Which of the world's institutions employ the most highly cited researchers? An analysis of the data from highlycited.com

TL;DR

This paper analyzes data from highlycited.com to rank global institutions based on the number of highly cited researchers, providing a new perspective to existing institutional rankings.

Contribution

It introduces a ranking of institutions by highly cited researchers, supplementing existing rankings with citation-based metrics.

Findings

Identifies top institutions with most highly cited researchers

Provides a new citation-based institutional ranking

Enhances understanding of research impact at institutional level

Abstract

A few weeks ago, Thomson Reuters published a list of the highly cited researchers worldwide (highlycited.com). Since the data is freely available for downloading and includes the names of the researchers' institutions, we produced a ranking of the institutions on the basis of the number of highly cited researchers per institution. This ranking is intended to be a helpful amendment of other available institutional rankings.