Domain · Life Sciences
Top Life Sciences Research Institutions
Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 7,800 ranked institutions.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.
Ranked by research quality, 2022–2025
| # | Institution | Score | Top-10% rate | Works | Citations | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University United States · Cambridge | 100.0 | 31.1% | 5k | 84k | #1 |
| 2 | Stanford University United States · Stanford | 92.3 | 28.5% | 3.6k | 60k | #4 |
| 3 | Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing | 87.7 | 33.1% | 7.9k | 109k | #60 |
| 4 | Howard Hughes Medical Institute United States · Chevy Chase | 84.5 | 50.8% | 1.2k | 40k | #2 |
| 5 | Sichuan University China · Chengdu | 82.0 | 30.7% | 4.7k | 69k | — |
| 6 | Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College China · Beijing | 80.0 | 25.3% | 5.5k | 62k | — |
| 7 | Sun Yat-sen University China · Guangzhou | 78.3 | 28.2% | 5.2k | 66k | — |
| 8 | Zhejiang University China · Hangzhou | 76.8 | 33.4% | 5.7k | 82k | — |
| 9 | University of Pennsylvania United States · Philadelphia | 75.5 | 25.6% | 3.4k | 42k | #10 |
| 10 | Washington University in St. Louis United States · St Louis | 74.3 | 24.2% | 3k | 43k | #9 |
| 11 | University of California San Diego United States · San Diego | 73.2 | 25.6% | 3.3k | 44k | #7 |
| 12 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University China · Shanghai | 72.3 | 29.6% | 5.1k | 68k | — |
| 13 | Peking University China · Beijing | 71.4 | 27.1% | 4k | 50k | — |
| 14 | Yale University United States · New Haven | 70.6 | 25.1% | 3.4k | 40k | #5 |
| 15 | Cornell University United States · Ithaca | 69.8 | 27.9% | 4k | 48k | #13 |
| 16 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Beijing | 69.1 | 34.4% | 4.7k | 68k | — |
| 17 | University of California, San Francisco United States · San Francisco | 68.4 | 25.9% | 2.4k | 32k | #6 |
| 18 | University College London United Kingdom · London | 67.7 | 25.6% | 3.4k | 40k | #18 |
| 19 | University of Oxford United Kingdom · Oxford | 67.1 | 29.9% | 3.2k | 40k | #14 |
| 20 | Johns Hopkins University United States · Baltimore | 66.6 | 22.7% | 3.6k | 38k | #8 |
| 21 | Central South University China · Changsha | 66.0 | 28.7% | 3.9k | 52k | — |
| 22 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology China · Wuhan | 65.5 | 29.7% | 3.3k | 45k | — |
| 23 | Inserm France · Paris | 65.0 | 22.8% | 3.3k | 36k | #24 |
| 24 | University of Michigan United States · Ann Arbor | 64.5 | 21.9% | 3.7k | 39k | #17 |
| 25 | University of California, Los Angeles United States · Los Angeles | 64.1 | 24.5% | 2.7k | 32k | #16 |
| 26 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France · Paris | 63.6 | 24.0% | 5.5k | 53k | #28 |
| 27 | Brigham and Women's Hospital United States · Boston | 63.2 | 27.7% | 1.5k | 22k | #26 |
| 28 | Fudan University China · Shanghai | 62.8 | 27.4% | 3.3k | 41k | — |
| 29 | National Institutes of Health United States · Bethesda | 62.4 | 24.6% | 2.1k | 32k | #3 |
| 30 | Broad Institute United States · Cambridge | 62.0 | 39.4% | 851 | 23k | #92 |
| 31 | University of Washington United States · Seattle | 61.7 | 24.2% | 2.9k | 34k | #12 |
| 32 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States · Cambridge | 61.3 | 35.2% | 1.4k | 28k | #21 |
| 33 | Massachusetts General Hospital United States · Boston | 61.0 | 25.4% | 2k | 26k | #25 |
| 34 | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center United States · Houston | 60.7 | 18.9% | 2.5k | 25k | #59 |
