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Foundation: 1855

Mission: Penn State is a leader in higher education and carries out its mission of teaching, research, and service with pride and focus on the future. Our leadership in administration, faculty, and staff make our mission come alive every day. The Board of Trustees reviews and approves the budget of the University and guides general goals, policies, and procedures from a big-picture perspective. The President’s office ensures that all aspects of the University are running smoothly and promotes overall principles that students, faculty, and staff abide by for the long term. The University Faculty Senate represents the Penn State faculty with legislative authority on all matters regarding the University's educational interests. We strive to celebrate diversity in all aspects of our educational and operational activities. Our strategic plans are designed to result in ongoing improvements that help prepare future generations of leaders. Our budget is an integral part of our strategic process.

Vision: Information not localized

History: www.psu.edu

Subordinate organizations:

2nd
Overall percentile
2nd
Research percentile
14th
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 +121st35th79th33rd
Arts and Humanities +30th16th27th15th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 206th96th154th94th
Business, Management and Accounting 10th1st5th1st
Chemistry 389th130th253rd120th
Computer Science 134th38th67th36th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +83rd19th39th19th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 61st23rd44th21st
Energy 156th27th65th26th
Engineering +149th38th70th37th
Environmental Science 257th52nd128th50th
Mathematics 221st54th127th50th
Medicine +203rd101st158th95th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 252nd99th164th97th
Physics and Astronomy 209th83rd136th81st
Psychology 17th11th17th10th
Social Sciences +19th7th14th6th
Veterinary 333rd87th218th77th

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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