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Foundation: 1985

Mission: IPAC at Caltech partners with NASA, NSF, JPL and the world-wide research community to advance exploration of our Universe. Beginning with the IRAS mission in 1985 and spanning to Spitzer today, we have enabled transformative research of the infrared sky. We provide science operations, user support, data services, and scientific vision to maximize discovery with observatories both in space and on the ground. We share these discoveries with the public through education outreach programs and award-winning media. Our diverse community of active researchers is dedicated and essential to fulfilling this mission.

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History: www.ipac.caltech.edu

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21st
Overall percentile
6th
Research percentile
93rd
Innovation percentile
12th
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 Rank201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420253317th3142nd2920th2875th2922nd3347th3888th2666th2850th2999th3280th2114th1839th1959th
Research Rank201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252678th2286th2015th1941st2022nd1847th2176th884th893rd792nd1667th581st699th546th
Innovation Rank201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420254413th4481st4342nd3964th3062nd5053rd5303rd6044th6587th7123rd6770th7719th8269th9021st
Societal Rank201520162017201820192020202120222023202420251361st1462nd2338th957th2483rd2560th2356th2481st2659th906th1159th

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 States21st6th93rd12th41st14th96th33rd29th9th95th19th42nd14th96th34th
Compared to Government sector (percentiles)
OverallResearchInnovationSocietalWorldNorthern AmericaOECDUnited States20th4th89th8th55th19th89th49th28th6th88th11th57th21st88th51st

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
Earth and Planetary Sciences +390th78th192nd72nd
Physics and Astronomy 892nd242nd589th222nd

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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