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
14th
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 +823rd187th546th171st
Arts and Humanities +158th61st143rd58th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 724th260th538th247th
Business, Management and Accounting 639th157th469th135th
Chemistry 549th171st363rd161st
Computer Science 212th59th120th55th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +237th57th134th52nd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 271st66th190th58th
Energy 414th75th206th68th
Engineering +267th74th150th70th
Environmental Science 392nd72nd209th67th
Mathematics 347th77th210th71st
Medicine +1293rd342nd929th309th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 302nd112th195th110th
Physics and Astronomy 205th80th133rd78th
Psychology 241st118th219th103rd
Social Sciences +181st70th148th60th

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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