Northern Illinois UniversityUniversity

United States

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Foundation: 1895

Mission: The mission of Northern Illinois University is to empower students through educational excellence and experiential learning as we pursue knowledge, share our research and artistry, and engage communities for the benefit of the region, state, nation and world.

Vision: Northern Illinois University's vision is to be an engine for innovation to advance social mobility; promote personal, professional and intellectual growth; and transform the world through research, artistry, teaching and outreach.

History: www.niu.edu

39th
Overall percentile
56th
Research percentile
59th
Innovation percentile
13th
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 +2386th395th1553rd348th
Arts and Humanities +1246th306th984th271st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1188th374th882nd346th
Business, Management and Accounting 954th201st656th173rd
Chemistry 1838th395th1232nd356th
Computer Science 1680th353rd1128th310th
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2185th356th1314th312th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1246th217th802nd186th
Energy 608th129th335th117th
Engineering +1699th339th1104th300th
Environmental Science 3454th485th1907th427th
Mathematics 2523rd405th1488th359th
Medicine +3895th751st2621st656th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 961st267th670th252nd
Physics and Astronomy 2134th392nd1382nd346th
Psychology 569th229th501st200th
Social Sciences +930th243rd699th211th

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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