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Top Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 3,579 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

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 100.0 31.5% 2.8k 51k#1
2 Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase 91.5 48.5% 796 26k#2
3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 86.6 29.0% 3.7k 52k#50
4 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 83.1 28.7% 2k 39k#3
5 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 80.3 29.2% 2.9k 44k—
6 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 78.1 25.3% 2k 27k#9
7 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 76.2 29.3% 2.9k 42k—
8 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 74.6 30.5% 2.3k 35k—
9 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 73.1 26.3% 1.9k 25k#8
10 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 71.9 26.1% 2.4k 30k—
11 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 70.7 22.8% 2.8k 29k#22
12 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 69.6 27.4% 3.3k 43k—
13 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 68.7 27.7% 3.1k 42k—
14 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 67.7 25.9% 2k 26k#18
15 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 66.9 24.2% 3.5k 40k—
16 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 66.1 34.7% 880 18k#5
17 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 65.4 29.5% 1.6k 21k#16
18 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 64.7 30.5% 943 15k#7
19 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 64.0 31.4% 1.2k 19k—
20 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 63.4 27.7% 2.5k 35k—
21 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 62.8 23.8% 1.8k 22k#10
22 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 62.2 21.8% 2.2k 25k#14
23 Broad InstituteUnited States · Cambridge 61.7 38.8% 666 18k#64
24 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 61.2 24.7% 1.6k 21k#12
25 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 60.7 29.3% 1.4k 23k#11
26 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 60.2 24.1% 1.6k 19k#25
27 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 59.7 23.1% 1.7k 21k#19
28 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 59.3 22.5% 1.9k 22k#13
29 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 58.8 27.4% 2k 26k—
30 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 58.4 28.4% 2.1k 27k—
31 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 58.0 22.3% 1.2k 13k#34
32 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 57.6 23.1% 1.5k 17k#21
33 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 57.3 27.4% 1.5k 21k#69
34 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 56.9 26.0% 1.3k 19k#6
35 China Agricultural UniversityChina · Beijing 56.6 35.3% 1.6k 23k—
36 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 56.2 25.9% 1.2k 15k#59
37 InsermFrance · Paris 55.9 22.6% 1.9k 20k#32
38 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 55.5 26.0% 1.1k 16k#17
39 École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 55.2 33.5% 520 12k#63
40 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 54.9 29.9% 1.8k 25k—
41 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 54.6 22.8% 1.7k 18k#31
42 National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 54.3 23.9% 1.3k 22k#4
43 ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 54.0 35.1% 894 15k#68
44 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 53.8 24.9% 1.1k 14k#24
45 Jiangsu UniversityChina · Zhenjiang 53.5 34.3% 1.1k 17k—
46 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 53.2 25.4% 1.1k 16k#28
47 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 52.9 28.7% 860 13k#39
48 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina · Wuhan 52.7 30.6% 1.4k 18k—
49 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 52.4 27.4% 1k 14k—
50 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 52.2 20.1% 1.7k 14k—
51 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 52.0 18.2% 1.8k 18k#72
52 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 51.7 26.8% 1.1k 14k—
53 Southeast UniversityChina · Nanjing 51.5 26.0% 785 10k—
54 University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 51.3 26.0% 820 10k#48
55 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 51.0 22.8% 1.2k 12k#37
56 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina · Beijing 50.8 30.5% 1.7k 19k—
57 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 50.6 27.2% 755 9.6k—
58 China Medical UniversityChina · Shenyang 50.4 28.8% 1.4k 20k—
59 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 50.2 10.1% 3.3k 16k#30
60 Jilin UniversityChina · Changchun 50.0 28.6% 1.6k 21k—
61 Center for Life SciencesChina · Beijing 49.8 42.5% 449 10k—
62 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 49.6 26.9% 1.7k 21k—
63 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 49.4 25.4% 1.1k 14k#52
64 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 49.2 27.6% 1.5k 20k—
65 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 49.0 24.1% 2.1k 24k—
66 Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton 48.8 34.2% 541 12k#45
67 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 48.6 23.2% 1.3k 14k#27
68 University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis 48.4 22.0% 1.7k 15k#33
69 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 48.3 29.5% 1k 14k—
70 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 48.1 23.2% 1.2k 14k#49
71 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 47.9 18.9% 1.4k 12k#51
72 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena 47.7 31.4% 405 8.3k#23
73 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 47.6 26.6% 1k 14k#29
74 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 47.4 23.9% 1.7k 20k—
75 China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina · Nanjing 47.2 29.3% 1.2k 16k—
76 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 47.1 26.6% 1.1k 14k—
77 Jiangnan UniversityChina · Wuxi 46.9 29.6% 1.8k 24k—
78 McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 46.8 24.0% 1.1k 14k#65
79 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 46.6 23.2% 1.3k 13k#47
80 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 46.4 21.7% 1k 15k#61
81 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 46.3 21.5% 1.6k 14k#15
82 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 46.1 21.9% 1.2k 12k#38
83 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 46.0 22.6% 1.1k 12k#98
84 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 45.9 27.6% 877 12k#43
85 University of Hong KongHong Kong · Pok Fu Lam 45.7 26.1% 980 12k—
86 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 45.6 27.1% 1k 14k#91
87 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina · Beijing 45.4 31.9% 1.4k 17k—
88 Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich 45.3 24.9% 854 11k—
89 University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis 45.1 19.2% 1.3k 12k#44
90 Northwest A&F UniversityChina · Yangling 45.0 32.6% 1.3k 18k—
91 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina · Nanjing 44.9 29.3% 1.5k 17k—
92 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States · New Brunswick 44.7 19.5% 1k 10k#86
93 Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUnited States · Berkeley 44.6 31.4% 312 6.2k#46
94 Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot 44.5 30.8% 507 9.2k#57
95 Nankai UniversityChina · Tianjin 44.3 27.5% 985 12k—
96 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 44.2 18.9% 1.1k 8.6k#73
97 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore 44.1 28.3% 561 8.4k—
98 Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina · Chengdu 44.0 36.8% 872 13k—
99 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 43.8 24.7% 909 10k#71
100 University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel 43.7 30.9% 511 7.4k#66

institutions ranked worldwide in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3,579). 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

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.

44 – 47: 21 places47 – 49: 16 places49 – 52: 13 places52 – 55: 11 places55 – 58: 8 places58 – 61: 6 places61 – 63: 6 places63 – 66: 4 places66 – 69: 3 places69 – 72: 3 places72 – 75: 2 places75 – 77: 1 places77 – 80: 1 places80 – 83: 2 places83 – 86: 0 places86 – 89: 1 places89 – 92: 1 places92 – 94: 0 places94 – 97: 0 places97 – 100: 1 places44100

One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 3.7k works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 3.5k works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 3.3k works
  4. 4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 3.3k works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 3.1k works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 2.9k works
  7. 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 2.9k works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 2.8k works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 2.8k works
  10. 10 Central South UniversityChina 2.5k works
  11. 11 Peking UniversityChina 2.4k works
  12. 12 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 2.3k works
  13. 13 University of MichiganUnited States 2.2k works
  14. 14 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 2.1k works
  15. 15 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 2.1k works

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