Wilfrid Laurier University *University

Canada

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Foundation: 1960

Mission: Our mission describes our core purpose and commitment to stakeholders: Wilfrid Laurier University is devoted to excellence in learning, research, scholarship and creativity. It challenges people to become engaged and aware citizens of an increasingly complex world. It fulfils its mission by advancing knowledge, supporting and enhancing high-quality undergraduate, graduate and professional education, and emphasizing co-curricular development of the whole student.

Vision: Our vision provides a lens that we use to look at the world to understand what we do and what we aspire to be: Our commitment is to justice and sustainability now and in the future, so we strive to ignite the minds, spirits and hearts of our communities through excellence in teaching and learning, in the discovery, scholarly exploration, and application of new ideas, and in instilling the courage to engage and challenge the world in all its complexit

History: en.wikipedia.org

Subordinate organizations:

  • Balsillie School of International Affairs
49th
Overall percentile
57th
Research percentile
66th
Innovation percentile
21st
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 AmericaOECDCanada
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +2942nd462nd1844th59th
Arts and Humanities +1106th280th883rd31st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4892nd768th3023rd103rd
Business, Management and Accounting 672nd152nd473rd24th
Chemistry 3206th493rd1950th60th
Computer Science 1084th282nd740th36th
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2312th375th1373rd48th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 872nd160th576th23rd
Energy 1453rd256th840th33rd
Engineering 917th234th597th25th
Environmental Science 3295th471st1829th52nd
Mathematics 1746th325th1097th43rd
Medicine +4248th795th2791st108th
Psychology 870th309th736th37th
Social Sciences +869th226th651st31st

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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