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Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUniversity

United States

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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:

16th
Overall percentile
44th
Research percentile
10th
Innovation percentile
28th
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 747th184th511th169th
Arts and Humanities 1528th349th1164th313th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 764th275th574th259th
Business, Management and Accounting 1154th219th760th190th
Chemistry 1469th346th984th317th
Computer Science 681st184th441st159th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +2844th436th1606th383rd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1746th282nd1033rd248th
Energy 963rd192nd545th172nd
Engineering +1255th288th814th257th
Environmental Science 823rd172nd450th161st
Mathematics 562nd135th342nd125th
Medicine +759th254th564th230th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 255th88th165th84th
Physics and Astronomy 1372nd320th926th286th
Social Sciences 1904th423rd1276th375th

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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