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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:

7th
Overall percentile
3rd
Research percentile
38th
Innovation percentile
6th
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 +789th12th192nd522nd1st
Arts and Humanities +135th5th36th122nd1st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1231st15th349th906th3rd
Business, Management and Accounting 309th4th69th229th1st
Chemistry 1701st23rd500th1104th3rd
Computer Science 538th5th128th356th1st
Dentistry 285th3rd86th205th1st
Earth and Planetary Sciences +925th38th282nd597th2nd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 477th21st134th331st1st
Energy 920th25th213th522nd1st
Engineering +884th16th226th573rd1st
Environmental Science 790th21st203rd450th3rd
Mathematics 514th12th139th327th1st
Medicine +904th7th243rd658th1st
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 453rd7th94th304th1st
Physics and Astronomy 1023rd22nd302nd720th2nd
Psychology 605th13th170th538th1st
Social Sciences +183rd3rd36th150th1st
Veterinary 301st11th70th201st1st

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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