The Computer Science field includes journals that cover the following topics:

The top 20 institutions in Computer Science are a representation of universities, government agencies, and corporations throughout the world. Notable topics among these institutions’ highly cited papers include: wireless networks, quantum computing, and computerizing DNA sequencing.

Leading the list is AT&T, with 2,351 papers cited a total of 20,479 times to date. Among AT&T’s highly cited papers in this field are such diverse subjects as wireless communications, quantum computing, on-line learning, and statistical analyses for Ethernet LAN traffic.

Coming in at a close second is IBM, with 3,316 papers cited a total of 19,147 times to date. IBM’s highly cited papers include research on organic thin-film transistors, all-optical networks, and chip interconnections.

The University of California, Berkeley, ranks at #3, with 1,586 papers cited a total of 12,408 times to date. Berkeley’s highly cited work shows a strong bias towards computer applications in the biological sciences, including oligonucleotide array data and global DNA sequence alignments. Essential Science Indicators spoke with Berkeley researchers and Terrence Speed about their highly cited work.

Integrated services networks, data hiding, the semantic Web, and organic thin-film transistors are among the highly cited papers for the institution ranked at #4, MIT. MIT’s record includes 1,986 papers cited a total of 12,259 times to date.

Rounding out the top five is Stanford University, with 1,612 papers cited a total of 11,547 times to date. Stanford’s highly cited research touches on genome-wide expression data processing, large-scale hypertextual Web search engines, de-noising, and multiscale phenomena. This month, Special Topics talks with Stanford’s Arogyaswami Paulraj about the highly cited paper he wrote with Constantinos Papadias, "Space-time processing for wireless communications—improving capacity, coverage, and quality in wireless networks by exploiting the spatial dimension" (IEEE Signal Process. Mag. 14[6]:49-83, November 1997), which is the #1 paper in our Special Topic on Wireless/Mobile Networks.

The first non-US-based institution comes in at #9 with 962 papers cited a total of 6,452 times to date: ETH Zurich. Among this institution’s highly cited papers are reports on MOLMOL, generalized privacy amplification, and public key encryption.

Other institutions in the top 10 include the University of Illinois at #6 (1,186 papers, 10,126 citations), the University of Texas system at #7 (1,964 papers, 8,139 citations), Carnegie Mellon University at #8 (1,598 papers, 6,877 citations), and the University of Maryland at #10 (1,335 papers, 5,641 citations).

Other European institutions on our list include France’s INRIA at #13, with 1,511 papers cited a total of 5,498 times to date, and, at #15, the University of Oxford in the UK, with 555 papers cited a total of 5,366 times to date.

Two institutions from Israel are in the top 20: Technion Israel Institute of Technology at #12 with 1,235 papers cited a total of 5,519 times to date, and Tel Aviv University at #20, with 1,056 papers cited a total of 4,437 times to date.

The top 20 institutions in Computer Science are listed in full in the table below: