California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoUniversity

United States

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Foundation: 1901

Mission: Cal Poly fosters teaching, scholarship, and service in a learn-by-doing environment in which students, staff, and faculty are partners in discovery. As a polytechnic university, Cal Poly promotes the application of theory to practice. As a comprehensive institution, Cal Poly provides a balanced education in the arts, sciences, and technology, while encouraging cross-disciplinary and co-curricular experiences. As an academic community, Cal Poly values free inquiry, cultural and intellectual diversity, mutual respect, civic engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.

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52nd
Overall percentile
63rd
Research percentile
69th
Innovation percentile
19th
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.

 
AreaWorldNorthern AmericaOECDUnited States
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +2193rd377th1449th333rd
Arts and Humanities 1859th420th1361st377th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2921st639th2125th565th
Business, Management and Accounting 1228th252nd819th221st
Chemistry 2708th475th1736th423rd
Computer Science 2964th454th1736th402nd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +1909th325th1181st286th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1678th271st1001st237th
Energy 3389th343rd1601st299th
Engineering +2758th421st1618th373rd
Environmental Science 3790th506th2037th445th
Mathematics 2731st420th1577th371st
Medicine +3716th731st2522nd637th
Physics and Astronomy 1990th381st1316th338th
Psychology 1971st553rd1548th483rd
Social Sciences +1820th407th1255th360th
Veterinary 1012th161st580th143rd

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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