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Top Biophysics Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society, out of 29 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 100.0 18.6% 183 3.8k#1
2Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 79.4 12.8% 342 3.1k#8
3Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich 67.4 16.0% 100 1.4k#3
4Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 58.8 18.0% 84 1.4k#4
5Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 52.2 16.1% 72 1k#7
6National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 46.8 11.7% 89 903#9
7Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 42.2 19.5% 86 1.1k#23
8Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 38.2 16.4% 100 1.1k#45
9University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 34.7 12.5% 75 817#15
10University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 31.6 15.4% 65 623#16
11Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 28.8 21.0% 82 1k#46
12Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 26.2 7.0% 373 2.1k#6
13Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 23.8 13.0% 79 859#21
14University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 21.6 14.3% 61 707#13
15Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 19.6 17.1% 64 699#65
16University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 17.7 14.2% 73 804#26
17University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 15.9 10.7% 65 574#35
18Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin 14.2 9.9% 114 1.2k#12
19University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 12.6 9.6% 61 660#40
20University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 11.0 11.6% 61 803#48
21Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin 9.6 8.7% 64 467#31
22Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 8.2 12.3% 118 944#68
23Shenzhen UniversityChina · Shenzhen 6.9 10.4% 62 463#73
24The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo 5.6 5.9% 71 415#72
25Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 4.4 7.6% 63 375#64
26Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 3.2 12.9% 63 608-
27National Research CouncilItaly · Rome 2.1 9.5% 96 596-
28University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 104.2 5.3% 69 280#96
29Russian Academy of SciencesRussia · Moscow 0.0 3.9% 307 1k-

institutions ranked worldwide in Biophysics (29). 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.

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 415 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 391 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 334 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 213 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 141 works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 132 works
  7. 7 Max Planck SocietyGermany 119 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 112 works
  9. 9 National Research CouncilItaly 107 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 104 works
  11. 11 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 103 works
  12. 12 Peking UniversityChina 103 works
  13. 13 Stanford UniversityUnited States 101 works
  14. 14 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 92 works
  15. 15 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 87 works

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