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Top History Research Institutions

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ranks first in 2022-now, followed by University of Oxford and University of Cambridge, out of 218 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.

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Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#	Institution	Score	Top-10% rate	Works	Citations	All time
1	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	100.0	5.4%	1.9k	348	#1
2	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	87.1	12.6%	430	280	#3
3	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	79.6	14.3%	382	350	#2
4	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	74.3	8.0%	147	77	#9
5	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	70.1	17.7%	65	66	#4
6	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	66.7	13.2%	86	151	#10
7	Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain · Madrid	63.9	12.1%	648	223	#33
8	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	61.4	12.8%	130	119	#15
9	University of the Basque CountrySpain · Leioa	59.2	14.2%	200	96	#20
10	Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona	57.2	11.6%	250	92	#45
11	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	55.5	10.0%	234	145	#7
12	Freie Universität BerlinGermany · Berlin	53.9	9.9%	115	57	#89
13	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	52.4	11.5%	129	64	#46
14	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	51.0	10.8%	96	50	#8
15	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	49.7	11.1%	134	52	#49
16	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	48.5	14.5%	106	114	#63
17	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	47.4	9.5%	266	67	#21
18	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	46.3	17.3%	171	154	#22
19	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	45.3	5.8%	246	31	-
20	Polish Academy of SciencesPoland · Warsaw	44.4	10.6%	480	144	#78
21	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	43.5	16.5%	164	108	#6
22	Université de LyonFrance · Lyon	42.6	5.0%	237	21	#81
23	University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom · Glasgow	41.8	12.0%	193	116	#24
24	Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance · Paris	41.0	5.1%	116	26	#69
25	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	40.2	7.7%	125	40	#64
26	University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol	39.5	12.3%	133	73	#34
27	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	38.8	14.0%	82	77	#17
28	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	38.1	14.1%	101	94	#12
29	Leiden UniversityNetherlands · Leiden	37.5	16.6%	116	87	#86
30	University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen	36.8	13.7%	74	41	#43
31	Universidad de SevillaSpain · Seville	36.2	12.6%	314	123	#98
32	Queen Mary University of LondonUnited Kingdom · London	35.6	15.6%	92	102	#29
33	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	35.1	16.4%	70	39	#50
34	University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw	34.5	11.5%	283	93	#66
35	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom · Coventry	34.0	13.0%	124	103	#18
36	University of ViennaAustria · Vienna	33.4	10.2%	145	68	#70
37	University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki	32.9	15.4%	128	76	-
38	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	32.4	13.0%	83	43	#13
39	Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin	32.0	12.9%	128	68	#40
40	University of OsloNorway · Oslo	31.5	18.6%	101	104	-
41	Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain · Cerdanyola del Vallès	31.0	11.9%	197	107	#42
42	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	30.6	10.8%	115	68	#5
43	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom · Manchester	30.1	13.5%	122	72	#14
44	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	29.7	10.4%	161	85	#19
45	Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom · Durham	29.3	13.6%	170	69	#35
46	Universitat Pompeu FabraSpain · Barcelona	28.9	16.8%	68	45	#30
47	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	28.5	13.3%	94	97	#27
48	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	28.1	11.3%	88	40	#11
49	University of MünsterGermany · Münster	27.7	14.4%	76	52	#76
50	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville	27.3	12.3%	84	25	-
51	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance · Paris	27.0	6.4%	184	38	#26
52	Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus	26.6	9.4%	121	57	#31
53	University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom · St Andrews	26.3	12.6%	164	65	#41
54	University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter	25.9	13.3%	132	91	#28
55	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	25.6	13.7%	106	57	#48
56	Universidad de SalamancaSpain · Salamanca	25.2	11.9%	199	60	-
57	Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham	24.9	11.4%	82	35	#68
58	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	24.6	8.4%	86	36	#38
59	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	24.3	15.7%	81	54	#16
60	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	24.0	11.1%	76	61	#58
61	Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg	23.7	8.2%	89	20	#91
62	University of GöttingenGermany · Göttingen	23.4	8.7%	60	19	-
63	Universitat de ValènciaSpain · Valencia	23.1	15.7%	278	127	#80
64	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	22.8	15.1%	73	48	-
65	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom · Birmingham	22.5	13.1%	122	110	#54
66	Institut d'Etudes Politiques de ParisFrance · Paris	22.2	5.8%	161	31	#74
67	Universidad de ValladolidSpain · Valladolid	21.9	9.6%	225	48	-
68	Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain · Madrid	21.6	13.2%	176	77	-
69	University of BonnGermany · Bonn	21.4	10.4%	75	35	-
70	Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka · Colombo	21.1	21.6%	133	14	-
71	University of YorkUnited Kingdom · York	20.8	17.4%	114	90	#61
72	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	20.6	12.1%	123	67	#71
73	Universidad de MurciaSpain · Murcia	20.3	13.2%	135	45	-
74	University of LeedsUnited Kingdom · Leeds	20.1	13.0%	113	65	#67
75	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	19.8	8.0%	83	43	#56
76	Jagiellonian UniversityPoland · Krakow	19.6	10.2%	334	74	-
77	Universidad de GranadaSpain · Granada	19.3	13.4%	186	71	-
78	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	19.1	9.5%	73	47	#25
79	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany · Berlin	18.9	8.6%	100	55	-
80	Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaSpain · Santiago de Compostela	18.6	12.5%	170	58	-
81	University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva	18.4	10.3%	91	44	-
82	Boston CollegeUnited States · Boston	18.2	11.2%	72	38	#99
83	Universidad de ZaragozaSpain · Zaragoza	17.9	13.5%	186	60	-
84	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	17.7	14.0%	77	47	#51
85	University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom · Sheffield	17.5	23.4%	61	72	#60
86	Universidad de OviedoSpain · Oviedo	17.3	7.7%	126	24	-
87	Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany · Mainz	17.1	9.3%	61	26	-
88	Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance · Paris	16.8	4.4%	119	15	#44
89	University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen	16.6	11.1%	87	34	-
90	Uppsala UniversitySweden · Uppsala	16.4	16.0%	78	64	-
91	Universidad de NavarraSpain · Pamplona	16.2	12.1%	175	53	#79
92	Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom · Newcastle upon Tyne	16.0	16.0%	82	92	-
93	University of CologneGermany · Cologne	15.8	9.2%	84	51	-
94	Université Paris-SaclayFrance · Gif-sur-Yvette	15.6	4.8%	89	71	#37
95	Lund UniversitySweden · Lund	15.4	13.0%	67	41	-
96	Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly · Venice	15.2	10.4%	228	39	-
97	University of BernSwitzerland · Bern	15.0	8.1%	68	24	-
98	Ghent UniversityBelgium · Ghent	14.8	12.2%	94	52	#77
99	University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver	14.7	14.9%	66	38	-
100	Université Grenoble AlpesFrance · Saint-Martin-d'Hères	14.5	4.6%	122	18	#65

institutions ranked worldwide in History (218). 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).

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