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United Kingdom

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Foundation: 1913

Mission: MRC’s mission is to: encourage and support research to improve human health produce skilled researchers advance and disseminate knowledge and technology to improve the quality of life and economic competitiveness of the UK promote dialogue with the public about medical research.

Vision: Our vision is to accelerate improvements in human health and economic prosperity for everyone, regardless of background, place or upbringing, by supporting world-class biomedical research and innovation, and strengthening partnerships within UKRI, across the UK and around the world.

History: www.ukri.org

2nd
Overall percentile
2nd
Research percentile
6th
Innovation percentile
2nd
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 Health 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.

 
AreaWorldWestern EuropeOECDUnited Kingdom
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +239th73rd167th12th
Arts and Humanities 124th58th112th21st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 31st9th20th3rd
Chemistry 70th9th39th4th
Computer Science 667th202nd449th44th
Earth and Planetary Sciences 287th79th151st19th
Energy 2754th697th1412th97th
Engineering +338th82nd206th18th
Environmental Science 489th118th259th23rd
Mathematics 455th133rd278th26th
Medicine +71st18th58th5th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 128th24th73rd5th
Physics and Astronomy 52nd8th28th1st
Psychology 131st39th122nd9th
Social Sciences +332nd117th259th38th
Veterinary 165th45th103rd8th

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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