Johns Hopkins has a very high level of research activity.[37] The opportunity to be involved in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins. About 80 percent of the university's undergraduates engage in some form of independent research during their four years, most often alongside top researchers in their fields.[55] Johns Hopkins receives more dollars in federal research grants than any other university in the United States.[9] Thirty-three (33) Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with the university as alumni or present or former faculty members[56]. It boasts a wide spectrum in terms of its academic strengths, particularly in art history, biological and natural sciences, biomedical engineering, creative writing, English, history, economics, international studies, medicine, music, neuroscience, nursing, political theory, public health, public policy, and the Romance languages.

Between 1999 and 2009, Johns Hopkins was among the most cited institutions in the world. Having attracted nearly 1,222,166 citations and producing 54,022 papers under its name, it ranks #3 globally behind Harvard University and Max Planck Society with the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals over all 22 fields in the database in America.[10]

In FY2000, Johns Hopkins received $95.4 million dollars in research grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), making it the leading recipient of NASA funding for research and development.[57] In FY2002, Hopkins became the first university to cross the $1 billion threshold on either list, recording $1.14 billion in total research and $1.023 billion in federally sponsored research that year. To date, no other institution has reached that mark. In FY2008 Johns Hopkins University performed $1.68 billion in science, medical and engineering research, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total R&D spending for the 30th year in a row, according to a the National Science Foundation (NSF) ranking.[9] The university also ranked #1 on the NSF's separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.42 billion in FY2008 on research supported by such agencies as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NASA, the NSF and the Department of Defense.[9]

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