Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Short name
MIT
Country, city
USA, Cambridge
Publications
188 755
Citations
12 678 047
h-index
1 071
Top-3 organizations
Harvard University
Harvard University (17958 publications)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital (4986 publications)
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brigham and Women's Hospital (3740 publications)
Top-3 foreign organizations

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Since 1869

Total publications
188755
Total citations
12678047
Citations per publication
67.17
Average publications per year
1202.26
Average authors per publication
18.47
h-index
1071
Metrics description
h-index
A scientist has an h-index if h of his N publications are cited at least h times each, while the remaining (N - h) publications are cited no more than h times each.

Top-30

Fields of science

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General Physics and Astronomy, 16449, 8.71%
General Physics and Astronomy
16449 publications, 8.71%
Condensed Matter Physics, 14456, 7.66%
Condensed Matter Physics
14456 publications, 7.66%
Multidisciplinary, 11349, 6.01%
Multidisciplinary
11349 publications, 6.01%
General Chemistry, 10391, 5.51%
General Chemistry
10391 publications, 5.51%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10356, 5.49%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
10356 publications, 5.49%
Mechanical Engineering, 10064, 5.33%
Mechanical Engineering
10064 publications, 5.33%
General Materials Science, 9647, 5.11%
General Materials Science
9647 publications, 5.11%
Biochemistry, 8007, 4.24%
Biochemistry
8007 publications, 4.24%
Space and Planetary Science, 7524, 3.99%
Space and Planetary Science
7524 publications, 3.99%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 7191, 3.81%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
7191 publications, 3.81%
General Medicine, 7096, 3.76%
General Medicine
7096 publications, 3.76%
Mechanics of Materials, 6719, 3.56%
Mechanics of Materials
6719 publications, 3.56%
General Engineering, 6545, 3.47%
General Engineering
6545 publications, 3.47%
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 6370, 3.37%
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
6370 publications, 3.37%
Molecular Biology, 6189, 3.28%
Molecular Biology
6189 publications, 3.28%
Materials Chemistry, 6126, 3.25%
Materials Chemistry
6126 publications, 3.25%
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 6057, 3.21%
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
6057 publications, 3.21%
Computer Science Applications, 5999, 3.18%
Computer Science Applications
5999 publications, 3.18%
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5632, 2.98%
Astronomy and Astrophysics
5632 publications, 2.98%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5235, 2.77%
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
5235 publications, 2.77%
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 4461, 2.36%
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
4461 publications, 2.36%
Applied Mathematics, 4258, 2.26%
Applied Mathematics
4258 publications, 2.26%
Geophysics, 4017, 2.13%
Geophysics
4017 publications, 2.13%
Cell Biology, 3889, 2.06%
Cell Biology
3889 publications, 2.06%
Bioengineering, 3639, 1.93%
Bioengineering
3639 publications, 1.93%
Biotechnology, 3585, 1.9%
Biotechnology
3585 publications, 1.9%
Biomedical Engineering, 3559, 1.89%
Biomedical Engineering
3559 publications, 1.89%
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), 3375, 1.79%
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
3375 publications, 1.79%
General Chemical Engineering, 3321, 1.76%
General Chemical Engineering
3321 publications, 1.76%
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 3315, 1.76%
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
3315 publications, 1.76%
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Journals

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Physical Review Letters
3383 publications, 1.79%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
3349 publications, 1.77%
SSRN Electronic Journal
3180 publications, 1.68%
Science
3157 publications, 1.67%
Physical Review B
2913 publications, 1.54%
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
2724 publications, 1.44%
Physical Review A
2509 publications, 1.33%
Nature
2492 publications, 1.32%
Astrophysical Journal
2196 publications, 1.16%
Journal of Applied Physics
2163 publications, 1.15%
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
2071 publications, 1.1%
Applied Physics Letters
2068 publications, 1.1%
Journal of Chemical Physics
1908 publications, 1.01%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
1697 publications, 0.9%
Physical Review D
1695 publications, 0.9%
Journal of the American Chemical Society
1626 publications, 0.86%
Nature Communications
1432 publications, 0.76%
MRS Proceedings
1331 publications, 0.71%
Journal of High Energy Physics
1318 publications, 0.7%
Review of Scientific Instruments
1016 publications, 0.54%
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
961 publications, 0.51%
Scientific Reports
867 publications, 0.46%
Geophysical Research Letters
786 publications, 0.42%
ECS Meeting Abstracts
784 publications, 0.42%
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
776 publications, 0.41%
Physics of Fluids
710 publications, 0.38%
Optics Letters
707 publications, 0.37%
Journal of Geophysical Research
690 publications, 0.37%
PLoS ONE
674 publications, 0.36%
Cell
673 publications, 0.36%
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Publishers

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Elsevier
34933 publications, 18.51%
Springer Nature
26675 publications, 14.13%
Wiley
14224 publications, 7.54%
American Physical Society (APS)
12242 publications, 6.49%
AIP Publishing
9851 publications, 5.22%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
9167 publications, 4.86%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
9151 publications, 4.85%
Oxford University Press
4151 publications, 2.2%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
3947 publications, 2.09%
Taylor & Francis
3479 publications, 1.84%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
3349 publications, 1.77%
IOP Publishing
3160 publications, 1.67%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
3130 publications, 1.66%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
2730 publications, 1.45%
American Astronomical Society
2659 publications, 1.41%
Cambridge University Press
2555 publications, 1.35%
SAGE
2477 publications, 1.31%
Optica Publishing Group
2472 publications, 1.31%
ASME International
2350 publications, 1.25%
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
2318 publications, 1.23%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2286 publications, 1.21%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1615 publications, 0.86%
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
1503 publications, 0.8%
The Electrochemical Society
1473 publications, 0.78%
American Meteorological Society
1204 publications, 0.64%
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
1197 publications, 0.63%
Pleiades Publishing
1185 publications, 0.63%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1092 publications, 0.58%
American Society for Microbiology
1086 publications, 0.58%
MDPI
1071 publications, 0.57%
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With other organizations

