Study Attests To The Health Of Intramural Research Efforts At NIH

(Among those publishing more than 300 papers, January 1981-June 1992) RANK INSTITUTION NUMBER TOTAL CITATIONS OF PAPERS CITATIONS PER PAPER 1 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 1,342 20,094 14.97 2 McMaster University 418 5,284 12.64 3 Brigham & Women's Hospital 1,559 19,233 12.34 4 Stanford University 1,207 14,791 12.25 5 Harvard University 3,037 34,412 11.33 6 University of Pennsylvania 1,292 14,070 10.89 7 University of Virginia 639 6,871 10.75 8 University of California, Los Angeles

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(Among those publishing more than 300 papers, January 1981-June 1992) RANK INSTITUTION NUMBER TOTAL CITATIONS OF PAPERS CITATIONS PER PAPER 1 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute 1,342 20,094 14.97 2 McMaster University 418 5,284 12.64 3 Brigham & Women's Hospital 1,559 19,233 12.34 4 Stanford University 1,207 14,791 12.25 5 Harvard University 3,037 34,412 11.33 6 University of Pennsylvania 1,292 14,070 10.89 7 University of Virginia 639 6,871 10.75 8 University of California, Los Angeles 1,982 20,954 10.57 9 Massachusetts General 1,255 13,241 10.56 Hospital 10 University of Washington 1,261 13,018 10.32 11 University of California, San Francisco 1,938 19,953 10.30 12 City University of New York, Mt. Sinai Hospital 787 8,052 10.23 13 Johns Hopkins University 1,475 14,823 10.05 14 Cornell University 702 6,904 9.83 15 University of Montreal 544 5,226 9.61 16 Boston University 865 8,243 9.53 17 Vanderbilt University 675 6,368 9.43 18 Beth Israel Hospital ...

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