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Worcester Historical Museum

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Research works
2
▲ 203% vs 2018-21
Citations
2
1.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
20%
world 40%
Worcester Historical Museum

Not ranked overall: Worcester Historical 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 Historical Museum work in?

In all years, 81% of research at Worcester Historical Museum is in Social Sciences, 19% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (44%), Medicine (19%), Psychology (19%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 81.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 43.8% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 18.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 18.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 18.8% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 18.8% of its workALL ITS WORKWorcesterHistorical Museum2fractional works, all years
Health Sciences19%Social Sciences81%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 2 domains and 4 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities143.8%
    2. Psychology018.8%
    3. Social Sciences018.8%
    1. Medicine018.8%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What are the most cited papers from Worcester Historical Museum?

The most cited paper from Worcester Historical Museum is "Liberal Arts for Social Change" (Ken Mondschein, 2020), with 5 citations. Next come "Introduction: Health and Medicine in Historical Social Contexts" (3) and "The Smell of the Insane: Disciplining the Olfactory Domain in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum" (1).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Liberal Arts for Social Change Ken Mondschein · Humanities Open access 31 Aug 2020 5
2 Introduction: Health and Medicine in Historical Social Contexts Jennifer A. Lupu, Madeline Ryan · Historical Archaeology Open access 31 Aug 2022 3
3 The Smell of the Insane: Disciplining the Olfactory Domain in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum Madeline Bourque Kearin · Historical Archaeology 2 Nov 2022 1
4 Study of an early Italian triptych David C. Goist, Ann K. Riggs, Janet W. Hessling · International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship Jun 1988 0
All 4 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Worcester Historical Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Historical and Scientific Studies, Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices and History of Science and Medicine.

Historical and Scientifi…0Historical and Scientific Studies: 0 fractional worksHistorical Psychiatry an…0Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices: 0 fractional worksHistory of Science and M…0History of Science and Medicine: 0 fractional works
Pathology and Forensic MedicineClinical PsychologyHistory and Philosophy of Science

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

  1. 1 Historical and Scientific Studies Pathology and Forensic Medicine 0 works
  2. 2 Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices Clinical Psychology 0 works
  3. 3 History of Science and Medicine History and Philosophy of 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 available20.0%not open80.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

How has Worcester Historical Museum's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 203% higher than in 2018-2021.

1990200020102020

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