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January/February 2001


 Best Brains of the Brain Decade

Neuroscience Research
Institutions Ranked by Citations and Citation Impact
(among those that published ³ 25) high-impact papers 1989-98)

Rank Institution Citations
1989-98
1 Harvard University 37,174
2 Johns Hopkins University 26,370
3 University of London 20,564
4 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 18,864
5 Washington University 16,772
6 Yale University 16,405
7 Veterans Adm. Medical Center 16,351
8 Stanford University 14,766
9 Massachusetts General Hospital 13,745
10 Max Planck Inst. Psychiatry 13,727
11 Columbia University 13,641
12 Medical Research Council (U.K.) 12,816
13 Salk Institute 12,179
14 University of Heidelberg 12,177
15 Univ. Calif., Los Angeles 11,444
16 National Institute of Mental Health 11,356
17 Univ. Calif., San Diego 11,132
18 University of Michigan 10,029
19 Karolinska Institute 9,213
20 University of British Columbia 8,232
21 University of Washington 7,653
22 University of Toronto 7,596
23 Duke University 7,069
24 University of Pennsylvania 7,054
25 New York University 7,013
Rank Institution Impact
1989-98
1 Max Planck Inst. Psychiatry 392.2
2 University of Heidelberg 347.9
3 University of Michigan 345.8
4 University of British Columbia 294.0
5 Stanford University 273.4
6 Duke University 261.8
7 Johns Hopkins University 261.1
8 New York University 259.7
9 Salk Institute 259.1
10 Washington University 250.3
11 Karolinska Institute 249.0
12 Harvard University 247.8
13 Veterans Adm. Medical Center 244.0
14 Medical Research Council (U.K.) 241.8
15 University of Toronto 237.4
16 National Institute of Mental Health 236.6
17 Univ. Calif., Irvine 236.0
18 Univ. Calif., Los Angeles 233.6
19 Cornell University 233.2
20 Massachusetts General Hospital 221.7
21 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 219.4
22 Yale University 215.8
23 Univ. Calif., San Diego 214.1
24 Columbia University 203.6
25 University of Washington 201.4

SOURCE: ISI's High-Impact Papers, 1989-1999

Authors of High-Impact Papers in
Neuroscience, 1989-98

(ranked by number of high-impact papers)

Rank
Name
Affiliation
No. of
high-impact
papers
Citations Citations
per high-impact
paper
1 Peter H. Seeburg  Max Planck Inst. for Medical Research 27 10,528 389.9
2 Richard S.J. Frackowiak  Institute of Neurology 24 6,318 263.3
3 Mark P. Mattson  University of Kentucky 23 4,308 187.3
4 Solomon H. Snyder  Johns Hopkins University 20 9,267 463.4
5 Ted M. Dawson  Johns Hopkins University 18 7,081 393.4
6 Bert Sakmann  Max Planck Inst. for Medical Research 18 6,200 344.4
7 Donald L. Price  Johns Hopkins University 17 2,764 162.6
8 Eric R. Kandel  HHMI, Columbia University 16 3,732 233.3
9 Christopher D. Frith  Institute of Neurology 16 3,533 220.8
10 Stephen Heinemann  Salk Institute 14 5,785 413.2
11 Robert C. Malenka  Univ. Calif, San Francisco 14 3,115 225.5
12 Hans Thoenen  Max Planck Inst. of Neurobiology 13 5,326 409.7
13 Shigetada Nakanishi  Kyoto University 13 4,954 381.1
14 Dennis J. Selkoe  Harvard University 13 3,959 304.5
15 Thomas C. Sudhof  HHMI, U. Texas Southwest. Med. Ctr. 13 2,401 184.7
16 Richard L. Huganir  HHMI, Johns Hopkins University 13 1,933 148.7
17 Yves Alain Barde  Max Planck Inst. of Neurobiology 12 5,593 466.1
18 Michael E. Greenberg  Harvard University 12 4,263 355.3
19 Dennis W. Choi  Washington University 12 3,650 304.2
20 Patrik Ernfors  Karolinska Institute 12 3,147 262.3
21 M. Flint Beal  Weill Med. Coll., Cornell U. 12 2,517 209.8

SOURCE: ISI's High-Impact Papers, 1989-98

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