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Subfield · Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Top Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 150 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 32.3% 238 4.1k#2
2 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 86.2 28.1% 199 3.3k#3
3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 78.1 32.3% 200 3.1k#80
4 Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase 72.3 49.3% 75 2.1k#1
5 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 67.9 25.0% 180 2.3k#8
6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 64.2 22.8% 236 2.6k#6
7 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 61.2 22.9% 171 3.8k#14
8 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 58.5 27.9% 142 2k#7
9 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 56.1 23.1% 197 2k#4
10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 54.0 28.6% 117 1.7k#5
11 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 52.1 33.4% 129 1.9k#24
12 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 50.4 23.7% 156 1.8k—
13 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 48.8 22.1% 183 1.9k#9
14 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 47.3 30.5% 133 2k—
15 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 46.0 22.6% 161 1.9k—
16 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 44.7 25.3% 174 2k—
17 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 43.5 21.4% 218 2.1k#26
18 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 42.3 23.6% 169 1.7k#15
19 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 41.2 20.4% 181 1.7k#29
20 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 40.2 26.4% 118 1.6k#78
21 InsermFrance · Paris 39.2 20.7% 179 1.8k#25
22 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 38.3 25.1% 101 1.4k—
23 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 37.4 25.2% 133 1.6k—
24 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 36.6 26.9% 118 1.3k#19
25 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 35.8 26.2% 122 1.4k#23
26 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 35.0 30.4% 117 1.6k—
27 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 34.2 21.3% 151 1.6k#13
28 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 33.5 21.6% 146 1.5k#17
29 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 32.8 24.1% 103 1.1k#36
30 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 32.1 25.2% 129 1.6k#11
31 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 31.5 22.6% 153 1.6k—
32 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 30.8 27.9% 124 1.5k#31
33 McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 30.2 23.3% 109 1.3k#45
34 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 29.6 23.4% 141 1.6k—
35 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 29.0 30.8% 79 1.3k#18
36 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 28.5 25.0% 105 1.2k#30
37 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 27.9 23.7% 103 1.2k#55
38 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 27.4 12.4% 192 1.3k#33
39 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 26.9 17.3% 172 1.5k#34
40 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 26.4 15.3% 175 1.5k#21
41 University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 25.9 26.6% 80 1.1k#41
42 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 25.4 26.0% 87 1.1k#46
43 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 24.9 25.4% 104 1k#51
44 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 24.5 23.6% 107 1.1k#22
45 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 24.0 22.4% 118 1.2k—
46 University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine 23.6 19.4% 125 1.3k#27
47 Allen Institute for Brain ScienceUnited States · Seattle 23.2 32.9% 69 1k—
48 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles 22.7 22.2% 107 992#73
49 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 22.3 18.8% 135 1.2k—
50 Nantong UniversityChina · Nantong 21.9 25.6% 94 1.2k—
51 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 21.5 17.5% 158 1.1k#88
52 University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis 21.1 22.7% 109 1.1k#70
53 Neurological SurgeryUnited States · Rockville Centre 20.8 20.6% 105 950#97
54 Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 20.4 23.8% 99 1.2k—
55 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 20.0 25.7% 86 932#39
56 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 19.7 23.7% 105 1.1k—
57 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina · Xi'an 19.3 24.6% 85 994—
58 National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 19.0 19.9% 109 1.2k#10
59 The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo 18.6 14.4% 166 1.4k#50
60 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 18.3 26.5% 88 1.1k—
61 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 18.0 17.4% 120 933#48
62 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 17.6 23.0% 84 1.1k—
63 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 17.3 22.6% 91 886#12
64 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 17.0 20.5% 80 811#96
65 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 16.7 29.4% 71 862—
66 University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis 16.4 16.3% 124 1k#53
67 École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 16.1 26.3% 74 1.1k#75
68 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 15.8 21.2% 87 1k—
69 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen 15.5 29.2% 61 798—
70 National Institute on Drug AbuseUnited States · Bethesda 15.2 22.0% 64 870#40
71 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 14.9 21.8% 95 894—
72 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 14.6 24.5% 85 843#54
73 Jilin UniversityChina · Changchun 14.4 32.9% 62 766—
74 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 14.1 28.2% 60 825—
75 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 13.8 23.6% 69 810—
76 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States · College Station 13.6 26.8% 76 749—
77 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 13.3 16.5% 100 920#37
78 National Hospital for Neurology and NeurosurgeryUnited Kingdom · London 13.1 22.6% 72 781#94
79 Boston UniversityUnited States · Boston 12.8 22.6% 79 896#66
80 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 12.5 27.7% 63 781—
81 University of Maryland, BaltimoreUnited States · Baltimore 12.3 21.0% 79 726#49
82 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 12.1 24.2% 68 756—
83 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 11.8 16.5% 113 820—
84 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 11.6 19.6% 83 759—
85 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySouth Korea · Daejeon 11.3 20.9% 70 953—
86 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 11.1 25.0% 66 733—
87 Qingdao UniversityChina · Qingdao 10.9 28.1% 68 663—
88 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin 10.6 21.4% 81 764#86
89 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 10.4 21.1% 67 759#87
90 Lund UniversitySweden · Lund 10.2 22.2% 78 696#32
91 Kyoto UniversityJapan · Kyoto 10.0 16.1% 105 836#52
92 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 9.8 22.2% 78 697#65
93 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 9.5 19.2% 70 661—
94 Korea UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 9.3 22.7% 64 680—
95 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville 9.1 16.5% 101 793#63
96 University of MilanItaly · Milan 8.9 21.7% 69 660—
97 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem 8.7 23.0% 70 707#83
98 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States · New Brunswick 8.5 16.8% 94 855#61
99 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 8.3 21.4% 74 738—
100 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 8.1 20.9% 69 647—

institutions ranked worldwide in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (150). 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 Harvard UniversityUnited States 238 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 236 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 218 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 200 works
  5. 5 Stanford UniversityUnited States 199 works
  6. 6 Yale UniversityUnited States 197 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 192 works
  8. 8 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 183 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 181 works
  10. 10 University of California San DiegoUnited States 180 works
  11. 11 InsermFrance 179 works
  12. 12 University of MichiganUnited States 175 works
  13. 13 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 174 works
  14. 14 University of PittsburghUnited States 172 works
  15. 15 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 171 works

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience by country