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Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Digital and Traditional Archives Management is a research topic within Conservation. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the interdisciplinary field of archival science, focusing on digital preservation, records management, information culture, and the role of archives in shaping memory and identity. It delves into topics such as community archives, postcolonial archives, and the challenges of preserving electronic records. The papers also discuss the impact of archival activism and the evolving role of archives in contemporary society.

  • Archives
  • Digital Preservation
  • Records Management
  • Information Culture
  • Community Archives
  • Postcolonial Archive
  • Electronic Records
  • Memory Institutions
  • Metadata Standards
  • Archival Activism
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Which countries lead Digital and Traditional Archives Management research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (681 and 219 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 681 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 219 works
  3. 3 Brazil 145 works
  4. 4 Canada 114 works
  5. 5 Germany 100 works
  6. 6 Australia 83 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 81 works
  8. 8 Italy 80 works
  9. 9 India 79 works
  10. 10 South Africa 78 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 41.0%United Kingdom: 13.2%Brazil: 8.8%Canada: 6.9%6 others listed: 30.1%41%largest
United States681 · 41.0%United Kingdom219 · 13.2%Brazil145 · 8.8%Canada114 · 6.9%6 others listed501 · 30.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Digital and Traditional Archives Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of South Africa publishes the most Digital and Traditional Archives Management research, followed by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 36 works
  2. 2 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 16 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
  4. 4 National ArchivesUnited Kingdom 14 works
  5. 5 Historical ArchivesHungary 14 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 13 works
  7. 7 Monash UniversityAustralia 13 works
  8. 8 Film IndependentUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 11 works
  10. 10 University of North TexasUnited States 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital and Traditional Archives Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital and Traditional Archives Management include David Lawrence Silver and Norman K. Denzin.

  1. 1 David Lawrence Silver United Kingdom 168k citations
  2. 2 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Digital and Traditional Archives Management?

The most cited paper in Digital and Traditional Archives Management is "A review of archival auditing research" (Mark L. DeFond, Jieying Zhang, 2014), with 3,104 citations. Next come "Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions" (1,462) and "The art and politics of interpretation." (1,008).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A review of archival auditing research Mark L. DeFond, Jieying Zhang · Journal of Accounting and Economics Open access 28 Sep 2014 3,104
2 Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions Carol Tenopir, Suzie L. Allard, Kimberly Douglass et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 29 Jun 2011 1,462
3 The art and politics of interpretation. Norman K. Denzin 1994 1,008
4 Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory Joan M. Schwartz, Terry Cook · Archives and Museum Informatics Mar 2002 899
5 Authors and owners: The invention of copyright Scott M. Cutlip · Public Relations Review 1994 872
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital and Traditional Archives Management research done?

The largest centres of Digital and Traditional Archives Management research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Pretoria (South Africa), New York (United States) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pretoria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 76 works
  2. 2 PretoriaSouth Africa 40 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 36 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 31 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 28 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 26 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 24 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 23 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 22 works
  10. 10 AmsterdamNetherlands 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PretoriaZA · 39.7 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital and Traditional Archives Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Digital and Traditional Archives Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of South Africa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Amsterdam score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of South AfricaSouth Africa 86.927.4%35.6×36 -6.5%
2University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 64.228.3%8.0×16 +42.5%
3University of AmsterdamNetherlands 56.414.2%7.5×10 +166.3%
4Uppsala UniversitySweden 54.120.7%7.2×9 +456.1%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 53.511.1%5.8×13 +1.2%
6University of British ColumbiaCanada 50.224.1%3.6×10 -8.5%
7University of North TexasUnited States 49.619.9%18.6×11 +24.2%
8University College LondonUnited Kingdom 48.925.9%3.0×11 -44.0%
9University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 44.814.6%3.3×11 +93.6%
10Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom 44.214.1%14.9×8 +270.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Digital and Traditional Archives Management, country by country

Is Digital and Traditional Archives Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Digital and Traditional Archives Management.

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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 Digital and Traditional Archives Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0094% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Digital and Traditional Archives Management0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Digital and Traditional Archives Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Digital and Traditional Archives Management9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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