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Foundation: 2004
Mission: The University of Nizwa is a non-profit academic institution, which is governed by its faculty. It shall promote positive thinking, preserve the nation’s Islamic and cultural heritage and identity, faith in Allah and loyalty to the country and His Majesty. Its purpose is to broadly educate students and equip them with values, knowledge and life skills needed to enrich their lives and enable them to meaningfully contribute to the progress of society. To achieve its mission, the University shall develop dynamic integrative programs which provide high quality academic training, research and intellectual development.
Vision: The University of Nizwa aspires to be a beacon (minaret) of knowledge and enlightenment as a prominent higher education institution of excellence. It is to achieve a worldwide reputation for the quality of its programs and graduates and international distinction for innovation, progress and development.
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.
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.
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.
| Area | World | Middle East | ARAB COUNTRIES | Oman |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences + | 3210th | 196th | 112th | 2nd |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4792nd | 228th | 126th | 3rd |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2623rd | 247th | 148th | 6th |
| Chemistry | 3627th | 238th | 139th | 4th |
| Computer Science | 2968th | 226th | 137th | 2nd |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences + | 2214th | 88th | 62nd | 2nd |
| Engineering + | 1749th | 72nd | 42nd | 1st |
| Environmental Science | 4810th | 389th | 230th | 4th |
| Mathematics | 3078th | 252nd | 150th | 3rd |
| Medicine + | 4203rd | 207th | 114th | 3rd |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 2744th | 163rd | 99th | 2nd |
| Physics and Astronomy | 1289th | 14th | 9th | 1st |
| Social Sciences | 3986th | 333rd | 176th | 5th |
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.
