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Physics and Astronomy research in Russia

Russian Academy of Sciences ranks first in Russia for Physics and Astronomy research in 2022-now (#398 worldwide), followed by Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Russia's world rank
#30
of 76 countries, 2022-now
Works, 2022-now
24k
Top-10% rate
3.0%
Ranked institutions
41

Research strength only: this says nothing about teaching, admissions or cost.

What is the best university for Physics and Astronomy in Russia?

#InstitutionWorld rankScoreTop-10% rateWorks
1Russian Academy of SciencesMoscow #39817.53.0%9,609
2Skolkovo Institute of Science and TechnologySkolkovo #64510.99.2%112
3Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyDolgoprudnyy #65010.74.4%494
4ITMO UniversitySt Petersburg #67210.34.9%319
5National Research University Higher School of EconomicsMoscow #7858.13.7%399
6St Petersburg UniversitySaint Petersburg #8696.73.1%682
7Rosatom (Russia)Moscow #8826.54.6%97
8Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityMoscow #9765.12.0%1,737
9Joint Institute for Nuclear ResearchDubna #9914.92.2%920
10Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio-ElectronicsTomsk #9974.86.0%132
11Novosibirsk State UniversityNovosibirsk #1,0014.82.8%297
12Kurchatov InstituteMoscow #1,0164.62.2%742
13National Research Nuclear University MEPhIMoscow #1,0913.63.6%639
14National Research Tomsk State UniversityTomsk #1,1123.32.5%252
15Bauman Moscow State Technical UniversityMoscow #1,1263.25.8%190
16Russian Quantum CenterMoscow #1,1502.94.7%94
17Astro Space CenterMoscow #1,1582.81.5%76
18Far Eastern Federal UniversityVladivostok #1,1692.74.7%68
19Saratov State UniversitySaratov #1,1992.31.5%128
20Tomsk Polytechnic UniversityTomsk #1,2022.32.7%91
21National University of Science and TechnologyMoscow #1,2052.24.3%108
22Novosibirsk State Technical UniversityNovosibirsk #1,2102.22.3%90
23Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversitySaint Petersburg #1,2152.12.2%282
24Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaMoscow #1,2501.79.8%156
25Samara National Research UniversitySamara #1,2561.73.6%227
26Ural Federal UniversityYekaterinburg #1,277143.02.8%289
27Dubna State UniversityDubna #1,287133.01.4%143
28All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical PhysicsSnezhinsk #1,301118.01.2%86
29N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod #1,306112.02.7%169
30Voronezh State UniversityVoronezh #1,309109.00.9%70
31Moscow Power Engineering InstituteMoscow #1,316102.02.1%160
32Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical UniversitySaint Petersburg #1,33285.06.9%92
33Image Processing Systems InstituteSamara #1,34869.06.1%65
34Institute of Automation and ElectrometryNovosibirsk #1,35364.03.9%66
35Kazan Federal UniversityKazan’ #1,36057.02.3%211
36Southern Federal UniversityRostov-on-Don #1,36651.02.1%126
37Moscow Aviation InstituteMoscow #1,38036.03.1%175
38Yaroslavl State UniversityYaroslavl #1,38333.00.4%76
39Volgograd State UniversityVolgograd #1,39126.00.5%62
40MIREA - Russian Technological UniversityMoscow #1,40314.01.9%95
41Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal UniversityKaliningrad #1,40512.02.6%62

Institutions in Russia above the floor of 40 fractional works in Physics and Astronomy, ordered by their worldwide rank on research quality, 2022-now.

Who are the top Physics and Astronomy researchers in Russia?

I. Lokhtin, Alexander I. Malakhov and A. A. Korol rank highest among researchers based in Russia, on their papers in Physics and Astronomy that reached the world top 10%, beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1I. Lokhtin#5,570 worldwide overall498.8 of 1,312 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2Alexander I. Malakhov#25,844 worldwide overall385.8 of 1,284 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3A. A. Korol#24,655 worldwide overall363.7 of 951 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4V. D. Peshekhonov#8,140 worldwide overall264.7 of 627 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5A. Bondar#127,249 worldwide overall323.3 of 1,561 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6I. Vorobiev#21,392 worldwide overall225.3 of 676 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7I. Pshenichnov#18,646 worldwide overall212.4 of 600 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8M. Danilov#93,503 worldwide overall263.8 of 1,142 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9A. Khanzadeev#1,297 worldwide overall181.8 of 341 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10P. Krokovny#167,980 worldwide overall320.0 of 1,751 papers here in the top 10%
  11. 11Sergey P. Baranov#26,595 worldwide overall185.7 of 527 papers here in the top 10%
  12. 12В. А. Окороков#24,764 worldwide overall174.8 of 535 papers here in the top 10%
  13. 13А. Г. Богданчиков#22,250 worldwide overall172.3 of 457 papers here in the top 10%
  14. 14Fedor Guber#23,194 worldwide overall149.5 of 406 papers here in the top 10%
  15. 15Richard Lednicky#36,572 worldwide overall156.8 of 504 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked among researchers based in Russia on their work in Physics and Astronomy alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected.

How Russia compares with other countries in Physics and Astronomy