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:

2nd
Overall percentile
1st
Research percentile
7th
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 +232nd67th145th62nd
Arts and Humanities +61st30th57th28th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 73rd40th56th39th
Business, Management and Accounting 188th48th136th42nd
Chemistry 167th58th101st55th
Computer Science 185th53rd103rd49th
Dentistry 20th6th12th6th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +320th72nd190th67th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 146th41st103rd39th
Energy 253rd47th115th43rd
Engineering +192nd60th103rd57th
Environmental Science 598th103rd329th96th
Mathematics 291st64th167th59th
Medicine +51st29th44th28th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 21st7th10th7th
Physics and Astronomy 304th104th197th101st
Psychology 21st14th21st13th
Social Sciences +43rd20th34th18th
Veterinary 267th72nd178th65th

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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