2/2/2010
Engineering at Illinois is #1 on "The Most-Cited Institutions in Engineering, 1999-2009" list of institutions with the highest total citations to their research papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed engineering journals from January 1, 1999 to October 31, 2009.
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Engineering at Illinois is #1 on "The Most-Cited Institutions in Engineering, 1999-2009" list of institutions with the highest total citations to their research papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed engineering journals from January 1, 1999 to October 31, 2009.
This month, ScienceWatch.com presented a listing of the top 20 institutions worldwide which, as of the fifth bimonthly update of Essential Science IndicatorsSM(January 1, 1999-October 31, 2009) attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed Engineering journals. These institutions are the top 20 out of a pool of 1,084 institutions comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation count in this field. The list includes 13 U.S.-based institutions—12 of which are academic, with four being California-based, and one of which is governmental—two European organizations, and five Asian academic and government-based institutions. The "essential science indicators" determine the influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in each field of study.
As the top-ranked institution in this field, the University of Illinois had 5,821 papers cited a total of 44,094 times. Diverse topics such as mechanism-based strain plasticity, microchannel flow studies, single-wall carbon nanotubes, face recognition, direct formic acid fuel cells, and technology for climate research are among the most-cited papers.
At #2 is the University of California, Berkeley, with 4,517 papers cited a total of 43,003 times. MIT places third, with 4,586 papers cited a total of 42,264 times. These were followed on the list by Stanford University, University of Michigan, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Essential Science IndicatorsSM is a compilation of statistical information (publication, citation, and cites-per-paper counts) for scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. It is based on 10 years of Thomson Reuters data.
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Above text excerpted from The Most-Cited Institutions in Engineering, 1999-2009 at ScienceWatch.com.
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