National Center for Atmospheric ResearchGovernment

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Foundation: 1960

Mission: To understand the behavior of the atmosphere and related Earth and geospace systems; To support, enhance, and extend the capabilities of the university community and the broader scientific community, nationally and internationally; and To foster the transfer of knowledge and technology for the betterment of life on Earth.

Vision: A world-class research center leading, promoting and facilitating innovation in the atmospheric and related Earth and Sun systems sciences

History: ncar.ucar.edu

18th
Overall percentile
10th
Research percentile
74th
Innovation percentile
8th
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 Government 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 +341st104th238th98th
Arts and Humanities 675th204th567th183rd
Chemistry 1013th281st697th257th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +86th19th39th19th
Energy 1329th241st759th212th
Engineering +1296th301st864th265th
Environmental Science 517th110th278th102nd
Mathematics 489th120th305th109th
Medicine +    
Physics and Astronomy 1060th263rd730th238th
Social Sciences 970th254th729th222nd

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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