Top Ten Universities in Physical and Social Science Fields, 1993-97

Top Ten Universities in
Physical and Social Science Fields,
1993-97

Geosciences >1,000 papers	Mathematics >300 papers	Psychology/Psychiatry >300 papers
Astrophysics >300 papers	Engineering >300 papers	Economics&Business >300 papers
Materials Science >500 papers	Computer Science >300 papers	Law >500 papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	Columbia University	773	+185
2	Harvard University	465	+184
3	University of Washington	1,100	+143
4	Caltech	1,517	+117
5	MIT	835	+115
6	Princeton University	582	+115
7	University of Colorado	1,234	+105
8	Univ. Calif., Santa Barbara	315	+103
9	Univ. Calif., San Diego	862	+97
10	Univ. Calif., Los Angeles	647	+87

Geosciences

>300 Papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	University of Washington	313	+176
2	Harvard University	297	+157
3	Stanford University	358	+156
4	New York University	317	+139
5	University of Chicago	326	+132
6	Caltech	427	+114
7	Cornell University	413	+98
8	Princeton University	299	+96
9	University of Minnesota	483	+92
10	Yale University	220	+73

Mathematics

>200 Papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	Virginia Commonwealth U.	350	+189
2	Yale University	1,056	+129
3	Washington University	406	+126
4	Columbia University	1,099	+110
5	University of Michigan	923	+110
6	University of Pittsburgh	1,056	+102
7	Duke University	546	+96
8	University of Pennsylvania	745	+95
9	University of Iowa	+93	625
10	University of Washington	741	+92

Psychology/
Psychiatry

>300 Papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	Princeton University	507	+148
2	Univ. Calif., Santa Cruz	552	+122
3	Univ. Calif., Berkeley	1,224	+79
4	MIT	608	+75
5	Caltech	2,040	+69
6	Harvard University	1,403	+65
7	University of Hawaii	564	+64
8	Johns Hopkins University	800	+63
9	University of Arizona	1,018	+62
10	University of Texas, Austin	620	+51

Astrophysics

>500 Papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	Indiana University	405	+165
2	New Mexico State U.	338	+164
3	University of North Carolina	404	+156
4	University of Utah	486	+111
5	Cornell University	1,083	+109
6	Harvard University	505	+109
7	Caltech	1,720	+105
8	Yale University	371	+101
9	Stanford University	1,629	+98
10	Univ. Calif., Santa Barbara	709	+98

Engineering

>300 Papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	University of Chicago	546	+176
2	MIT	648	+148
3	Caltech	318	+140
4	Yale University	347	+135
5	Harvard University	914	+129
6	Northwestern University	565	+127
7	Stanford University	626	+124
8	University of Pennsylvania	807	+119
9	University of Michigan	595	+101
10	Univ. Calif., Berkeley	610	+93

Economics/
Business

>300 Papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	Univ. Calif., Santa Barbara	432	+237
2	Caltech	304	+157
3	Northwestern University	440	+115
4	N. Carolina State Univ.	553	+101
5	MIT	755	+100
6	Cornell University	366	+96
7	Univ. Calif., Berkeley	531	+92
8	Univ. Illinois, Urbana	562	+90
9	Case Western Reserve U.	364	+82
10	University of Michigan	454	+79

Materials
Science

>300 Papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	Univ. Illinois, Urbana	136	+317
2	Stanford University	138	+144
3	Ohio State University	104	+127
4	Caltech	124	+108
5	MIT	163	+105
6	Univ. Texas, Austin	99	+104
7	University of Michigan	120	+72
8	Univ. Southern California	133	+55
9	Georgia Inst. Technology	139	+48
10	Univ. Maryland, College Park	149	+32

Computer
Science

>99 Papers

Rank

Institution

# of
Papers

Relative
Impact (%)

1	University of Chicago	256	+134
2	Yale University	192	+121
3	University of Minnesota	115	+101
4	Stanford University	174	+98
5	Harvard University	272	+86
6	New York University	152	+82
7	Columbia University	158	+77
8	University of Virginia	160	+75
9	University of Michigan	123	+70
10	Northwestern University	132	+69

Law

>100 Papers

Science Watch^Ž, November/December 1998, Vol. 9, No. 6
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