Top Psychology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by University of Oxford and University College London, out of 2,121 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	16.2%	2.8k	24k	#1
2	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	91.0	16.0%	1.2k	11k	#5
3	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	85.7	17.5%	1.8k	16k	#2
4	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	81.9	16.4%	1.2k	11k	#3
5	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	79.0	15.4%	952	7.8k	#10
6	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	76.6	13.3%	1.2k	8.7k	#4
7	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	74.6	13.5%	1.4k	9.7k	#7
8	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	72.9	13.4%	1.2k	9k	#6
9	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	71.3	12.2%	2.4k	15k	#13
10	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	69.9	18.6%	669	5.6k	#14
11	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	68.7	13.4%	942	6.2k	#19
12	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	67.6	18.8%	952	7.7k	#32
13	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia	66.5	14.3%	933	7.4k	#8
14	Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing	65.5	16.1%	1.3k	8.6k	#45
15	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	64.6	12.4%	1.3k	8.4k	#9
16	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	63.8	13.9%	1.3k	9.8k	#12
17	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	63.0	7.9%	3.1k	9.4k	#16
18	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	62.3	17.0%	1.4k	11k	#27
19	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	61.6	18.2%	816	6.7k	#41
20	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	60.9	18.1%	907	7.1k	#74
21	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	60.3	12.4%	1.1k	7.5k	#18
22	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	59.6	13.9%	1.1k	7.4k	#17
23	Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston	59.1	14.7%	766	5.8k	#15
24	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	58.5	16.9%	802	6.9k	#24
25	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	58.0	12.2%	851	5k	#38
26	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco	57.5	14.5%	718	5.8k	#26
27	Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne	57.0	16.4%	1.1k	8k	#36
28	National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore	56.5	17.7%	730	6.2k	#61
29	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	56.0	13.8%	828	5.2k	#48
30	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	55.6	14.4%	599	4.3k	#11
31	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	55.2	17.6%	1.2k	10k	#40
32	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	54.8	15.4%	786	5.9k	#43
33	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	54.4	13.3%	898	5.5k	#31
34	Alphabet (United States)United States · Mountain View	54.0	19.9%	299	2.7k	#72
35	The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane	53.6	17.4%	967	7.8k	#57
36	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina · Hong Kong	53.2	22.3%	818	6.3k	-
37	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	52.9	13.2%	942	6.3k	#29
38	UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney	52.5	16.9%	1k	8.8k	#54
39	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	52.2	15.9%	836	7.4k	#76
40	Chinese University of Hong KongChina · Hong Kong	51.8	20.9%	817	6.8k	#82
41	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore	51.5	16.4%	611	4.7k	#49
42	University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen	51.2	16.6%	804	6.8k	#59
43	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	50.9	12.7%	1.1k	8k	#28
44	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	50.6	12.7%	685	4.4k	#75
45	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	50.3	15.9%	684	5.7k	#66
46	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	50.0	15.9%	814	5.7k	#100
47	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis	49.7	12.3%	666	4.8k	#44
48	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	49.5	11.7%	831	5.6k	#21
49	The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney	49.2	15.4%	1.2k	8k	#78
50	University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh	48.9	12.1%	905	6.1k	#22
51	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	48.7	13.9%	253	2k	#34
52	Boston UniversityUnited States · Boston	48.4	14.7%	631	4.4k	#47
53	University of OsloNorway · Oslo	48.2	16.2%	842	6k	#92
54	University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver	47.9	12.5%	1.2k	7.5k	#46
55	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	47.7	17.8%	592	4.6k	-
56	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College	47.4	11.5%	1.4k	7.7k	#55
57	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	47.2	8.8%	768	3.4k	#25
58	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	47.0	17.6%	829	6k	-
59	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana	46.8	12.1%	774	4.2k	#37
60	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	46.5	15.7%	753	5.8k	#56
61	University of ViennaAustria · Vienna	46.3	15.1%	511	2.9k	-
62	University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	46.1	13.7%	519	3.2k	-
63	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands · Rotterdam	45.9	15.5%	574	4.4k	#81
64	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	45.7	14.6%	709	5k	#64
65	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	45.5	20.9%	180	1.9k	#79
66	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom · Manchester	45.3	14.3%	731	4.4k	#58
67	Education University of Hong KongChina · Tai Po	45.1	24.0%	548	5.1k	#84
68	United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States · Washington	44.9	10.6%	1.2k	8.1k	#35
69	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville	44.7	14.2%	721	4.9k	#42
70	Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm	44.5	14.9%	651	5.1k	#87
71	Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg	44.3	13.8%	750	5.1k	#62
72	Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu	44.2	19.8%	602	5k	-
73	University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine	44.0	14.1%	626	4.1k	#69
74	National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda	43.8	16.1%	484	4.5k	#20
75	Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham	43.6	12.6%	673	4.5k	#23
76	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	43.5	13.4%	803	5.5k	#77
77	University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel	43.3	17.0%	342	2.7k	#94
78	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	43.1	11.0%	790	2.6k	-
79	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany · Berlin	43.0	12.0%	456	2.8k	-
80	University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol	42.8	14.9%	512	3.5k	#80
81	Ruhr University BochumGermany · Bochum	42.6	12.2%	488	3.1k	#89
82	InsermFrance · Paris	42.5	11.7%	816	4.6k	#65
83	Indiana UniversityUnited States · Bloomington	42.3	10.6%	1.2k	5.8k	#52
84	University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva	42.2	11.9%	471	2.7k	-
85	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	42.0	15.2%	289	2.2k	#50
86	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	41.8	18.3%	464	3.6k	-
87	Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem	41.7	11.0%	546	2.9k	#88
88	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom · Birmingham	41.5	16.1%	558	3.7k	-
89	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles	41.4	13.4%	814	5.3k	#51
90	University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki	41.3	13.9%	723	5.2k	-
91	Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta	41.1	11.0%	774	4.5k	#30
92	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park	41.0	13.2%	596	3.4k	#33
93	Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States · New Brunswick	40.8	11.5%	746	4.2k	#67
94	East China Normal UniversityChina · Shanghai	40.7	16.3%	526	3.1k	-
95	University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter	40.5	17.8%	448	3.3k	-
96	City University of Hong KongChina · Hong Kong	40.4	15.7%	367	2.4k	#97
97	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus	40.3	10.6%	1.2k	6.4k	#96
98	Florida State UniversityUnited States · Tallahassee	40.1	11.0%	774	4.4k	#93
99	University of MünsterGermany · Münster	40.0	11.4%	407	2k	#95
100	Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States · Pittsburgh	39.9	15.2%	310	2.5k	#60

institutions ranked worldwide in Psychology (2,121). 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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