Below is a list of the top universities and
institutions based on their publishing record in the journal ‘Nature’. The ranking is simply based on the number of
articles published in 2010 with one or more author affiliations to their
institution.
1. Harvard - 81
2. Max
Planck – 75
3. C.N.R.S.
– 57
4. Stanford
– 42
5. N.I.H.
– 40
6. Caltech
– 33
7. Univ.
Washington – 32
8. U.C.
San Francisco – 31
8. U.C.
Berkeley – 31
10. U.C.L.A. – 30
11. M.I.T. – 28
12. Cambridge – 27
13. Yale – 26
14. Oxford – 25
15. Columbia – 22
15. Univ. Tokyo – 22
18. N.Y.U. – 21
18. Washington Univ. – 21
20. Univ. Michigan – 20
20. Johns Hopkins – 20
20. Univ. Toronto – 20
20. Univ. Chicago – 20
24. Imperial Coll – 19
25. U.C. San Diego – 18
25. Maryland – 18
25. U. Penn.
29. LBL – 15
30. Univ. London – 14
31. RIKEN – 13
31. U.N.C. – 13
31. U.B.C. – 13
35. Cornell – 12
35. Duke – 12
35. Wisc – 12
35. U.C. Davis – 12
35. Northwestern – 12
Honorable Mentions:
* Carnegie
Mellon - 11
* SCRIPPS
– 11
* U.C.
Boulder – 9
* Osaka
– 8
* Purdue
– 8
* U.C.
Santa Barbara – 5
* Gatech
– 4
This report is partly in response
to the Nature Publishing Index, which includes and weights equally, Nature
sub-field journals. While simply
indexing the number of Nature publications already misrepresents the impact a
university has on science, I feel that including the Nature sister journals
exacerbates the problem. While, Nature
and Science sit at the top of the food-chain for non-field specific publications,
the same cannot be said for the Nature field specific journals. Including these smaller Nature publications
in the index discourages publications in alternative, often better, field
specific journals by rewarding people who have a thirst for the Nature
name. We may understand the vain desire
for Nature regardless of its form, but let’s not offer any additional reward.
