Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUniversity

United States

SCImago Media LogoUnited States in SCImago Media Rankings

Leave a comment or share on

Foundation: 1824

Mission: The application of science to the common purposes of life.

Vision: Prominence in the 21st century as a top-tier world-class technological research university with global reach and global impact.

History:

17th
Overall percentile
41st
Research percentile
12th
Innovation percentile
23rd
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 +626th161st440th151st
Arts and Humanities 1206th298th956th266th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 996th329th750th306th
Business, Management and Accounting 1019th213th695th183rd
Chemistry 795th238th550th219th
Computer Science 843rd234th578th205th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +2805th417th1577th360th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1439th241st895th208th
Energy 662nd143rd372nd129th
Engineering +1039th255th681st227th
Environmental Science 819th168th463rd155th
Mathematics 955th225th626th195th
Medicine +968th286th717th260th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 761st230th525th218th
Physics and Astronomy 1412th312th973rd278th
Psychology 1252nd409th1038th360th
Social Sciences +1619th363rd1142nd321st

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