World's cell biologist, a Yalie, recruited to Yale

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Will head up the department plus new research institutes on Yale’s massive new fully-equipped 136-acre West Campus (formerly a Bayer World Research HQ).</p>

<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - University appoints new Cell Biology chair](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24807]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24807)</p>

<p>No surprise here, of course. Yale is easily one of the best research universities in the world, with more research grant funding per researcher than even Harvard. The place is a well-oiled machine of cutting-edge research. In terms of the amount of research per undergraduate science major, Yale tops every other institution in the country except Caltech. As you can see from links in other posts on this forum, Yale’s science programs, from a variety of measures, are easily among the top 3-4 in the country, if not #1. For undergraduate science, I would say Yale and Caltech are tops by a fairly wide margin, actually.</p>

<p>According to ISI/Thompson Scientific 2006 (the most respected scientific research source in the world), the ranking of the nation’s universities by overall scientific impact, when obtained by calculating their average placements in each scientific field, is: </p>

<p>Rank University AverageScore

  1. Yale 2.67
  2. MIT 3.00
  3. Harvard 3.80
  4. Princeton 4.40
  5. Stanford 5.00
  6. UPenn 5.00
  7. UC San Diego 5.33
  8. Caltech 5.60
  9. U. Washington 5.63
  10. UC Berkeley 6.10
  11. UC San Francisco 6.60
  12. Columbia 7.20</p>
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<p>Would you mind providing a link to validate your claims?</p>

<p>I was looking at the Thompson website and their data for 1996-2006 seems to contradict your claims:</p>

<p>"According to Essential Science IndicatorsSM for the period between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 2006, the top-ranked institution by number of citations over all fields is Harvard University, with 91,124 papers cited a total of 2,519,285 times to date. Harvard also holds the #1 position by total citations in the most fields, with nine #1 slots across the database’s 22 fields.</p>

<p>The fields in which Harvard ranks at #1 are as follows: Clinical Medicine, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Biology & Biochemistry, Neuroscience & Behavior, Immunology, Psychiatry & Psychology, Microbiology, Social Sciences, and the Multidisciplinary field. In four other fields—Economics & Business, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Space Science—Harvard is ranked in the top 10. In Space Science, Harvard shares this distinction with the Smithsonian, via the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.</p>

<p>In Clinical Medicine, not only is Harvard ranked #1 over other institutions, but this is the field in which Harvard is currently generating its highest number of citations, with 35,492 papers cited a total of 904,586 times to date."</p>

<p>[in-cites</a> - Field Rankings for Harvard University](<a href=“http://in-cites.com/institutions/harvard-pro.html]in-cites”>http://in-cites.com/institutions/harvard-pro.html)</p>

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<p>In comparison, Yale comes in at </p>

<h1>11 in Biology and Biochemistry (<a href=“http://in-cites.com/institutions/top-bio.html[/url]”>http://in-cites.com/institutions/top-bio.html&lt;/a&gt;) #4 in Neuroscience (<a href=“http://in-cites.com/institutions/top-neu.html[/url]”>http://in-cites.com/institutions/top-neu.html&lt;/a&gt;)</h1>

<h1>9 in Molecular Biology and Genetics (<a href=“http://in-cites.com/institutions/mol_1995-2005.html[/url]”>http://in-cites.com/institutions/mol_1995-2005.html&lt;/a&gt;)</h1>

<h1>9 in Immunology ([in-cites</a> - The Most-Cited Institutions in Immunology, 1992-2002](<a href=“http://in-cites.com/institutions/immunology.html]in-cites”>http://in-cites.com/institutions/immunology.html))</h1>

<p>and is not in the top 20 in Microbiology ([in-cites</a> - The Most-Cited Institutions in Microbiology, 1994-2004](<a href=“http://in-cites.com/institutions/mic_1994-2004.html]in-cites”>http://in-cites.com/institutions/mic_1994-2004.html))</p>

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<p>posterX do you go to Yale or Caltech? It seems like all of your posts have always lauded the brilliance of these 2 schools as unparalleled by any other institution (though of course these 2 schools are indeed top notch)</p>