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Top Condensed Matter Physics Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 69 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 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 100.0 18.6% 400 4.1k#27
2 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 83.6 21.0% 229 2.5k—
3 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 74.1 35.9% 114 2.1k#2
4 ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 67.3 32.4% 95 1.6k#16
5 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 62.0 19.0% 205 1.8k#68
6 The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo 57.7 17.1% 255 2.1k#1
7 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 54.0 24.3% 143 1.4k#72
8 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 50.9 23.5% 152 1.6k#74
9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 48.1 16.8% 228 1.8k#10
10 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina · Harbin 45.6 26.2% 120 1.4k#99
11 Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton 43.4 30.9% 80 1.4k#6
12 University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States · Santa Barbara 41.3 28.2% 99 1.4k#3
13 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 39.4 18.8% 138 1.3k—
14 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 37.7 20.6% 121 1.3k—
15 Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina · Shenzhen 36.0 21.5% 112 1.3k—
16 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 34.5 22.4% 92 1.1k—
17 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 33.1 30.0% 84 1.1k#12
18 Institute of PhysicsChina · Beijing 31.7 22.1% 103 1.4k#54
19 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 30.5 29.1% 92 1.2k#11
20 Beihang UniversityChina · Beijing 29.2 23.3% 90 924—
21 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina · Beijing 28.1 23.0% 83 1k—
22 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 27.0 23.0% 94 776#31
23 University of Hong KongHong Kong · Pok Fu Lam 25.9 31.5% 66 903—
24 Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing 24.9 16.7% 128 1.1k—
25 Nagoya UniversityJapan · Nagoya 24.0 14.7% 116 811#38
26 Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States · Oak Ridge 23.1 19.7% 122 1.2k#20
27 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 22.2 18.5% 122 1.1k—
28 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 21.3 23.2% 99 983—
29 Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced MicrostructuresChina · Nanjing 20.5 21.8% 75 1k—
30 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 19.7 20.3% 108 1k#18
31 National Institute for Materials ScienceJapan · Tsukuba 18.9 12.8% 123 1.1k#44
32 Tianjin UniversityChina · Tianjin 18.1 18.4% 68 851—
33 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College 17.4 23.0% 74 671#45
34 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 16.7 25.3% 61 782#14
35 Kyoto UniversityJapan · Kyoto 16.0 16.1% 132 898#23
36 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States · Los Alamos 15.4 15.8% 106 858#13
37 École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 14.7 24.2% 88 826#55
38 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 14.1 24.8% 72 835#41
39 Paul Scherrer InstituteSwitzerland · Villigen 13.5 20.5% 77 805#79
40 Xidian UniversityChina · Xi'an 12.9 11.1% 162 862—
41 Tohoku UniversityJapan · Sendai 12.3 8.3% 201 883#19
42 Southeast UniversityChina · Nanjing 11.7 18.5% 96 807—
43 Lanzhou UniversityChina · Lanzhou 11.2 23.1% 70 726—
44 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina · Xi'an 10.6 20.7% 77 739—
45 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 10.1 25.4% 60 689—
46 The University of OsakaJapan · Osaka 9.6 13.0% 105 618#36
47 Technische Universität DresdenGermany · Dresden 9.1 20.2% 73 593—
48 Argonne National LaboratoryUnited States · Lemont 8.6 17.6% 73 634#7
49 South China University of TechnologyChina · Guangzhou 8.1 17.1% 77 670—
50 Max Planck Institute for Solid State ResearchGermany · Stuttgart 7.6 19.2% 63 579#25
51 Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGermany · Karlsruhe 7.1 15.9% 74 581#70
52 Shanghai UniversityChina · Shanghai 6.7 10.7% 94 614—
53 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 6.2 16.4% 68 603#8
54 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina · Chengdu 5.8 12.8% 86 588—
55 Xiamen UniversityChina · Xiamen 5.4 18.4% 60 543—
56 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Chengdu 4.9 8.4% 99 531—
57 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 4.5 14.4% 68 521—
58 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityTaiwan · Hsinchu 4.1 9.2% 86 476—
59 Indian Institute of Science BangaloreIndia · Bengaluru 3.7 11.5% 73 457—
60 Indian Institute of Technology MadrasIndia · Chennai 3.3 12.5% 66 374—
61 Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing 2.9 10.6% 65 341—
62 Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan · Tokyo 2.5 11.1% 62 394#66
63 Hokkaido UniversityJapan · Sapporo 2.1 8.0% 81 384—
64 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland · Warsaw 1.8 8.6% 70 360—
65 Homi Bhabha National InstituteIndia · Mumbai 141.0 8.9% 67 355—
66 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyJapan · Tsukuba 105.0 6.1% 69 336#98
67 M.N. Mikheev Institute of Metal PhysicsRussia · Yekaterinburg 69.5 4.8% 76 247—
68 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 34.5 3.2% 73 143—
69 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia · Moscow 0.0 2.4% 89 223—

institutions ranked worldwide in Condensed Matter Physics (69). 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.

0 – 5: 14 places5 – 10: 10 places10 – 15: 9 places15 – 20: 7 places20 – 25: 6 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 4 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 2 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 1 places70 – 75: 1 places75 – 80: 0 places80 – 85: 1 places85 – 90: 0 places90 – 95: 0 places95 – 100: 1 places0100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 400 works
  2. 2 The University of TokyoJapan 255 works
  3. 3 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 229 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 227 works
  5. 5 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 205 works
  6. 6 Tohoku UniversityJapan 201 works
  7. 7 Xidian UniversityChina 161 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 152 works
  9. 9 Peking UniversityChina 143 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 138 works
  11. 11 Kyoto UniversityJapan 132 works
  12. 12 Nanjing UniversityChina 128 works
  13. 13 National Institute for Materials ScienceJapan 123 works
  14. 14 Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States 122 works
  15. 15 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 122 works

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