University of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity

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Foundation: 1958

Mission: The University of California, Santa Barbara is a leading research institution that also provides a comprehensive liberal arts learning experience. Teaching and research go hand-in-hand at UC Santa Barbara. Our students are full participants in an educational journey of discovery that stimulates independent thought, critical reasoning, and creativity. Our academic community of faculty, students, and staff is characterized by a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration that is responsive to the needs of our multicultural and global society. All of this takes place within a living and learning environment like no other, as we draw inspiration from the beauty and resources of our extraordinary location at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.

Vision: Information not localized

History: ucsb.edu

6th
Overall percentile
5th
Research percentile
13th
Innovation percentile
4th
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 +590th157th413th147th
Arts and Humanities +161st60th145th57th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 747th271st561st255th
Business, Management and Accounting 817th179th568th154th
Chemistry 542nd184th374th170th
Computer Science 215th66th120th62nd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +243rd50th121st46th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 277th64th186th58th
Energy 271st56th131st51st
Engineering +282nd83rd163rd79th
Environmental Science 488th103rd258th96th
Mathematics 323rd84th188th77th
Medicine +1549th405th1125th362nd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 962nd268th671st253rd
Physics and Astronomy 221st86th150th83rd
Psychology 231st112th211th96th
Social Sciences +195th72nd155th62nd

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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