| Top European Institutions in Neuroscience and Behaviour |
| Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 2000-31 August 2010 |
| Euro rank | World rank | Institution | Papers | Citations | Citations per paper |
| 1 | 11 | University of Cambridge | 2,237 | 75,201 | 33.62 |
| 2 | 15 | University College London | 5,887 | 188,818 | 32.07 |
| 3 | 18 | Max Planck Society | 3,495 | 110,630 | 31.65 |
| 4 | 22 | University of Oxford | 2,679 | 80,048 | 29.88 |
| 5 | 36 | Pitié-Salpetrière Hospital, Paris | 1,514 | 40,048 | 26.69 |
| 6 | 37 | King’s College London | 2,526 | 66,005 | 26.13 |
| 7 | 45 | University of Düsseldorf | 1,232 | 30,707 | 24.92 |
| 8 | 49 | University of Zürich | 1,881 | 45,936 | 24.42 |
| 9 | 55 | University of Edinburgh | 1,030 | 24,158 | 23.45 |
| 10 | 58 | Imperial College London | 1,151 | 26,330 | 21.65 |
| 11 | 60 | University of Bonn | 1,456 | 32,863 | 22.57 |
| 12 | 64 | University of Göttingen | 1,216 | 26,330 | 21.65 |
| 13 | 65 | University of Amsterdam | 1,019 | 22,038 | 21.63 |
| 14 | 67 | University of Bristol | 1,012 | 21,573 | 21.32 |
| 15 | 69 | University of Würzburg | 1,100 | 23,211 | 21.10 |
| 16 | 70 | University of Tübingen | 1,680 | 35,382 | 21.06 |
| 17 | 71 | Karolinska Institute | 2,884 | 60,357 | 20.93 |
| 18 | 75 | University of Gothenburg | 1,001 | 20,540 | 20.52 |
| 19 | 76 | University of Milan | 1,495 | 30,355 | 20.30 |
| 20 | 78 | VU University Amsterdam | 1,080 | 21,791 | 20.18 |
The data above were extracted from the Essential Science Indicators database of Thomson Reuters. This database, currently covering the period January 2000 through August 2010, surveys only journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Reuters. Articles are assigned to a category based on the journals in which they were published and the Thomson Reuters journal-to-field classification scheme. Both the articles tabulated and the 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) for European institutions that published 1,000 or more papers in neuroscience and behaviour during the period. For papers with multiple institutional addresses, each university receives full, not fractional, publication and citation credit.
Essential Science Indicators lists institutions ranked in the top 1 per cent for a field over a given period, based on total citations. For the current version, 469 institutions are listed in the field of neuroscience and behaviour, meaning that a total of 46,900 institutions were surveyed to obtain these results. Of the 469 institutions, 113 published 1,000 or more papers. The ranking by citation impact seeks to reveal heavy hitters based on per-paper influence, not mere output or total citations. The average impact in neuroscience and behaviour for the period was 19.04. Also shown is the world rank by impact for each of these European institutions. The UK is well represented, with seven institutions among the European top 20. Germany makes the next-strongest showing, with six institutions including the Max Planck Society and its various institutions and laboratories. The Netherlands, Sweden, France, Switzerland and Italy are the other nations with one or more institutions in this ranking.
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