Boston University *University

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Foundation: 1839

Mission: Boston University is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world. Boston University is committed to generating new knowledge to benefit society. We remain dedicated to our founding principles: that higher education should be accessible to all and that research, scholarship, artistic creation, and professional practice should be conducted in the service of the wider community—local and international. These principles endure in the University’s insistence on the value of diversity, in its tradition and standards of excellence, and in its dynamic engagement with the City of Boston and the world. Boston University comprises a remarkable range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs built on a strong foundation of the liberal arts and sciences. With the support and oversight of the Board of Trustees, the University, through our faculty, continually innovates in education and research to ensure that we meet the needs of students and an ever-changing world.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.bu.edu

Subordinate organizations:

3rd
Overall percentile
3rd
Research percentile
17th
Innovation percentile
1st
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 +398th120th277th113th
Arts and Humanities +127th46th115th43rd
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 195th88th145th85th
Business, Management and Accounting 244th57th172nd49th
Chemistry 430th157th299th146th
Computer Science 287th87th175th78th
Dentistry 150th32nd102nd29th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +540th122nd325th111th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 93rd26th61st24th
Energy 560th118th305th107th
Engineering +353rd101st213th94th
Environmental Science 490th104th260th97th
Mathematics 309th80th179th74th
Medicine +135th67th110th63rd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 319th109th208th103rd
Physics and Astronomy 363rd126th241st120th
Psychology 37th25th36th22nd
Social Sciences +129th48th102nd45th

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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