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Top General Social Sciences Research Institutions

Universitat de Barcelona ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Universitat de València and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, out of 32 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
1Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona 100.0 11.8% 131 81#2
2Universitat de ValènciaSpain · Valencia 80.0 14.7% 116 85#10
3Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid 68.3 7.8% 133 45#4
4Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain · Madrid 60.0 10.0% 268 120#9
5Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain · Madrid 53.6 14.4% 69 82#8
6University of the Basque CountrySpain · Leioa 48.3 9.4% 93 53#12
7Universidad de SevillaSpain · Seville 43.9 16.0% 102 58#18
8Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain · Cerdanyola del Vallès 40.0 14.5% 77 88#1
9Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 36.6 6.5% 93 108#14
10University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw 33.6 6.9% 109 57#3
11University of ChileChile · Santiago 30.8 10.3% 116 73#7
12Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaSpain · Santiago de Compostela 28.3 9.6% 67 38#22
13Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina · Buenos Aires 26.0 9.2% 169 58#34
14Polish Academy of SciencesPoland · Warsaw 23.9 11.9% 75 56#21
15Jagiellonian UniversityPoland · Krakow 21.9 10.9% 96 88#16
16Universidad de GranadaSpain · Granada 20.0 15.2% 89 67#11
17Universidad de SalamancaSpain · Salamanca 18.3 11.5% 77 42#36
18Universidad de ZaragozaSpain · Zaragoza 16.6 11.1% 70 49#28
19Universidad de MálagaSpain · Málaga 15.0 15.6% 89 59#42
20Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina · Buenos Aires 13.6 9.4% 173 59#25
21Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland · Poznan 12.2 10.4% 134 74#57
22Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain · Madrid 10.8 11.8% 99 47#37
23Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile · Santiago 9.5 12.8% 62 38#23
24Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowiePoland · Krakow 8.3 7.6% 77 38#58
25Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland · Warsaw 7.1 8.7% 63 28#32
26Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico · Mexico City 6.0 6.0% 165 60#39
27University of ŁódźPoland · Lodz 4.9 11.8% 96 68#84
28Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina · La Plata 3.9 6.3% 64 13#89
29Russian Academy of SciencesRussia · Moscow 2.8 9.1% 155 97#73
30Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico · Guadalajara 1.9 5.2% 70 18#98
31Kazan Federal UniversityRussia · Kazan’ 91.6 11.0% 70 32#66
32Weatherford CollegeUnited States · Weatherford 0.0 9.6% 63 13-

institutions ranked worldwide in General Social Sciences (32). 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.

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

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 285 works
  2. 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 187 works
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 179 works
  4. 4 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 178 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 174 works
  6. 6 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 155 works
  7. 7 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 140 works
  8. 8 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 139 works
  9. 9 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 129 works
  10. 10 Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 124 works
  11. 11 University of ChileChile 118 works
  12. 12 University of WarsawPoland 113 works
  13. 13 Universidad de SevillaSpain 111 works
  14. 14 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 109 works
  15. 15 University of ŁódźPoland 100 works

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