Top Neuroscience Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Stanford University and University College London, out of 1,092 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	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	100.0	15.9%	3k	39k	#1
2	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	90.1	15.7%	1.1k	15k	#3
3	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	84.3	16.0%	1.6k	19k	#4
4	Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase	80.2	27.8%	169	5.4k	#2
5	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	77.0	17.8%	2.1k	28k	#13
6	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	74.4	15.7%	998	13k	#8
7	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	72.2	17.2%	822	11k	#22
8	National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda	70.3	13.9%	1.2k	15k	#5
9	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	68.6	20.3%	425	7.6k	#7
10	Allen InstituteUnited States · Seattle	67.1	18.2%	374	6.4k	#10
11	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	65.7	12.7%	973	10k	#6
12	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	64.5	13.7%	889	10k	#11
13	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco	63.3	15.3%	592	7.8k	#12
14	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	62.3	12.3%	1.4k	13k	#9
15	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	61.3	9.0%	2.6k	19k	#14
16	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia	60.4	13.8%	828	8.6k	#18
17	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	59.5	14.8%	810	9.3k	#17
18	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	58.7	13.1%	865	9.2k	#26
19	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	57.9	12.5%	955	9.9k	#15
20	Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston	57.2	12.7%	598	6.4k	#19
21	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	56.5	12.7%	994	11k	#25
22	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	55.8	12.0%	879	9.7k	#16
23	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	55.2	18.6%	226	3.3k	#20
24	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis	54.6	13.4%	719	14k	#21
25	InsermFrance · Paris	54.0	11.2%	1.3k	12k	#23
26	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	53.4	15.9%	422	5.3k	#27
27	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	52.9	13.8%	624	6.6k	#37
28	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	52.4	14.2%	656	7.3k	#33
29	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	51.9	12.6%	1k	11k	#65
30	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	51.4	8.4%	626	4.1k	#35
31	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	50.9	18.4%	260	3.7k	#29
32	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	50.5	14.2%	1.4k	15k	#91
33	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	50.0	14.0%	590	6.4k	#38
34	Neurosciences InstituteUnited States · La Jolla	49.6	21.2%	135	2.9k	#30
35	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	49.2	13.3%	1.3k	14k	#71
36	Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston	48.8	12.8%	399	3.8k	#39
37	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	48.4	16.5%	504	6.7k	#40
38	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles	48.0	12.4%	637	5.6k	#60
39	Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham	47.6	12.6%	562	5.7k	#31
40	Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai	47.3	13.7%	1.1k	12k	#94
41	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	46.9	10.7%	1.7k	14k	#32
42	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	46.6	13.9%	485	5.6k	#51
43	Chinese Institute for Brain ResearchChina · Beijing	46.2	14.7%	278	3.8k	#49
44	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	45.9	11.1%	683	6.5k	#34
45	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	45.6	14.6%	616	6.8k	#66
46	Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm	45.3	13.8%	528	5.6k	#73
47	University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh	45.0	10.1%	844	7.4k	#28
48	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	44.7	11.4%	698	6.3k	#58
49	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	44.4	10.1%	836	7.4k	#43
50	Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States · New York	44.1	11.2%	434	4.4k	#50
51	University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine	43.8	11.0%	594	5.7k	#57
52	National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore	43.5	17.8%	425	7k	#92
53	Boston UniversityUnited States · Boston	43.2	10.4%	446	4.3k	#70
54	University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel	43.0	15.0%	262	3.7k	#41
55	Neurological SurgeryUnited States · Rockville Centre	42.7	13.2%	280	3.2k	#76
56	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan	42.5	19.2%	713	10k	-
57	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	42.2	14.0%	652	7.2k	-
58	Dartmouth CollegeUnited States · Hanover	42.0	11.3%	209	2.1k	#67
59	Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg	41.7	11.5%	444	4.5k	#36
60	University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis	41.5	11.3%	555	5.5k	#56
61	University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen	41.2	11.7%	482	4.4k	#45
62	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	41.0	10.2%	354	3k	#74
63	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	40.8	13.9%	447	5k	#89
64	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina · Shenzhen	40.6	17.0%	169	1.9k	#95
65	Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin	40.3	8.3%	446	3.4k	#93
66	Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta	40.1	10.5%	747	6.6k	#54
67	University of IowaUnited States · Iowa City	39.9	9.6%	461	3.4k	#88
68	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore	39.7	18.1%	290	4k	-
69	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	39.5	13.9%	407	3.8k	-
70	Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem	39.3	8.9%	408	3.3k	#75
71	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	39.1	10.0%	480	3.9k	#69
72	Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin	38.9	11.7%	617	6.5k	#44
73	University of FreiburgGermany · Freiburg im Breisgau	38.7	11.6%	377	4k	-
74	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	38.5	12.2%	648	6k	-
75	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	38.3	14.7%	549	6.2k	#98
76	Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu	38.1	14.7%	923	10k	-
77	University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva	37.9	12.9%	371	3.8k	#59
78	Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot	37.7	14.7%	126	1.9k	#52
79	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands · Amsterdam	37.5	17.7%	122	1.8k	-
80	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	37.4	9.7%	372	2.9k	-
81	University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis	37.2	11.4%	575	5.5k	#84
82	Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States · Pittsburgh	37.0	14.0%	282	2.8k	-
83	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	36.8	13.7%	966	9.8k	-
84	Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich	36.7	13.9%	334	3.3k	#96
85	University of RochesterUnited States · Rochester	36.5	11.1%	404	3k	#79
86	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	36.3	10.2%	455	4.6k	#62
87	UK Research and InnovationUnited Kingdom · Swindon	36.2	24.2%	77	1.6k	#42
88	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	36.0	12.6%	461	4.6k	#97
89	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei	35.8	16.3%	318	3.7k	-
90	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	35.7	10.9%	647	5.6k	#77
91	The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane	35.5	11.8%	494	4.4k	-
92	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	35.4	14.5%	270	3.4k	#53
93	Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States · Portland	35.2	10.4%	351	2.9k	#61
94	The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney	35.1	12.1%	648	6k	-
95	Institute for Basic ScienceSouth Korea · Daejeon	34.9	21.8%	91	1.5k	#63
96	University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	34.8	12.9%	259	2.7k	#85
97	United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States · Washington	34.6	11.4%	591	5.8k	-
98	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena	34.5	14.5%	125	1.9k	#64
99	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville	34.3	10.0%	744	5.8k	#55
100	UK Dementia Research InstituteUnited Kingdom · London	34.2	20.2%	137	2.8k	#90

institutions ranked worldwide in Neuroscience (1,092). 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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