Number 212 (Story #2), January 30, 1995 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE TOP U.S. PHYSICS DEPARTMENTS , from the standpoint of reference citations per paper in the scientific literature, are as follows, in descending order: Harvard, Princeton, UC Santa Barbara, Chicago, Penn, Caltech, Yale, Stanford, Stony Brook, and MIT. The citation period covered in this report is 1981-93. (Results from the Nov/Dec 1994 issue of Science Watch; mentioned in Science, 6 January 1995.)