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Top Medicine Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 10,443 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 25.2% 11k 112k#1
2 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 92.5 20.6% 7.5k 64k#4
3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 88.1 20.9% 9k 72k#2
4 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 85.0 22.0% 5.7k 51k#3
5 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 82.6 19.3% 7.4k 56k#6
6 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 80.6 20.4% 7.3k 59k#5
7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 79.0 20.3% 12k 94k—
8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 77.5 19.6% 7.4k 57k#8
9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 76.3 22.3% 7.1k 60k#13
10 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 75.1 18.5% 7.6k 53k#7
11 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 74.1 19.8% 7.3k 53k#17
12 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 73.1 24.8% 8.6k 78k—
13 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 72.3 17.2% 7.4k 53k#18
14 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 71.5 23.2% 7.7k 65k—
15 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 70.7 17.1% 6k 41k#32
16 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 70.0 18.6% 7.3k 54k#15
17 InsermFrance · Paris 69.4 20.7% 6.4k 52k#29
18 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 68.8 19.0% 5.2k 37k#26
19 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 68.2 19.4% 5.7k 43k#10
20 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 67.6 26.9% 4.1k 44k#21
21 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 67.1 18.0% 5.5k 40k#12
22 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 66.6 23.7% 4.1k 34k#45
23 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 66.1 20.9% 5.2k 45k#27
24 Medical University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 65.7 18.8% 4k 27k#62
25 Mayo ClinicUnited States · Rochester 65.2 19.7% 5.9k 45k#16
26 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 64.8 23.8% 4.4k 42k#39
27 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States · Scottsdale 64.4 15.4% 6.9k 39k#38
28 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States · Nashville 64.0 16.6% 4.1k 27k#86
29 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 63.6 8.3% 12k 39k#23
30 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 63.2 18.3% 6.2k 49k#9
31 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 62.9 19.7% 5.1k 42k#20
32 Cleveland ClinicUnited States · Cleveland 62.5 13.5% 7.5k 34k#25
33 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 62.2 24.6% 6.3k 59k—
34 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 61.9 21.1% 7.3k 57k—
35 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 61.6 22.0% 4.4k 36k#24
36 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 61.3 22.2% 4.8k 38k#57
37 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 61.0 15.8% 6.5k 39k#35
38 Mayo Clinic in FloridaUnited States · Jacksonville 60.7 18.9% 4.7k 32k#69
39 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 60.4 25.7% 5k 49k—
40 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 60.1 25.5% 4.6k 42k#31
41 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 59.9 19.3% 4.9k 34k#41
42 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 59.6 20.4% 3.5k 29k#19
43 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 59.4 26.7% 4.9k 49k—
44 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 59.1 23.6% 5.3k 45k—
45 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 58.9 22.3% 3.6k 29k#43
46 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 58.6 18.8% 7.5k 52k—
47 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 58.4 18.8% 4.6k 40k#28
48 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 58.2 26.1% 4.5k 46k—
49 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 57.9 18.8% 4.1k 27k#44
50 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 57.7 22.7% 5k 40k—
51 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 57.5 24.5% 3.9k 35k#66
52 Erasmus MCNetherlands · Rotterdam 57.3 25.6% 3k 27k#61
53 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 57.1 24.3% 4k 35k—
54 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 56.9 17.9% 5.6k 35k#11
55 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 56.7 15.6% 4.4k 28k#68
56 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterUnited States · Boston 56.5 19.8% 2.7k 21k#60
57 McMaster UniversityCanada · Hamilton 56.3 19.5% 3.3k 24k#30
58 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 56.1 16.9% 4.8k 30k#33
59 University Medical Center GroningenNetherlands · Groningen 55.9 24.2% 2.5k 21k—
60 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 55.8 19.0% 4.7k 33k#47
