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Top Nursing Research Institutions

Ewha Womans University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 213 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 Ewha Womans UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 100.0 24.1% 67 546#28
2 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 87.1 29.0% 91 931#1
3 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 79.5 23.3% 88 607#25
4 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 74.1 32.3% 144 1.5k—
5 Alexandria UniversityEgypt · Alexandria 70.0 19.0% 122 690—
6 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 66.6 39.3% 110 1.5k—
7 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia · Riyadh 63.7 25.5% 160 1.6k—
8 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 61.2 27.8% 62 573#3
9 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 59.0 25.0% 153 1.6k#11
10 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 57.1 16.7% 216 1.3k#14
11 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 55.3 31.1% 93 1.1k#42
12 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 53.7 29.2% 67 700#8
13 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt · Cairo 52.2 8.1% 184 503—
14 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesIran · Tehran 50.8 19.9% 105 652—
15 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 49.5 31.7% 91 1.2k—
16 Mansoura UniversityEgypt · Al Mansurah 48.3 13.4% 100 469—
17 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 47.2 33.8% 77 1.2k#75
18 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 46.1 36.3% 147 2.2k—
19 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 45.1 26.3% 163 2.1k#6
20 Tabriz University of Medical SciencesIran · Tabriz 44.1 25.4% 77 684—
21 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 43.2 26.0% 90 730#34
22 Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 42.3 26.4% 77 626#33
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 41.5 9.9% 253 875#9
24 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 40.7 17.1% 96 655#44
25 Tanta UniversityEgypt · Tanta 40.0 10.9% 103 331—
26 Padjadjaran UniversityIndonesia · Bandung 39.2 17.0% 130 815—
27 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 38.5 21.1% 76 656#18
28 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 37.8 22.2% 103 951—
29 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 37.2 25.1% 117 1.4k—
30 Kyungpook National UniversitySouth Korea · Daegu 36.6 25.7% 60 461#84
31 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 35.9 19.7% 67 434#23
32 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 35.4 25.4% 100 1.1k—
33 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 34.8 22.4% 68 541#20
34 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran · Tehran 34.2 19.0% 118 790#97
35 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus 33.7 20.7% 99 716#39
36 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 33.2 15.5% 84 357#95
37 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil · Natal 32.6 20.4% 63 345—
38 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 32.2 19.9% 107 784#22
39 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 31.7 22.0% 70 598#37
40 Iran University of Medical SciencesIran · Tehran 31.2 19.1% 68 390—
41 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 30.7 28.6% 82 930#53
42 Shiraz University of Medical SciencesIran · Shiraz 30.3 18.0% 82 579—
43 China Medical UniversityChina · Shenyang 29.8 34.7% 67 782—
44 University of CalgaryCanada · Calgary 29.4 19.3% 63 546#82
45 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Istanbul 29.0 8.0% 112 312—
46 Mashhad University of Medical SciencesIran · Mashhad 28.6 17.8% 81 583—
47 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 28.2 30.1% 70 759#21
48 University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis 27.8 21.3% 92 682#12
49 Chongqing Medical UniversityChina · Chongqing 27.4 22.7% 63 542—
50 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 27.0 30.1% 64 785#100
51 Benha UniversityEgypt · Banhā 26.7 7.7% 104 247—
52 Deakin UniversityAustralia · Burwood 26.3 27.5% 66 602#83
53 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 25.9 16.0% 102 718#40
54 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa · Johannesburg 25.6 26.2% 70 820—
55 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 25.3 31.8% 133 1.6k—
56 Jilin UniversityChina · Changchun 24.9 39.6% 108 1.5k—
57 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil · Florianópolis 24.6 16.8% 79 432#79
58 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States · New Brunswick 24.3 19.8% 71 526#94
59 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia · Seri Kembangan 23.9 12.5% 97 688—
60 University of GondarEthiopia · Gonder 23.6 28.9% 126 1.2k—
61 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 23.3 22.7% 84 855#2
62 University of AlbertaCanada · Edmonton 23.0 24.7% 95 873#7
63 Isfahan University of Medical SciencesIran · Isfahan 22.7 17.1% 98 707—
64 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia · Surabaya 22.4 5.5% 191 427—
65 Zagazig UniversityEgypt · Zagazig 22.1 11.0% 100 396—
66 Cairo UniversityEgypt · Giza 21.9 15.2% 168 915—
67 Minia UniversityEgypt · Minya 21.6 9.2% 61 158—
68 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 21.3 23.2% 94 834—
69 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 21.0 25.7% 104 1k#74
70 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 20.8 13.7% 113 726#60
71 Menoufia UniversityEgypt · Shibīn al Kawm 20.5 7.9% 71 160—
72 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 20.2 20.2% 86 726#10
73 Korea UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 20.0 21.6% 81 674—
74 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil · Porto Alegre 19.7 14.9% 79 434—
75 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 19.5 26.4% 71 646#4
76 University of GhanaGhana · Accra 19.2 19.9% 79 460—
77 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye · Ankara 19.0 13.5% 74 305—
78 Ege UniversityTürkiye · Izmir 18.7 11.9% 90 351—
79 Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus 18.5 22.5% 80 580—
80 University of NigeriaNigeria · Nsukka 18.3 10.2% 85 289—
81 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia · Bangi 18.0 16.6% 60 487—
82 King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia · Jeddah 17.8 22.5% 66 569—
83 University of AucklandNew Zealand · Auckland 17.6 29.2% 79 750—
84 Qingdao UniversityChina · Qingdao 17.4 31.5% 64 748—
85 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil · Campinas 17.1 22.2% 138 1.3k#77
86 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye · Erzurum 16.9 15.1% 84 463—
87 Sapienza University of RomeItaly · Rome 16.7 25.3% 71 789—
88 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 16.5 26.1% 69 1.1k#15
89 University of SaskatchewanCanada · Saskatoon 16.3 27.0% 66 612—
90 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 16.1 24.2% 68 634—
91 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil · Rio de Janeiro 15.9 17.4% 77 474—
92 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil · Fortaleza 15.7 12.4% 65 265#88
93 Medical University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw 15.5 18.7% 61 429—
94 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 15.3 24.7% 108 928—
95 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 15.1 23.6% 79 798#35
96 Zhengzhou UniversityChina · Zhengzhou 14.9 32.8% 61 835—
97 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 14.7 23.2% 80 691—
98 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States · Birmingham 14.5 19.2% 76 486#64
99 Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina · Harbin 14.3 51.3% 221 4.2k—
100 Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand · Bangkok 14.1 18.9% 61 401—

institutions ranked worldwide in Nursing (213). 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 Jiangnan UniversityChina 345 works
  2. 2 State Key Laboratory of Food Science and TechnologyChina 295 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 253 works
  4. 4 China Agricultural UniversityChina 244 works
  5. 5 Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina 221 works
  6. 6 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 216 works
  7. 7 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 199 works
  8. 8 Airlangga UniversityIndonesia 191 works
  9. 9 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 185 works
  10. 10 Henan University of TechnologyChina 176 works
  11. 11 Cairo UniversityEgypt 168 works
  12. 12 Yangzhou UniversityChina 168 works
  13. 13 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 166 works
  14. 14 Harvard UniversityUnited States 163 works
  15. 15 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 160 works

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