Best Places to Work 2009: Academia - Top 15 US Academic Institutions

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Rank Institution No. of Full-Time Life Science Researchers Federal Funding (in millions USD)1 Papers Published in the Life Sciences2,3 Citations per Paper2,3
1 Princeton University, NJ4 203 $42 3,437 33.4
2 University of California, San Francisco, CA 1,536 $444 32,134 28.31
3 Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 425 $130 10,655 25.1
4 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK NA $80 NA NA
5 Emory University, Atlanta, GA 2,487 $484 17,802 22.73
6 J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA 330 $30 NA NA
7 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 547 $80 4,243 30.01
8 Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 209 $23 529 40.17
9 The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK 161 $4 286 26.79
10 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN6 3,162 $225 26,801 20.66
11 Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY 32 $10 264 30.74
12 University of Pittsburgh, PA 2,000 $567 25,809 20.9
13 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 197 $259 5,847 34.1
14 Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 90 $60 4,428 15.36
15 Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 1,716 $200 2,229 20.35

Best Places to Work 2009: Academia - Top 10 International Academic Institutions

Rank Institution No. of Full-Time Life Science Researchers Federal and European Union Funding (in millions USD)5 Papers Published in the Life Sciences2,3 Citations per Paper2,3
1 Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany 400 €19 ($28) 21,819 28.43
2 The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 106 $16 USD 4,553 29.76
3 University of Bristol, UK 126 £103 ($168) 10,549 17.28
4 University of Groningen, The Netherlands 682 €304 ($450) 12,406 15.21
5 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 500 79 CAD ($77) 6,101 15.13
6 Dundee University, UK 760 £48 ($78) 5,946 25.09
7 Cambridge University, UK 788 £54 ($88) 17,610 25.43
8 Ghent University, Belgium 1,480 €301 ($449) 13,037 13.37
9 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia 402 18 AUS ($16) 470 10.12
10 University of Toronto, Canada 2,000 210 CAD ($204) 34,113 19.35

1. Most recent fiscal year data available for funding of life science research.
2. From ISI Web of Knowledge Essential Science Indicators, which covers the period Jan 1, 1999 to June 30, 2009
3. Includes papers in Agricultural Sciences, Biology/Biochemistry, Clinical Medicine, Environment/Ecology, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology/Genetics, Neuroscience/Behavior, Pharmacology/Toxicology, and Plant & Animal Science.
4. Only researchers who received federal funding for life sciences were counted.
5. Conversion current as of October 14, 2009.
6. Data represent all Mayo Clinic locations.