Top Arts and Humanities Research Institutions

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ranks first in 2022-now, followed by University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, out of 1,896 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	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	100.0	5.8%	12k	4.8k	#1
2	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	90.8	14.0%	2.5k	3.8k	#2
3	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	85.4	13.6%	2.3k	3k	#3
4	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	81.6	9.3%	922	715	#14
5	University of ViennaAustria · Vienna	78.7	12.7%	1.3k	1.7k	#31
6	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	76.3	15.2%	553	1.3k	#5
7	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	74.2	11.8%	1.2k	992	#22
8	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	72.4	12.6%	1.3k	1.7k	#17
9	Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain · Madrid	70.9	12.1%	2.9k	1.5k	#57
10	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany · Berlin	69.5	11.9%	793	668	#36
11	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	68.2	17.0%	419	1.2k	#6
12	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	67.1	12.0%	617	747	#10
13	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	66.0	13.9%	797	1.3k	#7
14	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	65.0	17.6%	1.2k	3.1k	#9
15	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	64.1	12.4%	667	749	#12
16	Freie Universität BerlinGermany · Berlin	63.3	9.9%	928	569	#66
17	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	62.5	5.9%	1.5k	494	#58
18	Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona	61.7	12.0%	1.3k	1.2k	#80
19	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	61.0	11.8%	542	522	#59
20	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	60.3	14.6%	669	1.2k	#4
21	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia	59.7	20.1%	293	842	#18
22	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	59.0	17.0%	615	1.7k	#72
23	Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany · Mainz	58.5	11.9%	595	462	-
24	University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen	57.9	12.5%	753	801	#93
25	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	57.4	12.6%	552	776	#16
26	University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	56.8	12.1%	593	628	-
27	University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel	56.3	12.4%	408	409	#89
28	Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem	55.9	14.5%	556	723	#74
29	Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin	55.4	16.4%	863	1.2k	#53
30	University of the Basque CountrySpain · Leioa	54.9	13.9%	1k	1.2k	#30
31	University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki	54.5	14.6%	976	1.4k	#92
32	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	54.1	14.3%	596	967	#11
33	University of GöttingenGermany · Göttingen	53.7	10.2%	538	347	-
34	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	53.3	11.8%	654	877	#19
35	Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance · Paris	52.9	6.2%	956	215	#13
36	University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen	52.5	19.0%	508	1.1k	#81
37	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	52.2	13.7%	750	956	#25
38	Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance · Paris	51.8	6.6%	760	331	#52
39	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	51.5	15.0%	918	1.4k	#60
40	University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States · Santa Barbara	51.1	12.7%	339	669	#41
41	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	50.8	11.5%	1.5k	1.8k	#15
42	University of BonnGermany · Bonn	50.5	9.2%	574	315	-
43	Université de LyonFrance · Lyon	50.2	5.7%	1.5k	425	#83
44	UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney	49.9	17.1%	382	971	#49
45	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	49.6	10.9%	1.6k	1k	#28
46	Universidad de GranadaSpain · Granada	49.3	11.3%	1.5k	1.1k	-
47	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	49.0	11.7%	730	786	#8
48	University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol	48.7	12.3%	680	988	#77
49	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	48.4	14.9%	675	1.3k	#21
50	Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm	48.2	16.3%	558	1.1k	#62
51	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	47.9	8.3%	842	475	#64
52	Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne	47.6	17.1%	575	1.4k	#34
53	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	47.4	10.6%	592	719	#20
54	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	47.1	14.3%	627	842	#78
55	Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus	46.9	11.5%	822	1k	#45
56	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom · Manchester	46.7	16.3%	674	956	#29
57	Australian National UniversityAustralia · Canberra	46.4	16.5%	443	652	-
58	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	46.2	11.5%	672	1k	#26
59	Ruhr University BochumGermany · Bochum	46.0	11.5%	619	581	-
60	Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg	45.8	10.5%	863	800	#79
61	University of MünsterGermany · Münster	45.5	11.0%	746	537	#61
62	Universitat Pompeu FabraSpain · Barcelona	45.3	13.6%	427	515	#32
63	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	45.1	22.4%	393	1.6k	#51
64	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana	44.9	15.2%	468	966	#33
65	Nantes UniversitéFrance · Nantes	44.7	4.6%	555	127	-
66	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	44.5	15.7%	796	1.4k	#27
67	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom · Coventry	44.3	14.3%	664	844	#40
68	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	44.1	14.0%	938	1.3k	#65
69	Universidad de SevillaSpain · Seville	43.9	11.6%	1.6k	920	-
70	Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance · Marseille	43.7	5.4%	768	276	-
71	Université Grenoble AlpesFrance · Saint-Martin-d'Hères	43.5	5.1%	788	175	#50
72	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	43.3	15.9%	477	869	#43
73	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	43.2	14.0%	552	1.1k	#68
74	University of OsloNorway · Oslo	43.0	18.2%	691	1.4k	#87
75	University of BergenNorway · Bergen	42.8	13.2%	385	591	-
76	University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw	42.6	10.4%	1.4k	889	#95
77	Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing	42.4	14.5%	170	437	-
78	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	42.3	13.3%	293	537	-
79	University of ArizonaUnited States · Tucson	42.1	17.1%	414	640	-
80	Indiana UniversityUnited States · Bloomington	41.9	11.9%	772	1.2k	#35
81	University of LeedsUnited Kingdom · Leeds	41.8	15.1%	731	1.1k	#86
82	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	41.6	15.7%	270	598	#23
83	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	41.5	15.4%	385	762	#24
84	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis	41.3	11.6%	265	254	-
85	Universidad de SalamancaSpain · Salamanca	41.1	11.0%	1.1k	554	-
86	Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain · Cerdanyola del Vallès	41.0	12.5%	1k	942	#73
87	Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael · Tel Aviv	40.8	15.8%	500	779	#94
88	Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly · Venice	40.7	9.5%	1.5k	2.4k	-
89	University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter	40.5	14.1%	674	957	#44
90	Leiden UniversityNetherlands · Leiden	40.4	16.7%	626	1.1k	-
91	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	40.2	12.9%	346	416	#38
92	The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney	40.1	14.3%	814	1.2k	-
93	University of CologneGermany · Cologne	39.9	11.8%	762	681	-
94	Arizona State UniversityUnited States · Tempe	39.8	16.7%	497	924	#91
95	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	39.7	12.6%	489	688	#39
96	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	39.5	18.1%	185	597	#54
97	University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva	39.4	14.8%	527	637	-
98	University of YorkUnited Kingdom · York	39.3	16.4%	563	814	#71
99	University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver	39.1	14.9%	669	1.4k	#84
100	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance · Paris	39.0	6.3%	808	201	#47

institutions ranked worldwide in Arts and Humanities (1,896). 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).

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