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Top Genetics (Medicine) Research Institutions

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 98 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 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 100.0 15.6% 409 2.8k#2
2 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 84.9 24.3% 183 1.8k#1
3 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 76.0 25.0% 144 1.5k#92
4 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 69.8 20.0% 142 1.5k#3
5 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 64.9 18.4% 145 1.2k#11
6 Mayo ClinicUnited States · Rochester 60.9 19.1% 149 1.1k#14
7 Neurological SurgeryUnited States · Rockville Centre 57.6 21.8% 126 1.2k#26
8 Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUnited States · Boston 54.6 18.0% 132 1.2k#6
9 InsermFrance · Paris 52.1 20.8% 153 1.1k#13
10 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 49.8 15.7% 144 1.2k#7
11 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 47.7 15.2% 213 1.2k#90
12 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 45.8 17.2% 150 1.3k#5
13 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 44.1 19.0% 129 984#12
14 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 42.4 19.1% 136 1k#4
15 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 40.9 20.5% 136 1k#45
16 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 39.5 17.1% 130 873#22
17 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 38.2 18.2% 130 888#17
18 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 37.0 17.8% 131 809#30
19 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 35.8 19.7% 115 883—
20 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 34.7 21.3% 107 855#16
21 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States · Scottsdale 33.6 14.9% 151 822#27
22 Mayo Clinic in FloridaUnited States · Jacksonville 32.6 17.8% 123 767#58
23 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 31.6 20.2% 88 801#15
24 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 30.7 16.6% 151 935—
25 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 29.8 23.3% 89 806—
26 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 28.9 16.7% 118 811#28
27 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 28.1 22.8% 89 900—
28 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 27.3 23.4% 87 700—
29 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 26.6 17.2% 105 792#23
30 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 25.8 18.1% 100 806#10
31 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 25.1 15.1% 115 585#66
32 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 24.4 21.4% 82 717—
33 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 23.7 23.6% 72 718—
34 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 23.1 20.8% 97 698—
35 University of MilanItaly · Milan 22.5 26.1% 78 697#73
36 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 21.8 16.9% 103 616—
37 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 21.2 22.3% 74 629#20
38 National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 20.7 19.2% 81 630#8
39 Columbia University Irving Medical CenterUnited States · New York 20.1 18.6% 77 534#63
40 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 19.5 13.9% 109 674#36
41 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus 19.0 14.3% 114 723#29
42 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 18.5 14.7% 114 671#31
43 Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de ParisFrance · Paris 18.0 17.9% 83 622#84
44 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 17.5 15.5% 83 575#40
45 University of MiamiUnited States · Coral Gables 17.0 17.8% 88 616#56
46 St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnited States · Memphis 16.5 16.1% 107 597#25
47 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 16.0 8.7% 150 434#38
48 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 15.6 24.9% 72 665—
49 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 15.1 14.5% 98 867#54
50 University Hospital HeidelbergGermany · Heidelberg 14.7 20.8% 72 523#77
51 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 14.2 12.7% 123 570#43
52 Cleveland ClinicUnited States · Cleveland 13.8 12.5% 128 499#48
53 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 13.4 19.5% 77 641—
54 Sapienza University of RomeItaly · Rome 13.0 22.8% 66 479#93
55 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 12.6 17.8% 71 1.7k#64
56 University of TurinItaly · Turin 12.2 25.3% 61 477#55
57 Medical University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 11.8 17.7% 77 456#87
58 Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands · Amsterdam 11.4 18.5% 63 564—
59 Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaUnited States · Philadelphia 11.1 14.3% 92 388#69
60 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran · Tehran 10.7 15.4% 85 576—
61 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 10.3 14.2% 90 563#24
62 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 10.0 15.7% 82 480#21
63 University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis 9.6 15.0% 72 353#35
64 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States · Birmingham 9.3 12.5% 108 426#89
65 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 9.0 22.3% 62 521#68
66 Chinese PLA General HospitalChina · Beijing 8.6 17.3% 70 470—
67 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 8.3 17.8% 75 548—
68 Moffitt Cancer CenterUnited States · Tampa 8.0 8.8% 105 406—
69 Peking Union Medical College HospitalChina · Beijing 7.7 16.9% 84 472—
70 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 7.3 17.4% 64 408#65
71 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States · Nashville 7.0 18.6% 64 511—
72 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 6.7 13.8% 92 461#32
73 University of PaduaItaly · Padua 6.4 16.9% 80 460—
74 Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris 6.1 18.1% 63 500#88
75 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 5.8 12.0% 91 518#39
76 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris 5.5 15.1% 68 374#80
77 University Medical Center UtrechtNetherlands · Utrecht 5.3 19.0% 62 422#95
78 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece · Athens 5.0 18.3% 63 377—
79 WinnMedUnited States · Decorah 4.7 11.2% 88 387—
80 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 4.4 9.4% 99 400#94
81 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 4.2 14.6% 71 379#44
82 University of UtahUnited States · Salt Lake City 3.9 13.6% 66 342#50
83 Medical College of WisconsinUnited States · Milwaukee 3.6 10.7% 93 359—
84 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles 3.4 13.8% 63 347#49
85 Fujian Medical UniversityChina · Fuzhou 3.1 17.5% 61 350—
86 The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUnited States · Houston 2.8 12.6% 75 363—
87 University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine 2.6 10.8% 72 310—
88 University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 2.3 10.6% 76 341—
89 Cairo UniversityEgypt · Giza 2.1 8.3% 94 243—
90 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia · New Delhi 1.9 5.1% 143 306—
91 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 1.6 8.0% 98 319—
92 Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases HospitalChina · Tianjin 137.8 9.5% 60 285—
93 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterUnited States · Cincinnati 114.2 12.4% 62 266—
94 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt · Cairo 90.9 4.8% 86 148—
95 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia · Chandigarh 67.8 6.3% 94 260—
96 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 45.0 8.8% 61 145—
97 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil · Campinas 22.4 4.3% 81 170—
98 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Istanbul 0.0 4.2% 79 127—

institutions ranked worldwide in Genetics (98). 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: 21 places5 – 10: 16 places10 – 15: 12 places15 – 20: 10 places20 – 25: 8 places25 – 30: 7 places30 – 35: 5 places35 – 40: 4 places40 – 45: 3 places45 – 50: 3 places50 – 55: 2 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 2 places65 – 70: 1 places70 – 75: 0 places75 – 80: 1 places80 – 85: 1 places85 – 90: 0 places90 – 95: 0 places95 – 100: 1 places0100

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Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 409 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 213 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 183 works
  4. 4 InsermFrance 153 works
  5. 5 Capital Medical UniversityChina 151 works
  6. 6 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States 151 works
  7. 7 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 150 works
  8. 8 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States 150 works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 149 works
  10. 10 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 145 works
  11. 11 Sichuan UniversityChina 144 works
  12. 12 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States 144 works
  13. 13 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 143 works
  14. 14 Stanford UniversityUnited States 142 works
  15. 15 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 136 works

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