Seoul National University *University

South Korea

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Foundation: 1895

Mission: Educating global leaders by fostering creativity, tolerance, and responsibility, creating new future values by taking on challenging and innovative research.

Vision: Contributing to society by allowing knowledge to be more accessible to the larger community.

History: en.snu.ac.kr

Subordinate organizations:

  • Seoul National University R&DB Research Foundation
2nd
Overall percentile
2nd
Research percentile
5th
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 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.

 
AreaWorldAsiatic RegionOECDSouth Korea
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +189th47th130th2nd
Arts and Humanities +319th18th282nd1st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 88th20th66th1st
Business, Management and Accounting 185th54th125th2nd
Chemistry 239th61st163rd3rd
Computer Science 81st36th33rd1st
Dentistry 27th12th13th1st
Earth and Planetary Sciences +438th143rd255th1st
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 156th43rd98th1st
Energy 229th109th105th7th
Engineering +108th48th46th2nd
Environmental Science 268th131st121st6th
Mathematics 136th55th64th3rd
Medicine +97th16th79th1st
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 71st26th35th1st
Physics and Astronomy 285th72nd191st2nd
Psychology 310th21st283rd1st
Social Sciences +181st22nd145th1st
Veterinary 52nd14th34th1st

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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