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Foundation: 1852

Mission: Driven by a deep-seated culture of sustainable development, Université Laval educates students to be engaged and creative and become model citizens, scientists, and business leaders who have an important impact on the direction that society takes. As a leading French-language institution with a strong international focus, Université Laval strives for excellence in education and research. It seeks to be both an example and a source of inspiration for its partners by mustering the forces of change in Québec City’s thriving university community.

Vision: Our community is committed to providing a one-of-a-kind student experience and cultivating a bold, open, and resolutely interdisciplinary scientific culture focused on the challenges facing our world. We strive to be a humanist university dedicated to promoting the arts and training a new generation of leaders eager to tackle the biggest challenges of society.

History: www.ulaval.ca

10th
Overall percentile
13th
Research percentile
37th
Innovation percentile
4th
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 +685th170th482nd14th
Arts and Humanities +524th172nd453rd21st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 877th306th661st21st
Business, Management and Accounting 396th92nd284th17th
Chemistry 1514th351st1033rd30th
Computer Science 716th200th483rd25th
Dentistry 343rd68th248th5th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +758th159th475th15th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 489th96th321st16th
Energy 1522nd263rd879th34th
Engineering +1109th271st731st32nd
Environmental Science 1057th213th616th20th
Mathematics 1118th254th735th38th
Medicine +706th240th520th22nd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 924th261st639th14th
Physics and Astronomy 825th231st575th21st
Psychology 305th144th278th19th
Social Sciences +466th144th355th21st
Veterinary 568th121st366th14th

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.

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