Top Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Institutions

Max Planck Society ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Harvard University and Chinese Academy of Sciences, out of 400 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	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	100.0	16.4%	1.2k	17k	#6
2	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	88.4	9.6%	1k	8.5k	#1
3	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	81.7	9.8%	3.1k	26k	#7
4	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	76.9	18.8%	403	6.1k	#3
5	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena	73.1	14.8%	1.1k	12k	#5
6	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	70.1	12.4%	2.6k	30k	#2
7	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	67.5	16.4%	362	4.2k	#11
8	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	65.3	15.6%	460	6.5k	#12
9	Planetary Science InstituteUnited States · Tucson	63.3	16.7%	394	3.8k	#4
10	University of Colorado BoulderUnited States · Boulder	61.6	13.7%	583	5.1k	#8
11	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	60.0	18.0%	336	4.4k	#20
12	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	58.5	14.8%	526	5.9k	#13
13	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	57.2	14.5%	395	5k	#9
14	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	56.0	18.3%	148	2k	#15
15	National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnited States · Washington	54.8	12.3%	1k	8.4k	#32
16	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	53.7	16.5%	206	2.8k	#27
17	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	52.7	9.8%	622	5.2k	#24
18	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	51.8	16.1%	844	5.2k	#10
19	Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan	50.9	11.7%	360	2.3k	#49
20	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	50.0	15.2%	237	3.1k	#16
21	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	49.2	12.6%	346	3.6k	#17
22	Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin	48.4	10.8%	542	3.6k	#22
23	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei	47.7	8.8%	446	3.7k	#46
24	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	47.0	14.1%	456	3.1k	#14
25	NSF National Center for Atmospheric ResearchUnited States · Boulder	46.3	16.7%	116	1.1k	#23
26	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	45.6	16.4%	247	3.3k	#28
27	Simons FoundationUnited States · New York	45.0	24.9%	126	2.7k	#33
28	National Institute for AstrophysicsItaly · Rome	44.4	10.8%	1.2k	14k	#26
29	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	43.8	13.2%	108	1.2k	#35
30	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	43.2	11.8%	244	1.9k	#51
31	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	42.7	10.4%	182	1.4k	#21
32	Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance · Paris	42.2	12.4%	262	3.3k	#40
33	Flatiron Health (United States)United States · New York	41.6	24.0%	134	2.9k	#25
34	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	41.1	11.2%	309	3.4k	#54
35	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park	40.7	17.1%	271	3.4k	#19
36	The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo	40.2	9.3%	465	4.6k	#59
37	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	39.7	14.5%	324	3.7k	#57
38	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	39.3	14.8%	204	2.7k	#75
39	Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston	38.9	20.8%	110	2.3k	#62
40	Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing	38.4	11.8%	238	2.6k	#74
41	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	38.0	12.7%	223	2.1k	#18
42	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	37.6	12.0%	227	2.5k	#72
43	University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva	37.2	19.4%	204	3.2k	#87
44	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	36.8	14.8%	251	3.3k	#47
45	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	36.5	15.5%	202	2.6k	#76
46	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	36.1	18.6%	154	2.8k	#70
47	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	35.7	13.3%	227	3k	#65
48	National Institutes of Natural SciencesJapan · Tokyo	35.4	12.0%	288	3.4k	#92
49	University of California, Santa CruzUnited States · Santa Cruz	35.0	17.6%	201	3.3k	#34
50	Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance · Paris	34.7	11.7%	300	3.1k	#50
51	Carnegie Institution for ScienceUnited States · Washington	34.4	20.6%	162	2.8k	#38
52	Leiden UniversityNetherlands · Leiden	34.1	15.6%	268	3.6k	#73
53	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	33.7	12.2%	187	1.7k	#48
54	Perimeter InstituteCanada · Waterloo	33.4	20.4%	123	2.1k	#30
55	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	33.1	14.5%	235	3.4k	#36
56	University of ArizonaUnited States · Tucson	32.8	15.9%	535	5.2k	#42
57	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	32.5	18.2%	145	2.3k	#97
58	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	32.2	10.7%	190	1.7k	-
59	University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States · Santa Barbara	31.9	15.8%	123	1.8k	#37
60	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	31.7	11.3%	219	1.8k	#58
61	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana	31.4	16.7%	179	2.6k	#67
62	Institute for Advanced StudyUnited States · Princeton	31.1	27.2%	103	2.4k	#52
63	Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm	30.8	18.2%	133	2.3k	-
64	Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom · London	30.6	19.8%	123	1.7k	#86
65	Kyoto UniversityJapan · Kyoto	30.3	10.2%	278	2.6k	-
66	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	30.1	14.9%	201	2.2k	#95
67	Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina · Harbin	29.8	11.0%	238	1.6k	-
68	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	29.6	13.5%	132	1.3k	#45
69	Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom · Durham	29.3	11.6%	199	2.1k	#60
70	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	29.1	14.7%	113	1.4k	#43
71	Université Paris-SaclayFrance · Gif-sur-Yvette	28.9	13.2%	222	2.2k	#39
72	Austrian Academy of SciencesAustria · Vienna	28.6	11.0%	118	905	#56
73	Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the UniverseJapan · Kashiwa	28.4	17.3%	123	2.3k	#41
74	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College	28.2	11.7%	216	2.2k	#71
75	Université Bourgogne Franche-ComtéFrance · Besançon	27.9	20.9%	108	2k	#31
76	Southwest Research InstituteUnited States · San Antonio	27.7	14.8%	200	1.8k	#64
77	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	27.5	7.4%	287	2.3k	-
78	Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot	27.3	9.9%	93	866	#80
79	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	27.1	15.7%	243	1.6k	#44
80	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	26.9	9.5%	740	5.3k	#63
81	Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich	26.7	13.0%	116	1k	-
82	Czech Academy of SciencesCzechia · Prague	26.5	9.1%	320	2.6k	-
83	UK Research and InnovationUnited Kingdom · Swindon	26.2	13.8%	84	1k	#84
84	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	26.0	19.3%	88	1.2k	-
85	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	25.9	14.1%	91	1.2k	-
86	Université Côte d'AzurFrance · Nice	25.7	17.4%	173	2.2k	-
87	University of BernSwitzerland · Bern	25.5	16.1%	120	1.3k	#88
88	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom · Manchester	25.3	12.0%	190	2.1k	#79
89	Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing	25.1	9.3%	233	2.3k	-
90	Boston UniversityUnited States · Boston	24.9	13.5%	115	1k	#94
91	University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen	24.7	18.5%	119	1.9k	-
92	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	24.5	12.0%	131	1.2k	-
93	Australian National UniversityAustralia · Canberra	24.3	12.3%	174	1.7k	#99
94	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus	24.2	9.9%	169	1.6k	-
95	University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom · Southampton	24.0	11.0%	161	1.6k	-
96	Space Telescope Science InstituteUnited States · Baltimore	23.8	16.7%	202	3.5k	#89
97	Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchIndia · Mumbai	23.6	7.4%	228	2.2k	-
98	University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki	23.5	11.7%	158	1.6k	-
99	U.S. National Science FoundationUnited States · Alexandria	23.3	14.6%	108	1.7k	#29
100	Beihang UniversityChina · Beijing	23.1	11.1%	218	1.3k	-

institutions ranked worldwide in Astronomy and Astrophysics (400). 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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