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Foundation: 1948

Mission: We will create an enabling environment that makes University of Ghana increasingly relevant to national and global development through cutting-edge research as well as high quality teaching and learning.

Vision: To become a world class research-intensive University over the next decade.

History: www.ug.edu.gh

33rd
Overall percentile
35th
Research percentile
79th
Innovation percentile
10th
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 Universities 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.

 
AreaWorldAfricaGhana
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +2562nd51st1st
Arts and Humanities +850th14th1st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3391st33rd2nd
Business, Management and Accounting 634th11th1st
Chemistry 3421st77th1st
Computer Science 2461st41st2nd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +2398th57th2nd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 495th15th1st
Energy 2004th39th1st
Engineering +1780th16th1st
Environmental Science 2820th64th3rd
Mathematics 3182nd103rd2nd
Medicine +2027th16th1st
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2323rd41st1st
Psychology 1136th12th1st
Social Sciences +555th9th1st
Veterinary 783rd49th1st

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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