University of ZululandUniversity

South Africa

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Foundation: 1960

Mission: To provide globally competitive graduates, relevant for the human capital needs of our country, by providing quality education which upholds high standards of research and academic excellence.

Vision: A leading, comprehensive University providing quality education.

History: www.unizulu.ac.za

79th
Overall percentile
80th
Research percentile
79th
Innovation percentile
43rd
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 +4061st187th1011th28th
Arts and Humanities +1450th19th190th13th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4083rd65th845th22nd
Business, Management and Accounting 2351st79th497th21st
Chemistry 3389th75th856th17th
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3498th145th1058th25th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1867th66th404th18th
Environmental Science 4296th172nd1190th30th
Medicine +    
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1462nd23rd292nd7th
Psychology 2219th25th282nd13th
Social Sciences +2718th68th507th21st

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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