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Subfield · Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Top Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 738 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 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 100.0 24.8% 652 6.3k#1
2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 89.5 18.8% 951 6.8k#59
3 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 83.4 22.1% 533 4.8k#2
4 Mayo ClinicUnited States · Rochester 79.0 17.4% 603 4.5k#3
5 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 75.6 18.1% 505 3.5k#5
6 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 72.9 17.3% 573 3.7k#8
7 Cleveland ClinicUnited States · Cleveland 70.5 13.2% 880 3.9k#4
8 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 68.5 17.7% 441 3.3k#7
9 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 66.7 16.5% 433 2.9k#30
10 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States · Scottsdale 65.1 12.9% 697 3.5k#14
11 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 63.7 19.0% 376 2.7k#9
12 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 62.4 14.5% 514 3.1k#12
13 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 61.2 21.5% 368 2.8k#24
14 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 60.0 20.1% 359 2.5k#17
15 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 59.0 17.7% 418 3.2k#15
16 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 58.0 16.4% 383 2.6k#10
17 InsermFrance · Paris 57.1 21.2% 368 2.9k#16
18 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 56.2 26.1% 276 2.7k#21
19 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 55.4 22.2% 302 3k#36
20 German Centre for Cardiovascular ResearchGermany · Berlin 54.6 28.6% 269 2.7k—
21 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 53.9 17.0% 436 2.8k#22
22 Sapienza University of RomeItaly · Rome 53.2 22.2% 309 2.2k—
23 University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom · Glasgow 52.5 25.2% 209 2.5k#49
24 Mayo Clinic in FloridaUnited States · Jacksonville 51.9 17.1% 381 2.5k#47
25 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 51.3 20.6% 338 2.4k#25
26 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 50.7 16.0% 407 2.4k#13
27 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 50.1 26.3% 256 2.3k—
28 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 49.5 25.1% 245 2.3k#38
29 Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterUnited States · Los Angeles 49.0 16.3% 286 1.6k#43
30 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece · Athens 48.5 19.7% 326 2k—
31 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 48.0 18.7% 342 2.5k—
32 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 47.5 18.6% 304 2k#31
33 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 47.1 20.6% 283 2k—
34 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 46.6 18.0% 328 2.2k#37
35 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 46.2 16.1% 493 2.9k—
36 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 45.7 19.2% 318 2.3k—
37 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 45.3 19.4% 410 2.7k—
38 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States · Nashville 44.9 16.8% 296 1.9k#89
39 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 44.5 21.8% 330 2.3k—
40 Columbia University Irving Medical CenterUnited States · New York 44.1 18.3% 270 1.8k#61
41 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 43.8 16.4% 302 1.8k#18
42 Erasmus MCNetherlands · Rotterdam 43.4 22.5% 239 2k#51
43 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterUnited States · Boston 43.0 18.6% 255 1.6k#52
44 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 42.7 15.5% 320 2k#23
45 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 42.4 14.0% 322 1.7k#27
46 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 42.0 19.1% 352 2.3k—
47 Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands · Amsterdam 41.7 18.6% 301 2.1k—
48 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 41.4 12.7% 502 2.1k#32
49 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 41.1 21.7% 295 2.1k—
50 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 40.8 18.9% 246 1.7k#35
51 Maastricht UniversityNetherlands · Maastricht 40.5 22.7% 240 1.8k#60
52 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 40.2 18.2% 304 1.8k#20
53 University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom · Liverpool 39.9 21.3% 234 1.6k—
54 University of PaduaItaly · Padua 39.6 18.9% 373 2.2k#71
55 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 39.3 22.2% 236 1.7k—
