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Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Tsinghua University and ETH Zurich, out of 41 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
1Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 100.0 11.6% 343 1.2k#25
2Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 81.3 18.2% 180 1.1k#18
3ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 70.4 18.7% 80 401#2
4Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 62.7 19.1% 122 651#34
5University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 56.7 24.1% 70 415#9
6National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 51.8 22.2% 63 430#23
7Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Atlanta 47.6 17.2% 105 495#14
8University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 44.0 10.3% 144 715#54
9Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 40.8 15.2% 136 546#62
10Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States · Pittsburgh 38.0 12.3% 75 385#5
11Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich 35.4 14.4% 97 456#33
12Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore 33.1 14.3% 67 352#39
13Nvidia (United States)United States · Santa Clara 30.9 26.0% 64 450#43
14Samsung (South Korea)South Korea · Seoul 28.9 13.6% 90 375-
15University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 27.1 10.8% 78 303#56
16Intel (United States)United States · Santa Clara 25.3 10.8% 192 689#19
17Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 23.7 13.7% 88 322-
18Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 22.2 11.1% 103 313-
19University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 20.7 8.9% 93 248#91
20Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 19.3 15.2% 61 314#60
21Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin 18.0 7.2% 143 489#30
22Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 16.8 15.0% 74 259#49
23Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 15.6 6.0% 245 1.7k#27
24Technische Universität DresdenGermany · Dresden 14.4 7.0% 70 204#46
25Beihang UniversityChina · Beijing 13.3 13.8% 94 380-
26Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 12.3 17.1% 70 325-
27Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 11.2 8.6% 74 179-
28Sungkyunkwan UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 10.3 8.8% 61 193-
29KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 9.3 8.4% 64 205#83
30Southeast UniversityChina · Nanjing 8.4 10.4% 92 245-
31Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaSpain · Barcelona 7.5 10.3% 68 260#26
32RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany · Aachen 6.7 5.1% 68 155#70
33Xidian UniversityChina · Xi'an 5.8 11.0% 88 285-
34National University of Defense TechnologyChina · Changsha 5.0 7.0% 192 499-
35Politecnico di MilanoItaly · Milan 4.3 10.8% 73 292-
36Politecnico di TorinoItaly · Turin 3.5 14.6% 80 279-
37University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Chengdu 2.8 6.6% 90 212-
38Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina · Beijing 2.0 14.9% 74 192-
39Sandia National LaboratoriesUnited States · Albuquerque 134.7 2.7% 65 91-
40Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia · Coimbatore 66.5 8.0% 125 308-
41Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia · Vellore 0.0 11.5% 60 140-

institutions ranked worldwide in Hardware and Architecture (41). 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.

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 406 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 282 works
  3. 3 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 219 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 216 works
  5. 5 Intel (United States)United States 205 works
  6. 6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 169 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 162 works
  8. 8 University of FloridaUnited States 155 works
  9. 9 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 146 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 145 works
  11. 11 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States 124 works
  12. 12 Fudan UniversityChina 122 works
  13. 13 Southeast UniversityChina 111 works
  14. 14 Beihang UniversityChina 109 works
  15. 15 Samsung (South Korea)South Korea 109 works

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