There are 222 different fields participating in the assessment, most of which are life sciences, namely: agricultural science, biology and biochemistry, chemistry, clinical medicine, computer science, economy and commerce, engineering, environment and ecology, geographical science, immunology, material science, mathematics, microbiology, molecular cell and genetics, interdisciplinary, neuroscience and behavior, pharmacology and toxicology, physics, plant and animal science.
Top of the list: Harvard University
Harvard University is particularly outstanding in 9 of the 22 fields, with 95,291 articles cited, with a total of 2,597,786 citations.
Harvard University’s strength lies in biology and health sciences: the top five fields are: clinical medicine, cell biology and genetics, biology and biochemistry, neuroscience and behavioral science, and immunology.
Harvard’s strongest topics are: Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.
Second place: Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Association from Germany has several research institutions, and it has 69,373 articles cited, with a citation rate as high as 1,366,087.
Physics, chemistry and space science are its best fields. Secondly, he is good at cell biology and genetics and biology and biochemistry.
Exploring flowers: Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University ranked third with 54,022 articles cited, with a total of 1,222,166 citations.
His specialty is epigenetics. The best epigenetist in the world is at Johns Hopkins University.
See the following table for other information:
The Most-Cited Institutions Overall, 1999-2009
Rank
Institution
Citations
Papers
Citations
Per Paper
one
HARVARD UNIV
Ninety-five thousand two hundred and ninety-one
Two million five hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-six
Twenty-seven point two six
Two
MAX PLANCK SOCIETY
Sixty-nine thousand three hundred and seventy-three
One million three hundred and sixty-six thousand and eighty-seven
Nineteen point six nine
three
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV
Fifty-four thousand and twenty-two
One million two hundred and twenty-two thousand one hundred and sixty-six
Twenty-two point six two
four
UNIV WASHINGTON
Fifty-four thousand one hundred and ninety-eight
One million one hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred and eighty-three
Twenty-one point one seven
five
STANFORD UNIV
Forty-eight thousand eight hundred and forty-six
One million one hundred and thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-five
Twenty-three point three one
six
UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES
Fifty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-seven
One million seventy-seven thousand and sixty-nine
Nineteen point five
seven
UNIV MICHIGAN
Fifty-four thousand six hundred and twelve
Nine hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-one
Seventeen point three seven
eight
UNIV CALIF BERKELEY
Forty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-four
Nine hundred and forty-five thousand eight hundred and seventeen
Twenty point one three
nine
UNIV CALIF SAN FRANCISCO
Thirty-six thousand one hundred and six
Nine hundred and thirty-nine thousand three hundred and two
Twenty-six point zero two
Ten
UNIV PENN
Forty-six thousand two hundred and thirty-five
Nine hundred and thirty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-nine
Twenty point one four
Eleven
UNIV TOKYO
Sixty-eight thousand eight hundred and forty
Nine hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-six
Thirteen point two eight
Twelve
UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO
Forty thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine
Eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
Twenty-two point zero six
Thirteen
UNIV TORONTO
Fifty-five thousand one hundred and sixty-three
Eight hundred and sixty-one thousand two hundred and forty-three
Fifteen point six one
Fourteen
UCL
Forty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty-two
Eight hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and seventeen
Eighteen point three five
Fifteen
COLUMBIA UNIV
Forty-three thousand three hundred and two
Eight hundred and fifty-eight thousand and seventy-three
Nineteen point eight two
Sixteen
YALE UNIV
Thirty-six thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven
Eight hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-seven
Twenty-two point six one
Seventeen
MIT
Thirty-five thousand two hundred and forty-seven
Eight hundred and thirty-two thousand four hundred and thirty-nine
Twenty-three point six two
Eighteen
UNIV CAMBRIDGE
Forty-three thousand and seventeen
Eight hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and seventy-three
Eighteen point eight seven
Nineteen
UNIV OXFORD
Forty thousand four hundred and ninety-four
Seven hundred and sixty-six thousand five hundred and seventy-seven
Eighteen point nine three
Twenty
UNIV WISCONSIN
Fifty thousand and sixteen
Seven hundred and sixty thousand and ninety-one
Fifteen point two
The above data are all statistical data from January 1, 1999 to April 30, 2009.
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Coming in at #4 is the University of Washington, with 54,198 papers cited a total of 1,147, 283 times. ScienceWatch.com featured Washington’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences, and Minze Stuiver, one of the 20 most-cited scientists in Geosciences and lead author of the most-cited paper in Geosciences, "INTCAL98 radiocarbon age calibration, 24, 000-0 cal BP" (Stuiver M, et al., Radiocarbon 40[3]: 1041-83, 1998). G. Alan Marlatt, one of the top 20 researchers in the Special Topic of Underage/College Drinking, is also affiliated with the University of Washington.
The first of five California universities on the list, Stanford University, ranks at #5 with 48,846 papers with a total of 1,138, 795 cites. The #2 ranked researcher in the field of Mathematics, Robert Tibshirani, hails from Stanford, and is a pioneer in microarray research. David Donoho [see also], another high-ranking Mathematics researcher, has also been featured in ScienceWatch.com . Stanford was also among the top five institutions in the Special Topic on High Temperature Superconductors.
The second Californian university ranks at #6: the University of California, Los Angeles, with 55,237 papers cited 1,077, 069 times. One of the 20 most-cited researchers in Space Science and the #1 researcher in our Special Topic on Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Edward Wright, [see also], is from UCLA’s Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Other UCLA researchers who have been featured in ScienceWatch.com include Alexander Young, Adam Aron, and Stephen Marder.
The remaining California institutions are the University of California, Berkeley at #8 (46,984 papers cited 945,817 times), the University of California, San Francisco at #9 (36,106 papers cited 939,302 times) and the University of California, San Diego at #12 (40,789 papers cited 899,832 times).
Sandwiched between all these California institutions is the University of Michigan at #7, with 54,612 papers cited a total of 948, 621 times. By far the largest contribution to this cite count comes from Michigan’s work in Clinical Medicine—their record in this field includes 16,314 papers with 324,701 total citations.
Rounding out the top 10 is the University of Pennsylvania, with 46,235 papers cited a total of 931, 399 times. Penn is in the top 1% for institutions in 20 of the database’s 22 fields. Distinguished Penn researchers who have been featured in ScienceW atch.com include Mitchell Lazer, Mirjam Cvetic, Mauro Guillen, and Wafik El-Deiry.
The remaining institutions on the list include the sole entries from Japan (the University of Tokyo at #11) and Canada (the University of Toronto at # 13) and the three UK-based institutions (UCL at #14, the University of Cambridge at #18, and the University of Oxford at #19). Four US institutions make up the rest of the list: Columbia University at #15, Yale University at #16, MIT at #17, and the University of Wisconsin at #20.
Scientists from these institutions who have been featured in ScienceWatch.com include Masataka Sata, Minoru Kanehisa, Makoto Fujita, and Nobutaka Hirokawa from the University of Tokyo; Frances Shepherd, Charles Boone, and Geoffrey Ozin from the University of Toronto; Jonathan Edwards and Uta Frith from UCL; Richard Friend, John Robertson, Julie Ahringer, and Christopher Dobson from the University of Cambridge; Columbia University’s Jeffrey Lieberman; Yale University’s Lena Alexopoulou; and Lisa Randall, David Bartel, the Haploview team, and Mark Daly from MIT.