University of PeradeniyaUniversity

Sri Lanka

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Foundation: 1950

Mission: University of Peradeniya strives to offer globally recognized knowledge and education to knowledge seekers at undergraduate, postgraduate and non-graduate levels and deliver education, training and research programs by conducting professional and curriculum-based teaching and learning and conduct high quality research for national, regional and global needs whilst maintaining highest levels of efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and transparency in contributing to the development of a knowledge-based society.

Vision: Be a centre of excellence in higher education with national, regional and global standing

History: www.pdn.ac.lk

62nd
Overall percentile
76th
Research percentile
55th
Innovation percentile
37th
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.

 
AreaWorldAsiatic RegionSri Lanka
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +3613th1107th4th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4263rd1350th3rd
Chemistry 3597th1291st3rd
Computer Science 2014th610th2nd
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3003rd958th2nd
Energy 1704th603rd3rd
Engineering +2594th876th2nd
Environmental Science 4046th1382nd6th
Mathematics 2057th635th1st
Medicine +4362nd1269th3rd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 4020th1298th5th
Physics and Astronomy 3049th1042nd1st
Social Sciences +3115th782nd5th
Veterinary 848th190th1st

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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  • Health
  • Universities
  • Companies
  • Non-Profit
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