Washington University in Saint Louis *University

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Foundation: 1853

Mission: Washington University in St. Louis’ mission is to discover and disseminate knowledge, and protect the freedom of inquiry through research, teaching and learning. Washington University creates an environment to encourage and support an ethos of wide-ranging exploration. Washington University’s faculty and staff strive to enhance the lives and livelihoods of students, the people of the greater St. Louis community, the country and the world.

Vision: Information not localized

History: wustl.edu

Subordinate organizations:

2nd
Overall percentile
2nd
Research percentile
9th
Innovation percentile
2nd
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 +406th123rd284th116th
Arts and Humanities +103rd38th94th35th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 71st38th53rd37th
Business, Management and Accounting 313th70th219th58th
Chemistry 423rd156th293rd145th
Computer Science 369th108th235th97th
Dentistry 337th67th243rd63rd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +582nd131st359th119th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 344th76th231st67th
Energy 430th93rd228th86th
Engineering +461st133rd289th123rd
Environmental Science 708th143rd396th133rd
Mathematics 639th155th411th141st
Medicine +62nd35th51st34th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 289th97th185th93rd
Physics and Astronomy 320th112th210th107th
Psychology 81st47th77th44th
Social Sciences +252nd94th202nd81st
Veterinary 563rd120th363rd107th

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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