Slovakia in SCImago Media Rankings
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Foundation: 1959
Mission: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice belongs to accomplished institutions of education and science not only in Slovakia but also in Europe. At present the University has five faculties – Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Public Administration and Faculty of Arts – which prepare physicians and dentists, experts in natural sciences, mathematics and informatics, teachers, lawyers, specialists for public administration and specialists for psychology, philosophy and theory of communication. The graduates of our University which is the second oldest in Slovakia, have a very good reputation all over the world. The key mission of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice is to provide higher education based on the newest scientific findings in a wide international context, following the European trends and goals laid down in the Bologna Declaration and other documents. Developing a harmonious personality by its knowledge improvement, wisdom and creativity rise in a person, the University fulfils its mission. The students are being led to tolerance, critical and independent way of thinking, self-confidence and national awareness. The University provides service to the community by spreading the knowledge through the means of research and development, regional and national activities support and providing learning society with a continuing education. The University thus contributes to the development of culture and education of the public. The University mission is understood as public goodwill. The University will continue its mission as guarantee of freedom, democracy, humanism and ethics not only in its own academic environment but also in the society. The University will ever protect its academic privileges and academic autonomy.
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History: www.upjs.sk
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.
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.
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.
| Area | World | Eastern Europe | EU-27 | OECD | Slovakia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences + | 3473rd | 196th | 959th | 2049th | 8th |
| Arts and Humanities + | 2010th | 208th | 598th | 1441st | 10th |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4713th | 269th | 1362nd | 2974th | 8th |
| Chemistry | 4018th | 257th | 1084th | 2193rd | 9th |
| Computer Science | 3755th | 263rd | 939th | 1969th | 8th |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences + | 2483rd | 171st | 709th | 1439th | 4th |
| Engineering + | 3298th | 194th | 846th | 1795th | 7th |
| Environmental Science | 4311th | 356th | 1055th | 2217th | 12th |
| Mathematics | 3390th | 251st | 848th | 1814th | 6th |
| Medicine + | 4029th | 187th | 1128th | 2680th | 5th |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 3250th | 199th | 902nd | 1983rd | 5th |
| Physics and Astronomy | 3218th | 245th | 913th | 1797th | 6th |
| Psychology | 2048th | 94th | 615th | 1604th | 4th |
| Social Sciences + | 3067th | 224th | 775th | 1900th | 12th |
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.
