University of StirlingUniversity

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Foundation: 1967

Mission: Our contribution and approach are defined by: Developing people and helping society through the pursuit and understanding of knowledge. We create the conditions for innovative, interdisciplinary research, and communicate what we have learned to the wider world in a clear and useful manner. Transforming the lives of our students and staff by giving them opportunities to reach their full potential intellectually and emotionally; by making them resilient and giving them the skills they need for the modern world; and by instilling in them a sense of responsibility to promote public good. Creating global citizens, working in partnership with governments, business and industry, the public and third sectors, and colleagues in other institutions, to identify and meet the changing needs of society. Our values

Vision: To be recognised across the world as a University that addresses the needs of society through innovative and interdisciplinary research; learning and teaching of the highest quality; and by sharing our knowledge with the world.

History: www.stir.ac.uk

25th
Overall percentile
13th
Research percentile
68th
Innovation percentile
18th
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 +900th349th634th56th
Arts and Humanities +439th185th381st50th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2993rd1084th2164th147th
Business, Management and Accounting 624th247th439th71st
Computer Science 1437th478th965th87th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +528th174th314th36th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 642nd244th421st63rd
Energy 1372nd389th786th63rd
Engineering +    
Environmental Science 1479th457th867th78th
Mathematics 1523rd506th973rd87th
Medicine +2411th863rd1716th136th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 2836th868th1808th124th
Psychology 539th207th477th57th
Social Sciences +494th176th380th47th
Veterinary 718th189th454th28th

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.

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