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July/August 2003


 Sweating the Small Stuff, 1992-2002

Nanotechnology Research
Institutions Ranked by Citations and Citation Impact
(Among those that published ³ 100) nanotechnology papers 1992-2002)

Rank Institution Citations
1992 - 2002
1 Univ. Calif., Berkeley 15,507
2 IBM 11,587
3 MIT 10,830
4 Chinese Academy of Sciences (PRC) 9,814
5 Ecole Polytech. Fed. Lausanne 9,758
6 Rice University 9,750
7 NEC Corporation 7,963
8 Univ. Calif., Santa Barbara 7,599
9 Harvard University 7,578
10 Northwestern University 6,821
11 Tohoku University 6,296
12 Georgia Tech 6,150
13 U.S. Navy 5,952
14 Russian Academy of Sciences 5,849
15 University of Tokyo 5,717
16 CNRS (France) 5,680
17 Pennsylvania State University 5,588
18 University of Illinois 5,579
19 Lucent Technologies 5,166
20 Cornell University 4,922
21 University of Paris 6 4,750
22 Osaka University 4,595
23 Caltech  4,527
24 Delft Univ. of Technology 4,518
25 University of Minnesota 4,249
Rank Institution Citations
1992 - 2002
1 Rice University 37.64
2 NEC Corporation 28.64
3 Colorado State University 25.32
4 Michigan State University 24.96
5 Lucent Technologies 24.48
6 Harvard University 23.68
7 Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab 23.30
8 University of Pennsylvania 23.02
9 IBM 21.34
10 Univ. Calif., Berkeley 21.24
11 Univ. Calif., Santa Barbara 20.93
12 University of Utah 20.25
13 Ecole Polytech. Fed. Lausanne 19.17
14 Delft University of Technology 18.83
15 MIT 17.73
16 Hahn-Meitner Institute, Berlin 17.30
17 Caltech 17.02
18 Natl. Renewable Energy Lab 16.69
19 Princeton University 16.42
20 University of Liverpool 16.30
21 University of North Carolina 16.27
22 Northwestern University 15.90
23 University of Toronto 15.85
24 Stanford University 15.84
25 University of Kentucky 15.69

SOURCE: Topical Citation Report: Nanotechnology, 1992 - 2002

Most-Cited Authors in Nanotechnology, 1992 - 2002
(Ranked by total citations)

Rank
Name
Affiliation
Dept.
/Field
Papers Citations
1 Richard E. Smalley
Rice University Chemistry/ Physics 109 7,936
2 A. Paul Alivisatos Univ. Calif., Berkeley Chemistry/ Materials 133 6,107
3 Hongjie Dai  Stanford University Chemistry 72 4,937
4 Andrew G. Rinzler University of Florida Physics 42 4,271
5 Charles M. Lieber
Harvard University Chemistry 106 4,253
6 Michael Gratzel EPFL, Switzerland Physical Chemistry 116 4,101
7 Pulickel M. Ajayan Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Materials Engineering 112 4,086
8 Andreas Thess m-phasys GmbH, Germany Biotechnology 20 3,666
9 Thomas W. Ebbesen Universite Louis Pasteur Nanostructures 41 3,505
10 Daniel T. Colbert Rice University Chemistry 27 3,491
11 Sumio Iijima NEC/Meijo University Materials 143 3,458
12 Moungi G. Bawendi MIT Chemistry 83 3,453
13 Cees Dekker
Delft University of Technology Molecular Biophysics 34 3,205
14 Mildred S. Dresselhaus MIT Physics/ Elect. Engineering 121 2,658
15 Galen D. Stucky Univ. Calif., Santa Barbara Chemistry 53 2,646
16 John E. Fischer University of Pennsylvania Materials 43 2,509
17 Pavel Nikolaev NASA Johnson Space Center Materials 23 2,496
18 Emmanuel P. Giannelis Cornell University Materials 55 2,456
19 Charles R. Martin University of Florida Bioanalytical Chemistry 87 2,389
20 Zhong L. Wang Georgia Tech Materials 121 2,348
21 Akihisa Inoue
Tohoku University Materials 282 2,316
22 Christopher B. Murray IBM Materials 36 2,276
23 Horst Weller  University of Hamburg Physical Chemistry 81 2,269
24 Steven G. Louie Univ. Calif., Berkeley Physics 41 2,261
25 Marie-Paule Pileni Univ Paris 6 Materials 125 2,091
SOURCE: Topical Citation Report: Nanotechnology, 1992 - 2002

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