Yale Engineering ranks 1st in citation impact

 

Science Watch (2002, Vol. 13, No. 5 and No. 6), which

tracks trends and performance in basic research, reports that,

once again, Yale is among the top ten of 100 federally-funded

U.S. universities with the highest citation impact of their

published research papers from 1997-2001 in 21 major fields

of science and the social sciences. Each university's

average-citations-per-paper score is compared, on a

percentage basis, against the world impact average in

each field).

 

In Engineering, Yale ranks 1st in the citation impact:

+249, Yale

+154, University of California at Santa Barbara

+153, Stanford

+144, Caltech

+128, Harvard

Yale Engineering had also ranked #1 in the 1996-2000 citation 
impact report. Among the top 100 federally-funded U.S. universities 
that published more than 300 papers in 1996-2000, Yale had 
published 321 papers that were cited 1,395 times, or an average 
of 4.35 times per paper.

These were 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 the Institute of Science Information, ISI, survey covering 
1993-97, Yale had ranked #8. ISI is the publisher of Science Watch. 

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