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Top Anthropology Research Institutions

University of Oxford ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 153 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 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 100.0 18.3% 398 693#2
2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 86.2 16.5% 364 512#1
3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 78.2 17.7% 331 443#7
4 University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen 72.4 37.4% 87 303#24
5 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa · Johannesburg 68.0 34.1% 130 286#4
6 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 64.4 19.4% 185 228#11
7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 61.3 24.3% 150 300#3
8 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa · Johannesburg 58.7 25.2% 127 231#49
9 Australian National UniversityAustralia · Canberra 56.3 28.2% 139 250#5
10 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina · Buenos Aires 54.2 22.5% 250 310#62
11 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom · Durham 52.3 22.7% 145 240#14
12 University of Cape TownSouth Africa · Rondebosch 50.6 33.4% 89 232#17
13 Leiden UniversityNetherlands · Leiden 49.0 22.0% 155 205#33
14 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 47.5 16.4% 155 155#39
15 Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka · Colombo 46.2 19.7% 223 53—
16 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 44.9 14.6% 177 450#15
17 Arizona State UniversityUnited States · Tempe 43.7 31.0% 73 168#21
18 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 42.5 29.0% 104 189#51
19 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain · Madrid 41.5 16.9% 167 185#37
20 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht 40.4 23.6% 92 231#95
21 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin 39.5 18.7% 114 221#27
22 University of LisbonPortugal · Lisbon 38.6 22.0% 134 123—
23 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 37.7 17.1% 147 145#8
24 Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton 36.8 22.6% 91 130#38
25 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 36.0 14.5% 117 147#16
26 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 35.2 15.7% 106 152#12
27 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly · Venice 34.5 13.4% 303 95—
28 York UniversityCanada · Toronto 33.8 17.6% 82 142#69
29 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 33.1 30.5% 73 175#76
30 Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus 32.4 23.8% 77 186#74
31 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 31.7 23.1% 81 194#19
32 Sapienza University of RomeItaly · Rome 31.1 15.6% 124 122#73
33 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 30.5 24.1% 69 168#28
34 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 29.9 18.4% 106 163#6
35 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain · Cerdanyola del Vallès 29.3 27.9% 69 144—
36 University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom · St Andrews 28.8 19.9% 85 129#71
37 University of Dar es SalaamTanzania · Dar es Salaam 28.2 30.3% 76 93—
38 University of OsloNorway · Oslo 27.7 27.1% 69 138#97
39 University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 27.2 18.6% 106 110—
40 University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter 26.7 17.5% 124 130#53
41 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland · Krakow 26.2 7.9% 351 100—
42 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 25.7 22.9% 105 150#25
43 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 25.2 22.3% 86 163#9
44 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland · Poznan 24.8 8.7% 288 110—
45 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 24.3 23.1% 94 205#10
46 University of YorkUnited Kingdom · York 23.9 24.7% 70 153#60
47 University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw 23.5 7.4% 324 105—
48 University of South AfricaSouth Africa · Pretoria 23.0 26.1% 81 112—
49 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 22.6 22.5% 80 157#30
50 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 22.2 9.9% 225 112#96
51 University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol 21.8 18.6% 101 114#31
52 University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki 21.5 27.1% 88 127—
53 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael · Tel Aviv 21.1 27.3% 64 127#45
54 Oxford ArchaeologyUnited Kingdom · Oxford 20.7 27.3% 86 94#70
55 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom · Manchester 20.3 20.3% 109 141#32
56 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 20.0 23.7% 64 100#40
57 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem 19.6 26.9% 64 123#47
58 Film IndependentUnited States · Los Angeles 19.3 10.7% 209 87—
59 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico · Mexico City 18.9 13.8% 140 93—
60 University of BolognaItaly · Bologna 18.6 17.5% 94 86—
61 University of CologneGermany · Cologne 18.3 19.8% 75 117—
62 Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa · Stellenbosch 18.0 22.6% 79 88—
63 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom · Coventry 17.6 16.6% 84 294#83
64 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina · Buenos Aires 17.3 12.4% 206 105—
65 University of PretoriaSouth Africa · Pretoria 17.0 24.9% 86 103—
66 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona 16.7 24.9% 70 95#98
67 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina · La Plata 16.4 20.7% 84 76—
68 University of ŁódźPoland · Lodz 16.1 9.7% 170 58—
69 University of WrocławPoland · Wroclaw 15.8 11.9% 134 58—
70 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College 15.5 19.5% 72 85#46
71 University of LeicesterUnited Kingdom · Leicester 15.3 15.9% 78 63#68
72 Université de LilleFrance · Lille 15.0 5.8% 178 39—
73 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom · London 14.7 19.7% 70 159#41
74 University of the Free StateSouth Africa · Bloemfontein 14.4 22.1% 77 91—
75 Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance · Toulouse 14.2 7.1% 152 67—
76 Université Libre de BruxellesBelgium · Brussels 13.9 19.6% 60 92—
77 Weatherford CollegeUnited States · Weatherford 13.6 8.2% 173 31—
78 University of VirginiaUnited States · Charlottesville 13.4 12.3% 70 127#29
79 University of MilanItaly · Milan 13.1 14.2% 73 58—
80 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 12.9 13.7% 61 95—
81 University of CoimbraPortugal · Coimbra 12.6 17.3% 96 76—
82 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 12.4 16.9% 74 90—
83 École des hautes études en sciences socialesFrance · Paris 12.2 11.6% 144 67—
84 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil · Rio de Janeiro 11.9 11.7% 136 52—
85 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 11.7 17.1% 73 72—
86 University of LiègeBelgium · Liège 11.5 12.2% 79 63—
87 Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom · Cardiff 11.2 18.5% 70 101—
88 Universidade Nova de LisboaPortugal · Lisbon 11.0 17.5% 92 52—
89 Université Paris NanterreFrance · Nanterre 10.8 6.9% 184 39—
90 University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam 10.5 15.4% 77 91#84
91 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom · Birmingham 10.3 13.3% 74 73#35
92 University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom · Glasgow 10.1 9.8% 80 68#82
93 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 9.9 13.4% 83 92#81
94 Université de MontréalCanada · Montreal 9.7 12.5% 72 46—
95 Universidad de GranadaSpain · Granada 9.5 17.5% 66 53—
96 Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom · Newcastle upon Tyne 9.3 11.5% 81 69#75
97 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 9.1 13.8% 81 76#57
98 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 8.9 13.7% 80 66#20
99 University of BonnGermany · Bonn 8.7 14.8% 67 53—
100 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance · Paris 8.5 8.5% 143 40—

institutions ranked worldwide in Anthropology (153). 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.

8 – 13: 21 places13 – 18: 16 places18 – 22: 13 places22 – 27: 11 places27 – 31: 8 places31 – 36: 6 places36 – 40: 6 places40 – 45: 4 places45 – 50: 3 places50 – 54: 3 places54 – 59: 2 places59 – 63: 1 places63 – 68: 1 places68 – 73: 2 places73 – 77: 0 places77 – 82: 1 places82 – 86: 1 places86 – 91: 0 places91 – 95: 0 places95 – 100: 1 places8100

One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 398 works
  2. 2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 364 works
  3. 3 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 351 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 331 works
  5. 5 University of WarsawPoland 324 works
  6. 6 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 303 works
  7. 7 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 288 works
  8. 8 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 250 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 225 works
  10. 10 Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka 223 works
  11. 11 Film IndependentUnited States 209 works
  12. 12 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 206 works
  13. 13 University of TorontoCanada 185 works
  14. 14 Université Paris NanterreFrance 184 works
  15. 15 Université de LilleFrance 178 works

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