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Foundation: 1776

Mission: The mission of Brown University is to serve the community, the nation and the world by discovering, communicating and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry, and by educating and preparing students to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation. We do this through a partnership of students and teachers in a unified community known as a university-college.

Vision: Our commitment to academic excellence, intellectual freedom and making an impact centers all we do.

History: www.brown.edu

5th
Overall percentile
4th
Research percentile
29th
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 +981st219th688th196th
Arts and Humanities +167th62nd149th58th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 608th233rd457th221st
Business, Management and Accounting 966th206th665th176th
Chemistry 869th253rd604th231st
Computer Science 248th76th143rd69th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +615th137th382nd125th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 211th49th139th45th
Energy 334th69th169th64th
Engineering +494th142nd311th132nd
Environmental Science 1018th207th593rd188th
Mathematics 228th64th127th60th
Medicine +207th103rd165th96th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 856th250th592nd238th
Physics and Astronomy 583rd179th396th167th
Psychology 44th30th43rd27th
Social Sciences +240th92nd191st79th
Veterinary 488th114th319th101st

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.

Where is the institution located?

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