Citation Records Reveal Top U.K. Universities in 21 Fields

Editor's Note: In its continuing examination of university research outside the United States, the newsletter Science Watch recently presented its first analysis of institutions in the United Kingdom. This article from the January/February 1997 issue of Science Watch (8[1]:1, 1997) ranks U.K. universities by the total number of citations of their papers published in 21 fields between 1991 and 1995 and analyzes the citation impact (citations per paper) of these articles. Both analyses are based

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The Science Watch article analyzing the rankings is reprinted here with the permission of the newsletter and ISI, its publisher. For more information on the citation databases and information discussed in the article, contact Christopher King, editor of Science Watch, ISI, 3501 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19104; (800) 523-1850, Ext. 1341. Fax: (215) 387-1266. E-mail: cking@isinet.com.

The rankings are based on the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)'s recently released United Kingdom University Indicators on Diskette, 1981-95, a database containing publication and citation statistics on more than 100 U.K. universities. For the study, Science Watch confined its examination to papers published and cited between 1991 and 1995 in ISI-indexed journals.

The United Kingdom's two long-standing powerhouses, Cambridge and Oxford, clearly dominate the total-citations rankings. This is not unexpected, given that this measure, revealing gross influence, typically favors large institutions that produce a high volume of papers. In total citations, Cambridge ranked ...

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