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Top Artificial Intelligence Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Alphabet (United States) and Stanford University, out of 1,862 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.

Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 100.0 11.9% 4.8k 39k#6
2Alphabet (United States)United States · Mountain View 90.8 20.3% 856 21k#5
3Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 85.4 18.1% 908 15k#1
4Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 81.6 17.9% 2.2k 27k#11
5Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 78.6 15.1% 805 11k#2
6ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 76.2 17.4% 600 7.2k#3
7Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 74.2 18.7% 652 12k#10
8Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore 72.4 20.6% 1.2k 20k#13
9University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 70.8 16.6% 727 11k#9
10Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 69.4 13.4% 1.5k 15k#15
11Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States · Pittsburgh 68.2 15.0% 1.1k 14k#8
12Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 67.0 15.8% 1.7k 17k#38
13Microsoft (United States)United States · Redmond 65.9 22.4% 916 20k#7
14National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 65.0 16.8% 1.1k 16k#24
15University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 64.0 13.4% 1.5k 15k#39
16Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Hong Kong 63.2 19.5% 697 11k#25
17University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam 62.4 19.1% 713 11k#44
18University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 61.6 14.9% 710 8.5k#16
19Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 60.9 6.5% 3.5k 16k#4
20Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 60.2 13.3% 1.8k 16k#40
21New York UniversityUnited States · New York 59.6 14.4% 803 8k#19
22University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 58.9 14.7% 641 7.7k#14
23Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton 58.4 17.4% 366 4.8k#18
24Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing 57.8 12.7% 901 7.8k#49
25University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 57.2 16.8% 635 8.7k#27
26Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 56.7 13.6% 1k 10k#61
27University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 56.2 11.8% 1.3k 11k#21
28Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich 55.7 14.6% 560 5.6k#32
29Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 55.3 17.7% 414 5.7k#22
30Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 54.8 13.0% 600 6.9k#28
31Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina · Hong Kong 54.4 20.1% 772 9.2k#79
32Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 54.0 15.6% 1.1k 11k#48
33Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 53.6 14.6% 553 6.1k#29
34University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 53.2 12.9% 729 6k#30
35China University of GeosciencesChina · Wuhan 52.8 19.0% 502 5.1k#56
36University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 52.4 12.8% 880 8.4k#45
37Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 52.0 14.1% 1.3k 11k#62
38University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 51.7 15.3% 588 5.6k#47
39University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 51.3 15.0% 632 6.9k#37
40University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 51.0 13.5% 384 3.8k#42
41Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea · Daejeon 50.7 13.5% 613 6.1k#91
42Chinese University of Hong KongChina · Hong Kong 50.4 18.0% 595 8.4k#64
43California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena 50.0 19.8% 258 3.9k#52
44Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin 49.7 9.7% 1.1k 7.9k#20
45University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles 49.4 13.4% 715 6.3k#36
46École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 49.2 12.2% 443 3.9k#26
47University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park 48.9 12.0% 612 5.6k#12
48University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 48.6 12.5% 538 6.4k#23
49University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 48.3 15.1% 380 3.9k#17
50Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 48.0 12.9% 677 6.9k#51
51Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina · Harbin 47.8 13.3% 1.5k 13k#81
52IBM (United States)United States · Armonk 47.5 16.4% 595 8.5k#33
53City University of Hong KongChina · Hong Kong 47.3 16.1% 560 6.3k#41
54Hunan UniversityChina · Changsha 47.0 18.0% 481 4.5k#60
55Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 46.8 11.4% 585 5.6k#46
56University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 46.5 13.7% 726 7.6k#54
57The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin 46.3 13.2% 600 5.7k#34
58Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina · Shenzhen 46.1 12.8% 437 3.7k#31
59Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai 45.8 12.6% 825 6.3k#84
60Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 45.6 14.8% 1k 10k#87
61Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich 45.4 11.7% 746 7k#50
62Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Atlanta 45.2 12.6% 798 7.4k#43
63University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam 45.0 12.0% 532 3.8k#78
64Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 44.8 13.2% 530 6.2k#88
65Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 44.6 18.8% 459 6.2k#72
66Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina · Xi'an 44.4 15.0% 1.1k 9.8k#77
67Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchSingapore · Singapore 44.2 15.6% 419 5.1k#69
68UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney 44.0 13.1% 578 5.1k#65
69University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States · Santa Barbara 43.8 15.9% 292 3k#80
70Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 43.6 13.2% 416 4.2k#75
71Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands · Delft 43.4 13.5% 636 6.5k#53
72Chongqing UniversityChina · Chongqing 43.2 14.3% 623 5.3k#70
73Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 43.0 14.6% 858 7.2k-
74Allen InstituteUnited States · Seattle 42.8 30.1% 77 2.4k-
75University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 42.7 9.8% 634 4.9k#35
76Alibaba Group (China)China · Hangzhou 42.5 20.3% 486 8.6k#67
77The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 42.3 15.1% 578 6.7k-
78Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen 42.1 12.7% 326 2.8k#71
79Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina · Xi'an 42.0 15.4% 1.1k 9.6k-
80Tencent (China)China · Shenzhen 41.8 17.8% 438 6.3k#82
81South China University of TechnologyChina · Guangzhou 41.6 13.4% 806 6.7k-
82Beihang UniversityChina · Beijing 41.5 13.6% 1.4k 10k#94
83Shenzhen UniversityChina · Shenzhen 41.3 12.9% 695 5.4k#98
84Southeast UniversityChina · Nanjing 41.2 13.2% 1.1k 7.4k-
85Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of ChinaChina · Beijing 41.0 16.8% 249 2.8k-
86Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina · Beijing 40.8 10.9% 1.3k 8.5k-
87East China Normal UniversityChina · Shanghai 40.7 11.1% 712 4.8k-
88The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 40.5 13.0% 481 3.9k#85
89Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College 40.4 12.2% 584 4.6k#95
90Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 40.2 11.6% 686 4.7k#73
91The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 40.1 17.1% 384 5k#83
92Xidian UniversityChina · Xi'an 39.9 14.4% 1.4k 13k-
93Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 39.8 13.5% 264 2.7k-
94The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo 39.7 7.1% 868 4.4k#93
95University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 39.5 13.3% 383 3.6k#89
96Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 39.4 16.6% 886 8.3k-
97University of Colorado BoulderUnited States · Boulder 39.2 11.6% 263 2.1k#55
98Hefei University of TechnologyChina · Hefei 39.1 14.4% 604 5k-
99University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 39.0 10.8% 314 2.4k#59
100Nankai UniversityChina · Tianjin 38.8 12.0% 449 3.3k-

institutions ranked worldwide in Artificial Intelligence (1,862). 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).

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.

39 to 42: 21 places42 to 45: 16 places45 to 48: 13 places48 to 51: 11 places51 to 54: 8 places54 to 57: 6 places57 to 60: 6 places60 to 63: 4 places63 to 66: 3 places66 to 69: 3 places69 to 72: 2 places72 to 76: 1 places76 to 79: 1 places79 to 82: 2 places82 to 85: 0 places85 to 88: 1 places88 to 91: 1 places91 to 94: 0 places94 to 97: 0 places97 to 100: 1 places39100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 5.5k works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 3.9k works
  3. 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 2.5k works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 2.2k works
  5. 5 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 2.1k works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 2.1k works
  7. 7 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 2.1k works
  8. 8 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 2k works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 1.9k works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 1.7k works
  11. 11 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 1.7k works
  12. 12 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 1.7k works
  13. 13 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 1.7k works
  14. 14 Xidian UniversityChina 1.7k works
  15. 15 Beihang UniversityChina 1.6k works

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