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Foundation: 1865

Mission: The University of Kentucky is a public, land grant university dedicated to improving people's lives through excellence in education, research and creative work, service and health care. As Kentucky’s flagship institution, the University plays a critical leadership role by promoting diversity, inclusion, economic development and human well-being. The University of Kentucky: Facilitates learning, informed by scholarship and research; Expands knowledge through research, scholarship and creative activity; and Serves a global community by disseminating, sharing and applying knowledge. The University contributes to the economic development and quality of life within Kentucky's borders and beyond, nurturing a diverse community characterized by fairness and equal opportunity.

Vision: As Kentucky’s indispensable institution, we transform the lives of our students and advance the Commonwealth we serve – and beyond – through our teaching and learning, diversity and inclusion, discovery, research and creativity, promotion of health, and deep community engagement.

Subordinate organizations:

8th
Overall percentile
8th
Research percentile
25th
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 +630th162nd443rd152nd
Arts and Humanities +458th155th397th138th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 577th225th434th213th
Business, Management and Accounting 484th110th345th93rd
Chemistry 783rd235th540th216th
Computer Science 554th155th366th137th
Dentistry 411th80th292nd73rd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +670th149th420th136th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 557th100th362nd82nd
Energy 378th83rd198th77th
Engineering +645th178th407th163rd
Environmental Science 846th178th483rd165th
Mathematics 889th206th572nd180th
Medicine +507th191st390th177th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 494th162nd332nd154th
Physics and Astronomy 1065th264th732nd239th
Psychology 126th72nd117th64th
Social Sciences +272nd100th214th87th
Veterinary 304th73rd195th66th

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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