56 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 39.0 18.1% 271 1.8k#50
57 University Hospital of BernSwitzerland · Bern 38.8 20.0% 223 1.5k#97
58 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 38.5 14.8% 310 1.8k#87
59 Fu Wai HospitalChina · Beijing 38.3 16.2% 283 1.7k—
60 University of AlbertaCanada · Edmonton 38.0 20.4% 228 1.6k#54
61 Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart InstituteUnited States · Los Angeles 37.8 25.2% 146 1.3k—
62 University Medical Center GroningenNetherlands · Groningen 37.5 26.5% 162 1.6k#73
63 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 37.3 24.9% 202 1.6k—
64 University of MilanItaly · Milan 37.0 21.6% 247 1.6k—
65 University Medical Center UtrechtNetherlands · Utrecht 36.8 20.2% 202 1.6k#98
66 Karolinska University HospitalSweden · Stockholm 36.6 25.7% 150 1.7k#82
67 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 36.3 6.9% 583 1.5k#58
68 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 36.1 14.3% 309 1.6k#74
69 Cardiovascular Institute of the SouthUnited States · Houma 35.9 31.9% 114 1.5k—
70 University of Naples Federico IIItaly · Naples 35.7 26.8% 151 1.2k—
71 University of BernSwitzerland · Bern 35.5 25.4% 180 1.5k—
72 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 35.2 16.4% 277 1.5k—
73 British Heart FoundationUnited Kingdom · London 35.0 33.5% 82 1.4k—
74 University of Milano-BicoccaItaly · Milan 34.8 24.4% 159 1.3k—
75 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 34.6 18.2% 219 1.6k—
76 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 34.4 14.7% 256 1.5k#11
77 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 34.2 15.2% 304 1.5k#42
78 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 34.0 18.4% 279 1.8k—
79 University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis 33.8 15.6% 271 1.5k#26
80 University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam 33.6 24.6% 160 1.4k#83
81 Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece · Thessaloniki 33.5 18.9% 184 1.1k—
82 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 33.3 17.8% 250 1.8k—
83 McMaster UniversityCanada · Hamilton 33.1 19.3% 208 1.5k#28
84 Leiden University Medical CenterNetherlands · Leiden 32.9 16.7% 262 1.5k#39
85 Albert Einstein College of MedicineUnited States · Bronx 32.7 18.2% 168 1.2k#48
86 University of UtahUnited States · Salt Lake City 32.6 13.5% 324 1.5k#55
87 Copenhagen University HospitalDenmark · Copenhagen 32.4 18.1% 206 1.3k—
88 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 32.2 18.4% 204 1.5k#44
89 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 32.0 28.3% 192 1.7k—
90 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 31.9 16.3% 268 1.7k#46
91 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States · Birmingham 31.7 11.3% 307 1.2k#53
92 Liverpool Heart and Chest HospitalUnited Kingdom · Liverpool 31.5 29.0% 128 1.2k—
93 Boston UniversityUnited States · Boston 31.4 18.5% 174 1.1k#41
94 Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg 31.2 19.0% 160 1.1k—
95 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 31.0 16.1% 242 1.3k#93
96 UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney 30.9 20.1% 179 1.3k—
97 Medical University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw 30.7 11.3% 255 1.2k—
98 Duke Medical CenterUnited States · Durham 30.6 21.3% 144 1.2k#19
99 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 30.4 19.9% 216 1.4k—
100 Clinical Research InstituteUnited States · Plymouth 30.3 27.3% 128 1.3k#45

institutions ranked worldwide in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (738). 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.

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 951 works
  2. 2 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 880 works
  3. 3 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States 697 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 652 works
  5. 5 Mayo ClinicUnited States 603 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 583 works
  7. 7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 573 works
  8. 8 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States 533 works
  9. 9 Yale UniversityUnited States 514 works
  10. 10 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 505 works
  11. 11 Emory UniversityUnited States 502 works
  12. 12 Capital Medical UniversityChina 493 works
  13. 13 Stanford UniversityUnited States 441 works
  14. 14 Northwestern UniversityUnited States 436 works
  15. 15 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States 433 works

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