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Foundation: 1919

Mission: The University of Ljubljana implements and promotes basic, applied and developmental research and is pursuing excellence and the highest quality as well as the highest ethical criteria in all scientific fields and art. In these areas of national identity the University of Ljubljana specifically develops and promotes Slovenian scientific and professional terminology. Based on its own, Slovenian, and foreign research, the University of Ljubljana (UL) educates critical thinking top scientists, artists and professionals qualified for leading sustainable development, taking into account the tradition of the European Enlightenment and Humanism and with regard to human rights. Special attention is dedicated to developing talents. The UL encourages interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study, exchanges results of achievements in science and art with other universities and scientific research institutions, thus contributing to the Slovenian and world knowledge treasury as well contributing to the transfer of these achievements among the students and other users. The UL cooperates with organizations from economy and service in public and private sector, with state organizations, local communities, and civil society. With this cooperation accelerates the use of own research and educational achievements and contributes to the social development. With active responses to events in the environment represents the critical conscience of the society.

Vision: By 2020, the University of Ljubljana will be recognized as an internationally open and excellent research university, creatively contributing to the quality of life.

Subordinate organizations:

8th
Overall percentile
3rd
Research percentile
37th
Innovation percentile
7th
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.

 
AreaWorldEastern EuropeEU-27OECDSlovenia
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +901st13th285th635th1st
Arts and Humanities +155th6th41st139th1st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1030th10th275th772nd1st
Business, Management and Accounting 316th7th70th221st1st
Chemistry 1400th13th405th963rd1st
Computer Science 515th5th111th337th1st
Dentistry 194th2nd63rd133rd1st
Earth and Planetary Sciences +1193rd42nd352nd753rd2nd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 607th33rd174th399th1st
Energy 862nd18th184th491st1st
Engineering +929th12th209th608th1st
Environmental Science 728th12th165th409th3rd
Mathematics 530th15th122nd333rd1st
Medicine +782nd6th201st577th1st
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 599th9th147th408th1st
Physics and Astronomy 1125th20th328th776th2nd
Psychology 601st15th167th529th1st
Social Sciences +216th4th42nd172nd1st
Veterinary 244th7th58th158th1st

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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