| 35 | China Agricultural University China · Beijing | 60.3 | 42.0% | 5.5k | 78k | — |
| 36 | Tsinghua University China · Beijing | 60.0 | 31.5% | 2.2k | 33k | — |
| 37 | University of Cambridge United Kingdom · Cambridge | 59.7 | 29.8% | 2.7k | 38k | #20 |
| 38 | Columbia University United States · New York | 59.4 | 25.9% | 2.1k | 27k | #15 |
| 39 | Wuhan University China · Wuhan | 59.1 | 31.4% | 2.8k | 39k | — |
| 40 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai United States · New York | 58.8 | 22.5% | 1.9k | 21k | #50 |
| 41 | Karolinska Institutet Sweden · Stockholm | 58.6 | 25.6% | 1.9k | 25k | #23 |
| 42 | Duke University United States · Durham | 58.3 | 23.3% | 2.2k | 23k | #43 |
| 43 | Imperial College London United Kingdom · London | 58.0 | 26.4% | 2.2k | 26k | #52 |
| 44 | University of Toronto Canada · Toronto | 57.8 | 22.7% | 3.4k | 32k | #36 |
| 45 | University of Copenhagen Denmark · Copenhagen | 57.5 | 29.0% | 3k | 38k | #83 |
| 46 | University of California, Berkeley United States · Berkeley | 57.3 | 31.3% | 1.8k | 27k | #19 |
| 47 | Nanjing Medical University China · Nanjing | 57.0 | 24.3% | 3k | 35k | — |
| 48 | China Medical University China · Shenyang | 56.8 | 29.9% | 2k | 29k | — |
| 49 | Southern Medical University China · Guangzhou | 56.6 | 28.2% | 2.3k | 29k | — |
| 50 | Monash University Australia · Melbourne | 56.3 | 28.0% | 1.7k | 21k | — |
| 51 | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs China · Beijing | 56.1 | 38.7% | 5.4k | 66k | — |
| 52 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States · Chapel Hill | 55.9 | 10.4% | 5.6k | 28k | #34 |
| 53 | University of Zurich Switzerland · Zurich | 55.7 | 28.3% | 1.8k | 22k | #49 |
| 54 | University of Pittsburgh United States · Pittsburgh | 55.5 | 19.5% | 2.7k | 24k | #38 |
| 55 | Soochow University China · Suzhou | 55.3 | 24.9% | 2.7k | 32k | — |
| 56 | West China Hospital of Sichuan University China · Chengdu | 55.1 | 28.9% | 1.6k | 21k | — |
| 57 | Capital Medical University China · Beijing | 54.9 | 21.3% | 2.7k | 28k | — |
| 58 | Johns Hopkins Medicine United States · Baltimore | 54.7 | 26.6% | 1.6k | 21k | #40 |
| 59 | ETH Zurich Switzerland · Zurich | 54.5 | 37.4% | 1.7k | 28k | — |
| 60 | Shandong University China · Jinan | 54.3 | 28.4% | 2.7k | 34k | — |
| 61 | Emory University United States · Atlanta | 54.1 | 18.9% | 2.3k | 20k | #41 |
| 62 | The University of Melbourne Australia · Melbourne | 53.9 | 27.3% | 2.5k | 29k | #64 |
| 63 | Northwestern University United States · Evanston | 53.8 | 23.8% | 2k | 23k | #44 |
| 64 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center United States · Dallas | 53.6 | 23.8% | 1.6k | 19k | #29 |
| 65 | National University of Singapore Singapore · Singapore | 53.4 | 29.0% | 2k | 27k | — |
| 66 | Huazhong Agricultural University China · Wuhan | 53.3 | 38.0% | 3.8k | 51k | — |
| 67 | Jilin University China · Changchun | 53.1 | 31.9% | 2.8k | 36k | — |
| 68 | New York University United States · New York | 52.9 | 24.8% | 2.1k | 24k | #33 |
| 69 | University of Florida United States · Gainesville | 52.8 | 19.7% | 5k | 35k | #88 |
| 70 | Jiangsu University China · Zhenjiang | 52.6 | 41.0% | 2.5k | 38k | — |
| 71 | University of Science and Technology of China China · Hefei | 52.4 | 27.4% | 1.8k | 23k | — |
| 72 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center United States · New York | 52.3 | 22.4% | 1.3k | 19k | #48 |
| 73 | University of Chicago United States · Chicago | 52.1 | 21.0% | 2.3k | 21k | #32 |
| 74 | Columbia University Irving Medical Center United States · New York | 52.0 | 24.4% | 1.1k | 13k | — |
