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Foundation: 1879

Mission: The USGS serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.

Vision: USGS is a world leader in the natural sciences through our scientific excellence and responsiveness to society's needs.

History: pubs.usgs.gov

15th
Overall percentile
10th
Research percentile
84th
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 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 +95th25th59th24th
Arts and Humanities 549th178th470th158th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2763rd614th1997th551st
Chemistry 970th252nd629th236th
Computer Science 1094th250th763rd219th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +69th17th35th17th
Energy 1024th177th572nd161st
Engineering +1262nd266th834th238th
Environmental Science 77th12th27th12th
Mathematics 1524th295th1006th263rd
Medicine +3009th640th2096th559th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2361st482nd1547th434th
Physics and Astronomy 333rd112th213th109th
Social Sciences +611th176th484th151st
Veterinary 454th108th304th96th

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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