The company Thomson Reuters maintain a website called sciencewatch.com, and this produces an annual table of the world’s top 12 researchers, measured in terms of the citations of their published output. The table for 2009 has just been released, and it makes for quite interesting reading. Appearing no less than four times in the table is the Broad Institute, a recently established collaborative venture between Harvard University and MIT that focuses on research in genomic medicine. MIT also has one separate entry; so that the two institutions between them account for five of the world’s top 12 researchers.
And the rest? The surprise might be that there are two researchers from the University of Manchester in the UK, both working in the field of materials. The other institutions represented are Ohio State University, the University of Michigan, Nijmegen University in the Netherlands, Dongua University in China and Osaka University, Japan.
The list therefore shows seven of the world’s top 12 researchers working in US universities, 2 in the UK, and one each in the Netherlands, China and Japan. There is as yet no sign that the United States is losing its ability to attract and retain the world’s top scholars.
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