Top Ten Lists: Research from the Embryology Department

Peering into Carnegie

Research goes flat

Slideshow: A tour of Carnegie Institution of Washington embryology department

Video: See the flatfish metamorphosis with commentary from Alex Schreiber

The Yale Embryo, circa 1934

A Poem on the Youngest Embryo by Elizabeth Ramsey

Citation statistics are one, albeit imperfect, way to judge the research output of a given institution. A Web of Science search for papers containing the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology in the address field turns up more than 800 papers since 1980.

Wistar Institute, a larger private institution similarly placed on the campus of a major research university (The University of Pennsylvania) has 35 research groups (as opposed to about 9 at Carnegie). A search for papers from that institution turns up 5,400 since 1980.

The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole similarly has a larger number of research groups and dozens of researchers who take summer courses. ...