Singapore in SCImago Media Rankings
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Foundation: 2001
Mission: The Bioinformatics Institute (BII) is dedicated to primarily computational biology/bioinformatics driven life science research aimed at the discovery of biomolecular mechanisms guiding biological phenomena. The final goals are scientific advancement as well as economic and social impact for Singapore. Education of students and young scientists is facilitated by their active involvement in ongoing research projects supervised by international faculty. Sophisticated theoretical and computational approaches including artificial intelligence are applied to analyze all sorts of biological and clinical data, mainly omics data (biomolecular sequences, expression profiles, epigenetics data), 3D structures of macromolecules and biological as well as medical cellular, tissue and macroscopic images from local and international academic, hospital and industry collaborators, public resources and from own experiments. Applied research diversifies into infectious diseases, computational toxicology, natural product research, precision medicine, cancer research, drug discovery, etc. BII houses Singapore’s Natural Organism Library, the Natural Product Discovery Platform and the Secondary Clinical Data Sink, a clinical trial database.
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History: www.bii.a-star.edu.sg
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.
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.
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.
| Area | World | Asiatic Region | Singapore |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1181st | 294th | 14th |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 759th | 207th | 8th |
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.
