Which institution is best at Cognitive Neuroscience research?

Top Cognitive Neuroscience Research Institutions

University College London ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Harvard University and University of Oxford, out of 543 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	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	100.0	16.6%	815	9.9k	#2
2	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	89.0	14.6%	1.3k	14k	#1
3	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	82.6	14.3%	628	6.9k	#7
4	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	78.0	15.4%	544	6.6k	#6
5	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	74.4	16.9%	492	6.2k	#23
6	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	71.5	13.0%	598	6k	#4
7	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	69.1	18.6%	274	4k	#8
8	National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda	67.0	13.5%	398	4.4k	#3
9	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	65.1	17.1%	939	12k	#20
10	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	63.4	15.1%	483	5.2k	#12
11	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia	61.9	14.7%	380	4k	#15
12	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	60.5	13.0%	417	4.7k	#10
13	Allen InstituteUnited States · Seattle	59.3	17.0%	185	2.4k	#11
14	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	58.1	17.8%	158	2k	#9
15	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	57.0	8.7%	1.4k	9.4k	#16
16	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	56.0	14.1%	421	4.7k	#17
17	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	55.0	12.3%	496	4.7k	#14
18	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	54.1	15.2%	268	3.1k	#18
19	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	53.2	12.1%	629	5.4k	#13
20	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco	52.4	15.4%	246	3k	#21
21	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	51.7	14.1%	394	4.1k	#31
22	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	50.9	13.1%	530	5.9k	#22
23	InsermFrance · Paris	50.2	11.7%	540	4.6k	#25
24	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	49.5	12.0%	429	4.4k	#19
25	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis	48.9	11.7%	315	6.8k	#24
26	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	48.3	9.1%	324	2.1k	#29
27	Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston	47.7	12.2%	255	2.4k	#27
28	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	47.1	14.7%	230	2.5k	#51
29	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	46.5	13.6%	297	2.9k	#33
30	Chinese Institute for Brain ResearchChina · Beijing	46.0	13.6%	154	1.7k	#36
31	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	45.5	16.9%	138	1.6k	#34
32	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	45.0	11.2%	330	2.7k	#35
33	Neurosciences InstituteUnited States · La Jolla	44.5	20.7%	68	1.3k	#26
34	Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States · Pittsburgh	44.0	13.3%	216	2.1k	#46
35	Boston UniversityUnited States · Boston	43.5	11.3%	259	2.4k	#43
36	University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh	43.1	10.1%	391	3.1k	#32
37	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	42.7	13.7%	252	2.3k	#62
38	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	42.2	15.5%	316	3.2k	#65
39	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore	41.8	17.7%	188	2.4k	#77
40	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	41.4	14.5%	265	2.9k	#52
41	Dartmouth CollegeUnited States · Hanover	41.0	11.8%	125	1.2k	#41
42	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	40.6	10.3%	288	2.1k	#47
43	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	40.3	12.0%	441	3.9k	#78
44	University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen	39.9	11.6%	285	2.4k	#28
45	University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles	39.5	12.0%	325	2.7k	#61
46	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	39.2	10.2%	365	2.9k	#50
47	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	38.9	15.1%	246	3k	#55
48	National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore	38.5	18.7%	224	4.2k	#76
49	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	38.2	13.2%	346	3.1k	#98
50	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	37.9	9.7%	869	6.5k	#39
51	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom · Birmingham	37.6	13.8%	189	1.9k	#80
52	University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis	37.3	13.1%	282	2.9k	#37
53	Neurological SurgeryUnited States · Rockville Centre	37.0	16.6%	81	1.1k	#45
54	Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg	36.7	11.8%	248	2.2k	#30
55	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	36.4	15.0%	164	1.8k	#54
56	Alphabet (United States)United States · Mountain View	36.1	15.9%	145	1.5k	#83
57	University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis	35.8	13.4%	312	2.9k	#81
58	Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham	35.5	11.9%	244	2k	#40
59	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	35.2	12.6%	288	2.6k	#96
60	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	35.0	14.2%	337	3.8k	-
61	University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine	34.7	10.9%	261	2.3k	#69
62	Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston	34.5	12.3%	134	1.2k	#44
63	University of IowaUnited States · Iowa City	34.2	10.1%	206	1.4k	#72
64	University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel	34.0	15.0%	105	1.1k	#42
65	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	33.7	11.0%	390	2.9k	#60
66	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	33.5	11.1%	358	2.7k	-
67	Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta	33.2	10.7%	362	2.7k	#57
68	Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm	33.0	14.4%	183	1.8k	#74
69	Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem	32.8	9.8%	203	1.6k	#63
70	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	32.5	12.9%	493	4.2k	-
71	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville	32.3	11.1%	394	2.9k	#56
72	Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael · Tel Aviv	32.1	10.0%	292	2.3k	-
73	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	31.9	9.3%	155	1.2k	#71
74	University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva	31.7	12.7%	231	2.1k	#59
75	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands · Amsterdam	31.4	17.2%	67	886	#87
76	Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States · New York	31.2	10.9%	154	1.2k	#85
77	Brown UniversityUnited States · Providence	31.0	9.0%	170	1.3k	#58
78	Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai	30.8	12.1%	341	3.1k	-
79	The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney	30.6	12.0%	327	2.7k	-
80	The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane	30.4	11.4%	278	2.3k	-
81	Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States · New Brunswick	30.2	9.8%	214	1.6k	#94
82	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany · Berlin	30.0	10.2%	177	1.5k	#91
83	Indiana UniversityUnited States · Bloomington	29.8	11.5%	330	2.5k	-
84	Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne	29.6	12.9%	280	2.8k	#75
85	University of FreiburgGermany · Freiburg im Breisgau	29.4	11.4%	175	1.7k	-
86	University of RochesterUnited States · Rochester	29.3	9.9%	202	1.2k	#53
87	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	29.1	9.3%	184	1.1k	-
88	Italian Institute of TechnologyItaly · Genoa	28.9	13.5%	168	1.5k	#48
89	Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Atlanta	28.7	11.4%	212	2k	#79
90	Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich	28.5	14.8%	169	1.5k	#95
91	Chinese University of Hong KongChina · Hong Kong	28.4	12.7%	183	1.3k	-
92	Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin	28.2	8.3%	183	1.3k	-
93	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	28.0	8.6%	281	2k	#82
94	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	27.9	11.7%	508	4.3k	-
95	Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing	27.7	10.8%	335	2.3k	-
96	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park	27.5	11.3%	210	1.7k	#97
97	Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway · Trondheim	27.4	12.7%	122	1.2k	#90
98	Western UniversityCanada · London	27.2	10.5%	264	1.9k	#70
99	University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki	27.0	10.9%	181	1.3k	-
100	National Research CouncilItaly · Rome	26.9	15.1%	236	2.2k	-

institutions ranked worldwide in Cognitive Neuroscience (543). 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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Ranked by volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 1.6k works
2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 1.5k works
3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1.1k works
4 University of TorontoCanada 1k works
5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 938 works
6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 743 works
7 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 722 works
8 New York UniversityUnited States 711 works
9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 645 works
10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 630 works
11 InsermFrance 624 works
12 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 621 works
13 McGill UniversityCanada 612 works
14 Max Planck SocietyGermany 578 works
15 Zhejiang UniversityChina 576 works

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