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Foundation: 1891

Mission: As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to pathbreaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contribution to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this mission by cultivating a diverse community of learning and discovery that produces leaders across the spectrum of human endeavor.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.rice.edu

8th
Overall percentile
12th
Research percentile
9th
Innovation percentile
6th
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 +963rd210th639th191st
Arts and Humanities +308th111th274th98th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 712th255th531st242nd
Business, Management and Accounting 522nd136th393rd118th
Chemistry 569th176th375th166th
Computer Science 398th102nd246th91st
Earth and Planetary Sciences +346th79th210th73rd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 555th113th381st94th
Energy 172nd29th74th28th
Engineering +256th72nd143rd68th
Environmental Science 577th100th316th94th
Mathematics 460th96th287th87th
Medicine +820th252nd599th228th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 631st206th431st198th
Physics and Astronomy 317th108th204th105th
Psychology 626th244th555th212th
Social Sciences +673rd184th532nd159th

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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