KnowledgeLink Newsletter
Christopher King
Thomson Reuters
May 2008
ScienceWatch.com has surveyed top-cited U.K. institutions and researchers, based on their representation in a selection of high-impact research over the last five years.
For this study, Science Watch drew upon Thomson Reuter's Essential Science IndicatorsSM database and its store of Highly Cited Papers—specifically those reports published between 2003 and 2007 that rank, in their respective fields of science and the social sciences, among the top one per cent most cited for their given years of publication. The next step was to extract all such papers whose author listings include at least one U.K.-based institutional affiliation; this produced a file of roughly 6,000 papers. From that selection of elite reports, Science Watch identified the most-cited institutions and authors.
The top institutions were ranked by total citations to each institution's store of high-impact papers, and by impact, or citations per paper. Highly cited authors were also ranked by total citations.
Who are the UK’s citation elite?
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