Universidad de CaldasUniversity

Colombia

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Foundation: 1943

Mission: The University of Caldas, in compliance with the social function that corresponds to its public nature, has the mission to generate, appropriate, disseminate and apply knowledge, through curricular, research and projection processes, to contribute to the integral formation of citizens useful to society, to provide solutions to regional and national problems and to contribute to the sustainable development and integration of the Colombian center-west.

Vision: An effective University, visible by the quality of its contributions to development, in a global context characterized by A pleasant atmosphere, based on respect for life and difference, solidarity, responsibility, order, tolerance and participation. Flexible curricular processes, contextualised and articulated, to contribute to the integral formation of autonomous persons, agents of social practice. A research that produces and recreates knowledge, generated in scientific communities, focused on schools of thought, which bases the development of postgraduate programs. A social commitment expressed in proposals for solutions to the problems posed by sustainable development. Self-controlled administrative and financial processes in a modern organizational structure. A creative insertion in the processes of knowledge globalization.

History: www.ucaldas.edu.co

73rd
Overall percentile
51st
Research percentile
88th
Innovation percentile
58th
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.

 
AreaWorldLatin AmericaIBEROAMERICAOECDColombia
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +4066th360th609th2220th27th
Arts and Humanities 1271st76th154th998th10th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5332nd323rd692nd3119th20th
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3559th265th399th1791st16th
Environmental Science 3299th152nd344th1831st14th
Medicine +4854th316th666th3070th28th
Social Sciences +3115th211th350th1926th25th
Veterinary 851st100th150th520th4th

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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