Top European Institutions in Neuroscience and Behaviour

January 20, 2011

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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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

Top European Institutions in Neuroscience and Behaviour

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