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Top Immunology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 455 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 32.4% 500 9.7k#1
2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 88.7 29.8% 658 9k#74
3 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 82.0 35.6% 428 8.3k#92
4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 77.3 33.4% 558 8.7k#82
5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 73.7 32.5% 442 7.6k#94
6 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 70.7 25.6% 372 5.4k#10
7 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 68.2 32.1% 348 6.3k—
8 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 66.0 20.9% 417 5.6k#21
9 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 64.1 29.9% 390 5.6k—
10 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 62.4 33.8% 374 6.4k—
11 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 60.8 25.5% 350 5.2k#11
12 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 59.4 29.8% 276 5k#18
13 InsermFrance · Paris 58.1 24.5% 428 5.4k#13
14 Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase 56.9 57.6% 93 4.1k#2
15 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 55.8 28.4% 298 4.6k#4
16 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 54.7 26.7% 266 4k#9
17 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 53.7 28.2% 374 4.7k—
18 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 52.8 25.5% 366 4.8k—
19 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 51.9 25.9% 304 4.1k#5
20 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 51.1 33.4% 304 5k—
21 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 50.3 29.6% 260 4.3k#14
22 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 49.5 32.2% 290 4.3k—
23 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 48.8 31.8% 297 4.5k—
24 National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 48.1 25.9% 286 4.2k#3
25 China Medical UniversityChina · Shenyang 47.4 34.3% 245 4.1k—
26 St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnited States · Memphis 46.8 33.4% 122 3.1k#36
27 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 46.1 33.0% 260 4.2k—
28 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 45.6 22.0% 274 3.5k#30
29 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 45.0 24.1% 268 3.7k#7
30 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 44.4 24.4% 277 3.6k#24
31 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 43.9 30.0% 307 4.3k—
32 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 43.4 23.9% 325 4k—
33 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 42.9 24.2% 314 3.5k#19
34 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 42.4 22.2% 272 4k#23
35 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 41.9 20.1% 299 3.3k#35
36 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 41.4 31.9% 180 3.1k—
37 First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou UniversityChina · Zhengzhou 41.0 30.1% 186 3.2k—
38 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 40.6 27.0% 211 3.1k#28
39 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 40.1 28.6% 233 3.2k#17
40 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 39.7 28.8% 220 3k#32
41 Tongji HospitalChina · Wuhan 39.3 33.5% 195 3.6k—
42 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 38.9 32.7% 225 3.6k—
43 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 38.5 24.8% 261 3.4k#38
44 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 38.2 33.9% 194 3.3k—
45 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 37.8 25.6% 182 2.8k#25
46 Jilin UniversityChina · Changchun 37.4 31.7% 235 3.2k—
47 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 37.1 17.9% 267 2.5k#33
48 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 36.7 24.4% 241 3k#16
49 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 36.4 23.6% 210 2.9k#31
50 Broad InstituteUnited States · Cambridge 36.1 40.8% 81 2.4k—
51 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 35.8 23.7% 198 2.6k#53
52 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 35.4 10.3% 402 2.6k#47
53 Guangzhou Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 35.1 29.0% 225 2.7k—
54 Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUnited States · Boston 34.8 24.4% 152 2.3k#15
55 Nanjing University of Chinese MedicineChina · Nanjing 34.5 31.0% 179 2.5k—
56 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 34.2 31.2% 145 2.7k—
57 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 33.9 22.5% 206 2.1k#46
58 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 33.7 27.4% 175 2.5k#40
59 China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina · Nanjing 33.4 33.8% 184 2.7k—
60 Columbia University Irving Medical CenterUnited States · New York 33.1 29.5% 126 2.1k#72
61 Chongqing Medical UniversityChina · Chongqing 32.8 25.8% 225 2.5k—
62 Xiangya Hospital Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 32.6 32.1% 145 2.5k—
63 Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai 32.3 35.9% 155 2.6k—
64 Zhengzhou UniversityChina · Zhengzhou 32.0 31.7% 153 2.8k—
65 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 31.8 24.0% 189 2.2k#55
66 National Cancer InstituteUnited States · Bethesda 31.5 27.8% 142 2k#8
67 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 31.3 26.9% 130 2.4k#49
68 Anhui Medical UniversityChina · Hefei 31.1 25.4% 217 2.5k—
69 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 30.8 39.8% 76 1.9k#43
70 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 30.6 27.1% 162 2.3k#57
71 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 30.4 20.6% 203 2.1k#29
72 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 30.1 27.1% 186 2.2k—
73 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina · Beijing 29.9 25.7% 259 2.5k—
74 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 29.7 37.3% 124 2.1k—
75 Air Force Medical UniversityChina · Xi'an 29.5 34.7% 129 2k—
76 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 29.2 24.9% 169 2.1k#56
77 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 29.0 27.4% 167 2.1k#61
78 Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina · Shanghai 28.8 32.5% 152 2.2k—
79 Boston Children's HospitalUnited States · Boston 28.6 31.3% 110 1.9k#69
80 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina · Wenzhou 28.4 28.6% 196 2.3k—
81 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 28.2 24.4% 126 1.7k#42
82 Fujian Medical UniversityChina · Fuzhou 28.0 22.2% 204 2k—
83 Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 27.8 31.8% 138 2.1k—
84 Harbin Medical UniversityChina · Harbin 27.6 27.6% 158 2k—
85 Peking Union Medical College HospitalChina · Beijing 27.4 24.1% 171 1.7k—
86 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 27.2 24.2% 166 1.8k#59
87 The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 27.0 35.0% 120 2k—
88 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 26.8 27.4% 129 2.2k#22
89 Leiden University Medical CenterNetherlands · Leiden 26.7 26.4% 178 2.4k#76
90 University of Hong KongHong Kong · Pok Fu Lam 26.5 28.2% 142 1.8k—
91 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 26.3 20.5% 171 2.1k#34
92 Zhejiang Chinese Medical UniversityChina · Hangzhou 26.1 26.9% 177 1.8k—
93 Ningbo UniversityChina · Ningbo 25.9 23.2% 215 2.1k—
94 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 25.8 28.5% 148 1.9k#91
95 Medical University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 25.6 22.5% 185 1.9k—
96 Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris 25.4 26.5% 151 2.1k—
97 Shandong First Medical UniversityChina · Jinan 25.3 27.1% 178 2.1k—
98 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States · Nashville 25.1 21.5% 143 2k—
99 Sun Yat-sen University Cancer CenterChina · Guangzhou 24.9 40.9% 85 1.6k—
100 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 24.8 19.7% 191 2k#80

institutions ranked worldwide in Immunology (455). 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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One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 658 works
  2. 2 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 558 works
  3. 3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 500 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 442 works
  5. 5 InsermFrance 428 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 428 works
  7. 7 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States 417 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 402 works
  9. 9 Central South UniversityChina 391 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 374 works
  11. 11 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 374 works
  12. 12 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 372 works
  13. 13 Peking UniversityChina 366 works
  14. 14 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States 350 works
  15. 15 Zhejiang UniversityChina 348 works

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