Institutional Rankings in Environment
and Ecology 1998-2008
Based on citations per paper among institutions with 10,000 or more
citations. Data from
Clarivate'sEssential
Science IndicatorsSM, January 1998 to February 2008.
Rank
Institution
Papers
Citations
Citations
Per
Paper
1
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, USA
1,020
21,318
20.90
2
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
823
16,099
19.56
3
Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ, USA
555
10,852
19.55
4
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC, USA
939
17,964
19.13
5
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
583
10,965
18.81
6
University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh, Scotland
663
12,411
18.72
7
University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, England
789
14,357
18.20
8
University of Oxford,
Oxford, England
699
12,655
18.10
9
University of Alaska,
Fairbanks and other campuses, AK, USA
657
11,706
17.82
10
Max Planck Society,
various locations, Germany
1,008
17,861
17.72
11
Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI, USA
1,124
19,482
17.33
12
Duke University,
Durham, NC, USA
1,136
19,560
17.22
13
Umea University,
Umea, Sweden
641
10,979
17.13
14
University of London Imperial College of Science,
Technology & Medicine,
London, England
986
16,790
17.03
15
Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, USA
1,134
19,172
16.91
16
University of Minnesota,
St. Paul, MN, USA
1,488
24,620
16.55
17
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD, USA
1,157
18,605
16.08
18
Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ, USA
687
10,827
15.76
19
University of Wisconsin,
Madison and other campuses, WI, USA
1,801
28,372
15.75
20
Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and
Technology,
Duebendorf, Switzerland
697
10,974
15.74
The data above were extracted from
Clarivate'sEssential
Science IndicatorsSM database. This database, currently
covering the period January 1998 to February 2008, surveys only journal
articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson
Scientific. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in
which they were published and Thomson Scientific’s
journal-to-category field definition scheme. Both articles tabulated and
citation counts to those articles are for the period indicated. Naturally,
institutions publishing large numbers of papers have a greater likelihood
of collecting more citations than scientists publishing fewer papers. This
ranking is by citations per paper (impact), among those institutions that
have collected 10,000 or more citations in environment and ecology
journals. For papers with multiple institutional addresses, each
institution receives full, not fractional, citation credit.
Essential Science Indicators lists institutions ranked in the top
1% for a field over a given period, based on total citations. For the
current version, 461 institutions are listed in the field of environment
and ecology, meaning that a total of 46,100 institutions were reviewed to
obtain these results. Of the 461, 61 institutions collected 10,000 or more
citations in environment and ecology. US institutions take the top five
places in this ranking, and a total of 13 in this list of the top 20 by
citations per paper. UK institutions rank 6th, 7th, 8th, and 14th. Germany,
Sweden, and Switzerland are represented by one institution each. Of course,
the Max Planck Society represents several locations. Visit
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