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University of Pittsburgh *University

United States

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Foundation: 1787

Mission: The University's mission is to:
* provide high-quality undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences and professional fields, with emphasis upon those of special benefit to the citizens of Pennsylvania;
* offer superior graduate programs in the arts and sciences and the professions that respond to the needs of Pennsylvania, as well as to the broader needs of the nation and the world;
* engage in research, artistic, and scholarly activities that advance learning through the extension of the frontiers of knowledge and creative endeavor;
* cooperate with industrial and governmental institutions to transfer knowledge in science, technology, and health care;
* offer continuing education programs adapted to the personal enrichment, professional upgrading, and career advancement interests and needs of adult Pennsylvanians; and * make available to local communities and public agencies the expertise of the University in ways that are consistent with the primary teaching and research functions and contribute to social, intellectual, and economic development in the Commonwealth, the nation, and the world.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.225.pitt.edu

Subordinate organizations:

2nd
Overall percentile
2nd
Research percentile
13th
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 +855th197th584th177th
Arts and Humanities +142nd48th128th45th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 149th71st113th70th
Business, Management and Accounting 508th110th362nd93rd
Chemistry 454th156th315th146th
Computer Science 281st77th161st71st
Dentistry 95th17th57th16th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +741st151st419th138th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 460th86th304th76th
Energy 852nd177th481st158th
Engineering +450th124th274th118th
Environmental Science 840th174th458th163rd
Mathematics 427th108th253rd100th
Medicine +85th43rd69th42nd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 196th67th120th65th
Physics and Astronomy 394th129th247th125th
Psychology 37th25th36th22nd
Social Sciences +147th51st113th47th
Veterinary 476th112th305th99th

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.

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