Two years have passed since this publication examined university research in the United Kingdom (Science Watch, 17 [3]: 1-2 May/June 2006). Now, Science Watch turns its focus back toward the British Isles, with a survey of top-cited U.K. institutions and researchers, based on their representation in a selection of "high-impact" research over the last five years. For this study, Science Watch drew upon Thomson Scientific's Essential Science Indicators database and its store of "Highly Cited Papers"-specifically, those reports published between 2003 and 2007 that rank, in their respective fields of science and the social sciences, among the top 1% most-cited for their given years of publication. The next step was to extract all such papers whose author listings include at least one U.K.-based institutional affiliation; this produced a file of roughly 6,000 papers. From that selection of elite reports, Science Watch identified the most-cited institutions and authors.
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