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Harvard University
17958 publications, 9.51%
Massachusetts General Hospital
4986 publications, 2.64%
Brigham and Women's Hospital
3740 publications, 1.98%
California Institute of Technology
3590 publications, 1.9%
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
3584 publications, 1.9%
Boston University
3461 publications, 1.83%
University of California, Berkeley
3379 publications, 1.79%
Stanford University
3280 publications, 1.74%
Princeton University
2781 publications, 1.47%
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
2738 publications, 1.45%
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
2704 publications, 1.43%
University of California, Los Angeles
2550 publications, 1.35%
University of California, San Diego
2481 publications, 1.31%
University of Cambridge
2476 publications, 1.31%
University of Maryland, College Park
2423 publications, 1.28%
Cornell University
2415 publications, 1.28%
Institute of Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2396 publications, 1.27%
Columbia University
2315 publications, 1.23%
University of Michigan
2237 publications, 1.19%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2141 publications, 1.13%
Yale University
2126 publications, 1.13%
Johns Hopkins University
2078 publications, 1.1%
ETH Zurich
2033 publications, 1.08%
Northeastern University
1958 publications, 1.04%
University of Washington
1937 publications, 1.03%
University of Oxford
1926 publications, 1.02%
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
1883 publications, 1%
Imperial College London
1826 publications, 0.97%
University of Colorado Boulder
1795 publications, 0.95%
Brown University
1779 publications, 0.94%
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With foreign organizations

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University of Cambridge
2476 publications, 1.31%
Institute of Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2396 publications, 1.27%
ETH Zurich
2033 publications, 1.08%
University of Oxford
1926 publications, 1.02%
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
1883 publications, 1%
Imperial College London
1826 publications, 0.97%
Tsinghua University
1679 publications, 0.89%
Sapienza University of Rome
1608 publications, 0.85%
European Organization for Nuclear Research
1565 publications, 0.83%
University of Bologna
1504 publications, 0.8%
University of Toronto
1472 publications, 0.78%
Université Paris-Saclay
1457 publications, 0.77%
University of Pisa
1433 publications, 0.76%
University of Bristol
1369 publications, 0.73%
University of Zurich
1302 publications, 0.69%
Peking University
1294 publications, 0.69%
University of Padua
1287 publications, 0.68%
Lomonosov Moscow State University
1284 publications, 0.68%
University of Genoa
1283 publications, 0.68%
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
1281 publications, 0.68%
University of Tokyo
1218 publications, 0.65%
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
1185 publications, 0.63%
National University of Singapore
1179 publications, 0.62%
University of Milano-Bicocca
1178 publications, 0.62%
RWTH Aachen University
1158 publications, 0.61%
National Laboratory of Frascati
1142 publications, 0.61%
Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics of NRC «Kurchatov Institute»
1105 publications, 0.59%
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1104 publications, 0.58%
University College London
1085 publications, 0.57%
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1085 publications, 0.57%
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With other countries

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United Kingdom, 11042, 5.85%
United Kingdom
11042 publications, 5.85%
Germany, 9898, 5.24%
Germany
9898 publications, 5.24%
China, 9659, 5.12%
China
9659 publications, 5.12%
France, 6699, 3.55%
France
6699 publications, 3.55%
Italy, 6498, 3.44%
Italy
6498 publications, 3.44%
Canada, 6295, 3.34%
Canada
6295 publications, 3.34%
Switzerland, 5367, 2.84%
Switzerland
5367 publications, 2.84%
Japan, 5254, 2.78%
Japan
5254 publications, 2.78%
Russia, 4868, 2.58%
Russia
4868 publications, 2.58%
Spain, 4492, 2.38%
Spain
4492 publications, 2.38%
Republic of Korea, 3894, 2.06%
Republic of Korea
3894 publications, 2.06%
Netherlands, 3888, 2.06%
Netherlands
3888 publications, 2.06%
Australia, 3679, 1.95%
Australia
3679 publications, 1.95%
Israel, 2972, 1.57%
Israel
2972 publications, 1.57%
Singapore, 2854, 1.51%
Singapore
2854 publications, 1.51%
Brazil, 2630, 1.39%
Brazil
2630 publications, 1.39%
Belgium, 2176, 1.15%
Belgium
2176 publications, 1.15%
India, 2137, 1.13%
India
2137 publications, 1.13%
Sweden, 2120, 1.12%
Sweden
2120 publications, 1.12%
Austria, 2003, 1.06%
Austria
2003 publications, 1.06%
Poland, 1972, 1.04%
Poland
1972 publications, 1.04%
Portugal, 1737, 0.92%
Portugal
1737 publications, 0.92%
Denmark, 1653, 0.88%
Denmark
1653 publications, 0.88%
Turkey, 1653, 0.88%
Turkey
1653 publications, 0.88%
Mexico, 1635, 0.87%
Mexico
1635 publications, 0.87%
Greece, 1511, 0.8%
Greece
1511 publications, 0.8%
Finland, 1413, 0.75%
Finland
1413 publications, 0.75%
Ireland, 1378, 0.73%
Ireland
1378 publications, 0.73%
Czech Republic, 1359, 0.72%
Czech Republic
1359 publications, 0.72%
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  • We do not take into account publications without a DOI.
  • Statistics recalculated daily.
  • Publications published earlier than 1869 are ignored in the statistics.
  • The horizontal charts show the 30 top positions.
  • Journals quartiles values are relevant at the moment.