Top Life Sciences Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, out of 6,403 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	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	100.0	16.8%	23k	297k	#2
2	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	92.1	17.5%	13k	215k	#1
3	Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase	87.5	26.4%	1.2k	40k	#3
4	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	84.2	17.8%	4.1k	59k	#10
5	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	81.6	9.1%	18k	128k	#6
6	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	79.6	16.3%	4.5k	75k	#4
7	National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda	77.8	14.6%	7.4k	108k	#5
8	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	76.3	19.2%	1.8k	30k	#7
9	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	74.9	13.9%	5.3k	62k	#8
10	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	73.7	18.5%	4.7k	68k	#12
11	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	72.6	15.1%	4k	52k	#11
12	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	71.6	20.2%	1.8k	37k	#9
13	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	70.7	16.2%	3.3k	51k	#13
14	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	69.9	16.6%	9.5k	130k	#35
15	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	69.1	15.0%	6.3k	83k	#34
16	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	68.4	16.2%	2k	31k	#14
17	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	67.7	15.0%	9.2k	120k	#53
18	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	67.0	14.3%	4.5k	55k	#19
19	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco	66.4	14.8%	2.7k	37k	#17
20	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	65.8	14.0%	3.2k	41k	#21
21	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	65.3	12.9%	5.5k	61k	#16
22	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	64.7	13.4%	3.8k	44k	#18
23	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia	64.2	14.1%	3.8k	46k	#22
24	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	63.7	13.4%	3.8k	49k	#15
25	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	63.3	15.1%	8.2k	110k	#68
26	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	62.8	17.9%	965	17k	#25
27	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	62.4	12.9%	2.9k	36k	#20
28	Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai	62.0	14.3%	6.1k	78k	#87
29	Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu	61.6	16.7%	7.5k	112k	#99
30	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	61.2	12.8%	3.4k	36k	#31
31	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	60.8	12.5%	3.2k	38k	#24
32	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	60.5	15.5%	3.5k	45k	#64
33	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	60.1	14.2%	3.8k	46k	#51
34	InsermFrance · Paris	59.8	11.1%	6k	60k	#33
35	UK Research and InnovationUnited Kingdom · Swindon	59.4	21.8%	650	13k	#26
36	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis	59.1	13.4%	3.1k	43k	#27
37	Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin	58.8	12.8%	3.9k	47k	#23
38	Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston	58.5	13.1%	2.6k	28k	#29
39	Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan	58.2	15.8%	4.3k	61k	#97
40	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	57.9	11.3%	5.6k	54k	#30
41	Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing	57.6	14.6%	2.4k	30k	#73
42	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	57.4	12.4%	3.6k	40k	#44
43	Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin	57.1	13.4%	3.1k	28k	#49
44	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	56.8	11.8%	4.3k	46k	#28
45	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	56.6	13.8%	2.6k	31k	#50
46	University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel	56.3	15.6%	1.3k	18k	#38
47	Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina · Beijing	56.1	16.1%	22k	232k	-
48	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	55.8	12.7%	6.3k	59k	#48
49	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	55.6	11.6%	2.8k	26k	#36
50	Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich	55.4	14.0%	2k	24k	#47
51	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	55.1	13.3%	2.6k	33k	#55
52	National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore	54.9	16.1%	2.6k	35k	#74
53	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	54.7	13.4%	2.4k	27k	#41
54	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	54.5	14.0%	3.2k	37k	#70
55	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	54.3	11.7%	2.5k	23k	#39
56	Southwest UniversityChina · Chongqing	54.1	14.5%	2.9k	33k	-
57	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	53.9	12.6%	2.7k	32k	#42
58	University of GöttingenGermany · Göttingen	53.7	14.8%	1.6k	18k	#76
59	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei	53.5	15.1%	1.8k	23k	-
60	The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane	53.3	13.6%	3k	33k	#75
61	Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot	53.1	16.6%	780	14k	#57
62	University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis	52.9	11.9%	3.9k	37k	#43
63	Nankai UniversityChina · Tianjin	52.7	14.8%	1.9k	23k	-
64	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana	52.5	11.4%	2.6k	24k	#60
65	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina · Shenzhen	52.4	17.5%	1k	15k	#80
66	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	52.2	14.9%	2k	23k	#71
67	Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham	52.0	12.0%	2.6k	27k	#32
68	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas	51.9	13.5%	1.7k	20k	#40
69	Allen InstituteUnited States · Seattle	51.7	18.2%	632	12k	#65
70	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	51.5	10.5%	3.4k	29k	#46
71	University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	51.4	14.7%	1.3k	17k	#85
72	Hunan UniversityChina · Changsha	51.2	17.0%	1.1k	15k	#98
73	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	51.0	11.0%	2.2k	21k	-
74	Ghent UniversityBelgium · Ghent	50.9	14.3%	2.9k	33k	#63
75	China Agricultural UniversityChina · Beijing	50.7	21.1%	5.5k	79k	-
76	Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston	50.6	12.1%	2.2k	22k	#67
77	Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm	50.4	14.0%	2.4k	31k	#91
78	University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver	50.3	12.6%	3.4k	35k	#89
79	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	50.1	16.6%	938	18k	#45
80	European Molecular Biology LaboratoryGermany · Heidelberg	50.0	20.6%	573	18k	#90
81	Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne	49.9	14.8%	2.3k	27k	#82
82	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	49.7	15.5%	2.1k	25k	#100
83	Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan	49.6	14.6%	3.4k	42k	-
84	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan	49.4	16.1%	4.7k	66k	-
85	University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki	49.3	12.9%	2.3k	27k	-
86	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	49.2	14.5%	2.1k	24k	-
87	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena	49.0	17.0%	646	11k	#61
88	Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus	48.9	13.1%	2.7k	26k	-
89	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	48.8	13.5%	2.7k	31k	#72
90	Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai	48.7	15.1%	2.7k	36k	-
91	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States)United States · Redwood City	48.5	24.8%	228	7.2k	#59
92	Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands · Wageningen	48.4	17.8%	3k	38k	#84
93	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore	48.3	18.4%	1.1k	16k	-
94	Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States · New York	48.2	12.1%	2.1k	22k	#88
95	University of BonnGermany · Bonn	48.0	13.5%	1.9k	19k	#92
96	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing	47.9	13.4%	6k	68k	-
97	Texas A&M UniversityUnited States · College Station	47.8	11.2%	2.8k	23k	-
98	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	47.7	10.8%	1.7k	17k	#54
99	Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem	47.6	10.1%	1.9k	20k	#81
100	University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh	47.5	10.8%	3.1k	29k	#58

institutions ranked worldwide in Life Sciences (6,403). rank on the quality score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (about 6% in Dentistry, 21% in Economics).

How spread out this pool is

Every row above on one axis, one tick each. Right is a higher score. A field where the top few are far clear of everyone and one that runs down evenly look identical as a table.