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Foundation: 1948

Mission: To promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable, with measurable impact for people at country level.

Vision: A world in which all peoples attain the highest possible level of health.

History: www.who.int

11th
Overall percentile
3rd
Research percentile
59th
Innovation percentile
20th
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 Health 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.

 
AreaWorldWestern EuropeOECDSwitzerland
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3388th988th2019th26th
Arts and Humanities 1362nd554th1068th18th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1969th720th1465th28th
Engineering +    
Environmental Science 1143rd339th663rd12th
Medicine +521st174th398th14th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 778th242nd537th13th
Psychology 89th26th85th2nd
Social Sciences 1101st417th814th13th
Veterinary 75th23rd47th3rd

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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