George Washington University *University

United States

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Foundation: 1821

Mission: The mission of the George Washington University is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings of such research.

Vision: Information not localized

Subordinate organizations:

8th
Overall percentile
7th
Research percentile
33rd
Innovation percentile
3rd
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 +1594th307th1091st271st
Arts and Humanities +282nd99th253rd88th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 740th267th555th251st
Business, Management and Accounting 157th33rd104th31st
Chemistry 1042nd286th717th262nd
Computer Science 628th173rd417th152nd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +1013th196th636th177th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 195th43rd125th40th
Energy 570th121st314th109th
Engineering +682nd187th432nd169th
Environmental Science 993rd205th577th186th
Mathematics 758th179th484th158th
Medicine +383rd158th296th147th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 932nd262nd646th248th
Physics and Astronomy 644th191st443rd177th
Psychology 238th116th217th100th
Social Sciences +201st76th160th65th

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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