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Top Immunology and Microbiology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 682 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 31.8% 603 11k#1
2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 89.4 29.3% 760 10k#84
3 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 83.2 34.6% 505 9.2k—
4 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 78.8 24.8% 467 6.4k#9
5 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 75.3 32.1% 635 9.4k#91
6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 72.5 32.0% 506 8.4k—
7 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 70.2 31.6% 418 7.3k—
8 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 68.1 20.7% 432 5.7k#27
9 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 66.3 25.3% 422 5.9k#12
10 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 64.7 29.2% 446 6.1k—
11 InsermFrance · Paris 63.3 24.5% 535 6.4k#15
12 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 61.9 27.0% 372 5.6k#19
13 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 60.7 32.8% 418 6.9k—
14 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 59.6 27.5% 363 5.3k#5
15 Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase 58.5 55.7% 107 4.5k#2
16 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 57.5 26.7% 304 4.4k#11
17 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 56.6 26.0% 422 5.5k—
18 National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 55.7 26.2% 350 5k#3
19 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 54.9 25.3% 388 4.9k#8
20 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 54.1 23.3% 356 4.5k#6
21 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 53.3 27.4% 422 5.1k—
22 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 52.6 28.1% 337 5k#13
23 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 51.9 23.8% 442 4.7k#16
24 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 51.3 32.4% 374 5.9k—
25 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 50.7 30.8% 352 5k—
26 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 50.1 31.1% 346 4.9k—
27 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 49.5 21.4% 323 3.9k#30
28 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 48.9 23.5% 338 4.2k#24
29 St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnited States · Memphis 48.4 33.2% 130 3.2k#42
30 China Medical UniversityChina · Shenyang 47.9 34.1% 270 4.4k—
31 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 47.4 23.4% 387 4.6k—
32 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 46.9 32.4% 296 4.5k—
33 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 46.4 28.4% 338 4.3k#18
34 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 46.0 23.2% 324 4.6k#22
35 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 45.5 28.9% 350 4.7k—
36 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 45.1 20.3% 370 4k#34
37 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 44.7 26.6% 253 3.6k#21
38 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 44.3 18.1% 368 3.3k#28
39 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 43.9 28.8% 287 3.7k#29
40 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 43.5 30.9% 210 3.4k—
41 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 43.1 23.6% 352 4.6k#14
42 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 42.7 23.6% 290 3.8k#32
43 First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou UniversityChina · Zhengzhou 42.4 29.6% 200 3.3k—
44 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 42.0 9.1% 664 3.4k#40
45 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 41.7 24.9% 365 4.3k#37
46 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 41.3 33.1% 239 4k—
47 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 41.0 32.1% 286 4.3k—
48 Tongji HospitalChina · Wuhan 40.7 32.5% 210 3.7k—
49 Jilin UniversityChina · Changchun 40.4 29.6% 320 4k—
50 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 40.0 24.3% 274 3.3k#47
51 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 39.7 25.1% 192 2.9k#26
52 Broad InstituteUnited States · Cambridge 39.4 41.1% 89 2.6k—
53 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 39.2 26.6% 277 3.5k#44
54 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 38.9 22.2% 272 2.6k#48
55 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 38.6 30.5% 167 3k—
56 Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUnited States · Boston 38.3 24.9% 160 2.5k#17
57 Guangzhou Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 38.0 27.7% 263 3.1k—
58 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 37.8 39.5% 95 2.3k#39
59 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 37.5 23.5% 229 2.6k#53
60 Nanjing University of Chinese MedicineChina · Nanjing 37.3 29.7% 200 2.8k—
61 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesUnited States · Bethesda 37.0 27.5% 229 2.7k#4
62 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 36.7 25.7% 235 2.8k#50
63 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 36.5 26.8% 232 2.7k—
64 China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina · Nanjing 36.3 34.0% 206 3.1k—
65 Columbia University Irving Medical CenterUnited States · New York 36.0 28.0% 144 2.3k#76
66 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 35.8 25.8% 243 2.9k#88
67 National Cancer InstituteUnited States · Bethesda 35.6 27.4% 160 2.2k#7
68 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 35.3 27.9% 207 2.5k#92
69 Zhengzhou UniversityChina · Zhengzhou 35.1 34.2% 193 3.4k—
70 Chongqing Medical UniversityChina · Chongqing 34.9 25.5% 263 2.8k—
71 Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai 34.7 34.6% 175 2.8k—
72 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 34.5 26.4% 178 2.7k#54
73 Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris 34.2 27.0% 205 2.7k#96
74 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 34.0 26.6% 190 2.6k#58
75 Xiangya Hospital Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 33.8 31.7% 159 2.7k—
76 Anhui Medical UniversityChina · Hefei 33.6 24.5% 259 2.8k—
77 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 33.4 36.5% 141 2.3k—
78 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 33.2 20.0% 242 2.4k#33
79 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 33.0 23.1% 162 2k#36
80 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 32.8 20.8% 210 2.4k#35
81 Leiden University Medical CenterNetherlands · Leiden 32.7 27.1% 210 2.8k#85
82 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 32.5 19.4% 252 2.4k#70
83 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States · Nashville 32.3 19.8% 178 2.2k—
84 Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina · Shanghai 32.1 32.7% 163 2.4k—
85 Boston Children's HospitalUnited States · Boston 31.9 29.8% 128 2.1k#73
86 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 31.7 22.6% 221 2.2k#62
87 Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot 31.6 44.5% 63 1.9k#45
88 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 31.4 22.3% 226 2.4k#66
89 Air Force Medical UniversityChina · Xi'an 31.2 34.1% 142 2.3k—
90 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 31.0 24.4% 164 2.4k#23
91 Harbin Medical UniversityChina · Harbin 30.9 26.9% 175 2.1k—
92 University of Hong KongHong Kong · Pok Fu Lam 30.7 28.4% 177 2.2k—
93 Peking Union Medical College HospitalChina · Beijing 30.5 24.2% 191 1.9k—
94 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 30.4 23.4% 172 2.4k#90
95 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina · Beijing 30.2 26.0% 322 3.1k—
96 Medical University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 30.0 22.2% 228 2.2k—
97 Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 29.9 31.2% 156 2.3k—
98 The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 29.7 34.4% 130 2.1k—
99 Fujian Medical UniversityChina · Fuzhou 29.6 22.5% 231 2.2k—
100 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 29.4 29.8% 148 2.3k—

institutions ranked worldwide in Immunology and Microbiology (682). 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.

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 759 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 664 works
  3. 3 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 635 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 603 works
  5. 5 InsermFrance 535 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 506 works
  7. 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 505 works
  8. 8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 467 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 446 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 442 works
  11. 11 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 432 works
  12. 12 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 423 works
  13. 13 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 422 works
  14. 14 Peking UniversityChina 422 works
  15. 15 Zhejiang UniversityChina 418 works

Immunology and Microbiology by country