<p>The website is apparently mistaken, and has no input from Harvard faculty. To base on Science Watch to rank impact is quite laughable. They should get into the original data from Reuter-Thomson ISI web knowledge link to do an analysis themselves. The followings are the production and impact of mechanical engineering papers of several major US engineering schools plus Harvard in the last 5 years:</p>
<p>Harvard: papers=12, citation/year=11.2, H-index=5, average citation/item=4.67
MIT: papers=148, citation/year=130.6, H-index=14, average citation/item=4.41
Stanford: papers=120, citation/year=109.4, H-index=12, average citation/item=4.56
UCB: papers=164, citation/year=104.4, H-index=11, average citation/item=3.18
UI: papers=330, citation/year=204, H-index=14, average citation/item=3.09
UMich: papers=340, citation/year=196.2, H-index=14, average citation/item=2.43</p>
<p>The gap between Harvard and other elite engineering school is quite large both in production (papers) and impact (citation/year and H-index). If the website ranks the citation/papers, it would be quite useless and misleading because some of the non-engineering schools, such as dental schools or medical schools (which generally have 2-3 mechanical engineering papers in 5 years) would rank highly due to collaboration.</p>