open67.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors2.6%domestic only97.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Wisconsin Historical Society's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 82% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Wisconsin Historical Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000020% in 2023.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Wisconsin Historical Society0.0000056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wisconsin Historical Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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