UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 39, Page 4
August 20, 1992
Department receives star billing in 'Science Watch'

     The University of Delaware's Department of Chemical Engineering
has been ranked seventh in the world in terms of impact and number of
research articles, according to Science Watch.
     Carnegie Mellon University was ranked first; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology was ranked sixth before Delaware, and Caltech
ranked eighth, after Delaware.
     A total of 34,708 chemical engineering articles, reviews and
technical notes, published from 1984-1990 in 58 dedicated journals of
chemical engineering, were examined.
     These were cited 62,569 times for an average of 1.8 times. The
top 25 universities were cited approximately twice more than the
average citation per paper.
     The University of Delaware was among six universities which
produced eight papers cited 50 times or more.
     The Department of Chemical Engineering published a total of 126
papers, with 693 citations or an average of 5.5 citations per paper.
     The article in Science Watch  said, "As a group, the institutions
in these lists...were, by definition, extraordinarily influential in
the world of chemistry research during the last decade."
                                        -Sue Swyers Moncure