Heavyweights in Molecular Biology/Genetics: For Some, A High Percentage of Elite Papers

Heavyweights in Molecular Biology/Genetics:
For Some, A High Percentage of Elite Papers

Institutions Ranked by Percentage of Highly Cited
Molecular Biology & Genetics Papers, 1992-2002
(Of those institutions with >50,000 citations during the period)

Rank

Institution

Papers

Highly Cited Papers

% Highly Cited Papers

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

729

7.82

Salk Institute for Biological
Studies

778

7.46

Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center

998

7.41

MIT

1681

108

6.42

Massachusetts General Hospital

1338

4.48

University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center, Dallas

1436

4.18

Harvard University

6801

273

4.01

Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center

906

3.86

Stanford University

2508

3.79

Rockefeller University

1232

3.73

University of California,
San Diego

2178

3.49

Scripps Research Institute

1158

3.45

European Molecular Biology
Lab (EMBL)

1573

3.31

Imperial Cancer Research
Fund

1372

3.06

University of California,
San Francisco

3101

3.00

Source: Thomson ISI, Essential Science Indicators Web Product, 1992-August 2002.

Institutions in Molecular Biology & Genetics, 1992-2002,
Ranked by Total Citations
(among those institutions with >50,000 citations during the period)

Rank

Institution

Citations

Papers

Citations per Paper

Highly Cited Papers

% Highly Cited Papers

Harvard University

368,130

6,801

54.13

273

4.01

University of California,
San Francisco

161,431

3,101

52.06

3.00

MIT

130,064

1,681

77.37

108

6.42

Johns Hopkins University

120,446

2,828

42.59

2.51

Stanford University

116,323

2,508

46.38

3.79

Yale University

107,899

2,499

43.18

2.28

NIH, National Cancer Institute

106,555

2,881

36.99

2.29

University of California, San Diego

105,829

2,178

48.59

3.49

Columbia University

102,240

2,210

46.26

2.81

Baylor College of Medicine

94,436

2,254

41.90

2.97

Washington University

91,581

2,207

41.50

2.85

University of California,
Berkeley

88,450

1,999

44.25

2.35

University of Pennsylvania

82,097

2,399

34.22

1.92

European Molecular Biology Lab (EMBL)

81,699

1,573

51.94

3.31

University of Washington

80,227

2,449

32.76

1.84

Massachusetts General Hospital

76,510

1,338

57.18

4.48

Imperial Cancer Research Fund

74,688

1,372

54.44

3.06

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr.

73,289

1,436

51.04

4.18

Rockefeller University

69,064

1,232

56.06

3.73

University of Cambridge

68,353

2,106

32.46

1.95

University of Toronto

67,459

2,163

31.19

1.85

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

64,636

998

64.77

7.41

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

64,310

778

82.66

7.46

Duke University

62,034

1,661

37.35

1.51

University of North Carolina

61,206

1,528

40.06

2.62

University of California, Los Angeles

60,848

2,006

30.33

1.30

University of Michigan

60,599

1,814

33.41

1.60

Scripps Research Institute

59,227

1,158

51.15

3.45

University of Tokyo

59,119

1,158

20.58

1.73

Cornell University

57,107

1,785

31.99

1.12

University of Oxford

56,763

1,832

30.98

1.20

Pasteur Institute

56,001

1,683

33.27

1.19

Cold Spring Harbor Lab

55,856

729

76.62

7.82

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

53,304

906

58.83

3.86

University of Wisconsin, Madison

51,054

1,895

26.94

.69

Kyoto University

50,383

1,746

28.86

1.72

University of Chicago

50,078

1,378

36.34

2.18

Source: Thomson ISI, Essential Science Indicators Web Product, 1992-August 2002.

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