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Molecular Biology/Genetics Research
Institutions Ranked by Citations and Citation Impact
(among those that published ³ 10) high-impact papers 1994-98)

Rank Institution Citations
1994-98
1 Howard Hughes Medical Inst 76,554
2 Harvard University 37,118
3 MIT 15,966
4 Johns Hopkins University 13,570
5 Univ. Calif., San Diego 12,942
6 Mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr. 11,551
7 Salk Institute 11,265
8 Univ. Calif., San Francisco 10,800
9 Yale University 10,682
10 Rockefeller University 9,981
11 Stanford University 9,838
12 Univ. Texas Southwest. Med. Ctr. 9,795
13 Washington University 8,537
14 St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp. 8,213
15 Columbia University 8,159
16 Imperial Cancer Research Fund 7,929
17 National Cancer Institute, NIH 7,879
18 Burnham Institute 7,762
19 Whitehead Institute 7,521
20 Université Laval 7,268
21 Massachusetts General Hosp. 7,191
22 Cold Spring Harbor Lab. 6,695
23 Baylor College of Medicine 6,594
24 University of Michigan 6,327
25 University of Cambridge 5,780
Rank Institution Impact
1990-98
1 Université Laval 519.1
2 Généthon 495.4
3 Institute of Cancer Research, U.K. 433.6
4 University of Massachusetts 399.5
5 Salk Institute 388.5
6 Rockefeller University 383.9
7 University of Chicago 383.2
8 University of Utah 377.2
9 Whitehead Institute 376.1
10 Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto 372.6
11 Univ. Texas Southwest. Med. Ctr. 362.8
12 St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp. 357.1
13 Burnham Institute 352.8
14 University of Michigan 351.5
15 Natl. Ctr. Human Genome Res., NIH 351.2
16 Mem. Sloan-Kettering Canc. Ctr. 350.0
17 University of North Carolina 345.2
18 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr. 336.6
19 MIT 332.6
20 Imperial Cancer Research Fund 330.4
21 Johns Hopkins University 323.1
22 Brigham & Women's Hospital 320.7
23 Children's Hospital, Boston 319.1
24 National Cancer Institute, NIH 315.2
25 Baylor College of Medicine 314.0

SOURCE: ISI's High-Impact Papers, 1990-98

Authors of High-Impact Papers in
Molecular Biology/Genetics, 1994-98

(ranked by number of high-impact papers)

Rank
Name
Affiliation
No. of
high-impact
papers
Citations Citations
per high-impact
paper
1 Michael Karin  Univ. Calif., San Diego 15 6,677 445.1
2 Joan Massagué  HHMI, Mem. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr. 15 5,402 360.1
3 John C. Reed  Burnham Institute 13 5,268 405.2
4 Charles J. Sherr  HHMI, St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp. 12 5,435 452.9
5 Ronald M. Evans  HHMI, Salk Institute 12 4,646 387.2
6 David V. Goeddel  Tularik, Inc. 12 3,582 298.5
7 Kenneth W. Kinzler 
Bert Vogelstein 
Johns Hopkins University
HHMI, Johns Hopkins Univ.
12
12
3,047
3,047
253.9
253.9
8 David Beach  Inst. Child Health, U.K. 11 4,451 404.6
9 Vishva M. Dixit  Genentech, Inc. 10 4,343 434.3
10 Stephen J. Elledge  HHMI, Baylor Coll. Medicine 9 3,554 394.9
11 David Baltimore  Caltech 9 3,169 352.1
12 Christopher K. Glass
Michael G. Rosenfeld
Univ. Calif., San Diego
HHMI, Univ. Calif., San Diego
9
9
2,597
2,597
288.6
288.6
13 Roger J. Davis  HHMI, Univ. Massachusetts 8 4,179 522.4
14 James M. Roberts HHMI, F. Hutchinson Canc. Ctr. 8 4,042 505.3
15 Stanley J. Korsmeyer  HHMI , Dana-Farber Cancer Inst. 8 2,870 358.8

SOURCE: ISI's High-Impact Papers, 1994-98

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