Ranking of Ivy Plus colleges based on Reuters List of Highly Cited Researchers (2014)

<p><a href=“http://highlycited.com/”>http://highlycited.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>1). Harvard (inclusive of Broad Institute and the Harvard Smithsonian Center) - 130</p>

<p>2). Stanford - 56</p>

<p>3). Berkeley (inclusive of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) - 43</p>

<p>4). MIT (inclusive of Broad Institute) - 36
5). Duke - 32</p>

<p>6). Princeton - 27
7). Hopkins - 26
8). Yale, Columbia, Cornell - 21
11). Chicago - 20</p>

<p>12). Penn, Caltech - 17</p>

<p>14). Brown - 5
15). Dartmouth - 3</p>

<p>Checked out data for the top 27 (#1-#23) colleges on USNWR:</p>

<p>Rank College #Highly Cited Researchers
1 Princeton University 28
2 Harvard University 146
3 Yale University 20
4 Columbia University 22
5 University of Chicago 25
5 Stanford University 60
7 University of Pennsylvania 18
7 Duke University 29
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 43
10 Dartmouth College 4
10 California Institute of Technology 17
12 Northwestern University 30
12 Johns Hopkins University 26
14 Brown University 7
14 Washington University in St. Louis 22
16 Cornell University 22
17 Vanderbilt University 6
18 University of Notre Dame 3
18 Rice University 15
20 Georgetown University 3
20 University of California - Berkeley 50
20 Emory University 8
23 University of California - Los Angeles 27
23 Carnegie Mellon University 8
23 University of Southern California 10
23 University of Virginia 4
23 Wake Forest University 3</p>

<p>Ordered by #HiCi:</p>

<p>Rank College #Highly Cited Researchers
1 Harvard University 146
2 Stanford University 60
3 University of California - Berkeley 50
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 43
5 Northwestern University 30
6 Duke University 29
7 Princeton University 28
8 University of California - Los Angeles 27
9 Johns Hopkins University 26
10 University of Chicago 25
11 Columbia University 22
11 Washington University in St. Louis 22
11 Cornell University 22
14 Yale University 20
15 University of Pennsylvania 18
16 California Institute of Technology 17
17 Rice University 15
18 University of Southern California 10
19 Emory University 8
19 Carnegie Mellon University 8
21 Brown University 7
22 Vanderbilt University 6
23 Dartmouth College 4
23 University of Virginia 4
23 University of Virginia OOS 4
25 University of Notre Dame 3
25 Georgetown University 3
25 Wake Forest University 3</p>

<p>OP,</p>

<p>Northwestern should be #6 on your list.</p>

<p>@dividerofzero‌ Your list is incorrect. Northwestern only had 28 researchers on the list. Duke had 32. Harvard doesn’t have 146 researchers on the list. </p>

<p>@Misanthrope1‌ The numbers are slightly higher because I counted both primary and secondary affiliations.</p>

<p>@ChaChaanTeng‌ You are correct. Michigan actually has more researchers on the list than Northwestern does, but it is not included in the USNWR’s top 25. </p>

<p>@dividerofzero‌ </p>

<p>It seems like you have included data for secondary appointments. Your list is still incorrect because including secondary appointments brings Northwestern up to 30 whereas Duke has 32 researchers on the list.</p>

<p>@Misanthrope1‌ Yeah; I searched for “Duke University, USA” in “all” and it missed the ones from DTMI and DCRI.</p>

<p>^ It’s all good. I’ll repost with the change. </p>

<p>Ordered by #HiCi:</p>

<p>Rank College #Highly Cited Researchers
1 Harvard University 146
2 Stanford University 60
3 University of California - Berkeley 50
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 43
5 Duke University 32
6 Northwestern University 30
7 Princeton University 28
8 University of California - Los Angeles 27
9 Johns Hopkins University 26
10 University of Chicago 25
11 Columbia University 22
11 Washington University in St. Louis 22
11 Cornell University 22
14 Yale University 20
15 University of Pennsylvania 18
16 California Institute of Technology 17
17 Rice University 15
18 University of Southern California 10
19 Emory University 8
19 Carnegie Mellon University 8
21 Brown University 7
22 Vanderbilt University 6
23 Dartmouth College 4
23 University of Virginia 4
23 University of Virginia OOS 4
25 University of Notre Dame 3
25 Georgetown University 3
25 Wake Forest University 3</p>

<p>Can somebody order this by percentages?</p>

<p>UCSD has 29, why is it not on this list?
UCLA has 26
UCB has 42
Your number is off for some reason.</p>

<p>@DrGoogle‌ This list isn’t the top 25 by HiCi researchers. Otherwise schools with just 3 HiCi’s wouldn’t be in the top 25. These are the US News top 25 (27, since there’s a 5-way tie on #23) ranked by HiCi’s.</p>

<p>I counted both primary and secondary affiliations using the search box in the top left. Numbers will still be off because some Berkeley HiCi’s aren’t listed under “University of California, Berkeley, USA” (or something similar with another college).</p>

<p>The title does not say US news. I only counted primaries.</p>

<p>Oh, my little list was USNWR (which was stated at the top of my comment). OP went through and ranked colleges he considers “Ivy Plus.”</p>

<p>I’m surprised that Yale has so few highly cited researchers. That’s kind of a surprise.</p>

<p>@ennisthemenace‌ It’s partially because HiCi’s are just the top 1%. Adjusting it to top 10% might make a difference in these rankings. Plus Yale’s better known for undergrad and Law than for high levels of grad research across many fields. Harvard, of course, has the opposite reputation- whenever research is in question, they outperform nearly everyone in many (or most) fields.</p>

<p>@ennisthemenace‌:</p>

<p>Not a surprise. Yale is pretty good, but not the very elite in STEM fields.</p>

<p>So what does top 1% mean?</p>

<p>@DrGoogle‌ Probably the researchers whose research has been cited most often (the 99th percentile) in a certain body of publications- usually the top X% of journals in a certain field.</p>

<p>That’s why I think these data are a bit dubious; you should be able to alter the results by messing with what percentage of researchers you’re looking at + what percentage of journals you consider worth examining. This might also get fuzzier once you account for the fact that not all fields (and not all subfields, if they’re adjusting by field) tend to have paper with the same number of citations. Overall, a much better dataset would probably be the average number of citations/researcher (with individualized listings if possible) in all journals with a certain level of rigor when it comes to accepting articles- but even that will still be subjective and possibly arbitrary.</p>

<p>Initially surprised by the fact that CalTech only has 17…then I remembered how small it is, so that’s actually a great number.</p>