University of DurhamUniversity

United Kingdom

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Foundation: 1832

Mission: To provide a safe, motivating and enjoyable environment that nurtures global citizenship, enables College members to grow intellectually and socially, and facilitates the development of an enduring and mutually rewarding relationship with the College, University and people and communities of the Northeast.

Vision: To be an international exemplar of a postgraduate research community that celebrates the strength arising from diversity, interdisciplinarity and collegiality, and makes a substantive contribution to the intellectual life and reputation of Durham University.

12th
Overall percentile
5th
Research percentile
44th
Innovation percentile
9th
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 +813th311th569th49th
Arts and Humanities +65th25th60th9th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1814th660th1345th102nd
Business, Management and Accounting 122nd40th79th19th
Chemistry 888th292nd616th48th
Computer Science 630th188th419th40th
Earth and Planetary Sciences +265th69th135th17th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 112th34th71st17th
Energy 391st88th205th16th
Engineering +672nd178th425th41st
Environmental Science 1345th410th787th70th
Mathematics 818th250th525th50th
Medicine +1671st596th1205th96th
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1380th449th963rd68th
Physics and Astronomy 760th248th531st41st
Psychology 312th110th284th30th
Social Sciences +159th58th128th21st

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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