Yale Engineering ranked #1 in 1996-2000 citation impact

According to the Institute for Scientific Information, ISI, Yale Engineering is #1 in citation impact among the top 100 federally-funded U.S. universities that published more than 300 papers in 1996-2000  (the ISI report measures research quality rather than quantity). In ISI-indexed journals, Yale published 321 papers that were cited 1,395 times, an average of 4.35 times per paper. Here are the universities with the most citations per paper: 

   Yale
      321, 4.35 per paper

   Harvard
      432 papers, 4.10 per paper

   University of California at Santa Barbara
      715 papers, 3.83 per paper

   Stanford--
      1,546 papers, 3.39 per paper

   Princeton
      805 papers, 3.34 per paper.

In a similar ISI survey covering 1993-97, Yale had ranked #8. University Science Indicators, 2000. Standard Ed. Philadelphia: ISI.