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Foundation: 1897

Mission: To change lives, transform communities and encourage enterprise through outstanding, distinctive and progressive higher education.

Vision: Information not localized

History: en.wikipedia.org

30th
Overall percentile
24th
Research percentile
43rd
Innovation percentile
35th
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.

 
AreaWorldWestern EuropeOECDUnited Kingdom
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +1295th507th897th80th
Arts and Humanities 786th345th659th99th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1651st596th1220th92nd
Business, Management and Accounting 850th337th587th83rd
Chemistry 1312th456th900th71st
Computer Science 979th307th672nd62nd
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1526th542nd961st81st
Energy 414th98th220th22nd
Engineering 867th252nd556th56th
Environmental Science 1525th472nd891st80th
Medicine +1963rd713th1409th108th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1769th572nd1215th86th
Physics and Astronomy 1706th638th1155th83rd
Psychology 1099th432nd916th103rd
Social Sciences +916th357th689th83rd

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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