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Top Immunology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute and National Institutes of Health, out of 480 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
1Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 100.0 17.6% 1.5k 28k#1
2Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase 88.8 33.9% 93 4.1k#2
3National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 82.2 15.0% 1k 14k#3
4Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 77.5 15.3% 890 14k#6
5Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 73.9 15.5% 373 6.3k#4
6Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 71.0 15.2% 1k 16k#39
7InsermFrance · Paris 68.5 12.0% 724 9.3k#13
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 66.3 14.9% 320 4.7k#11
9Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 64.4 14.5% 975 16k#51
10Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 62.7 10.7% 712 8k#8
11Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 61.2 15.4% 402 6.9k#10
12University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 59.8 15.9% 298 4.8k#9
13Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 58.5 13.7% 348 4.9k#7
14Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 57.3 15.8% 819 13k#56
15University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 56.1 14.4% 305 4.4k#5
16University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 55.1 14.9% 420 5.9k#17
17Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 54.1 14.7% 362 5.3k#15
18Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 53.2 13.3% 504 5.7k#16
19Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 52.3 22.1% 94 2.3k#12
20Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris 51.5 12.0% 294 3.2k#44
21Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 50.7 11.9% 668 9.2k#66
22Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 49.9 17.4% 744 15k#94
23Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 49.2 13.0% 240 3k#27
24Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 48.5 13.7% 630 9.7k#86
25Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin 47.9 14.8% 228 4.1k#18
26University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 47.2 15.8% 194 3.3k#42
27University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 46.6 15.6% 179 3.4k#25
28University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 46.0 11.6% 266 3.3k#26
29Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 45.5 14.5% 255 3.9k#28
30University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 44.9 13.2% 285 3.6k#41
31Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 44.4 13.4% 322 4.1k#70
32Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 43.9 13.3% 291 4.3k#43
33St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnited States · Memphis 43.4 22.2% 122 3.1k#32
34Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich 42.9 16.6% 116 1.6k#24
35Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing 42.4 14.8% 255 3.6k-
36Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 42.0 13.7% 451 7.2k#88
37University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 41.5 13.6% 331 4.3k#31
38New York UniversityUnited States · New York 41.1 17.3% 194 3.9k#20
39University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 40.7 18.5% 114 2.7k#60
40Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 40.2 16.4% 198 3.3k#22
41Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen 39.8 15.3% 210 2.8k#53
42The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 39.5 12.9% 274 4k#23
43Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 39.1 13.3% 248 2.9k#46
44Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai 38.7 16.0% 298 4.9k-
45Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 38.3 13.3% 761 9.9k-
46China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina · Nanjing 38.0 14.7% 199 3k-
47University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 37.6 12.3% 193 2.7k#33
48Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 37.3 13.2% 236 3k#59
49Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 37.0 14.0% 202 2.5k#30
50University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 36.6 14.5% 195 4.1k#50
51University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 36.3 10.6% 385 3.9k#38
52University of FreiburgGermany · Freiburg im Breisgau 36.0 12.8% 186 2.5k#40
53Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 35.7 11.6% 393 5.7k#49
54University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 35.4 13.4% 363 4.7k#54
55Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States · New York 35.1 12.6% 301 3.8k#36
56Ghent UniversityBelgium · Ghent 34.8 15.5% 190 3.7k#29
57Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 34.5 13.8% 286 4.3k-
58University of CincinnatiUnited States · Cincinnati 34.2 11.7% 214 2.3k#63
59University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 34.0 16.1% 64 1.4k#52
60Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 33.7 15.8% 616 11k-
61University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 33.4 12.8% 299 4.2k#68
62Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 33.2 11.5% 456 6.1k-
63University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 32.9 16.6% 145 2.7k-
64Rockefeller UniversityUnited States · New York 32.6 21.7% 75 1.6k#14
65Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich 32.4 13.2% 125 1.9k#57
66University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel 32.1 13.5% 109 1.4k#69
67Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchSingapore · Singapore 31.9 20.5% 90 2.3k#35
68University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 31.7 10.7% 282 3k#100
69Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 31.4 11.9% 324 3.2k#45
70University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 31.2 13.4% 214 2.2k#34
71Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 31.0 12.1% 205 2.3k#73
72Scripps Research InstituteUnited States · San Diego 30.7 15.3% 63 920#48
73University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam 30.5 14.1% 183 2.4k-
74Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 30.3 15.3% 514 7.7k-
75National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 30.1 15.0% 165 2.7k#82
76McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 29.9 10.9% 233 2.6k#74
77Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de ParisFrance · Paris 29.6 12.3% 140 1.5k#97
78University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolUnited States · Worcester 29.4 12.8% 113 1.5k#62
79United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States · Washington 29.2 13.0% 179 2.4k-
80Guangzhou Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 29.0 11.9% 330 4k-
81University of BonnGermany · Bonn 28.8 14.1% 130 1.9k#76
82King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 28.6 10.7% 184 1.9k#80
83Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 28.4 10.9% 160 1.6k#95
84Leiden UniversityNetherlands · Leiden 28.2 11.8% 214 2.9k-
85Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 28.0 8.9% 222 2.4k#47
86Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville 27.9 13.1% 246 3.5k#67
87University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 27.7 12.4% 222 2.6k-
88The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 27.5 13.5% 184 2.3k#83
89The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 27.3 12.6% 179 2.2k#55
90Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris 27.1 10.4% 136 1.7k-
91Xiamen UniversityChina · Xiamen 26.9 9.4% 216 2.5k-
92Medical University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 26.8 11.3% 200 2.1k-
93KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 26.6 16.5% 180 3.2k#99
94Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht 26.4 13.0% 181 2.3k-
95Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg 26.2 9.0% 224 2.2k#77
96Fred Hutch Cancer CenterUnited States · Seattle 26.1 12.2% 138 1.5k#78
97The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 25.9 14.7% 417 5.6k#65
98University of CologneGermany · Cologne 25.7 14.7% 97 1.4k-
99Texas A&M UniversityUnited States · College Station 25.6 7.2% 155 1.1k-
100Nankai UniversityChina · Tianjin 25.4 13.0% 106 1.5k-

institutions ranked worldwide in Immunology (480). 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.

25 to 29: 21 places29 to 33: 16 places33 to 37: 13 places37 to 40: 11 places40 to 44: 8 places44 to 48: 6 places48 to 52: 6 places52 to 55: 4 places55 to 59: 3 places59 to 63: 2 places63 to 66: 3 places66 to 70: 1 places70 to 74: 1 places74 to 78: 2 places78 to 81: 0 places81 to 85: 1 places85 to 89: 1 places89 to 93: 0 places93 to 96: 0 places96 to 100: 1 places25100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 1.7k works
  2. 2 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 1.2k works
  3. 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 1.1k works
  4. 4 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 1.1k works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1k works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 936 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 868 works
  8. 8 Sichuan UniversityChina 852 works
  9. 9 InsermFrance 824 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 806 works
  11. 11 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 777 works
  12. 12 Peking UniversityChina 771 works
  13. 13 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 765 works
  14. 14 Central South UniversityChina 745 works
  15. 15 Fudan UniversityChina 732 works

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