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Foundation: 1839

Mission: Boston University is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world. Boston University is committed to generating new knowledge to benefit society. We remain dedicated to our founding principles: that higher education should be accessible to all and that research, scholarship, artistic creation, and professional practice should be conducted in the service of the wider community—local and international. These principles endure in the University’s insistence on the value of diversity, in its tradition and standards of excellence, and in its dynamic engagement with the City of Boston and the world. Boston University comprises a remarkable range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs built on a strong foundation of the liberal arts and sciences. With the support and oversight of the Board of Trustees, the University, through our faculty, continually innovates in education and research to ensure that we meet the needs of students and an ever-changing world.

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History: www.bu.edu

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Overall percentile
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Research percentile
20th
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.

Overall Rank20092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025100th103rd106th101st105th109th111th109th126th160th144th177th185th173rd211th197th231st
Research Rank2009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024202592nd94th96th91st95th102nd104th102nd112th121st117th131st144th147th165th182nd190th
Innovation Rank20092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025127th137th140th132nd139th146th152nd137th176th558th615th765th952nd978th1263rd1531st1910th
Societal Rank20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025257th259th1002nd95th90th98th87th97th110th84th94th

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)
OverallResearchInnovationSocietalWorldNorthern AmericaOECDUnited States3rd2nd20th1st8th5th27th4th4th3rd21st2nd8th6th29th4th
Compared to Universities sector (percentiles)
OverallResearchInnovationSocietalWorldNorthern AmericaOECDUnited States3rd3rd12th2nd7th7th17th5th4th4th12th3rd7th7th17th5th

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.

 
AreaWorldNorthern AmericaOECDUnited States
Agricultural and Biological Sciences +466th127th322nd116th
Arts and Humanities +135th46th121st43rd
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 235th97th173rd93rd
Business, Management and Accounting 231st48th157th42nd
Chemistry 383rd135th264th126th
Computer Science 306th86th177th78th
Dentistry 178th36th117th33rd
Earth and Planetary Sciences +696th142nd387th129th
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 105th26th63rd24th
Energy 877th183rd496th163rd
Engineering +313th91st183rd87th
Environmental Science 603rd126th316th119th
Mathematics 369th93rd211th88th
Medicine +157th77th125th71st
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 420th139th281st129th
Physics and Astronomy 337th119th212th117th
Psychology 40th28th39th25th
Social Sciences +135th47th104th44th
Veterinary 245th60th153rd54th

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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