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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

11th
Overall percentile
12th
Research percentile
86th
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 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 +118th36th76th36th
Arts and Humanities 457th154th396th137th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2549th597th1874th530th
Chemistry 866th252nd602nd230th
Computer Science 976th264th671st232nd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +67th14th29th14th
Energy 631st137th350th124th
Engineering +809th207th516th188th
Environmental Science 85th16th31st16th
Mathematics 1164th262nd764th224th
Medicine +2610th560th1854th487th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2911th524th1844th466th
Physics and Astronomy 310th110th206th105th
Social Sciences +585th173rd452nd148th
Veterinary 594th124th380th110th

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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