Top Physics and Astronomy Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Max Planck Society and Harvard University, out of 1,417 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	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	100.0	11.8%	12k	101k	#5
2	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	90.4	16.4%	3.7k	42k	#1
3	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	84.9	13.5%	2k	21k	#4
4	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	80.9	19.5%	1.5k	20k	#7
5	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	77.8	17.4%	1.7k	21k	#2
6	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	75.3	17.0%	1k	12k	#6
7	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	73.2	9.3%	9.8k	76k	#3
8	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	71.3	20.7%	1.2k	18k	#8
9	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	69.7	14.6%	2k	19k	#24
10	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	68.3	16.7%	1.6k	13k	#10
11	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena	67.0	16.3%	1.9k	22k	#12
12	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	65.8	13.8%	2k	17k	#39
13	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	64.7	12.0%	2.8k	22k	#19
14	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei	63.6	11.9%	2.2k	17k	#38
15	University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States · Santa Barbara	62.7	17.0%	612	8.5k	#16
16	Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin	61.8	9.6%	3.7k	23k	#9
17	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	61.0	15.6%	787	9.2k	#14
18	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	60.2	17.0%	558	6.6k	#17
19	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	59.4	15.6%	1.3k	15k	#21
20	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	58.7	16.1%	839	9.9k	#18
21	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park	58.0	16.0%	1k	11k	#13
22	University of Colorado BoulderUnited States · Boulder	57.4	13.9%	1.2k	11k	#11
23	Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot	56.8	15.0%	487	5.4k	#20
24	Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUnited States · Berkeley	56.2	14.9%	865	8.2k	#15
25	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	55.6	14.4%	766	7.5k	#23
26	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	55.1	14.6%	865	8.7k	#22
27	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	54.6	16.9%	1.1k	13k	#32
28	Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing	54.1	13.2%	1k	10k	-
29	National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore	53.6	15.0%	715	6.4k	#96
30	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	53.1	14.4%	1.1k	9.2k	#26
31	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	52.7	13.0%	1.1k	9.5k	#25
32	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	52.2	15.7%	633	7.9k	#34
33	The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo	51.8	9.8%	2.1k	17k	#31
34	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	51.4	14.3%	719	7.1k	#37
35	University of California SystemUnited States · Oakland	51.0	18.4%	206	1.5k	-
36	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	50.6	18.0%	477	6.7k	#35
37	Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan	50.2	13.9%	872	7.2k	#89
38	Austrian Academy of SciencesAustria · Vienna	49.9	15.6%	347	3.8k	#29
39	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	49.5	17.5%	797	8k	#40
40	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	49.2	16.6%	521	5.1k	-
41	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	48.8	17.6%	416	5.4k	#92
42	Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai	48.5	12.9%	1k	8.2k	#86
43	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	48.2	11.9%	1.6k	12k	#99
44	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	47.8	11.7%	1.3k	11k	-
45	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	47.5	12.9%	761	6.2k	#59
46	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	47.2	15.6%	1.3k	11k	-
47	Perimeter InstituteCanada · Waterloo	46.9	20.8%	370	5.7k	#28
48	RIKENJapan · Wako	46.7	12.3%	899	7.7k	#33
49	Flatiron Health (United States)United States · New York	46.4	24.8%	277	5.6k	#41
50	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	46.1	12.8%	910	8.4k	#43
51	Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands · Delft	45.8	15.6%	562	5.7k	#44
52	Kyoto UniversityJapan · Kyoto	45.5	9.2%	1.2k	9.4k	#80
53	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	45.3	14.1%	913	9.7k	#71
54	Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich	45.0	13.0%	802	6.5k	#52
55	University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva	44.8	17.9%	539	8.5k	#62
56	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College	44.5	12.2%	782	7k	#57
57	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana	44.3	13.8%	863	8.7k	#45
58	Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance · Paris	44.0	11.8%	701	6.8k	#36
59	Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance · Paris	43.8	10.0%	1.4k	12k	#30
60	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	43.6	11.2%	1.5k	12k	#70
61	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	43.3	13.1%	744	7.3k	#61
62	Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom · Durham	43.1	13.6%	589	6k	#49
63	Université Paris-SaclayFrance · Gif-sur-Yvette	42.9	11.1%	990	7.8k	#27
64	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	42.7	15.7%	413	4k	-
65	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	42.5	13.6%	750	7.3k	#53
66	Michigan State UniversityUnited States · East Lansing	42.3	42.0%	873	3.8k	-
67	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia	42.1	16.3%	370	4.7k	#58
68	Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina · Beijing	41.9	13.4%	959	7.5k	-
69	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina · Shenzhen	41.6	13.7%	549	5.3k	#84
70	Argonne National LaboratoryUnited States · Lemont	41.5	17.2%	596	4.4k	#66
71	University of ViennaAustria · Vienna	41.3	12.2%	512	4.2k	#63
72	Simons FoundationUnited States · New York	41.1	25.0%	222	4.4k	#98
73	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	40.9	18.6%	455	5.2k	#75
74	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	40.7	11.2%	849	6.8k	#65
75	Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan	40.5	11.6%	1k	7.4k	-
76	Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany · Mainz	40.3	13.3%	428	4.4k	#68
77	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan	40.1	11.8%	1.3k	9.7k	-
78	Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain · Madrid	40.0	14.9%	702	7.2k	#82
79	Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg	39.8	12.7%	616	5.1k	#42
80	Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Hong Kong	39.6	17.6%	344	3.7k	-
81	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	39.4	13.0%	338	3.5k	#81
82	Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette	39.3	6.7%	1.1k	5.1k	#88
83	Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston	39.1	16.0%	440	5.6k	#60
84	University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen	38.9	15.3%	392	4.6k	#94
85	Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis AvançatsSpain · Barcelona	38.8	23.2%	187	2.6k	#54
86	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore	38.6	17.7%	476	5k	-
87	Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing	38.5	10.5%	819	6.4k	-
88	Institute for Basic ScienceSouth Korea · Daejeon	38.3	11.4%	339	2.8k	#48
89	Institute for Advanced StudyUnited States · Princeton	38.1	30.0%	235	5.6k	-
90	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	38.0	14.4%	589	5.3k	#83
91	UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney	37.8	13.8%	401	3.2k	-
92	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	37.7	12.5%	771	7.7k	#87
93	Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm	37.5	17.0%	382	4.9k	-
94	Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael · Tel Aviv	37.4	10.9%	576	4.7k	-
95	Czech Academy of SciencesCzechia · Prague	37.2	9.4%	1.2k	8.6k	-
96	Beihang UniversityChina · Beijing	37.1	14.3%	1.3k	10k	-
97	Chalmers University of TechnologySweden · Gothenburg	37.0	13.3%	369	3.1k	-
98	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	36.8	14.9%	603	6.3k	-
99	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi AvanzatiItaly · Trieste	36.7	16.0%	318	4.1k	#85
100	University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine	36.5	12.9%	416	3.5k	#50

institutions ranked worldwide in Physics and Astronomy (1,417). 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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