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. 2010 Mar 20;48(1):55–72. doi: 10.1007/s11024-010-9141-3

Table 1.

The 50 largest universities in the world in 2007, in terms of totals of SCI publications

Institute Total Country
University of Texas 12,047 USA
Harvard University 11,479 USA
University of Tokyo 7,435 Japan
University of Toronto 7,120 Canada
University of Calif Los Angeles 6,803 USA
University of Michigan 6,603 USA
University of Washington 6,348 USA
University of Illinois 5,630 USA
Kyoto University 5,465 Japan
Johns Hopkins University 5,455 USA
Stanford University 5,447 USA
University of Pittsburgh 5,442 USA
University of Wisconsin 5,369 USA
University of Penn 4,977 USA
University of Calif San Francisco 4,962 USA
University of Calif Berkeley 4,956 USA
University of Calif San Diego 4,942 USA
University of Minnesota 4,742 USA
Seoul Natl University 4,687 South Korea
Columbia University 4,645 USA
University of Sao Paulo 4,628 Brazil
Duke University 4,587 USA
Tohoku University 4,579 Japan
University of Florida 4,450 USA
Osaka University 4,433 Japan
University of N Carolina 4,406 USA
University of Calif Davis 4,379 USA
Ohio State University 4,342 USA
University of Maryland 4,283 USA
Yale University 4,195 USA
University of British Columbia 4,094 Canada
Mcgill University 4,048 Canada
Washington University 4,036 USA
Cornell University 4,028 USA
University of Cambridge 4,018 England
University of Colorado 4,007 USA
University of Oxford 3,879 England
MIT 3,850 USA
Natl Taiwan University 3,848 Taiwan
Penn State University 3,654 USA
Northwestern University 3,621 USA
University of Helsinki 3,515 Finland
Vanderbilt University 3,398 USA
Natl University of Singapore 3,348 Singapore
University of Paris 06 3,289 France
University of Coll London 3,255 England
Zhejiang University 3,203 Peoples R china
University of Alabama 3,193 USA
University of Sydney 3,184 Australia
University of Melbourne 3,170 Australia