James Madison UniversityUniversity

United States

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Foundation: 1908

Mission: Career & Academic Planning engages students with opportunities and resources, leading to informed decisions for academic and career success at JMU and beyond.

Vision: The department will be innovative, adaptable, responsible, visible, and diverse so that we can enhance student learning and success. Therefore, we will: Employ technologies that increase our capacity to inform, inspire, guide, and support students, advisors, faculty, employers, and others. Make a real and visible commitment to diversity, thus becoming a more welcoming and multi-culturally competent organization. Develop advising systems, practices, and resources that ensure that students are equipped to make good decisions regarding choice of major and career. Know the characteristics and needs of our students and use that knowledge to design, deliver, and assess quality learning opportunities. Establish a clear departmental identity and marketing strategy that is consistent with our mission and attractive to students, faculty, and employers. Employ staffing and professional development practices that increase our capacity to impact student learning and effectively manage departmental affairs.

74th
Overall percentile
87th
Research percentile
89th
Innovation percentile
20th
Societal percentile

Evolution of the institution

The following data gives a quick reading on the scientific performance in the last years. The research ranking refers to the volume, impact and quality of the institution's research output. The innovation ranking is calculated on the number of patent applications of the institution and the citations that its research output receives from patents. Finally, the societal ranking is based on the number of pages of the institution's website and the number of backlinks and mentions from social networks.

Compared to its context

The result of the evaluation of the institution can be compared to obtain a view of the country, the region to which it belongs and the institutions of the world, placing it in their respective positions.

Compared to All sectors (percentiles)
Compared to Universities sector (percentiles)

Ranks by Subject areas/categories

We have divided the scientific output of the institution into 19 large areas of knowledge and the following table shows only the ranks in different territorial domains achieved by the institution in each of the areas. For an institution to have a presence in an area, it is necessary that it exceed in the last year a minimum output threshold equivalent to twice the percentage that this area represents in the world. If you need scientific indicators on these areas visit Scopus and/or SciVal.

 
AreaWorldNorthern AmericaOECDUnited States
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +3909th554th2180th482nd
Arts and Humanities 1399th337th1091st299th
Business, Management and Accounting 1232nd253rd823rd222nd
Computer Science 3324th469th1858th415th
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2937th431st1622nd372nd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1612th264th975th230th
Environmental Science 4233rd539th2196th469th
Mathematics 1947th349th1203rd304th
Medicine +4893rd859th3085th738th
Psychology 1621st484th1302nd428th
Social Sciences +1477th338th1051st297th

Publishing profile

These are the journals used by the institution's researchers to publish their work in the last year. The size of each circle represents the value of the SJR of the publication, and its spatial position represents its subject matter.

This visualizatión allows you to identify the knowledge areas where the institution has published, recognize the prestige of the scientific journals in which the institution knowledge has been published, and identify predominant scientific communities.

Where is the institution located?

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  • Health
  • Universities
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