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

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3rd
Overall percentile
2nd
Research percentile
15th
Innovation percentile
2nd
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 +560th145th371st135th
Arts and Humanities +126th50th115th47th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 228th104th172nd101st
Business, Management and Accounting 228th58th166th49th
Chemistry 648th192nd427th181st
Computer Science 293rd83rd181st74th
Dentistry 115th31st87th28th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +381st87th233rd79th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 85th29th64th27th
Energy 934th164th530th149th
Engineering +413th101st246th93rd
Environmental Science 433rd78th235th73rd
Mathematics 374th81st225th74th
Medicine +145th79th119th76th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 320th120th208th117th
Physics and Astronomy 445th142nd299th135th
Psychology 50th33rd49th30th
Social Sciences +141st51st114th47th

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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