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Democratic Republic Congo in SCImago Media Rankings
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Foundation: 1954
Mission: The mission of the University of Kinshasa is threefold: teaching, research and service to the nation. It aims at making the student and the student's contribution to the economic and social development of his or her country, the centre of all its training, research and community development activities. This mission consists of : -To provide a high level of global training to young people and adults admitted to the University, enabling them to adapt to society and participate in its evolution through specific training adapted to the contingencies of their orientation; -to meet the needs of reception and supervision of students; -to make the University a research institution based on the excellence of its academic and professional functions; -To promote the University's contribution to the development of the Kinshasa region in particular and the Democratic Republic of Congo in general; -To promote the creation of conditions for the acquisition and development of republican values and respect for the collective heritage.
Vision: The University of Kinshasa intends to maintain the line of excellence traced by its founders. It is committed to offering education and training guided by creativity, innovation and excellence.
History: www.unikin.ac.cd
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.
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.
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.
| Area | World | Africa | Democratic Republic Congo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4606th | 258th | 2nd |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4652nd | 76th | 1st |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3791st | 171st | 1st |
| Environmental Science | 4933rd | 235th | 2nd |
| Medicine + | 4870th | 134th | 1st |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 2337th | 45th | 1st |
| Social Sciences | 4286th | 185th | 1st |
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.
