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Top General Social Sciences Research Institutions

Universidad Complutense de Madrid ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 29 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 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain · Madrid 100.0 9.6% 266 120#1
2 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona 79.4 10.8% 130 81#7
3 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain · Madrid 67.4 18.1% 67 80#5
4 Universidad de GranadaSpain · Granada 58.8 16.1% 89 67#4
5 University of ChileChile · Santiago 52.2 12.4% 115 73#6
6 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina · Buenos Aires 46.8 8.2% 167 58#11
7 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland · Poznan 42.2 10.4% 134 74#17
8 Universitat de ValènciaSpain · Valencia 38.2 12.1% 116 84#13
9 University of ŁódźPoland · Lodz 34.7 13.4% 96 68#9
10 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico · Mexico City 31.6 6.7% 163 59#2
11 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland · Krakow 28.8 11.3% 96 88#21
12 Universidad de SevillaSpain · Seville 26.2 12.4% 101 57#14
13 University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw 23.8 8.7% 109 57#8
14 University of the Basque CountrySpain · Leioa 21.6 12.0% 93 53#16
15 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain · Cerdanyola del Vallès 19.6 15.2% 70 79#3
16 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain · Zaragoza 17.7 15.2% 67 47#25
17 Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain · Madrid 15.9 9.6% 99 47#19
18 Universidad de MálagaSpain · Málaga 14.2 9.6% 89 59#29
19 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina · Buenos Aires 12.6 8.8% 96 32#32
20 Kazan Federal UniversityRussia · Kazan’ 11.0 11.2% 70 32#27
21 Universidad de SalamancaSpain · Salamanca 9.6 8.8% 77 42#12
22 Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaSpain · Santiago de Compostela 8.2 10.0% 66 38#34
23 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland · Warsaw 6.9 8.5% 63 28#73
24 Instituto de FilosofíaSpain · Madrid 5.6 8.9% 60 19#37
25 Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowiePoland · Krakow 4.4 5.7% 77 38#20
26 Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile · Santiago 3.2 7.2% 62 38#22
27 Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico · Guadalajara 2.1 5.7% 70 18#43
28 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina · La Plata 104.2 6.1% 64 13#49
29 Weatherford CollegeUnited States · Weatherford 0.0 6.0% 63 13#82

institutions ranked worldwide in General Social Sciences (29). 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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Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 267 works
  2. 2 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 167 works
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 163 works
  4. 4 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 133 works
  5. 5 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 130 works
  6. 6 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 116 works
  7. 7 University of ChileChile 115 works
  8. 8 University of WarsawPoland 109 works
  9. 9 Universidad de SevillaSpain 101 works
  10. 10 Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 99 works
  11. 11 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 96 works
  12. 12 University of ŁódźPoland 96 works
  13. 13 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 96 works
  14. 14 University of the Basque CountrySpain 93 works
  15. 15 Universidad de GranadaSpain 89 works

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