Durban University of TechnologyUniversity

South Africa

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Foundation: 2002

Mission: Our mission is to excel through: A teaching and learning environment that values and supports the university community. Promoting excellence in learning and teaching, technology transfer and applied research. External engagement that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship through collaboration and partnership.

Vision: A preferred university for developing leadership in technology and productive citizenship.

History: www.dut.ac.za

64th
Overall percentile
63rd
Research percentile
79th
Innovation percentile
31st
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.

 
AreaWorldAfricaBRIICSSouth Africa
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +3243rd104th726th19th
Arts and Humanities 1968th30th306th17th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3634th39th712th14th
Business, Management and Accounting 985th15th177th9th
Chemistry 3300th67th821st15th
Computer Science 3234th89th768th15th
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3013th100th864th21st
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1604th50th326th12th
Energy 2380th65th665th12th
Engineering +2960th54th745th14th
Environmental Science 3440th92nd923rd22nd
Mathematics 2771st72nd652nd12th
Medicine +3759th67th747th18th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 3091st74th702nd18th
Physics and Astronomy 3340th77th936th16th
Social Sciences +2326th47th419th18th

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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