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Top Molecular Biology Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 2,175 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 32.0% 1.6k 33k#1
2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 91.0 28.5% 2.5k 37k#40
3 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 85.7 29.5% 1.2k 28k#3
4 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 82.0 30.2% 1.8k 30k—
5 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 79.1 30.3% 1.8k 28k#94
6 Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States · Chevy Chase 76.7 47.8% 545 19k#2
7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 74.7 27.7% 2k 29k—
8 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 72.9 24.6% 2.1k 26k—
9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 71.4 29.9% 1.6k 25k—
10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 70.0 28.1% 2k 29k—
11 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 68.8 25.0% 1.2k 18k#7
12 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 67.7 26.8% 1.5k 20k—
13 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 66.6 27.5% 1.6k 24k—
14 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 65.7 26.5% 1.1k 16k#13
15 Broad InstituteUnited States · Cambridge 64.8 38.8% 397 11k#46
16 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 63.9 35.7% 610 14k#5
17 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 63.1 26.5% 1.1k 16k#17
18 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 62.4 23.7% 979 14k#20
19 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 61.7 27.3% 1.3k 17k—
20 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 61.0 21.4% 1.7k 18k#21
21 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 60.4 24.3% 1.1k 15k#8
22 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 59.8 28.5% 834 15k#19
23 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 59.2 28.6% 889 13k#25
24 China Agricultural UniversityChina · Beijing 58.6 34.9% 995 15k—
25 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 58.1 21.2% 1.3k 15k#14
26 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 57.6 28.4% 1.3k 18k—
27 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 57.1 31.4% 836 14k—
28 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 56.6 22.6% 1.1k 14k#10
29 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 56.2 29.0% 1.2k 17k—
30 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 55.7 25.0% 904 13k#11
31 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 55.3 27.2% 866 14k#58
32 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 54.9 30.1% 564 10k#9
33 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 54.5 24.6% 827 11k#22
34 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 54.1 26.5% 766 13k#6
35 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 53.7 19.3% 1k 10k#42
36 National Institutes of HealthUnited States · Bethesda 53.4 23.2% 821 16k#4
37 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 53.0 22.9% 921 12k#33
38 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 52.7 24.6% 1.3k 15k—
39 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 52.3 26.5% 1.1k 15k—
40 ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 52.0 34.3% 583 11k#67
41 Jilin UniversityChina · Changchun 51.7 29.0% 1.1k 14k—
42 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 51.4 28.3% 904 13k—
43 Jiangsu UniversityChina · Zhenjiang 51.1 33.4% 718 11k—
44 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 50.8 26.5% 625 10k#18
45 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 50.5 21.7% 699 7.9k#54
46 InsermFrance · Paris 50.2 22.1% 1.1k 12k#37
47 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 49.9 23.7% 935 11k#34
48 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 49.6 26.6% 606 9.2k#23
49 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina · Wuhan 49.4 31.0% 915 12k—
50 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 49.1 25.9% 558 8.8k#29
51 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina · Beijing 48.8 29.9% 1k 13k—
52 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 48.6 30.4% 468 8.2k#43
53 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 48.3 23.6% 507 9.1k#31
54 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 48.1 10.2% 1.9k 10k#30
55 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 47.9 30.7% 582 9k—
56 China Medical UniversityChina · Shenyang 47.6 29.1% 883 13k—
57 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 47.4 24.8% 775 10k#72
58 Jiangnan UniversityChina · Wuxi 47.2 28.7% 1.3k 17k—
59 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 46.9 24.1% 713 8.8k#28
60 China Pharmaceutical UniversityChina · Nanjing 46.7 28.8% 841 12k—
61 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 46.5 23.4% 1.1k 13k—
62 National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore 46.3 26.2% 648 9k—
63 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina · Beijing 46.1 30.7% 835 11k—
64 Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteUnited States · Boston 45.9 28.0% 420 7.2k#32
65 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 45.7 26.3% 595 8.9k#39
66 Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina · Chengdu 45.5 37.0% 580 9.2k—
67 Center for Life SciencesChina · Beijing 45.3 42.5% 333 7.8k—
68 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 45.1 26.9% 710 9.6k—
69 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 44.9 26.0% 632 8.9k#52
70 Nanjing University of Chinese MedicineChina · Nanjing 44.7 26.7% 747 9.4k—
71 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 44.5 24.3% 589 7.3k#86
72 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina · Nanjing 44.3 28.4% 959 12k—
73 Northwest A&F UniversityChina · Yangling 44.2 32.8% 838 12k—
74 McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 44.0 24.2% 666 9.6k#64
75 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 43.8 26.9% 554 9.1k—
76 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 43.6 21.8% 887 10k—
77 University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis 43.5 21.0% 902 9k#48
78 Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich 43.3 25.3% 554 7.6k—
79 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 43.1 23.4% 716 8.6k#51
80 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 43.0 26.4% 565 9.3k—
81 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong · Hong Kong 42.8 28.8% 532 7.9k—
82 Guangzhou Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 42.7 25.4% 684 8.2k—
83 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 42.5 27.9% 510 7.6k#38
84 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 42.3 20.7% 917 8.5k—
85 Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton 42.2 35.1% 340 8.9k#55
86 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina · Wenzhou 42.0 23.9% 819 8.7k—
87 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 41.9 22.6% 689 8.4k#61
88 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 41.7 23.6% 677 8.5k#45
89 Yangzhou UniversityChina · Yangzhou 41.6 24.2% 841 10k—
90 Zhengzhou UniversityChina · Zhengzhou 41.4 26.5% 837 11k—
91 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 41.3 21.0% 912 9.1k#12
92 Xiangya Hospital Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 41.2 29.9% 429 8.3k—
93 Chongqing Medical UniversityChina · Chongqing 41.0 23.0% 784 9.1k—
94 St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnited States · Memphis 40.9 25.4% 391 6.5k#92
95 Zhejiang Chinese Medical UniversityChina · Hangzhou 40.7 28.7% 579 6.5k—
96 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 40.6 24.2% 574 8.7k#44
97 Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States · New Brunswick 40.5 20.5% 617 6.9k#79
98 University of Hong KongHong Kong · Pok Fu Lam 40.3 26.3% 576 7.6k—
99 Nankai UniversityChina · Tianjin 40.2 27.1% 652 8.7k—
100 Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina · Harbin 40.1 35.1% 543 7.5k—

institutions ranked worldwide in Molecular Biology (2,175). 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.

40 – 43: 21 places43 – 46: 16 places46 – 49: 13 places49 – 52: 11 places52 – 55: 8 places55 – 58: 6 places58 – 61: 6 places61 – 64: 4 places64 – 67: 3 places67 – 70: 2 places70 – 73: 3 places73 – 76: 1 places76 – 79: 1 places79 – 82: 2 places82 – 85: 0 places85 – 88: 1 places88 – 91: 1 places91 – 94: 0 places94 – 97: 0 places97 – 100: 1 places40100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 2.5k works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 2.1k works
  3. 3 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 2k works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 2k works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 1.9k works
  6. 6 Zhejiang UniversityChina 1.8k works
  7. 7 Sichuan UniversityChina 1.8k works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 1.7k works
  9. 9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 1.6k works
  10. 10 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 1.6k works
  11. 11 Central South UniversityChina 1.6k works
  12. 12 Peking UniversityChina 1.5k works
  13. 13 University of MichiganUnited States 1.3k works
  14. 14 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 1.3k works
  15. 15 Jiangnan UniversityChina 1.3k works

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