Table 3

Field-specific impact index and modified impact index for the top 10 European universities in life sciences and biomedicine according to Times Higher Education (7)

University

Country

N

h-index

Impact index

MII

Medicine, General & Internal

Uppsala

Sweden

223

40

1.230

1.636

Cambridge

UK

428

50

1.010

1.344

Oxford

UK

601

60

0.974

1.296

Bristol

UK

434

47

0.941

1.252

Imperial

UK

1041

74

0.843

1.122

Edinburgh

UK

391

38

0.814

1.082

Heidelberg

Germany

204

24

0.781

1.039

UCL

UK

1385

76

0.721

0.959

Louis Pasteur Strasbourg I

France

98

12

0.626

0.833

King's College

UK

1063

54

0.607

0.808

Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems

Cambridge

UK

133

32

1.704

1.720

Edinburgh

UK

101

25

1.570

1.585

Louis Pasteur Strasbourg I

France

51

14

1.325

1.337

Oxford

UK

198

29

1.216

1.228

UCL

UK

452

46

1.176

1.187

Uppsala

Sweden

214

29

1.161

1.172

Bristol

UK

159

23

1.100

1.111

Heidelberg

Germany

323

31

0.970

0.979

King's College

UK

452

35

0.895

0.903

Imperial

UK

860

48

0.834

0.842

Infectious Diseases

Edinburgh

UK

149

24

1.413

1.189

Oxford

UK

238

31

1.400

1.178

Bristol

UK

141

21

1.276

1.073

King's College

UK

212

26

1.254

1.055

Uppsala

Sweden

100

16

1.181

0.993

Cambridge

UK

145

19

1.136

0.956

Heidelberg

Germany

85

14

1.133

0.953

UCL

UK

709

42

1.023

0.861

Louis Pasteur Strasbourg I

France

49

9

0.994

0.837

Imperial

UK

739

40

0.951

0.801

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