Iran in SCImago Media Rankings
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Foundation: 1974
Mission: The University of Kurdistan as a leading comprehensive educational institute relies on its own young and motivated lecturers and invaluable assets, and uses innovative training methods and technologies to train a committed and skilled workforce to meet the challenges and problems of society at local and global levels. Moreover, UOK attempts to meet the diverse needs of the community in various fields and at various levels by nurturing applied research, developing new frontiers of knowledge, and offering consultancy services.
Vision: University of Kurdistan is committed to providing an environment which nurtures training of human resources in a creative, responsible, motivated, conscious and disciplined way based on Islamic and moral values. UOK is bound to respect and promote the lofty principles of academic culture based on knowledge and professionalism and leading to the development of constructive collaboration with national and international HEIs and research centers.
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 | Middle East | Iran |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences + | 2767th | 153rd | 42nd |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4402nd | 211th | 43rd |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 2347th | 187th | 25th |
| Chemistry | 3195th | 167th | 41st |
| Computer Science | 1860th | 86th | 6th |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences + | 1386th | 43rd | 6th |
| Energy | 1420th | 83rd | 22nd |
| Engineering + | 2328th | 121st | 19th |
| Environmental Science | 1590th | 54th | 17th |
| Mathematics | 3337th | 292nd | 53rd |
| Medicine + | |||
| Physics and Astronomy | 3380th | 251st | 59th |
| Psychology | 2179th | 103rd | 15th |
| Social Sciences + | 1683rd | 74th | 12th |
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.
