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Worcester Art Museum

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Research works
24
▲ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
126
5.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
13%
world 40%
International
3%
world 18%
Worcester Art Museum

Not ranked overall: Worcester Art Museum 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 Worcester Art Museum work in?

In all years, 75% of research at Worcester Art Museum is in Social Sciences, 22% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (47%), Social Sciences (20%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%). It does 2.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 18 fractional works · 75.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 11 fractional works · 47.2% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 11.4% of its workArcheology: 3 fractional works · 11.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 fractional works · 7.1% of its workMuseology: 1 fractional works · 5.8% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workClassics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 19.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 7.0% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 5.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 5 fractional works · 21.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 11.2% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 6.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workTheoretical Computer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKWorcester ArtMuseum24fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences22%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences75%

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 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities1147.2%
    2. Social Sciences519.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance27.0%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting00.7%
    5. Psychology00.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences311.2%
    2. Engineering26.8%
    3. Computer Science12.4%
    4. Mathematics01.4%
    1. Neuroscience12.5%
    1. Health Professions00.5%
    2. Medicine00.1%
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 Worcester Art Museum?

Ranked on the quality score, James A. Welu and Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Worcester Art Museum.

  1. 1 James A. Welu United States · #3,313,966 worldwide 82 citations · 15 works
  2. 2 Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton United States · #3,665,188 worldwide 18 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Worcester Art Museum

What are the most cited papers from Worcester Art Museum?

The most cited paper from Worcester Art Museum is "Evaluation of the relief line and the contour line on Greek red-figure vases using reflectance transformation imaging and three-dimensional laser scanning confocal microscopy" (Paula Artal-Isbrand, Philip Klausmeyer, 2013), with 33 citations. Next come "PURSUING AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION OF HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERS FROM RAKING LIGHT IMAGES" (32) and "Vermeer: His Cartographic Sources" (24).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Evaluation of the relief line and the contour line on Greek red-figure vases using reflectance transformation imaging and three-dimensional laser scanning confocal microscopy Paula Artal-Isbrand, Philip Klausmeyer · Studies in Conservation 24 Sep 2013 33
2 PURSUING AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION OF HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPERS FROM RAKING LIGHT IMAGES C.R. Johnson et al. · Journal of the American Institute for Conservation Open access Aug 2014 32
3 Vermeer: His Cartographic Sources James A. Welu · The Art Bulletin Dec 1975 24
4 The Noninvasive Analysis of Painted Surfaces: Scientific Impact and Conservation Practice Nevin, Austin, Doherty, Tiarna · Smithsonian contributions to museum conservation Open access 9 Nov 2016 16
5 An Evaluation of Decorative Techniques on a Red-Figure Attic Vase from the Worcester Art Museum using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and Confocal Microscopy with a Special Focus on the “Relief Line” Paula Artal-Isbrand, Philip Klausmeyer, Winifred Murray · MRS Proceedings 2011 15
All 28 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Worcester Art Museum?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Cultural Heritage, Conservation, Raman Spectroscopy, X-Ray Fluorescence, Literature, Environmental Monitoring, Remote Sensing and Economic Impact.

▲ 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 25 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Cultural Heritage8▲ 77×9 topics
  2. Conservation3▲ 26×3 topics
  3. Raman Spectroscopy3▲ 45×1 topic
  4. X-Ray Fluorescence3▲ 467×1 topic
  5. Literature2▲ 18×4 topics
  6. Climate Change2▲ 2.9×1 topic
  7. Environmental Monitoring2▲ 24×1 topic
  8. Remote Sensing2▲ 7.0×2 topics
  9. Economic Impact2▲ 21×2 topics
  10. History2▲ 7.7×2 topics
  11. Culture1▲ 11×2 topics
  12. Financial Crisis1▲ 38×1 topic
  13. Global World1▲ 567×1 topic
  14. Identity1▲ 7.1×2 topics
  15. Archaeology1▲ 33×2 topics
  16. Photogrammetry1▲ 118×1 topic
  17. UAV1▲ 118×1 topic
  18. Art Market1▲ 540×1 topic
  19. Investment1▲ 67×1 topic
  20. Artistic Exchange1▲ 271×1 topic
  21. Cultural Transfer1▲ 271×1 topic
  22. Japan1▲ 151×1 topic
  23. Library Services1▲ 255×1 topic
  24. Social Inclusion1▲ 118×1 topic
  25. Society1▲ 18×1 topic

Which research topics does Worcester Art Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Library Science and Administration, Cinema and Media Studies, Narrative Theory and Analysis and Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism.

Library Science and Admi…1Library Science and Administration: 1 fractional worksCinema and Media Studies: 0 fractional worksNarrative Theory and Analysis: 0 fractional worksShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism: 0 fractional works
Library and Information SciencesEconomics and EconometricsLiterature and Literary Theory

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

  1. 1 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 1 works
  2. 2 Cinema and Media Studies Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  3. 3 Narrative Theory and Analysis Literature and Literary Theory 0 works
  4. 4 Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism Literature and Literary Theory 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 available12.7%not open87.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors3.2%domestic only96.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Worcester Art Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021.

1990200020102020
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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 Worcester Art Museum as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000019% in 2023.

0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Worcester Art Museum0.000018% in 202419801990200020102020

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

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