University of Texas, Health Science Center at HoustonUniversity

United States

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Foundation: 1972

Mission: As a comprehensive health science university, the mission of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is to educate health science professionals, discover and translate advances in the biomedical and social sciences, and model the best practices in clinical care and public health. We pursue this mission in order to advance the quality of human life by enhancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and injury, as well as promoting individual health and community well-being.

Vision: Excellence above all in the quest to be an acknowledged leader in the collaboration to treat, cure and prevent the most common diseases of our time through education, research and clinical practice.

12th
Overall percentile
15th
Research percentile
21st
Innovation percentile
7th
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 +983rd220th690th197th
Arts and Humanities 1356th327th1063rd290th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 538th212th404th200th
Chemistry 256th106th179th99th
Computer Science 1351st317th915th279th
Dentistry 231st51st163rd47th
Engineering +1251st296th828th261st
Environmental Science 3264th467th1814th417th
Mathematics 2038th356th1253rd311th
Medicine +419th164th322nd152nd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1006th282nd704th267th
Physics and Astronomy 152nd57th99th55th
Psychology 414th177th367th154th
Social Sciences +1671st373rd1172nd329th

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?

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