University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *University

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Foundation: 1789

Mission: Our mission is to serve as a center for research, scholarship, and creativity and to teach a diverse community of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to become the next generation of leaders. Through the efforts of our exceptional faculty and staff, and with generous support from North Carolina’s citizens, we invest our knowledge and resources to enhance access to learning and to foster the success and prosperity of each rising generation. We also extend knowledge-based services and other resources of the University to the citizens of North Carolina and their institutions to enhance the quality of life for all people in the State. With lux, libertas — light and liberty — as its founding principles, the University has charted a bold course of leading change to improve society and to help solve the world’s greatest problems.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.unc.edu

Subordinate organizations:

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Overall percentile
2nd
Research percentile
9th
Innovation percentile
1st
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 +386th117th273rd110th
Arts and Humanities +52nd26th48th25th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 72nd39th54th38th
Business, Management and Accounting 208th46th144th41st
Chemistry 170th75th112th71st
Computer Science 180th55th97th52nd
Dentistry 33rd6th17th6th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +324th75th179th70th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 202nd46th131st42nd
Energy 166th35th75th34th
Engineering +188th59th102nd57th
Environmental Science 411th84th212th77th
Mathematics 222nd60th123rd57th
Medicine +53rd28th44th27th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 31st7th11th7th
Physics and Astronomy 230th87th156th84th
Psychology 21st14th21st13th
Social Sciences +43rd18th32nd16th
Veterinary 412th101st270th90th

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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