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Top Instrumentation Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society, out of 15 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

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 100.0 5.0% 203 773#1
2Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 74.4 10.2% 379 2.4k#7
3Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich 59.4 13.4% 98 1.2k#6
4California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena 48.8 14.3% 89 989#4
5Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 40.6 10.1% 236 3.2k#2
6Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 33.8 13.4% 66 488#30
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 28.1 10.3% 97 589#19
8National Institute for AstrophysicsItaly · Rome 23.2 10.7% 174 1.8k#8
9University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 18.9 13.9% 65 431#32
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 15.0 11.0% 66 358#50
11Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina · Harbin 11.5 11.7% 62 318#61
12University of ArizonaUnited States · Tucson 8.2 12.0% 64 683#29
13Universidad de La LagunaSpain · San Cristóbal de La Laguna 5.3 10.0% 71 638#34
14University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 2.5 1.5% 80 80-
15Russian Academy of SciencesRussia · Moscow 0.0 2.6% 140 379-

institutions ranked worldwide in Instrumentation (15). 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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Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 706 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 459 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 310 works
  4. 4 National Institute for AstrophysicsItaly 267 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 170 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 139 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 116 works
  8. 8 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 112 works
  9. 9 Universidad de La LagunaSpain 93 works
  10. 10 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 84 works
  11. 11 Tsinghua UniversityChina 76 works
  12. 12 University of ArizonaUnited States 75 works
  13. 13 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 75 works
  14. 14 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 72 works
  15. 15 National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnited States 71 works

Instrumentation by country