UC San Diego has 9th highest number of top scientists in the world and could soon pass MIT UC San Diego has the ninth-largest collection of highly cited researchers in the world and is close to passing UC Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says an annual assessment of global brain power by Clarivate, a British science data company. The new list says the University of California San Diego has 56 highly cited scientists. Knight Lab December 20, 2021 0 Share