| 75 | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital United States · Memphis | 51.8 | 26.7% | 782 | 12k | — |
| 76 | University of British Columbia Canada · Vancouver | 51.7 | 24.3% | 2.6k | 26k | #45 |
| 77 | King's College London United Kingdom · London | 51.5 | 25.9% | 1.7k | 18k | #75 |
| 78 | The University of Queensland Australia · Brisbane | 51.4 | 26.4% | 2.6k | 29k | #95 |
| 79 | Northwest A&F University China · Yangling | 51.2 | 43.4% | 4.1k | 59k | — |
| 80 | University of California, Davis United States · Davis | 51.1 | 24.8% | 3.7k | 35k | #42 |
| 81 | University of Hong Kong Hong Kong · Pok Fu Lam | 51.0 | 27.0% | 1.7k | 20k | — |
| 82 | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences China · Beijing | 50.8 | 38.3% | 4.3k | 55k | — |
| 83 | Heidelberg University Germany · Heidelberg | 50.7 | 25.5% | 1.7k | 20k | #58 |
| 84 | Baylor College of Medicine United States · Houston | 50.6 | 22.2% | 1.8k | 18k | #47 |
| 85 | Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine China · Nanjing | 50.4 | 27.2% | 1.9k | 22k | — |
| 86 | Tongji Hospital China · Wuhan | 50.3 | 31.4% | 1.2k | 18k | — |
| 87 | Center for Life Sciences China · Beijing | 50.2 | 44.4% | 651 | 14k | — |
| 88 | McGill University Canada · Montreal | 50.0 | 26.0% | 2.4k | 27k | #56 |
| 89 | The University of Sydney Australia · Sydney | 49.9 | 25.5% | 2.2k | 22k | — |
| 90 | Nanjing Agricultural University China · Nanjing | 49.8 | 38.0% | 4.5k | 57k | — |
| 91 | Boston Children's Hospital United States · Boston | 49.7 | 26.1% | 925 | 13k | #73 |
| 92 | The Ohio State University United States · Columbus | 49.5 | 20.0% | 3.1k | 26k | #76 |
| 93 | Stanford Medicine United States · Stanford | 49.4 | 33.8% | 582 | 12k | — |
| 94 | China Pharmaceutical University China · Nanjing | 49.3 | 30.1% | 1.8k | 24k | — |
| 95 | Northeast Agricultural University China · Harbin | 49.2 | 44.9% | 2.8k | 44k | — |
| 96 | First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University China · Zhengzhou | 49.1 | 25.6% | 1.4k | 19k | — |
| 97 | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute United States · Boston | 49.0 | 25.9% | 909 | 14k | #35 |
| 98 | Technical University of Munich Germany · Munich | 48.8 | 28.3% | 1.7k | 21k | — |
| 99 | University of Edinburgh United Kingdom · Edinburgh | 48.7 | 26.0% | 1.8k | 20k | #66 |
| 100 | Université Paris Cité France · Paris | 48.6 | 25.0% | 1.3k | 15k | — |
institutions ranked worldwide in Life Sciences (7,800). rank on the composite score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field.
How spread out this pool is
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Ranked by volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 7.9k works
- 2 Zhejiang University China 5.7k works
- 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 5.6k works
- 4 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France 5.5k works
- 5 China Agricultural University China 5.5k works
- 6 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College China 5.5k works
- 7 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs China 5.4k works
- 8 Sun Yat-sen University China 5.2k works
- 9 Universidade de São Paulo Brazil 5.1k works
- 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 5.1k works
- 11 Harvard University United States 5k works
- 12 University of Florida United States 5k works
- 13 Sichuan University China 4.7k works
- 14 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China 4.7k works
- 15 IPB University Indonesia 4.7k works
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