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Top Mathematical Physics Research Institutions

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 58 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 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 100.0 14.1% 326 955#3
2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 82.9 21.3% 113 418#19
3 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 72.9 18.6% 116 424#72
4 Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing 65.9 21.5% 90 300#52
5 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia · Moscow 60.4 10.7% 251 425#40
6 University of BonnGermany · Bonn 55.9 18.4% 80 228#27
7 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 52.1 19.1% 87 413—
8 ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 48.8 22.4% 84 387#13
9 Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton 45.9 24.2% 64 357#1
10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 43.3 19.7% 85 318#11
11 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 40.9 24.2% 77 358#2
12 Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina · Jinhua 38.8 18.0% 68 270—
13 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris 36.8 17.3% 91 315#20
14 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 35.0 20.2% 65 275#12
15 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 33.3 18.2% 77 256#14
16 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 31.7 19.9% 86 313#4
17 University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 30.2 12.8% 103 301#62
18 Kyoto UniversityJapan · Kyoto 28.8 12.5% 120 257#21
19 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 27.5 15.7% 91 248#93
20 Academy of Mathematics and Systems ScienceChina · Beijing 26.2 17.9% 66 210—
21 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 25.0 16.9% 71 245#26
22 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 23.9 14.0% 82 247#28
23 Université Paris-SaclayFrance · Gif-sur-Yvette 22.8 11.5% 92 238—
24 The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo 21.7 12.4% 102 214#15
25 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States · College Station 20.7 19.3% 62 207#47
26 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 19.8 13.5% 68 178#45
27 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 18.8 18.1% 60 205#88
28 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia · Moscow 17.9 8.4% 143 261—
29 Sapienza University of RomeItaly · Rome 17.1 12.4% 85 163#57
30 University of PisaItaly · Pisa 16.2 13.7% 70 190#81
31 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 15.4 13.8% 74 162—
32 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States · New Brunswick 14.6 14.6% 61 182#16
33 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 13.9 16.1% 61 238#6
34 Steklov Mathematical InstituteRussia · Moscow 13.2 8.2% 124 225#35
35 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 12.4 11.1% 101 247—
36 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 11.7 9.4% 76 173#46
37 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia · Moscow 11.1 8.4% 118 203—
38 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina · Beijing 10.4 12.5% 66 155—
39 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 9.8 6.2% 80 142—
40 Sobolev Institute of MathematicsRussia · Novosibirsk 9.2 13.5% 79 126—
41 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 8.5 15.0% 61 138—
42 Southwest UniversityChina · Chongqing 7.9 15.6% 66 174—
43 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 7.4 12.2% 68 194#10
44 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 6.8 10.9% 72 149—
45 Central China Normal UniversityChina · Wuhan 6.3 10.6% 68 154—
46 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 5.7 13.6% 63 157#25
47 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom · Coventry 5.2 10.8% 78 179#37
48 University of MünsterGermany · Münster 4.7 14.0% 60 137#60
49 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 4.2 10.4% 69 126—
50 Academy of Sciences Republic of UzbekistanUzbekistan · Tashkent 3.7 11.7% 60 104—
51 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael · Tel Aviv 3.2 9.6% 67 224#59
52 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico · Mexico City 2.7 7.8% 74 141—
53 Indian Statistical InstituteIndia · Kolkata 2.2 10.2% 69 83—
54 St Petersburg UniversityRussia · Saint Petersburg 1.8 4.2% 128 175—
55 Institute of MathematicsPoland · Warsaw 130.8 8.0% 76 136#85
56 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus 86.4 8.6% 67 134#54
57 University of SfaxTunisia · Sfax 42.8 7.4% 75 119—
58 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem 0.0 7.9% 63 160#58

institutions ranked worldwide in Mathematical Physics (58). 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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Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 326 works
  2. 2 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 251 works
  3. 3 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 143 works
  4. 4 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 128 works
  5. 5 Steklov Mathematical InstituteRussia 124 works
  6. 6 Kyoto UniversityJapan 120 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 118 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 116 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 113 works
  10. 10 University of ViennaAustria 103 works
  11. 11 The University of TokyoJapan 102 works
  12. 12 Fudan UniversityChina 101 works
  13. 13 Université Paris-SaclayFrance 92 works
  14. 14 Peking UniversityChina 91 works
  15. 15 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 91 works

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