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Top Nephrology Research Institutions

Sichuan University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 63 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 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 100.0 27.1% 142 1.8k#49
2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 83.3 22.2% 176 1.3k#71
3 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 73.5 27.6% 103 1.4k#73
4 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 66.5 28.6% 120 1.2k#82
5 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 61.2 30.0% 94 1.1k—
6 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 56.8 26.8% 98 1k#1
7 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 53.0 18.4% 136 1k#57
8 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 49.8 27.4% 103 1k—
9 Zhejiang Chinese Medical UniversityChina · Hangzhou 47.0 27.4% 88 762—
10 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 44.4 21.7% 128 1k—
11 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 42.1 21.3% 119 861—
12 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 40.0 18.7% 106 952#3
13 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 38.1 18.1% 129 958—
14 Guangzhou University of Chinese MedicineChina · Guangzhou 36.3 28.6% 76 776—
15 Mayo ClinicUnited States · Rochester 34.6 21.1% 101 774#4
16 InsermFrance · Paris 33.1 20.9% 88 677#22
17 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 31.6 22.3% 90 774—
18 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 30.2 19.5% 92 871#27
19 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 28.9 20.2% 82 839#5
20 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 27.7 17.2% 87 652#11
21 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 26.5 23.0% 74 677#2
22 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 25.4 20.7% 75 792#15
23 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 24.3 26.4% 77 710#16
24 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 23.3 16.2% 92 646#45
25 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 22.3 18.4% 79 631#8
26 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States · Birmingham 21.4 19.5% 109 661#14
27 Chongqing Medical UniversityChina · Chongqing 20.5 25.9% 71 553—
28 Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina · Shanghai 19.6 30.6% 61 583—
29 Anhui Medical UniversityChina · Hefei 18.7 28.7% 75 680—
30 China Medical UniversityChina · Shenyang 17.9 29.7% 64 709—
31 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 17.1 25.1% 70 698—
32 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 16.3 22.1% 67 610#9
33 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina · Wenzhou 15.6 21.2% 65 525—
34 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 14.9 18.3% 75 554#21
35 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 14.2 22.0% 72 700—
36 Cleveland ClinicUnited States · Cleveland 13.5 16.4% 90 514#19
37 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 12.8 19.0% 72 598#20
38 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 12.2 22.6% 78 697—
39 First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou UniversityChina · Zhengzhou 11.6 21.2% 66 667—
40 Chinese PLA General HospitalChina · Beijing 11.0 20.7% 72 653—
41 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States · Scottsdale 10.4 20.9% 68 532#44
42 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 9.8 17.5% 72 613—
43 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 9.2 16.6% 70 462#12
44 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 8.7 18.5% 61 551#28
45 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 8.1 14.7% 90 499#7
46 Fujian Medical UniversityChina · Fuzhou 7.6 21.6% 72 462—
47 University of AlbertaCanada · Edmonton 7.1 15.5% 62 497#25
48 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 6.6 13.5% 61 376#59
49 Peking Union Medical College HospitalChina · Beijing 6.1 13.0% 70 381—
50 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States · Nashville 5.6 12.5% 67 399#32
51 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 5.1 10.0% 76 353—
52 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 4.6 15.1% 60 273#17
53 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 4.2 8.7% 90 334#62
54 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 3.7 11.5% 67 320#63
55 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 3.3 11.1% 61 341#23
56 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia · Chandigarh 2.8 9.1% 79 222—
57 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 2.4 11.6% 61 286#53
58 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 2.0 7.7% 70 236—
59 Cairo UniversityEgypt · Giza 1.6 9.3% 66 190—
60 Mansoura UniversityEgypt · Al Mansurah 117.8 7.6% 63 237—
61 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Istanbul 77.9 5.3% 84 190—
62 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia · New Delhi 38.6 5.0% 85 239—
63 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt · Cairo 0.0 2.0% 120 149—

institutions ranked worldwide in Nephrology (63). 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 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 176 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 142 works
  3. 3 Peking UniversityChina 136 works
  4. 4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 129 works
  5. 5 Capital Medical UniversityChina 128 works
  6. 6 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 120 works
  7. 7 Central South UniversityChina 120 works
  8. 8 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 119 works
  9. 9 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States 109 works
  10. 10 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 106 works
  11. 11 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina 103 works
  12. 12 Southern Medical UniversityChina 103 works
  13. 13 Mayo ClinicUnited States 101 works
  14. 14 Harvard UniversityUnited States 98 works
  15. 15 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 94 works

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