61 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong · Hong Kong 55.6 26.1% 3.3k 33k—
62 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 55.4 16.9% 4.5k 27k#34
63 McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 55.2 19.8% 3.3k 24k#46
64 University of PaduaItaly · Padua 55.1 20.8% 4.2k 29k—
65 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 54.9 23.5% 4.6k 42k—
66 University of Colorado DenverUnited States · Denver 54.7 16.2% 3.5k 21k#54
67 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 54.6 21.5% 5.6k 43k—
68 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 54.4 15.2% 4.9k 28k#48
69 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 54.2 28.1% 2.4k 27k—
70 Leiden University Medical CenterNetherlands · Leiden 54.1 23.7% 2.8k 23k#55
71 University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis 53.9 16.5% 4k 25k#22
72 Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands · Amsterdam 53.8 24.2% 3.4k 31k—
73 Columbia University Irving Medical CenterUnited States · New York 53.6 17.3% 3.3k 21k—
74 University of UtahUnited States · Salt Lake City 53.5 15.7% 4.6k 24k#64
75 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 53.3 22.4% 3.2k 26k—
76 UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney 53.2 24.2% 2.9k 25k—
77 University of MilanItaly · Milan 53.1 23.3% 3.8k 30k—
78 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 52.9 28.4% 3k 30k—
79 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 52.8 25.1% 3.3k 30k#91
80 Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterUnited States · Los Angeles 52.6 16.3% 2.6k 16k#89
81 Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States · Portland 52.5 16.9% 3.6k 22k#52
82 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece · Athens 52.4 20.5% 3.8k 26k—
83 Sapienza University of RomeItaly · Rome 52.2 21.1% 4.4k 30k—
84 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 52.1 14.9% 4.2k 24k#36
85 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 52.0 20.2% 3.6k 28k#40
86 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina · Wenzhou 51.9 23.6% 3.6k 29k—
87 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 51.7 25.1% 2.6k 25k#50
88 Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris 51.6 20.7% 2.4k 20k#100
89 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States · Birmingham 51.5 14.9% 5.2k 29k#58
90 National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 51.4 24.7% 2.4k 26k#14
91 Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de ParisFrance · Paris 51.3 20.5% 2.7k 21k—
92 University of AlbertaCanada · Edmonton 51.1 18.6% 3.7k 25k#65
93 University of Hong KongHong Kong · Pok Fu Lam 51.0 25.9% 2.8k 29k—
94 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 50.9 25.5% 3.6k 33k—
95 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States · Baltimore 50.8 15.2% 3.4k 19k#70
96 Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUnited States · Boston 50.7 22.0% 2k 20k#51
97 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus 50.6 15.5% 4.6k 26k#75
98 University Health NetworkCanada · Toronto 50.5 19.5% 2.1k 16k—
99 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 50.3 17.9% 3.3k 22k#78
100 University of CalgaryCanada · Calgary 50.2 18.7% 3.6k 27k—

institutions ranked worldwide in Medicine (10,443). 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.

50 – 53: 21 places53 – 55: 16 places55 – 58: 13 places58 – 60: 11 places60 – 63: 8 places63 – 65: 6 places65 – 68: 6 places68 – 70: 4 places70 – 73: 3 places73 – 75: 3 places75 – 78: 2 places78 – 80: 1 places80 – 83: 1 places83 – 85: 2 places85 – 88: 0 places88 – 90: 1 places90 – 93: 1 places93 – 95: 0 places95 – 98: 0 places98 – 100: 1 places50100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 12k works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 12k works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 11k works
  4. 4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 9k works
  5. 5 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 8.6k works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 8.6k works
  7. 7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 7.7k works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 7.6k works
  9. 9 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 7.5k works
  10. 10 Capital Medical UniversityChina 7.5k works
  11. 11 Stanford UniversityUnited States 7.5k works
  12. 12 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 7.4k works
  13. 13 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 7.4k works
  14. 14 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 7.4k works
  15. 15 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 7.3k works

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