Friday, June 28, 2019
THE WORLD'S TOP RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
Using a rough measure of the number of important contributions to science made by research institutions around the world (based on publications in major journals), and an equally rough measure of the size of the institutions, NATURE MAGAZINE has published a ranking of the total number of “important” contributions to science, and a ranking of the number of “important” contributions relative to its “size” for research institutions around the world.
One result is the importance, and the growing importance of Chinese institutions, and the other is the quality of a number of smaller institutions.
Here are the results, and a link to the full details:
NUMBER OF "IMPORTANT" PUBLICATIONS
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01920-1
1 - CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
..........>> #1 in chemistry, physical sciences, & earth and environmental sciences
2 - HARVARD
..........>> #1 in life sciences
3 - MAX PLANK SOCIETY
4 - FRENCH NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
5 - STANFORD
6 – MIT
7 – HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRES
8 – THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
9 – THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
10 – PEKING UNIVERSITY
Four Chinese institutions in the top twenty have increased their output more than 5% in the last year, including Nanjing whose output rose more than 10%;
In the US, Yale, and Northwestern have increased their output more than 5% in the last year, while most others have actually decreased.
"IMPORTANT" PUBLICATIONS RELATIVE TO SIZE
1 - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - US
2 - Institute of Science and Technology Austria - AUSTRIA
3 - Weizmann Institute of Science - ISRAEL
4 - Institute for Advanced Study - US
5 - Brandeis University - US
6 - The Rockefeller University - US
7 - Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research - INDIA
8 - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne - SWITZERLAND
9 - Princeton University - US
10 - Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology - JAPAN
TERMINOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY
Labels: Brandeis University, Chinese Academy Of Sciences, Harvard University, Institute for Advanced Studies, publications, Research
