Which institution is best at Health Sciences research?

Top Health Sciences Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University, out of 9,902 ranked institutions.

Quality score: the square root of excellence (the share of works in the world top 10% against what the place's own topics predict, on English-language articles and reviews) times the square root of the journal factor (its papers in the Nature Index's selective journals against what its topics predict), times output to the power 0.3 times breadth (how much of the selected area it works in) to the power 0.25. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.

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Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#	Institution	Score	Top-10% rate	Works	Citations	All time
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	100.0	16.5%	38k	338k	#1
2	National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda	92.5	19.2%	9.1k	107k	#2
3	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	88.1	14.3%	16k	124k	#3
4	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	84.9	14.6%	11k	93k	#4
5	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	82.5	18.9%	8.6k	98k	#17
6	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	80.5	17.4%	6.5k	67k	#7
7	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco	78.8	14.6%	9.7k	78k	#5
8	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	77.4	13.8%	11k	81k	#9
9	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	76.1	13.6%	17k	123k	#6
10	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	75.0	13.3%	11k	76k	#8
11	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	73.9	15.9%	4.6k	42k	#22
12	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	73.0	10.7%	15k	75k	#16
13	InsermFrance · Paris	72.1	13.7%	13k	97k	#13
14	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	71.3	15.2%	12k	96k	#21
15	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia	70.6	13.4%	11k	79k	#10
16	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	69.9	11.9%	7.5k	44k	#34
17	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	69.2	12.8%	8.7k	68k	#12
18	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	68.6	12.8%	9.8k	68k	#15
19	Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm	68.0	17.6%	7.4k	67k	#40
20	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	67.4	13.7%	6.6k	52k	#14
21	Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase	66.9	33.2%	295	9.8k	#11
22	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	66.4	13.0%	8.1k	57k	#18
23	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	65.9	15.1%	16k	136k	#95
24	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	65.5	15.0%	15k	126k	#89
25	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	65.0	15.5%	8.2k	65k	#42
26	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	64.6	15.3%	7.2k	59k	#30
27	United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States · Washington	64.2	12.2%	8.4k	62k	#27
28	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis	63.8	13.6%	6.8k	49k	#20
29	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	63.4	15.7%	6.8k	58k	#41
30	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	63.0	16.6%	5.1k	44k	#37
31	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	62.7	14.0%	7.5k	55k	#28
32	Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham	62.3	13.4%	7.1k	48k	#26
33	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	62.0	17.2%	4.5k	43k	#64
34	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	61.7	12.5%	8.7k	53k	#43
35	United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States · Washington	61.4	18.1%	3.8k	46k	#23
36	Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston	61.1	12.9%	8.4k	53k	#33
37	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	60.8	12.1%	9k	56k	#25
38	Mayo ClinicUnited States · Rochester	60.5	13.8%	20k	126k	#19
39	University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh	60.2	12.4%	6.8k	43k	#31
40	Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu	59.9	16.8%	17k	155k	-
41	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands · Rotterdam	59.6	17.4%	5.4k	46k	#38
42	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	59.4	15.0%	4.1k	34k	#55
43	Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta	59.1	11.5%	8.9k	52k	#36
44	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	58.9	19.5%	996	15k	#24
45	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	58.6	19.1%	1.1k	13k	#32
46	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	58.4	14.2%	14k	104k	-
47	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	58.2	15.0%	5.8k	43k	#39
48	National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore	57.9	17.2%	5.3k	50k	#77
49	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville	57.7	12.8%	7k	48k	#35
50	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York	57.5	15.1%	6.4k	50k	#29
51	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	57.3	15.7%	13k	114k	-
52	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	57.1	18.4%	3.5k	32k	#63
53	University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel	56.8	15.5%	3.2k	26k	#53
54	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	56.6	16.2%	1.5k	13k	#66
55	Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai	56.4	15.0%	10k	90k	-
56	Chinese University of Hong KongChina · Hong Kong	56.2	17.9%	4.3k	41k	#87
57	The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney	56.1	14.1%	10k	72k	#72
58	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas	55.9	11.9%	5.7k	35k	#45
59	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	55.7	13.1%	7.3k	52k	#48
60	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	55.5	16.2%	4.4k	38k	#49
61	Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin	55.3	15.6%	3.3k	33k	#44
62	University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	55.1	12.4%	3.6k	24k	#97
63	University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver	55.0	13.1%	8.2k	55k	#60
64	London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom · London	54.8	18.1%	1.9k	20k	#57
65	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	54.6	12.4%	5.8k	36k	#65
66	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	54.5	15.0%	7.1k	53k	#84
67	Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne	54.3	15.7%	6.2k	50k	#56
68	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	54.1	20.7%	1.8k	24k	#75
69	Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de ParisFrance · Paris	54.0	12.4%	4.9k	31k	#54
70	Boston UniversityUnited States · Boston	53.8	13.9%	3.6k	26k	#47
71	Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States · New York	53.7	11.6%	8.3k	51k	#46
72	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	53.5	13.9%	6.4k	47k	-
73	Leiden UniversityNetherlands · Leiden	53.4	16.0%	3.7k	31k	#83
74	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	53.2	15.4%	1.5k	14k	#62
75	UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney	53.1	15.5%	4.5k	36k	-
76	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	52.9	11.7%	4.5k	26k	#90
77	Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing	52.8	14.5%	3.2k	25k	-
78	University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen	52.6	16.9%	4.9k	43k	#59
79	Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin	52.5	11.0%	4.9k	31k	-
80	Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg	52.4	14.0%	5.2k	35k	#70
81	University of BernSwitzerland · Bern	52.2	16.1%	4.9k	37k	#93
82	Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston	52.1	11.0%	7k	39k	#51
83	Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich	52.0	13.4%	3.7k	27k	#67
84	Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan	51.8	17.8%	5.9k	58k	-
85	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	51.7	15.6%	5.3k	43k	#79
86	University of FreiburgGermany · Freiburg im Breisgau	51.6	12.8%	3.1k	20k	-
87	Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom · London	51.5	15.8%	2.6k	21k	#91
88	Indiana UniversityUnited States · Bloomington	51.3	11.0%	7.9k	45k	#73
89	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus	51.2	11.0%	10k	56k	#100
90	Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus	51.1	12.9%	5.1k	34k	-
91	Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States · Cleveland	51.0	11.5%	7.2k	39k	#74
92	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	50.9	11.0%	5.4k	30k	#68
93	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	50.7	11.2%	5.3k	31k	#58
94	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles	50.6	12.2%	6.9k	41k	#82
95	University of UtahUnited States · Salt Lake City	50.5	11.0%	6.2k	32k	#88
96	University of GothenburgSweden · Gothenburg	50.4	14.9%	3.9k	31k	-
97	Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands · Amsterdam	50.3	17.0%	3.7k	33k	#92
98	McMaster UniversityCanada · Hamilton	50.2	14.4%	4.9k	37k	-
99	Kaiser PermanenteUnited States · Oakland	50.1	12.3%	3k	18k	#52
100	University of OsloNorway · Oslo	49.9	14.3%	4.4k	33k	#98

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Ranked by volume, 2022-now

1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 43k works
2 Mayo ClinicUnited States 23k works
3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 20k works
4 University of TorontoCanada 20k works
5 Sichuan UniversityChina 20k works
6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 19k works
7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 19k works
8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 18k works
9 Capital Medical UniversityChina 18k works
10 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 17k works
11 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 16k works
12 Peking UniversityChina 16k works
13 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 16k works
14 Zhejiang UniversityChina 15k works
15 InsermFrance 15k works

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