USA 15 TOP ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS (The Scientist)

Best Places to Work 2010: Academia - Top 15 US Academic Institutions

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Rank	Company Name	No. Full-Time Life Science Researchers	Federal Funding (in millions USD)	Papers Published in the Life Sciences	Citations per Paper*,**
1	Princeton University, Princeton	225***	$42.7	3,323	33.35
2	St. Judes Children's Hospital, Memphis	837	$66.5	4,493	26.98
3	Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids	127	$5.9	173	31.16
4	J. David Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco	330	$34.0	NA	NA
5	The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore	172	$1.3	297	24.6
6	Trudeau Institute	39	$10.0	251	32
7	Children's Hospital Boston, Boston	1,191	$119.1	378	11.25
8	Calvin College	12	$2.0	NA	NA
9	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City	304	$80.2	NA	NA
10	Institute for Systems Biology	192	$27.0	612	76
11	Georgia Institute of Technology	350	$32.6	1,856	15.52
12	Vanderbilt University, Nashville	645	$370.0	14,335	24.64
13	Stanford University, Stanford	826	$338.7****	24,571	30.6
14	Michigan State University, East Lansing	950	$240.0	10,869	14.83
15	University of Rochester, Rochester	1,352	$194.6	10,371	21.66

* From ISI Web of Knowledge Essential Science Indicators, which covers the period Jan 1,2000 to February 28,2010. ** Includes papers in Agricultural Sciences, Biology/Biochemistry, Clinical Medicine,

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