Top Molecular Biology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, out of 1,880 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	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	100.0	18.1%	4.3k	87k	#1
2	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	90.8	14.8%	7.4k	102k	#3
3	Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase	85.4	24.5%	545	19k	#2
4	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	81.6	17.7%	1.4k	25k	#6
5	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	78.7	16.7%	1.5k	34k	#4
6	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge	76.2	20.2%	758	18k	#7
7	National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda	74.2	13.9%	2.9k	52k	#5
8	Peking UniversityChina · Beijing	72.4	15.2%	2.4k	35k	#24
9	ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	70.9	17.0%	612	12k	#8
10	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	69.5	16.2%	1.1k	21k	#11
11	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	68.2	16.4%	1.6k	25k	#12
12	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai	67.0	14.2%	3.7k	52k	#44
13	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	66.0	8.9%	4.7k	43k	#9
14	Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou	65.0	15.1%	3.3k	47k	#48
15	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	64.1	13.4%	1.4k	21k	#15
16	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou	63.2	14.9%	3.3k	50k	#58
17	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	62.4	16.0%	655	12k	#17
18	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	61.7	14.0%	1.1k	17k	#16
19	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco	60.9	14.6%	883	15k	#14
20	Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai	60.3	14.1%	2.3k	32k	#70
21	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	59.6	14.1%	1k	15k	#25
22	UK Research and InnovationUnited Kingdom · Swindon	59.0	22.0%	297	6.7k	#23
23	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	58.4	13.2%	1.4k	21k	#10
24	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore	57.8	12.7%	1.7k	23k	#13
25	Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing	57.3	15.3%	1.3k	19k	#51
26	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia	56.8	14.1%	1.2k	17k	#20
27	Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan	56.3	14.9%	1.9k	27k	#68
28	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	55.8	13.1%	1.2k	17k	#18
29	Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing	55.3	13.1%	1k	13k	#52
30	Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu	54.9	16.7%	2.9k	49k	#79
31	European Molecular Biology LaboratoryGermany · Heidelberg	54.5	21.2%	335	12k	#38
32	University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle	54.0	12.6%	998	14k	#21
33	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	53.6	19.5%	344	9k	#33
34	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas	53.2	15.4%	632	9.5k	#19
35	Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin	52.8	12.0%	1.4k	20k	#22
36	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	52.5	12.1%	1.5k	19k	#27
37	Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston	52.1	12.9%	851	10k	#28
38	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	51.7	12.6%	1k	13k	#30
39	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	51.4	12.7%	1k	14k	#35
40	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	51.1	11.8%	1.5k	17k	#26
41	Hunan UniversityChina · Changsha	50.7	15.6%	574	8.2k	#56
42	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	50.4	12.6%	1.3k	17k	#45
43	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis	50.1	13.0%	1k	14k	#36
44	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	49.8	13.1%	1.1k	17k	#61
45	University of BaselSwitzerland · Basel	49.5	15.5%	409	6.8k	#47
46	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei	49.2	13.8%	710	9.6k	#77
47	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	48.9	13.1%	886	12k	#60
48	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States)United States · Redwood City	48.7	21.9%	120	3.8k	#32
49	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	48.4	15.6%	341	7.4k	#37
50	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	48.1	12.3%	823	12k	#34
51	Southwest UniversityChina · Chongqing	47.8	12.4%	843	11k	#95
52	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	47.6	12.8%	772	9.6k	#49
53	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	47.3	11.5%	831	9.4k	#41
54	Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael · Rehovot	47.1	15.6%	345	6.5k	#50
55	InsermFrance · Paris	46.8	10.1%	1.8k	19k	#54
56	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena	46.6	17.5%	285	6.4k	#43
57	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina · Shenzhen	46.4	15.3%	432	6.1k	#69
58	The Francis Crick InstituteUnited Kingdom · London	46.1	17.8%	217	4.1k	#31
59	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	45.9	11.8%	774	11k	#65
60	Nankai UniversityChina · Tianjin	45.7	14.1%	755	10k	#96
61	Scripps Research InstituteUnited States · San Diego	45.5	15.9%	262	4.1k	#29
62	Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm	45.3	13.5%	749	11k	#85
63	Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich	45.0	12.9%	636	8.6k	#62
64	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	44.8	10.8%	974	13k	#66
65	Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham	44.6	11.3%	820	9.2k	#39
66	National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore	44.4	13.7%	839	11k	#82
67	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan	44.2	14.9%	1.8k	26k	-
68	Westlake UniversityChina · Hangzhou	44.0	18.8%	266	3.8k	#94
69	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	43.8	10.2%	940	9.5k	#57
70	The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo	43.6	8.8%	1.3k	14k	-
71	Novo Nordisk FoundationDenmark · Copenhagen	43.5	20.5%	198	5.2k	#40
72	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York	43.3	16.5%	524	9.3k	#46
73	Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan	43.1	13.2%	1.5k	19k	-
74	Tongji UniversityChina · Shanghai	42.9	14.0%	1.1k	16k	-
75	Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUnited States · Berkeley	42.7	18.3%	219	4.7k	#74
76	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing	42.6	12.6%	2.4k	29k	-
77	University of Hong KongChina · Pok Fu Lam	42.4	13.9%	690	8.9k	-
78	Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston	42.2	11.3%	768	8.5k	#67
79	Agency for Science, Technology and ResearchSingapore · Singapore	42.0	16.7%	448	7.6k	#92
80	China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina · Nanjing	41.9	14.6%	918	13k	-
81	University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen	41.7	13.1%	580	8.3k	#81
82	Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina · Beijing	41.5	12.7%	4.2k	46k	-
83	University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver	41.4	12.2%	949	12k	#84
84	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana	41.2	12.0%	729	8.8k	#63
85	University of CologneGermany · Cologne	41.1	13.6%	405	5.7k	-
86	University of GöttingenGermany · Göttingen	40.9	13.6%	410	5.5k	-
87	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	40.8	9.8%	586	6.1k	#59
88	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	40.6	10.9%	1.5k	16k	#72
89	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	40.5	13.1%	737	12k	-
90	Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin	40.3	11.2%	650	6.5k	#73
91	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	40.2	14.6%	510	7.3k	#88
92	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville	40.0	10.4%	885	10k	#53
93	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	39.9	11.9%	625	8.2k	#64
94	Xiamen UniversityChina · Xiamen	39.7	10.8%	922	10k	-
95	Science for Life LaboratorySweden · Stockholm	39.6	16.2%	220	4.8k	#76
96	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolUnited States · Worcester	39.5	12.9%	356	6k	#80
97	Mount Sinai Health SystemUnited States · New York	39.3	12.7%	638	7.7k	#98
98	St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnited States · Memphis	39.2	17.6%	391	6.5k	#75
99	Austrian Academy of SciencesAustria · Vienna	39.0	21.3%	140	2.8k	-
100	Allen InstituteUnited States · Seattle	38.9	18.2%	124	3.2k	-

institutions ranked worldwide in Molecular Biology (1,880). 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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