Imperial College LondonUniversity

United Kingdom

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Foundation: 1907

Mission: Imperial College embodies and delivers world class scholarship, education and research in science, engineering, medicine and business, with particular regard to their application in industry, commerce and healthcare. We foster multidisciplinary working internally and collaborate widely externally.

Vision: To remain a world-leading institution for scientific research and education. To harness the quality, breadth and depth of our research capabilities to address the difficult challenges of today and the future. To develop the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics. To provide an education for students from around the world that equips them with the knowledge and skills they require to pursue their ambitions. To make a demonstrable economic and social impact through the translation of our work into practice worldwide. To engage with the world and communicate the importance and benefits of science to society

History: www.imperial.ac.uk

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Overall percentile
1st
Research percentile
6th
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 +287th72nd181st16th
Arts and Humanities 149th65th135th24th
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 83rd19th63rd7th
Business, Management and Accounting 157th59th114th31st
Chemistry 187th42nd116th11th
Computer Science 52nd8th19th3rd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +128th31st64th7th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 138th50th99th21st
Energy 56th5th15th1st
Engineering +61st6th19th1st
Environmental Science 135th26th57th4th
Mathematics 46th10th19th3rd
Medicine +44th10th37th3rd
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 98th17th59th4th
Physics and Astronomy 149th35th96th8th
Psychology 164th51st152nd15th
Social Sciences +212th70th174th26th
Veterinary 282nd78th190th15th

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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