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York Castle Museum

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Research works
7
fractional, all time
Citations
70
10.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
17%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
York Castle Museum

Not ranked overall: York Castle 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 York Castle Museum work in?

In all years, 76% of research at York Castle Museum is in Social Sciences, 23% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (56%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%), Social Sciences (20%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 75.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 56.3% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 25.7% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 19.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 7.4% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 19.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 12.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 7.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 22.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 21.6% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 14.7% of its workPaleontology: 0 fractional works · 6.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKYork CastleMuseum7fractional works, all years
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences23%Social Sciences76%

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 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities456.3%
    2. Social Sciences119.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences121.6%
    2. Environmental Science01.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
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.

What are the most cited papers from York Castle Museum?

The most cited paper from York Castle Museum is "INAA in the studies of icon paintings originating from South-Eastern Poland" (Ewa Pańczyk, Jarosław Giemza, Lech Walis, 2008), with 5 citations. Next come "An Early Iron Age Warrior-Burial found at St Lawrence, Isle of Wight" (4) and "“Unfinished Business”: Public History in a Postcolonial Nation" (1).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 INAA in the studies of icon paintings originating from South-Eastern Poland Ewa Pańczyk, Jarosław Giemza, Lech Walis · Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Nov 2008 5
2 An Early Iron Age Warrior-Burial found at St Lawrence, Isle of Wight Jeffrey Jones, Ian M. Stead · Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Feb 1970 4
3 “Unfinished Business”: Public History in a Postcolonial Nation Paul Ashton, Paula Louise Hamilton Book chapterOpen access 16 Nov 2020 1
4 The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation. By Aleksander Pluskowski. Medieval Lives, 10. London: Reaktion Books, 2024. 214 pp. $25.00 cloth. Gregory Leighton · Church History Dec 2024 0
5 Susan Gaunt Stearns. Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade. Dustin Mack · The American Historical Review Jun 2025 0
All 7 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does York Castle Museum publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geological Modeling and Analysis, Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis, Vietnamese History and Culture Studies and Reformation and Early Modern Christianity.

Geological Modeling and …1Geological Modeling and Analysis: 1 fractional worksHistorical Studies and S…0Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis: 0 fractional worksVietnamese History and C…0Vietnamese History and Culture Studies: 0 fractional worksReformation and Early Modern Christianity: 0 fractional worksHistorical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics: 0 fractional worksMedieval European Histor…0Medieval European History and Architecture: 0 fractional worksPaleopathology and ancient diseases: 0 fractional worksForensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies: 0 fractional worksHistory of Medicine Studies: 0 fractional worksEvolution and Paleontology Studies: 0 fractional works
Geochemistry and PetrologyHistory and Philosophy of ScienceSociology and Political ScienceHistory3 others

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

  1. 1 Geological Modeling and Analysis Geochemistry and Petrology 1 works
  2. 2 Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis History and Philosophy of Science 0 works
  3. 3 Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  4. 4 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity History 0 works
  5. 5 Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  6. 6 Medieval European History and Architecture Archeology 0 works
  7. 7 Paleopathology and ancient diseases Archeology 0 works
  8. 8 Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies Archeology 0 works
  9. 9 History of Medicine Studies History 0 works
  10. 10 Evolution and Paleontology Studies Paleontology 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 available17.4%not open82.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.5%domestic only72.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has York Castle Museum's research output changed?

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