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Foundation: 1865

Mission: The mission of the University of Kansas is to lift students and society by educating leaders, building healthy communities and making discoveries that change the world. We advance this mission every day across KU's five campuses, which include the Lawrence Campus, the Edwards Campus, and three KU Medical Center campuses in Kansas City, Salina and Wichita.

Vision: The mission of the University of Kansas is to lift students and society by educating leaders, building healthy communities, and making discoveries that change the world. We will do that by raising the expectations we have for ourselves, the aspirations we have for our state, and the hopes we have for our world.

History: kuhistory.ku.edu

Subordinate organizations:

8th
Overall percentile
7th
Research percentile
24th
Innovation percentile
4th
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 +859th196th568th180th
Arts and Humanities +264th95th237th85th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 483rd195th361st184th
Business, Management and Accounting 501st130th378th112th
Chemistry 1100th271st711th252nd
Computer Science 710th176th479th154th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +750th158th476th145th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 700th135th479th115th
Energy 827th151st463rd137th
Engineering +1040th229th677th206th
Environmental Science 1196th218th714th199th
Mathematics 1484th287th978th256th
Medicine +434th165th326th152nd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 316th118th204th115th
Physics and Astronomy 937th238th657th222nd
Psychology 84th50th80th45th
Social Sciences +197th77th163rd66th
Veterinary 345th90th227th79th

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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