Robert Gordon UniversityUniversity

United Kingdom

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Foundation: 1992

Mission: RGU’s mission is ‘to transform people and communities’. It does this by ensuring that our discovery of knowledge and dissemination of scholarship have the greatest possible economic, social and cultural impact.

Vision: The University’s vision is to be recognised, in Scotland and beyond, as a distinctive university leading and shaping the debate on the future of higher education and placing students at the centre of the education it offers. The university will be known for the impact of its teaching, scholarship and translational research, the employability of its graduates, its influence in the region and nation, its growing global profile, and its strong interdisciplinary focus on a small number of key questions and issues of concern to the local and global community. The university will achieve its goals in partnership with academic, voluntary, public and business organisations that share its ideals and aspiration.

History: www3.rgu.ac.uk

28th
Overall percentile
18th
Research percentile
47th
Innovation percentile
33rd
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.

 
AreaWorldWestern EuropeOECDUnited Kingdom
Arts and Humanities 1316th536th1029th131st
Business, Management and Accounting 978th376th673rd87th
Chemistry 906th297th627th49th
Computer Science 1324th436th897th85th
Earth and Planetary Sciences 377th113th211th28th
Energy 261st51st125th8th
Engineering +912th267th592nd59th
Environmental Science 879th255th508th49th
Mathematics 1367th454th889th84th
Medicine +2304th832nd1650th129th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2702nd833rd1739th117th
Social Sciences +1348th505th972nd105th

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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