About Research at the UM5A

University MohammedV-Agdal is largely renowned for the intensity, quality and diversity of its research. Its scientific output equals the quarter of the national production carried out thanks to the scientific competence of its human potential involving approximately 1000 professors-researchers, who conduct their activities of research within 113 accredited research structures (laboratories and independent teams), and has seven centers of excellence and nine poles of competence.

Up to the 2004 research assessment by the UM5A, the fruits of the UM5A research include:

• The average of 440 yearly publications (339 international publications and 101 national publications per year).
• The average of 3 yearly publications for each research structure
• One publication each two years and half by teachers-researchers if we count all teachers-researchers of the UM5A.
• This rate equals one publication and a half per year if we count only teachers researchers in the field of science and technology (because these teachers are the ones who produce all the international publications of the UM5A).
• Innovation and research valorization income represents 17% of the total budget
• 11.5% of research entities took out at least one patent.