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Foundation: 1862

Mission: We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management.

Vision: We have a vision to provide economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve our Nation's natural resources through conservation, restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.

History: www.usda.gov

3rd
Overall percentile
3rd
Research percentile
19th
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 +6th1st3rd1st
Arts and Humanities 700th218th597th195th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 174th84th130th82nd
Business, Management and Accounting 1369th285th923rd252nd
Chemistry 922nd245th595th230th
Computer Science 598th147th399th129th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +177th41st92nd38th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 317th76th221st66th
Energy 425th78th212th71st
Engineering +993rd222nd649th200th
Environmental Science 35th6th12th6th
Mathematics 1165th233rd769th207th
Medicine +371st147th282nd136th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 365th136th243rd130th
Physics and Astronomy 402nd127th263rd123rd
Psychology 1329th434th1102nd383rd
Social Sciences +471st147th376th126th
Veterinary 6th3rd3rd3rd

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.

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