George Mason UniversityUniversity

United States

SCImago Media LogoUnited States in SCImago Media Rankings

Leave a comment or share on

Foundation: 1949

Mission: A public, comprehensive, research university established by the Commonwealth of Virginia in the National Capital Region, we are an innovative and inclusive academic community committed to creating a more just, free, and prosperous world.

Vision: Information not localized

History: ahistoryofmason.gmu.edu

15th
Overall percentile
22nd
Research percentile
39th
Innovation percentile
5th
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 +1511th296th1047th262nd
Arts and Humanities +392nd132nd341st117th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1613th450th1197th407th
Business, Management and Accounting 350th77th245th62nd
Chemistry 2377th451st1572nd401st
Computer Science 444th124th285th112th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +545th124th329th113th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 223rd53rd148th48th
Energy 2261st312th1223rd271st
Engineering +614th172nd386th158th
Environmental Science 2110th355th1229th317th
Mathematics 525th130th329th118th
Medicine +1764th434th1266th384th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1136th307th803rd287th
Physics and Astronomy 990th256th680th233rd
Psychology 267th129th243rd113th
Social Sciences +219th84th175th72nd

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?

  • Government
  • Health
  • Universities
  • Companies
  • Non-Profit
Loading comments...

Leave a comment

* Required

* Required

* Required

* Required

Embedding this widget into your website

Width: pxHeight: px

Just copy the code and paste it within your HTML code