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Max-Planck-Society follows close upon Harvard
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Especially in the fields of Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry and Biology, Max-Planck Scientists belong to the top of the list. In a ranking conducted byScienceWatch, Max-Planck Society was placed second regarding the number and citation of its publications, directly behind top-rated Harvard.
In September 2009, ScienceWatch.com presented a listing of the top 20 institutions which, as of the second bimonthly update of Essential Science Indicators (January 1, 1999-April 30, 2009) attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals over all 22 fields in the database. These institutions are the top 20 out of a pool of 4,050 institutions comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation count over all fields.
The top 20 institutions over all fields consist of 14 US-based universities, three UK-based universities, and one each in Canada, Japan, and Germany. These institutions all produce a high volume of papers resulting in extremely high citation counts—the top six institutions have over one million citations to their credit, and cite counts for the remaining 14 are all well over a half-million.
Leading the way, as it does for nine of the 22 fields, is Harvard University, with 95,291 papers cited a total of 2,597,786 times up until the end of April 2009. Harvard's citation strengths lie in biological and health sciences: the top five fields in the citation record are Clinical Medicine, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Biology & Biochemistry, Neuroscience & Behavior, and Immunology.
The Max Planck Society ranks at No. 2 overall, with 69,373 papers cited 1,366,087 times. This institution, with its many component facilities, is a heavy hitter in the physical sciences, with the fields of Physics, Chemistry, and Space Science among its top-cited fields. In fact, the Max Planck Society is the top-ranking institution overall in Physics and Space Science, and ranks at No. 2 overall in Chemistry.
Ferenc Krausz from the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching near Munich and Manfred Reetz from the Max-Planck-Institute for coal research in Mülheim an der Ruhr are renowned leaders in their fields.
Ranking at No. 3 is Johns Hopkins University with 54,022 papers cited a total of 1,222,166 times. In the Special Topic on Epigenetics, Johns Hopkins was the top-ranked institution.
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