Special Topic: Planetary Exploration> Top 20 Institutions
Published May 2011
Authors | Institutions | Journals | Nations
Top 20 Institutions
The top institutions ranked by number of citations are NASA with 16,986, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with 11,930 cites. These institutions are the world's largest players in terms of spacecraft design, construction, launch, and science operations. The University of Arizona is the highest-placed research university. The French research council CNRS and the Observatoire de Paris have a joint tally of 14,713.
For numbers of papers the running order is again NASA, JPL, Arizona, and CNRS. Planetary exploration in the UK is largely down to Imperial College London and UCL.
Ranked by citations per paper, the US Geological Survey, whose geological maps of Mars are much in demand, heads the lineup.
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Citations
Rank | Institution | Citations | Papers | Cites per paper |
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1 | NASA | 16,986 | 942 | 18.03 |
2 | Jet Prop Lab | 11,930 | 958 | 12.45 |
3 | Univ Arizona | 10,590 | 579 | 18.29 |
4 | Observ Paris | 7,768 | 465 | 16.71 |
5 | SW Res Inst | 6,951 | 400 | 17.38 |
6 | CNRS | 6,945 | 538 | 12.91 |
7 | Johns Hopkins Univ | 6,463 | 504 | 12.82 |
8 | CALTECH | 4,696 | 262 | 17.92 |
9 | Cornell Univ | 4,626 | 235 | 19.69 |
10 | Univ Michigan | 4,125 | 229 | 18.01 |
11 | Univ Calif Berkeley | 4,119 | 245 | 16.81 |
12 | Univ Maryland | 3,799 | 220 | 17.27 |
13 | US Geol Survey | 3,767 | 179 | 21.04 |
14 | Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med | 3,461 | 272 | 12.72 |
15 | DLR | 3,405 | 248 | 13.73 |
16 | UCL | 3,382 | 253 | 13.37 |
17 | Brown Univ | 3,238 | 93 | 34.82 |
18 | Univ Calif Los Angeles | 3,196 | 245 | 13.04 |
19 | Univ Hawaii | 3,048 | 174 | 17.52 |
20 | Univ Colorado | 2,918 | 202 | 14.45 |
Papers
Rank | Institution | Citations | Papers | Cites per paper |
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1 | Jet Prop Lab | 11,930 | 958 | 12.45 |
2 | NASA | 16,986 | 942 | 18.03 |
3 | Univ Arizona | 10,590 | 579 | 18.29 |
4 | CNRS | 6,945 | 538 | 12.91 |
5 | Johns Hopkins Univ | 6,463 | 504 | 12.82 |
6 | Observ Paris | 7,768 | 465 | 16.71 |
7 | SW Res Inst | 6,951 | 400 | 17.38 |
8 | Russian Acad Sci | 2,392 | 292 | 8.19 |
9 | Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med | 3,461 | 272 | 12.72 |
10 | European Space Agcy | 2,617 | 266 | 9.84 |
11 | CALTECH | 4,696 | 262 | 17.92 |
12 | UCL | 3,382 | 253 | 13.37 |
13 | DLR | 3,405 | 248 | 13.73 |
14 | Univ Calif Berkeley | 4,119 | 245 | 16.81 |
15 | Univ Calif Los Angeles | 3,196 | 245 | 13.04 |
16 | Cornell Univ | 4,626 | 235 | 19.69 |
17 | Univ Michigan | 4,125 | 229 | 18.01 |
18 | Univ Maryland | 3,799 | 220 | 17.27 |
19 | Univ Colorado | 2,918 | 202 | 14.45 |
20 | Univ Iowa | 2,513 | 196 | 12.82 |
Citations Per Paper (>= 104 paper threshold)
Rank | Institution | Citations | Papers | Cites per paper |
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1 | US Geol Survey | 3,767 | 179 | 21.04 |
2 | Cornell Univ | 4,626 | 235 | 19.69 |
3 | Univ Arizona | 10,590 | 579 | 18.29 |
4 | NASA | 16,986 | 942 | 18.03 |
5 | Univ Michigan | 4,125 | 229 | 18.01 |
6 | Los Alamos Natl Lab | 2,057 | 115 | 17.89 |
7 | Univ Hawaii | 3,048 | 174 | 17.52 |
8 | SW Res Inst | 6,951 | 400 | 17.38 |
9 | Univ Virginia | 1,799 | 104 | 17.30 |
10 | Univ Maryland | 3,799 | 220 | 17.27 |
11 | Univ Calif Berkeley | 4,119 | 245 | 16.81 |
12 | Observ Paris | 7,768 | 465 | 16.71 |
13 | UNIV PARIS DIDEROT | 2,777 | 177 | 15.69 |
14 | UNIV PARIS SUD 11 | 2,123 | 137 | 15.50 |
15 | Univ Cologne | 1,833 | 119 | 15.40 |
16 | MIT | 2,649 | 183 | 14.48 |
17 | UNIV PIERRE & MARIE CURIE | 2,226 | 154 | 14.45 |
18 | Univ Colorado | 2,918 | 202 | 14.45 |
19 | DLR | 3,405 | 248 | 13.73 |
20 | CNRS | 6,945 | 538 | 12.91 |
About The Institutions
The resulting database contained 3,761 institutions. Ranked by three
separate measures: citations, papers, and citations per paper. Source
dates: January 1, 2001-March 18, 2011. *Unless otherwise specified, all
rankings have a >= 5 paper threshold for all measures.
Look for complelte threshold information for the Special Topic of Planetary Exploration in the "Methodology & Threshold" tab of the opening page for this topic.
Overall General Information
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