RANK CITY 1991 PAPERS PERCENT CHANGE 1981 TO 1991 1 Moscow 14,541 + 7.3 2 London 14,051 +11.4 3 Boston/Cambridge, Mass. 12,480 +18.4 4 Tokyo 11,582 +41.1 5 New York 8,551 + 6.8 6 Paris 7,964 +11.4 7 Los Angeles 6,601 +13.6 8 Bethesda, Md. 6,233 +13.3 9 Philadelphia 6,183 +19.0 10 Osaka, Japan 5,408 +57.3 11 Washington, D.C. 5,388 + 1.4 12 Chicago 5,174 - 0.9 13 Baltimore 4,933 +44.7 14 Houston 4,911 +27.9 15 San Diego/La Jolla, Calif 4,740 +32.3 16 Stanford/Palo Alto, Calif 4,201 +16.3 17 Seattle 4,055 +22.8 18 Berlin 4,040 +15.0 19 Ann Arbor, Mich. 3,907 +43.9 20 Montreal 3,895 +41.3 21 Toronto 3,887 +32.2 22 Cambridge, U.K. 3,850 +30.4 23 San Francisco 3,773 +20.2 24 Kyoto, Japan 3,679 +43.0 25 Oxford, England 3,597 +47.1 

SOURCE: Science Watch/ISI's Science Citation Index, 1991

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