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September/October 2002


 Harvard Rides High in Latest "Top Ten" Research Roundup

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Top Ten Universities in
Biological Science Fields, 1997-2001

Clinical Medicine
>1,000 papers
Neurosciences
>300 papers
Agricultural Sciences
>300 papers
Plant & Animal Science
>300 papers
Immunology
>300 papers
Ecology/Environment
>300 papers
Molecular Biology & Genetics
>500 papers
Pharmacology
>200 papers
Biology & Biochemistry
>500 papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 Harvard University 16,297 +115
2 Univ. Calif., San Diego 4,406 +106
3 Tufts University 2,833 +103
4 Johns Hopkins University 9,719 +94
5 Vanderbilt University 3,298 +87
6 Columbia University 5,664 +86
7 University of Chicago 3,029 +85
8 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 8,023 +84
9 University of Washington 7,950 +84
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Univ Texas Southwestern
Med. Ctr., Dallas
3,615 +80
Clinical
Medicine

>1,200 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 Caltech 319 +124
2 Rockefeller University 537 +111
3 MIT 429 +107
4 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 1,424 +106
5 Washington University 1,258 +105
6 Harvard University 2,997 +95
7 Yale University 1,738 +76
8 Oregon Health Sci. Univ. 729 +72
9 Univ. Illinois, Urbana 315 +71
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Johns Hopkins University 1,897 +71
Neurosciences

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 Univ. Wisconsin, Madison 675 +86
2 Cornell University 685 +59
3 Pennsylvania State Univ. 415 +58
4 Michigan State University 455 +52
5 University of Minnesota 641 +46
6 Washington State University 448 +41
7 Univ. Calif., Davis 947 +32
8 Ohio State University 469 +31
9 Purdue University 469 +30
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Iowa State University 694 +27
Agricultural
Sciences

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 Harvard University 518 +159
2 Rutgers University 664 +149
3 Univ. Calif., San Diego 654 +146
4 Indiana University 316 +135
5 Duke University 499 +123
6 Univ. Calif., Berkeley 1,009 +117
7 Univ. Calif., Los Angeles 398 +117
8 University of Arizona 748 +106
9 Woods Hole Ocean. Inst. 535 +104
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SUNY Stony Brook 318 +100
Plant &
Animal
Science

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 Rockefeller University 337 +241
2 Yale University 631 +105
3 Stanford University 716 +97
4 Washington University 596 +87
5 Harvard University 2,133 +79
6 University of Iowa 342 +73
7 University of Chicago 327 +68
8 Baylor College of Medicine 434 +67
9 Emory University 452 +55
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Univ. Texas Southwestern
Med. Ctr., Dallas
415 +55
Immunology

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 Stanford University 466 +155
2 University of Minnesota 658 +108
3 Univ. Calif., Berkeley 764 +88
4 Oregon State University 583 +80
5 Michigan State University 466 +75
6 Duke University 447 +73
7 Harvard University 522 +68
8 Utah State University 336 +65
9 University of Michigan 419 +63
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Cornell University 626 +62
Ecology/
Environment

>300 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 MIT 776 +179
2 Univ. Texas Southwestern
Med. Ctr., Dallas
786 +147
3 Rockefeller University 629 +136
4 Univ. Calif., San Diego 1,149 +129
5 Harvard University 3,494 +125
6 Stanford University 1,217 +110
7 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 1,491 +107
8 Columbia University 1,088 +83
9 Yale University 1,218 +80
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Yeshiva University 523 +74
Molecular
Biology &
Genetics

>500 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 Vanderbilt University 298 +126
2 Duke University 212 +107
3 Univ. Calif., San Diego 205 +101
4 University of Pennsylvania 229 +99
5 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 385 +88
6 Johns Hopkins University 313 +64
7 University of Colorado 281 +63
8 University of Washington 394 +61
9 University of Michigan 449 +57
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University of Cincinnati 201 +57
 

Pharmacology

>200 Papers

Rank Institution # of
Papers
Relative
Impact (%)
1 Rockefeller University 635 +150
2 Univ. Texas Southwestern
Med. Ctr., Dallas
1,381 +116
3 Harvard University 4,583 +115
4 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 1,999 +110
5 Duke University 1,352 +105
6 MIT 921 +94
7 Stanford University 1,515 +93
8 Univ. Calif., San Diego 1,774 +92
9 Yale University 1,667 +91
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University of Michigan 1,710 +79
Biology &
Biochemistry

>500 Papers

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