Science Watch® - Tracking Trends and Performance In Basic Research
September/October 1998

 

Top Ten Universities in
Biological Science Fields, 1993-97
Clinical Medicine
>1,000 papers		 Neuroscience
>300 papers		 Agricultural Sciences
>300 papers
Plant & Animal Science
>300 papers		 Immunology
>300 papers		 Ecology/Environment
>300 papers
Molecular Biology & Genetics
>500 papers		 Pharmacology
>300 papers		 Biology & Biochemistry
>500 papers
SOURCE: ISI's University Science Indicators on Diskette

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
Johns Hopkins University
8,115
+129
2
Harvard University
14,270
+126
3
Stanford University
4,601
+121
4
University of Washington
6,891
+110
5
University of Utah
2,430
+101
6
Duke University
2,897
+98
7
Tufts University
5,244
+95
8
Washington University
4,894
+93
9
Univ. Calif., San Diego
4,076
+91
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Vanderbilt University
2,762
+86
Clinical
Medicine

>1,200 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
Caltech
395
+135
2
Stanford University
911
+106
3
Johns Hopkins University
1,558
+105
4
Univ. Calif., San Francisco
1,257
+105
5
Harvard University
2,419
+91
6
Rockerfeller University
529
+87
7
MIT
371
+85
8
Yale University
1,689
+78
9
Univ. Calif., Berkeley
364
+73
10
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Columbia University
1,548
+72
Neuroscience

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
Univ. Calif., Davis
860
+72
2
Cornell University
673
+60
3
Univ. Wisconsin, Madison
691
+57
4
Michigan State University
640
+53
5
Univ. Illinois, Urbana
495
+43
6
University of Minnesota
635
+32
7
Iowa State University
652
+25
8
University of Georgia
670
+24
9
Pennsylvania State University
400
+24
10
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Ohio State University
414
+22
Agricultural
Sciences

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
Harvard University
470
+179
2
Indiana University
328
+175
3
Univ. Calif., San Diego
565
+174
4
Duke University
455
+155
5
Univ. Calif., Berkeley
960
+151
6
University of Colorado
304
+141
7
Rutgers University
680
+141
8
University Texas, Austin
463
+136
9
Univ. Calif., Santa Barbara
313
+106
10
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Purdue University
1,166
+94
Plant &
Animal
Science

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
Washington University
551
+140
2
Harvard University
1,668
+107
3
Stanford University
631
+87
4
Yale University
429
+86
5
Univ. Calif., San Francisco
625
+70
6
Univ. Calif., San Diego
343
+67
7
University of Michigan
406
+55
8
New York University
330
+43
9
Univ. Calif., Los Angeles
646
+42
10
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University of Colorado
374
+42
Immunology

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
University of Minnesota
536
+126
2
Harvard University
402
+100
3
Stanford University
308
+95
4
Univ. Calif., Riverside
363
+86
5
University of Michigan
367
+85
6
Duke University
320
+82
7
University of Washington
445
+81
8
Michigan State University
338
+80
9
Cornell University
540
+76
10
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Univ. Calif., Berkeley
624
+70
Ecology/
Environment

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
MIT
823
+239
2
Rockerfeller University
547
+213
3
Harvard University
3,064
+149
4
Univ. Calif., San Francisco
1,464
+125
5
New York University
532
+123
6
Columbia University
999
+119
7
Univ. Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr., Dallas
632
+117
8
Univ. Calif., San Diego
997
+99
9
Johns Hopkins University
1,298
+95
10
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Baylor Coll. of Medicine
1,084
+94
Molecular
Biology &
Genetics

>500 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
Vanderbilt University
313
+157
2
University of Washington
434
+88
3
Harvard University
452
+78
4
University of North Carolina
530
+69
5
Johns Hopkins University
333
+64
6
Univ. Calif., San Francisco
478
+52
7
University of Arizona
415
+43
8
University of Michigan
472
+41
9
University of Minnesota
408
+31
10
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University of Kansas
311
+15
 

Pharmacology

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers		 Relative
Impact (%)
1
Duke University
1,446
130+
2
Univ. Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr., Dallas
1,377
+124
3
Harvard University
4,525
+123
4
MIT
1,040
+115
5
Rockerfeller University
647
+112
6
Caltech
684
+112
7
Univ. Calif., San Francisco
2,279
+108
8
Stanford University
1,571
+106
9
New York University
713
+100