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Foundation: 1892

Mission: As an educational force for positive change in an urban environment, through our community of scholars and our multi-disciplinary degree program which involves our students in the tangible problems of our State, we will prepare students to be leaders in an ever-changing world through education, innovation, and collaboration.

Vision: The University of Rhode Island Feinstein Providence Campus and the Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education will play a major role in advancing the Mission of the University of Rhode Island, particularly in achieving the international standing as a leader in urban research and service opportunities in continuing education, community development, professional development and scholarship. Recognizing the world-wide trend towards urbanization, we will deepen our students’ education through engagement with the rich and diverse environment that a major city provides. Through the University’s Urban Grant designation, the Providence Campus and the Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education will benefit the State of Rhode Island and the world.

History: www.uri.edu

22nd
Overall percentile
38th
Research percentile
30th
Innovation percentile
13th
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.

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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 +2161st370th1431st326th
Arts and Humanities 1192nd294th944th262nd
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2220th558th1650th500th
Business, Management and Accounting 1058th222nd718th192nd
Chemistry 1051st288th724th263rd
Computer Science 499th139th323rd126th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +1612th285th1008th253rd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 767th134th506th113th
Energy 258th54th124th49th
Engineering +642nd177th404th162nd
Environmental Science 1897th332nd1112th298th
Mathematics 1217th269th799th230th
Medicine +2631st567th1871st492nd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2033rd432nd1372nd386th
Physics and Astronomy 677th198th467th182nd
Psychology 739th276th640th241st
Social Sciences +1151st289th848th252nd

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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