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his is the second of two installments in the latest "Top Ten" roundup of U.S. university research in 21 fields, as measured by the citation impact of research papers published and cited between 1997 and 2001. The first part of the survey appeared in the previous issue and presented Top Ten rankings in nine biological or biomedical fields (see Science Watch, 13[5]:1-2, September/October 2002). This second part features 12 listings in the physical and social sciences. All the rankings are based on "relative citation impact"—that is, each university’s average-citations-per-paper score for the five-year period compared, on a percentage basis, against the world impact average in each field. The rankings are based on exclusive publication and citation data on more than 100 U.S. universities in Thomson ISI’s University Science Indicators, 1981-2001. In terms of overall results, as was noted in the first part of the survey, Harvard scored the greatest number of Top Ten placements, appearing in 15 of the 21 fields. Stanford was second, with 11 placements. In all, 10 schools achieved particular distinction in the overall survey, with at least six Top Ten appearances each (Harvard, Stanford, MIT, University of California (UC) at San Diego, Yale, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Caltech, University of Michigan, and Duke). Collectively, these universities accounted for 88 Top Ten placements—more than 40% of the 210 available spots in the 21 fields. As in the overall standings, Harvard and Stanford are the standout universities in the physical- and social-science rankings presented here: Harvard appears in eight of the listings, Stanford in seven. Four schools—Caltech, Columbia, MIT, and UC Berkeley—made the Top Ten in six of the accompanying fields. 
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