The University of Edinburgh *University

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Foundation: 1583

Mission: The mission of our University is the creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge. As a world-leading centre of academic excellence we aim to:
-enhance our position as one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities and to measure our performance against the highest international standards
-provide the highest quality learning and teaching environment for the greater wellbeing of our students and deliver an outstanding educational portfolio
-produce graduates fully equipped to achieve the highest personal and professional standards
-make a significant, sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK and the world, promoting health, economic growth and cultural wellbeing.

Vision: To recruit and develop the world's most promising students and most outstanding staff and be a truly global university benefiting society as a whole.

History: www.ed.ac.uk

Subordinate organizations:

2nd
Overall percentile
2nd
Research percentile
13th
Innovation percentile
1st
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
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +125th36th82nd8th
Arts and Humanities +15th7th12th4th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 141st32nd106th8th
Business, Management and Accounting 109th35th69th16th
Chemistry 316th80th220th18th
Computer Science 115th18th55th7th
Dentistry 537th194th374th26th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +175th43rd80th12th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 116th36th73rd18th
Energy 288th59th142nd10th
Engineering +174th31st94th7th
Environmental Science 291st62nd136th12th
Mathematics 122nd23rd56th5th
Medicine +141st38th116th7th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 509th143rd342nd22nd
Physics and Astronomy 264th72nd181st10th
Psychology 61st14th59th5th
Social Sciences +28th6th21st4th
Veterinary 22nd2nd12th2nd

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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