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The European Commission compiled a list of the 22 universities in the EU with the highest scientific impact.

This ranking was compiled as part of the Third European Report on Science & Technology Indicators, prepared by the Directorate General for Science and Research of the European Commission in 2003 ( updated 2004 ).

It only explicitly considers the European Union's top institutions, but comparisons with the rest of the world are provided in the full report.

The report says, " University College London comes out on top in both publications ( the number of scientific publications produced by the university ) and citations ( the number of times those scientific publications are cited by other researchers )" however the table lists the top scoring university as " Univ London " indicating that the authors counted the scientific output of the entire University of London, rather than its constituent colleges.