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Top Immunology and Microbiology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and National Institutes of Health, out of 681 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.

Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 100.0 17.8% 1.8k 32k#1
2Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase 89.4 32.4% 107 4.5k#3
3National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 83.2 15.3% 1.2k 17k#2
4Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 78.7 15.9% 1.1k 17k#7
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 75.3 15.3% 485 6.3k#10
6Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 72.5 11.7% 1k 10k#6
7Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 70.2 15.6% 457 7.1k#5
8Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 68.1 14.2% 560 8k#8
9InsermFrance · Paris 66.3 12.5% 927 11k#15
10Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 64.7 15.0% 1.1k 17k#51
11University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 63.2 15.3% 388 5.7k#11
12Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 61.9 13.6% 444 5.7k#9
13University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 60.7 14.6% 406 5.4k#4
14Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 59.5 15.1% 1.1k 17k#59
15Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 58.5 16.6% 979 15k#57
16Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 57.5 13.4% 713 7.9k#13
17Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris 56.6 12.5% 400 4.2k#36
18University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 55.7 14.8% 529 7k#17
19Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 54.9 22.5% 118 2.8k#12
20Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 54.1 14.8% 441 6k#16
21University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 53.3 11.9% 388 5k#20
22University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 52.6 15.2% 234 3.9k#24
23Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 51.9 11.8% 311 3.4k#25
24University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 51.3 16.8% 239 4k#43
25University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 50.7 13.2% 373 4.4k#33
26Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 50.1 17.6% 880 16k-
27The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 49.5 14.0% 412 5.4k#18
28Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin 48.9 14.1% 270 4.5k#23
29Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 48.4 12.9% 754 10k#73
30Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 47.9 14.1% 737 11k-
31University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 47.4 16.3% 156 3.1k#53
32Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 46.9 13.9% 314 4.4k#29
33University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 46.4 12.3% 274 3.5k#30
34Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich 45.9 17.4% 144 1.9k#27
35Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 45.5 14.9% 281 3.4k#26
36University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 45.1 14.7% 270 4.9k#37
37Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 44.6 13.7% 320 3.8k#50
38Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 44.2 13.9% 366 4.6k#82
39New York UniversityUnited States · New York 43.8 15.5% 248 4.2k#28
40University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 43.5 13.4% 406 5k#31
41Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 43.1 13.4% 337 4.7k#44
42Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen 42.7 15.9% 260 3.2k#54
43Ghent UniversityBelgium · Ghent 42.3 15.9% 274 4.5k#22
44Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 42.0 13.2% 306 3.4k#48
45University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 41.6 11.0% 503 5k#39
46University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 41.3 16.7% 86 1.7k#38
47Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 41.0 14.2% 509 7.8k-
48University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel 40.7 14.3% 162 1.9k#60
49University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 40.3 13.2% 400 5.3k#64
50St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnited States · Memphis 40.0 22.5% 130 3.2k#42
51United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States · Washington 39.7 17.5% 322 3.6k#40
52The Francis Crick InstituteUnited Kingdom · London 39.4 17.6% 69 1.1k#19
53Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing 39.1 15.3% 280 3.9k-
54Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 38.9 13.5% 872 11k-
55ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 38.6 17.6% 72 1.5k#21
56Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot 38.3 27.0% 63 1.9k#71
57Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai 38.0 16.3% 333 5.4k-
58Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 37.8 14.9% 357 5k-
59University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 37.5 11.5% 386 3.8k#89
60University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 37.2 13.4% 436 5.3k#56
61University of FreiburgGermany · Freiburg im Breisgau 37.0 12.8% 220 2.7k#47
62Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 36.7 12.7% 464 6.6k#52
63China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina · Nanjing 36.5 15.8% 222 3.4k-
64Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 36.2 11.8% 446 4.3k#34
65Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 36.0 16.2% 210 3.4k#35
66Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States · New York 35.8 12.6% 360 4.2k#45
67The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 35.5 15.2% 304 3.5k#66
68Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 35.3 11.8% 280 2.7k#70
69University of CincinnatiUnited States · Cincinnati 35.1 11.1% 253 2.5k#68
70National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 34.9 15.8% 225 3.4k#76
71Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de ParisFrance · Paris 34.7 11.6% 202 1.9k#84
72Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich 34.4 13.4% 150 2.1k#62
73United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States · Washington 34.2 11.6% 270 3.1k#90
74London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineUnited Kingdom · London 34.0 15.8% 138 1.6k#67
75Rockefeller UniversityUnited States · New York 33.8 20.1% 95 1.7k#14
76University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 33.6 17.0% 167 3k-
77Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 33.4 15.7% 679 11k-
78Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 33.2 11.9% 512 6.6k-
79University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam 33.0 14.6% 225 2.8k-
80University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 32.8 13.2% 258 2.5k#41
81Scripps Research InstituteUnited States · San Diego 32.6 14.8% 79 1.1k#55
82McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 32.4 10.9% 295 3.1k#72
83Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 32.3 9.6% 297 3k#46
84Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht 32.1 13.2% 248 2.9k#94
85Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris 31.9 11.0% 185 2.1k-
86Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchSingapore · Singapore 31.7 20.8% 101 2.5k#49
87University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolUnited States · Worcester 31.5 12.6% 144 1.8k#65
88Texas A&M UniversityUnited States · College Station 31.4 8.3% 245 1.5k#97
89Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 31.2 15.4% 598 8.7k-
90University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 31.0 11.9% 293 3.2k#98
91KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 30.9 16.4% 246 3.9k#96
92Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin 30.7 12.6% 196 2k#78
93University of BonnGermany · Bonn 30.5 13.7% 158 2.2k#74
94Leiden UniversityNetherlands · Leiden 30.4 13.4% 256 3.5k-
95University of CologneGermany · Cologne 30.2 14.2% 130 1.8k-
96Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville 30.0 12.5% 301 3.9k#63
97The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 29.9 12.7% 220 2.5k#58
98King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 29.7 11.1% 219 2.2k#88
99University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva 29.6 16.0% 132 2.4k-
100Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 29.4 11.3% 190 1.8k-

institutions ranked worldwide in Immunology and Microbiology (681). 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.

29 to 33: 21 places33 to 36: 16 places36 to 40: 13 places40 to 44: 11 places44 to 47: 8 places47 to 51: 6 places51 to 54: 6 places54 to 58: 4 places58 to 61: 3 places61 to 65: 3 places65 to 68: 2 places68 to 72: 1 places72 to 75: 1 places75 to 79: 2 places79 to 82: 0 places82 to 86: 1 places86 to 89: 1 places89 to 93: 0 places93 to 96: 0 places96 to 100: 1 places29100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 2k works
  2. 2 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 1.4k works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1.3k works
  4. 4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 1.3k works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 1.3k works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 1.2k works
  7. 7 Zhejiang UniversityChina 1.1k works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 1.1k works
  9. 9 InsermFrance 1.1k works
  10. 10 Sichuan UniversityChina 1k works
  11. 11 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 998 works
  12. 12 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 887 works
  13. 13 Capital Medical UniversityChina 878 works
  14. 14 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 874 works
  15. 15 Peking UniversityChina 873 works

Immunology and Microbiology by country

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