Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyGovernment

South Korea

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Foundation: 1966

Mission: To assume a central role as the first comprehensive research agency for the promotion of the nation's economic growth and the modernization of engineering fields.

Vision: Going beyond the success of the past half-century and the limitations of current research, we Will créate a new miracle for the future.

History: eng.kist.re.kr

10th
Overall percentile
36th
Research percentile
5th
Innovation percentile
16th
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.

 
AreaWorldAsiatic RegionOECDSouth Korea
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +62nd19th35th1st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 613th146th456th13th
Chemistry 665th206th437th14th
Computer Science 1133rd319th786th43rd
Energy 205th107th86th9th
Engineering +460th165th278th18th
Environmental Science 373rd149th200th9th
Mathematics 1448th405th954th35th
Medicine +704th172nd513th16th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 407th107th273rd5th
Physics and Astronomy 663rd185th460th18th

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?

  • Government
  • Health
  • Universities
  • Companies
  • Non-Profit
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