Institution Rankings in Neuroscience
& Behavior, 1998-2008
Based on citations per paper among institutions with 25,000 or more
citations
Rank
Institution
Papers
Citations
Citations
Per
Paper
1
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
835
43,559
52.17
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1,070
43,766
40.9
3
Massachusetts General Hospital
2,107
85,593
40.62
4
Rockefeller University
1,066
43,170
40.5
5
California Institute of Technology
661
25,756
38.97
6
Medical Research Council, UK
747
29,079
38.93
7
University of California, San Francisco
3,130
112,195
35.85
8
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
2,007
70,822
35.29
9
Stanford University
2,573
90,676
35.24
10
Washington University
2,581
90,577
35.09
11
Harvard University
6,455
223,452
34.62
12
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
1,135
38,449
33.88
13
The Scripps Research Institute
987
32,176
32.6
14
University of Cambridge
2,177
69,821
32.07
15
Yale University
3,297
104,908
31.82
16
Baylor College of Medicine
1,410
44,263
31.39
17
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,
NIH
1,914
59,876
31.28
18
University of California, San Diego
3,145
96,066
30.55
19
University of California, Berkeley
911
27,756
30.47
20
Max Planck Society
3,504
105,408
30.08
The data above were extracted from
Clarivate's
Essential Science IndicatorsSM database. This database,
currently covering the period January 1998 through October 2008, surveys
only journal articles (original research reports and review articles)
indexed by Clarivate. Articles are assigned to a category based on
the journals in which they were published and Clarivate’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 those publishing fewer papers. This
ranking is by citations per paper (impact), among those institutions that
have collected 25,000 or more citations in neuroscience and behavior. 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, 437 institutions are listed in the field of neuroscience
and behavior, meaning that a total of 43,700 institutions were reviewed to
obtain these results. Of the 437, 81 institutions collected 25,000 or more
citations. The ranking by citations per paper (impact) seeks to reveal
“heavy-hitters” based on per paper influence, not mere output.