University of KwaZulu-Natal *University

South Africa

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Foundation: 2004

Mission: A truly South African University of Choice that is academically excellent, innovative in research, entrepreneurial, and critically engaged with society.

Vision: To be the Premier University of African Scholarship.

History: www.ukzn.ac.za

Subordinate organizations:

  • Kwazulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV
15th
Overall percentile
16th
Research percentile
56th
Innovation percentile
5th
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 +1467th20th286th4th
Arts and Humanities +694th11th65th9th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1957th6th335th4th
Business, Management and Accounting 564th9th106th8th
Chemistry 2645th36th606th10th
Computer Science 1537th12th279th4th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +1581st17th401st3rd
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 626th19th130th8th
Energy 1736th31st463rd7th
Engineering +1774th15th386th6th
Environmental Science 1934th23rd550th10th
Mathematics 1212th11th234th4th
Medicine +1122nd5th202nd4th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 560th4th126th1st
Physics and Astronomy 2007th22nd425th6th
Psychology 624th6th53rd6th
Social Sciences +367th7th53rd7th
Veterinary 611th31st126th8th

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?

  • Government
  • Health
  • Universities
  • Companies
  • Non-Profit
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