Drexel UniversityUniversity

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Foundation: 1891

Mission: Drexel University fulfills our founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing our collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. Drexel is an academically comprehensive and globally engaged urban research university, dedicated to advancing knowledge and society and to providing every student with a valuable, rigorous, experiential, technology-infused education, enriched by the nation's premier co-operative education program.

Vision: Drexel will be the Philadelphia region's leading university excelling in high-quality experiential education, online learning, translational research, technology transfer and business incubation, and urban revitalization. Drexel will use and leverage all of its assets — outstanding faculty; highly motivated students; 130,000 alumni; a pragmatic and entrepreneurial culture; co-operative education; Drexel e-Learning; and our superior location at a major transportation hub — to create an accessible, relevant, and market-leading educational and research platform that benefits our diverse community of students, advances our scholarly work, and champions economic development in our region. Drexel will join the ranks of the most impactful and competitive universities in the United States at a time when the nation is clamoring for educational value, jobs, and new ideas for bolstering our economy.

History: drexel.edu

11th
Overall percentile
19th
Research percentile
21st
Innovation percentile
6th
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.

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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 +1747th328th1191st290th
Arts and Humanities 555th179th475th158th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 903rd310th681st289th
Business, Management and Accounting 569th128th402nd110th
Chemistry 358th139th247th130th
Computer Science 894th247th618th217th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +1953rd331st1201st291st
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 492nd97th322nd81st
Energy 155th34th70th33rd
Engineering +450th129th280th119th
Environmental Science 1807th322nd1064th288th
Mathematics 845th195th541st171st
Medicine +1000th293rd740th266th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 745th226th514th214th
Physics and Astronomy 301st108th200th103rd
Psychology 251st121st228th105th
Social Sciences +501st154th386th132nd

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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