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Foundation: 1861

Mission: The preservation, advancement, and dissemination of knowledge.

Vision: The University of Washington educates a diverse student body to become responsible global citizens and future leaders through a challenging learning environment informed by cutting-edge scholarship. Discovery is at the heart of our university. We discover timely solutions to the world’s most complex problems and enrich the lives of people throughout our community, the state of Washington, the nation and the world.

Subordinate organizations:

1st
Overall percentile
1st
Research percentile
7th
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 +111th33rd70th33rd
Arts and Humanities +23rd11th20th10th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 35th15th24th15th
Business, Management and Accounting 101st22nd62nd21st
Chemistry 195th84th131st80th
Computer Science 48th11th17th11th
Dentistry 17th4th8th4th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +71st16th31st16th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 131st33rd82nd31st
Energy 119th24th48th24th
Engineering +106th27th45th27th
Environmental Science 107th20th41st20th
Mathematics 126th32nd58th29th
Medicine +22nd15th19th14th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 74th23rd37th22nd
Physics and Astronomy 130th47th83rd47th
Psychology 20th13th20th12th
Social Sciences +17th5th11th4th
Veterinary 125th34th79th32nd

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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  • Health
  • Universities
  • Companies
  • Non-Profit
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