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. 2004 Dec 15;101(51):17599–17604. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407743101

Table 1. The 15 most acknowledged entities in four categories: funding agencies, companies, educational institutions, and individuals.

Name No. of acknowledgments Total citations C/A metric
Funding agencies
    National Science Foundation 12,287 144,643 11.77
    Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 4,712 80,659 17.12
    Office of Naval Research 3,080 48,873 15.87
    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2,780 9,782 3.52
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2,408 21,242 8.82
    Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 2,007 16,582 8.26
    Air Force Office of Scientific Research 1,657 16,850 10.17
    National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 1,422 12,050 8.47
    Department of Energy 1,054 5,562 5.28
    Australian Research Council 1,010 5,464 5.41
    European Union Information Technologies Program 825 9,594 11.63
    National Institutes of Health 709 7,279 10.27
    Army Research Office 666 7,709 11.58
    Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 646 2,843 4.4
    Science and Engineering Research Council 489 6,976 14.27
Companies
    International Business Machines 1,380 23,948 17.35
    Intel Corporation 962 14,441 15.01
    Digital Equipment Corporation 831 16,390 19.72
    Hewlett-Packard 735 11,186 15.22
    Sun Microsystems 651 12,042 18.5
    Microsoft Corporation 368 6,061 16.47
    Silicon Graphics, Inc 279 3,898 13.97
    Xerox Corporation 265 4,309 16.26
    Siemens Corporation 241 8,395 34.83
    Bellcore 192 2,393 12.46
    Nippon Electric Company 164 942 5.74
    SRI International 163 1,450 8.9
    AT&T Bell Labs 146 1,549 10.61
    Apple Computer 135 3,159 23.4
    Motorola 122 1,352 11.08
Educational institutions
    Carnegie Mellon University 640 10,840 16.94
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology 500 10,509 21.02
    California Institute of Technology 464 4,170 8.99
    Santa Fe Institute 368 3,387 9.2
    French National Institute for Research in Computer Science 321 3,399 10.59
    Stanford University 314 3,693 11.76
    University of California at Berkeley 306 10,439 34.11
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications 261 4,777 18.3
    International Computer Science Institute 180 2,078 11.54
    Cornell University 180 1,656 9.2
    University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign 177 5,304 29.97
    USC Information Sciences Institute 176 3,283 18.65
    University of California, Los Angeles 176 2,003 11.38
    McGill University 152 3,001 19.74
    Swedish Institute for Computer Science 134 2,017 15.05
Individuals
    Olivier Danvy 268 8,000 29.85
    Oded Goldreich 259 4,615 17.82
    Luca Cardelli 247 10,846 43.91
    Tom Mitchell 226 5,494 24.31
    Martin Abadi 222 9,647 43.46
    Phil Wadler 181 7,252 40.07
    Moshe Vardi 180 6,094 33.86
    Peter Lee 167 8,941 53.54
    Avi Wigderson 160 2,901 18.13
    Matthias Felleisen 154 4,705 30.55
    Benjamin Pierce 152 4,641 30.53
    Noga Alon 152 2,388 15.71
    John Ousterhout 152 6,369 41.9
    Frank Pfenning 148 2,049 13.84
    Andrew Appel 144 7,630 52.99