Boston CollegeUniversity

United States

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Foundation: 1863

Mission: Inspiration for Boston College’s academic and societal mission is drawn from the University’s distinctive religious and intellectual heritage. As a Jesuit, Catholic University, Boston College is rooted in a world view that calls us to learn, to search for truth, and to live in service to others. To fulfill that mission, we welcome and embrace the contributions of a diverse student body from many faith traditions.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.bc.edu

27th
Overall percentile
36th
Research percentile
48th
Innovation percentile
12th
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 +2097th362nd1397th319th
Arts and Humanities +428th146th370th130th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 965th324th722nd301st
Business, Management and Accounting 283rd62nd198th51st
Chemistry 525th179th362nd165th
Computer Science 2504th423rd1548th373rd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +1142nd214th720th193rd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 266th61st178th55th
Energy 1332nd242nd762nd213th
Engineering 2222nd386th1386th340th
Environmental Science 2195th366th1274th328th
Mathematics 2090th362nd1277th317th
Medicine +3100th638th2159th556th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1581st377th1094th343rd
Physics and Astronomy 853rd237th595th216th
Psychology 235th114th214th98th
Social Sciences +479th149th367th128th

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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