摘要 : Top universities play a crucial role in leading scientific discovery and development in the national science systems. An analysis of Nobel prize awards has revealed that top universities have led scientific innovations over the pa... 展开 Top universities play a crucial role in leading scientific discovery and development in the national science systems. An analysis of Nobel prize awards has revealed that top universities have led scientific innovations over the past 20 years1 (from 1947 to 2006). MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and Chicago boast of three or more Nobel prize laureates over that period, which is obviously more than that of other universities. Because Nobel prizes, publications and citations are objective indicators of scientific innovation, we provide an examination of scientific output and impact at top 10 American universities (TAU10) and Chinese universities (TCU10), demonstrating their disproportionate contributions to scientific innovation. Let us suppose Harvard University, Stanford University, Yale University, Columbia University, Princeton University, MIT, Caltech, University of California– Berkeley, University of Michigan and University of Washington comprise the TAU10, and Peking (Beijing) University, Tsing Hua University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology make up the TCU10. 收起