The Most-Cited Institutions in Engineering, 1999-2009
This month, ScienceWatch.com presented a listing of the top 20 institutions (colleges and universities) which, as of the fifth bimonthly update of Essential Science IndicatorsSM (January 1, 1999-October 31, 2009) attracted the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed Engineering journals. These institutions are the top 20 out of a pool of 1,084 institutions comprising the top 1% ranked by total citation count in this field (see list below for the engineering fields included).
| 1 | UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS |
| 2 | UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA at BERKELEY |
| 3 | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY (MIT) |
| 4 | STANFORD UNIVERSITY |
| 5 | UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN |
| 6 | GEORGIA INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY |
| 7 | CHINESE ACADAMY of SCIENCE |
| 8 | NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY |
| 9 | NATIONAL UNIVERSITY of SINGAPORE |
| 10 | UNIVERSITY of LONDON IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE |
To view more info in this regard please visit: http://sciencewatch.com/inter/ins/10/10febTOP20ENG/
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The Engineering field includes journals that cover the following specific areas of study:
- aerospace engineering
- mechanical engineering
- nuclear energy
- electrical and electronics engineering
- civil engineering
- water resources and supply
- transportation, and municipal engineering
- effects of humans on the environment
- controls to minimize environmental degradation
- artificial intelligence
- robotics and automatic control
- engineering mathematics
- mathematical modeling
- optimization techniques
- statistical methods in engineering systems
- development, manufacture, and application of instruments
