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Top Genetics (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology) Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 489 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 33.3% 527 7.7k#1
2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 88.8 33.0% 300 3.7k#4
3 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 82.3 28.9% 344 4k#3
4 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 77.6 24.1% 366 3.6k#13
5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 74.0 27.5% 349 3.7k#18
6 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 71.1 26.9% 402 4.1k#11
7 Broad InstituteUnited States · Cambridge 68.6 43.6% 138 3.5k#34
8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 66.4 33.6% 244 3.5k#9
9 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 64.5 30.0% 237 3.4k#26
10 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 62.8 28.5% 256 3k#16
11 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 61.3 29.3% 359 3.4k#22
12 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 59.9 26.6% 316 4k#6
13 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 58.6 22.4% 267 2.6k#40
14 China Agricultural UniversityChina · Beijing 57.4 38.6% 252 3k—
15 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 56.3 28.9% 330 3.2k#7
16 University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis 55.2 28.2% 339 3k#20
17 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 54.2 32.4% 315 3.4k#93
18 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina · Beijing 53.3 38.6% 259 3k—
19 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 52.5 22.6% 339 2.8k#10
20 InsermFrance · Paris 51.6 24.6% 294 2.8k#32
21 University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter 50.8 37.5% 159 1.8k#92
22 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 50.1 29.3% 235 2.5k#28
23 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 49.4 23.6% 312 2.3k#33
24 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 48.7 23.8% 264 2.5k#17
25 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 48.0 29.4% 253 2.5k#45
26 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 47.4 25.2% 254 2.1k#5
27 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 46.8 22.9% 338 2.7k—
28 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 46.2 29.4% 245 2.7k—
29 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 45.6 28.4% 245 2.4k#55
30 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 45.1 22.5% 282 2.6k#23
31 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina · Wuhan 44.5 32.5% 191 2.1k—
32 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 44.0 22.4% 337 2.1k#46
33 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 43.5 27.8% 218 2.4k#12
34 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 43.1 25.4% 316 2.5k—
35 Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase 42.6 50.8% 76 2.5k#2
36 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 42.1 26.6% 250 2.2k#31
37 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 41.7 26.1% 310 2.5k#15
38 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 41.3 36.3% 181 2.3k—
39 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 40.8 25.6% 200 1.9k#39
40 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 40.4 20.2% 370 2.7k—
41 National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 40.0 28.6% 184 2.4k#8
42 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 39.6 10.1% 683 2.4k#29
43 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 39.3 24.7% 231 2.1k—
44 Arizona State UniversityUnited States · Tempe 38.9 29.4% 149 1.3k#99
45 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 38.5 30.9% 170 2k#44
46 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 38.2 23.7% 265 2.3k—
47 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 37.8 24.4% 278 2.4k#19
48 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 37.5 29.3% 223 1.9k#48
49 University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol 37.2 36.6% 155 2k#51
50 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 36.8 22.7% 259 2.3k—
51 University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis 36.5 24.4% 245 2k#35
52 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina · Beijing 36.2 35.2% 236 2.1k—
53 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 35.9 22.5% 258 2.1k#21
54 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 35.6 29.6% 148 1.9k#37
55 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 35.3 25.6% 216 1.6k#90
56 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 35.0 30.6% 161 1.9k#67
57 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 34.7 25.9% 190 1.9k#27
58 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 34.4 29.6% 175 2.2k#36
59 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 34.2 32.9% 126 1.7k#14
60 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 33.9 26.5% 208 1.8k#70
61 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 33.6 13.6% 438 1.9k—
62 University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 33.4 38.4% 137 1.7k—
63 Uppsala UniversitySweden · Uppsala 33.1 35.8% 145 1.8k#38
64 University of MilanItaly · Milan 32.8 23.5% 210 1.4k—
65 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles 32.6 24.3% 190 1.6k#41
66 University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki 32.3 29.7% 165 1.7k#62
67 University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 32.1 27.5% 152 1.4k#58
68 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands · Wageningen 31.9 28.7% 181 1.7k#84
69 University of GuelphCanada · Guelph 31.6 25.4% 187 1.3k#91
70 Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus 31.4 28.3% 206 1.9k—
71 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States · Nashville 31.2 23.0% 183 1.4k—
72 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 30.9 30.4% 144 1.6k—
73 Northwest A&F UniversityChina · Yangling 30.7 32.0% 155 1.5k—
74 University of AlbertaCanada · Edmonton 30.5 23.4% 196 1.5k#77
75 Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris 30.3 26.7% 137 1.4k—
76 South China Agricultural UniversityChina · Guangzhou 30.1 31.3% 176 1.7k—
77 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 29.9 25.4% 171 1.6k—
78 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina · Nanjing 29.6 29.9% 165 1.5k—
79 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus 29.4 20.7% 238 1.6k#76
80 Lund UniversitySweden · Lund 29.2 31.0% 145 1.4k#80
81 Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom · London 29.0 32.4% 114 1.4k—
82 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College 28.8 27.8% 162 1.3k#60
83 Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom · Cardiff 28.6 34.6% 106 1.2k#83
84 Michigan State UniversityUnited States · East Lansing 28.4 25.1% 192 1.3k#65
85 University of CalgaryCanada · Calgary 28.3 22.8% 162 1.3k—
86 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 28.1 28.8% 155 1.5k—
87 Boston Children's HospitalUnited States · Boston 27.9 25.4% 155 1.3k#94
88 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 27.7 36.8% 80 1.6k#24
89 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance · Paris 27.5 20.6% 202 1.2k—
90 University of GeorgiaUnited States · Athens 27.3 28.7% 166 1.3k#81
91 University of OsloNorway · Oslo 27.2 30.0% 112 1.1k—
92 Mayo ClinicUnited States · Rochester 27.0 20.6% 175 1.2k#54
93 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 26.8 25.8% 175 1.7k—
94 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States · Philadelphia 26.6 19.3% 226 1.5k—
95 The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo 26.5 21.8% 200 1.4k#98
96 The University of Western AustraliaAustralia · Perth 26.3 33.3% 106 1.1k—
97 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 26.1 21.8% 171 1.4k—
98 Yangzhou UniversityChina · Yangzhou 26.0 24.1% 189 1.6k—
99 University of PaduaItaly · Padua 25.8 23.5% 199 1.5k—
100 ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 25.6 40.3% 98 1.2k—

institutions ranked worldwide in Genetics (489). 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.

26 – 29: 21 places29 – 33: 16 places33 – 37: 13 places37 – 41: 11 places41 – 44: 8 places44 – 48: 6 places48 – 52: 6 places52 – 55: 4 places55 – 59: 3 places59 – 63: 3 places63 – 67: 2 places67 – 70: 1 places70 – 74: 1 places74 – 78: 2 places78 – 81: 0 places81 – 85: 1 places85 – 89: 1 places89 – 93: 0 places93 – 96: 0 places96 – 100: 1 places26100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 683 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 527 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 439 works
  4. 4 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 402 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 370 works
  6. 6 University of MichiganUnited States 366 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 359 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 349 works
  9. 9 Stanford UniversityUnited States 344 works
  10. 10 Yale UniversityUnited States 339 works
  11. 11 University of California, DavisUnited States 339 works
  12. 12 Sichuan UniversityChina 338 works
  13. 13 University of FloridaUnited States 337 works
  14. 14 Cornell UniversityUnited States 330 works
  15. 15 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 316 works

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