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Libraries and Information Services

Libraries and Information Services is a research topic within Museology. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of literature and museum exhibitions, focusing on the materiality of literature, curation practices, narrative spaces, and the role of literature in art and history. It delves into the challenges and strategies of exhibiting literary works, author museums, and the cultural significance of literature in museum contexts.

  • Literature
  • Museum
  • Exhibition
  • Materiality
  • Curation
  • Narrative
  • Art
  • History
  • Authorship
  • Curating
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
75% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Libraries and Information Services

Which countries lead Libraries and Information Services research?

By volume, Germany and Switzerland publish the most (2.1k and 195 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 2.1k works
  2. 2 Switzerland 195 works
  3. 3 Austria 193 works
  4. 4 United States 146 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 43 works
  6. 6 France 32 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 29 works
  8. 8 Italy 21 works
  9. 9 Hungary 17 works
  10. 10 Spain 12 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.

Germany: 75.0%Switzerland: 7.1%Austria: 7.0%United States: 5.3%6 others listed: 5.6%75%largest
Germany2,055 · 75.0%Switzerland195 · 7.1%Austria193 · 7.0%United States146 · 5.3%6 others listed153 · 5.6%

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

Which institutions lead Libraries and Information Services research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most Libraries and Information Services research, followed by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Leibniz AssociationGermany 94 works
  2. 2 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 69 works
  3. 3 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 57 works
  4. 4 Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany 38 works
  5. 5 Universität HamburgGermany 33 works
  6. 6 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 33 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 33 works
  8. 8 University of ViennaAustria 33 works
  9. 9 HAW HamburgGermany 33 works
  10. 10 University of CologneGermany 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Libraries and Information Services?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Libraries and Information Services include Michel Foucault and Paul M. Thompson.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k 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 Libraries and Information Services?

The most cited paper in Libraries and Information Services is "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (Ulla Hofmann, 2001), with 2,268 citations. Next come "THROMBELASTOGRAPHY" (449) and "Die Biologie des menschlichen Verhaltens. Grundriß der Humanethologie" (158).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ulla Hofmann Book chapter 2001 2,268
2 THROMBELASTOGRAPHY Susan V. Mallett, D. Cox · British Journal of Anaesthesia Open access Sep 1992 449
3 Die Biologie des menschlichen Verhaltens. Grundriß der Humanethologie Irenäus Eibl‐Eibesfeldt 1984 158
4 Grundfragen der Ästhetik Bild, Musik, Sprache, Körper Ursula Brandstätter 2008 149
5 3.2 Das Selbst als ein Anderer Fernando Toledo · Gegenwartsliteratur Book chapterOpen access 2 May 2022 126
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Where is Libraries and Information Services research done?

The largest centres of Libraries and Information Services research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Munich (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 268 works
  2. 2 HamburgGermany 117 works
  3. 3 ViennaAustria 113 works
  4. 4 MunichGermany 87 works
  5. 5 Frankfurt am MainGermany 76 works
  6. 6 CologneGermany 66 works
  7. 7 ZurichSwitzerland 64 works
  8. 8 StuttgartGermany 60 works
  9. 9 HanoverGermany 50 works
  10. 10 LeipzigGermany 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Furtwangen im SchwarzwaldDE · 22.9 works322×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Libraries and Information Services than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Libraries and Information Services?

Among universities, judged by research, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Basel and TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 13.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →TH Köln - University…University of BaselHumboldt-Universität…Freie Universität Be…
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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
1Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 75.411.4%78.2×69 +125.9%
2University of BaselSwitzerland 71.517.2%27.1×25 +149.6%
3TH Köln - University of Applied SciencesGermany 67.928.5%86.2×12 +59.2%
4Freie Universität BerlinGermany 64.27.7%55.8×57 +53.4%
5Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 62.212.1%15.4×33 +11.4%
6Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 60.210.8%26.4×29 +96.4%
7University of ViennaAustria 60.111.1%26.5×33 -16.5%
8Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 60.018.3%14.0×20 +56.6%
9Bielefeld UniversityGermany 59.010.6%49.1×28 +36.7%
10University of TübingenGermany 57.98.5%20.4×21 +121.4%

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 Libraries and Information Services, country by country

Is Libraries and Information Services research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Libraries and Information Services.

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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 Libraries and Information Services as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Libraries and Information Services0.0096% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Libraries and Information Services 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%Libraries and Information Services9.8% 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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