Institutional heavy hitters in molecular biology and genetics

Institutions publishing large numbers of papers have a greater likelihood of collecting more citations than scientists publishing fewer papers. This ranking is by citations per paper (impact) among institutions that have collected 50,000 or more citations. In seeking to reveal the heavy hitters, this two-pronged analysis turns up smaller producers with outsized influence. For papers with multiple institutional addresses, each institution receives full, not fractional, 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, 373 institutions are listed in molecular biology and genetics, meaning that a total of 37,300 institutions were reviewed to obtain these results. Of the 373 institutions, 56 collected 50,000 or more citations. Cancer Research UK supports research at many institutions throughout the UK and is similar in its organisation to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the US.