Geosciences at the University of Washinton ranks fifth in the entire WORLD in a survey of scientific journal publications by Thomson Scientific, and is second only to one other public University in the U.S. More information about this is found below.

From the Univ of Wash Weekly News : "The UW scored very high in a survey of published geosciences research by Thomson Scientific, both in the number of times UW research was cited by other scientists (12934 citations for 6th place) and the average number of times a UW paper was cited (12.57 citations per paper for 5th place)."

http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=35307

This survey was conducted by Science-Watch and Thomson Scientific's "Essential Science Indicators", looking at 224 scientific journals containing 150K+ papers, from 1996-2007.

A very interesting interview by Thomson Scientific with UW-ESS chair Robert Winglee in relation to this survey can be found at

http://www.in-cites.com/institutions/UnivofWashington.html


The following URL is limited to paying customers until July 1, 2008, but it contains the details about this survey.

http://www.sciencewatch.com/july-aug2007/sw_july-aug2007_page1.htm


Below is a brief summary (without actual details) of the top 8 rankings in each category.


Rank by Total Citation Count :
1) US Geological Survey
2) NASA
3) University of Colorado
4) Russian Academy of Sciences
5) Chinese Academy of Sciences
6) University of Washington
7) University of Cambridge
8) Caltech


Rank by Impact ( Citations per paper ) :
1) University of New Hampshire
2) National Center for Atmospheric Research
3) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
4) Princeton University
5) University of Washington
6) University of Bergen
7) NOAA
8) University of Bern