Walailak UniversityUniversity

Thailand

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Foundation: 1992

Mission: Walailak University aims to discover, seek, maintain and disseminate knowlege and acedemic excellence for the progress of society. At the heart of its obligation is to develop individuals who are both professionally-proficient and morally strong. The University's Four Commitments:To lead high level training of students based on world standards, consistent with socio-economic develpment of the South of Thailand and Thailand as a whole; To conduct studies, research in order to develop new knowledge that can be of benefit to national productivity, and can help enhance international competitiveness of Thailand; To provide and share expertise and technical services to organizations, both private and government sectors, including research and training and technological transfer in areas that can help develop the region and country; To act as a center for the conservation and restoration of art and culture.

Vision: To be an institution of good governance, a source of knowledge for critical problems facing the nation, to unfailingly address community needs, and to strive for international recognition for excellence.

History: www.wu.ac.th

56th
Overall percentile
42nd
Research percentile
79th
Innovation percentile
39th
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 RegionThailand
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +2670th787th19th
Arts and Humanities 666th54th1st
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4791st1527th30th
Business, Management and Accounting 1838th487th13th
Chemistry 3542nd1270th25th
Computer Science 3247th1119th18th
Dentistry 734th149th10th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1687th463rd13th
Energy 2265th827th12th
Engineering +3326th1216th22nd
Environmental Science 3478th1187th24th
Medicine +4007th1158th21st
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 3012th908th20th
Physics and Astronomy 2997th1014th21st
Social Sciences +2025th458th11th
Veterinary 864th195th13th

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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