Northwestern University, Evanston *University

United States

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Foundation: 1851

Mission: Northwestern is committed to excellent teaching, innovative research and the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.northwestern.edu

Subordinate organizations:

2nd
Overall percentile
1st
Research percentile
7th
Innovation percentile
1st
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 +546th150th382nd142nd
Arts and Humanities +55th27th51st26th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 86th42nd64th41st
Business, Management and Accounting 148th31st98th29th
Chemistry 96th40th59th38th
Computer Science 221st68th125th64th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +337th77th187th72nd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 42nd12th27th12th
Energy 120th25th49th25th
Engineering +173rd55th93rd53rd
Environmental Science 276th55th129th51st
Mathematics 259th69th146th64th
Medicine +56th30th46th29th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 228th82nd143rd80th
Physics and Astronomy 198th77th133rd75th
Psychology 35th24th35th21st
Social Sciences +88th37th67th34th

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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