Northern Arizona UniversityUniversity

United States

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Foundation: 1899

Mission: Our academic programs, research, public service, and creative endeavors enrich lives and create opportunities in Arizona and beyond. We develop solutions to challenges and drive innovation in a supportive, inclusive, and diverse environment.

Vision: NAU leads the way to a better Arizona and a sustainable world through personalized attention to student success and scholarly excellence.

History: nau.edu

24th
Overall percentile
34th
Research percentile
51st
Innovation percentile
10th
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 +1339th273rd928th243rd
Arts and Humanities +934th254th768th227th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1883rd495th1400th446th
Business, Management and Accounting 1225th250th816th219th
Chemistry 1159th303rd798th278th
Computer Science 858th240th589th210th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +905th181st572nd163rd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1320th225th833rd193rd
Energy 908th188th515th167th
Engineering +823rd212th525th191st
Environmental Science 1634th305th961st274th
Mathematics 646th157th416th143rd
Medicine +2177th497th1560th434th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2920th527th1848th469th
Physics and Astronomy 1230th291st852nd262nd
Psychology 1452nd446th1189th393rd
Social Sciences +762nd205th577th177th

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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