Special Topic: Hadron Colliders> Top 20 Institutions

Published November 2010

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Top 20 Institutions

A graphic showing a collision at full power is pictured at the CMS experience control room of the LHC at the CERN in Meyrin. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse.
A graphic showing a collision
at full power is pictured at
the CMS experience contro
room of the LHC at the CERN
in Meyrin.
REUTERS/Denis Balibouse.

The list of highly cited institutions is dominated by institutions with their own hadron or heavy-ion colliders and institutions that have a large number of physicists involved in the detector collaborations. Brookhaven, CERN, and Fermilab all appear in the top four in the list of total cites and total papers, albeit in different orders, while number three in total cites is the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Russia—with 18 member states—and the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics, INFN.

As with the nations, the institutions with the highest cites per paper tend to be smaller institutions, with the Institute for High Energy Physics in Russia leading the way, followed by Florida State University, Columbia University and the Argonne National Laboratory.

 

Citations

Rank Institution Citations Papers Cites per paper
1 Brookhaven Natl Lab
Special Interview Series With Brookhaven National Lab 		27,320 1,529 17.87
2 CERN 17,599 2,096 8.40
3 Joint Inst Nucl Res 14,022 675 20.77
4 FERMILAB NATL ACCELERATOR LAB 13,950 1,100 12.68
5 Michigan State Univ 13,893 593 23.43
6 Univ Calif Berkeley 13,856 619 22.38
7 Inst High Energy Phys 13,323 438 30.42
8 SUNY Stony Brook 12,967 530 24.47
9 Argonne Natl Lab 12,838 488 26.31
10 Ist Nazl Fis Nucl 12,808 1,285 9.97
11 Columbia Univ 12,015 426 28.20
12 Texas A&M Univ 11,877 482 24.64
13 Florida State Univ 11,201 372 30.11
14 Univ Illinois 10,981 594 18.49
15 Ohio State Univ 10,875 443 24.55
16 Univ Calif Davis 9,919 403 24.61
17 Univ Sao Paulo 9,707 226 42.95
18 High Energy Accelerator Res Org 9,706 377 25.75
19 Purdue Univ 9,561 468 20.43
20 Iowa State Univ 9,435 344 27.43

Papers

Rank Institution Citations Papers Cites per paper
1 CERN 17,599 2,096 8.40
2 Brookhaven Natl Lab
Special Interview Series With Brookhaven National Lab 		27,320 1,529 17.87
3 Ist Nazl Fis Nucl 12,808 1,285 9.97
4 FERMILAB NATL ACCELERATOR LAB 13,950 1,100 12.68
5 Joint Inst Nucl Res 14,022 675 20.77
6 Univ Calif Berkeley 13,856 619 22.38
7 Univ Illinois 10,981 594 18.49
8 Michigan State Univ 13,893 593 23.43
9 SUNY Stony Brook 12,967 530 24.47
10 CEA 9,249 521 17.75
11 Univ Rochester 9,040 501 18.04
12 LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATL LAB 9,301 489 19.02
13 Argonne Natl Lab 12,838 488 26.31
14 Univ Michigan 7,640 484 15.79
15 Texas A&M Univ 11,877 482 24.64
16 Purdue Univ 9,561 468 20.43
17 Ohio State Univ 10,875 443 24.55
18 Inst High Energy Phys 13,323 438 30.42
19 MIT 8,528 432 19.74
20 Columbia Univ 12,015 426 28.20

Citations Per Paper (>= 369 paper threshold)

Rank Institution Citations Papers Cites per paper
1 Inst High Energy Phys 13,323 438 30.42
2 Florida State Univ 11,201 372 30.11
3 Columbia Univ 12,015 426 28.20
4 Argonne Natl Lab 12,838 488 26.31
5 High Energy Accelerator Res Org 9,706 377 25.75
6 Texas A&M Univ 11,877 482 24.64
7 Univ Calif Davis 9,919 403 24.61
8 Ohio State Univ 10,875 443 24.55
9 SUNY Stony Brook 12,967 530 24.47
10 Michigan State Univ 13,893 593 23.43
11 Yale Univ 8,648 384 22.52
12 Univ Calif Berkeley 13,856 619 22.38
13 Joint Inst Nucl Res 14,022 675 20.77
14 Purdue Univ 9,561 468 20.43
15 MIT 8,528 432 19.74
16 LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATL LAB 9,301 489 19.02
17 Univ Illinois 10,981 594 18.49
18 Univ Wisconsin 7,582 414 18.31
19 Univ Rochester 9,040 501 18.04
20 Brookhaven Natl Lab
Special Interview Series With Brookhaven National Lab 		27,320 1,529 17.87

About The Institutions

The resulting database contained 2,901 institutions. Ranked by three separate measures: citations, papers, and citations per paper. Source dates: 2000-June 30, 2010 (third bimonthly period 2010). *Unless otherwise specified, all rankings have a >= 5 paper threshold for all measures.

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