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Top Neurology (Neuroscience) Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 96 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 28.2% 185 3.2k#1
2 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 84.8 29.6% 112 1.5k#86
3 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 75.9 24.2% 145 1.9k#2
4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 69.6 29.8% 150 2.3k#67
5 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 64.7 20.1% 230 2.5k#82
6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 60.7 30.3% 128 2.1k#90
7 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 57.4 29.9% 94 1.7k#6
8 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 54.4 22.8% 173 2k#81
9 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia · Vellore 51.9 22.1% 176 1.2k—
10 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 49.6 21.9% 105 1.4k#4
11 Saveetha UniversityIndia · Chennai 47.5 15.0% 244 1k—
12 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 45.6 23.2% 158 1.6k—
13 Zhejiang Chinese Medical UniversityChina · Hangzhou 43.8 31.8% 86 1.4k—
14 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 42.2 24.2% 126 1.5k—
15 Nanjing University of Chinese MedicineChina · Nanjing 40.7 29.0% 87 959—
16 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 39.3 24.0% 123 1.6k—
17 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 37.9 23.1% 108 1.4k#8
18 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 36.7 27.0% 90 1.2k#3
19 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 35.5 29.9% 80 1.1k—
20 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 34.4 26.5% 119 1.5k—
21 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 33.3 24.5% 107 1.4k—
22 Chitkara UniversityIndia · Chandigarh 32.3 15.9% 137 803—
23 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 31.3 21.2% 122 1.2k#7
24 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 30.4 28.8% 63 916#21
25 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 29.5 19.9% 108 1.1k#25
26 InsermFrance · Paris 28.6 21.2% 99 1.1k#11
27 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 27.8 22.1% 95 1.2k#9
28 Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina · Chengdu 27.0 31.2% 82 962—
29 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 26.2 23.9% 87 1.2k—
30 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 25.5 22.1% 81 1.1k#10
31 China Medical UniversityChina · Shenyang 24.8 33.9% 66 1k—
32 Chongqing Medical UniversityChina · Chongqing 24.1 24.7% 84 1.1k—
33 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 23.4 29.2% 74 1.1k—
34 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 22.7 22.8% 72 1k#42
35 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 22.1 19.8% 96 997—
36 Nantong UniversityChina · Nantong 21.5 29.6% 73 914—
37 Guangzhou University of Chinese MedicineChina · Guangzhou 20.9 32.5% 65 869—
38 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 20.3 22.7% 83 943#14
39 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia · Chennai 19.7 9.0% 219 851—
40 University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine 19.2 23.3% 78 893#34
41 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 18.6 21.6% 68 899—
42 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 18.1 19.9% 80 862#16
43 Beijing University of Chinese MedicineChina · Beijing 17.6 25.5% 68 709—
44 Qingdao UniversityChina · Qingdao 17.1 28.6% 63 888—
45 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 16.6 21.6% 77 784#23
46 Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChina · Shanghai 16.1 25.0% 73 746—
47 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 15.6 24.2% 68 740#20
48 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 15.2 24.5% 68 944#76
49 Sapienza University of RomeItaly · Rome 14.7 28.1% 61 774#89
50 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 14.3 24.6% 74 859#19
51 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 13.9 20.9% 83 809#45
52 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 13.4 27.0% 72 846—
53 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 13.0 16.0% 82 929#24
54 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Chengdu 12.6 19.9% 78 676—
55 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 12.2 19.9% 82 825#28
56 McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 11.8 23.5% 62 609#26
57 Neurological SurgeryUnited States · Rockville Centre 11.4 22.5% 62 784#57
58 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina · Wenzhou 11.0 26.5% 69 614—
59 Xuzhou Medical CollegeChina · Tongshan 10.7 19.2% 73 701—
60 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 10.3 23.4% 62 792#27
61 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 9.9 17.9% 76 769#36
62 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 9.6 21.6% 71 966#65
63 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles 9.2 22.4% 64 631#41
64 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 8.9 17.2% 63 575#29
65 University of ArizonaUnited States · Tucson 8.5 19.6% 69 691#85
66 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 8.2 20.1% 62 787#72
67 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 7.9 19.5% 68 688#79
68 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 7.6 25.3% 62 632—
69 The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUnited States · Houston 7.2 13.6% 85 567—
70 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 6.9 24.3% 63 760—
71 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 6.6 19.5% 64 680#12
72 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 6.3 23.3% 60 657#31
73 Anhui Medical UniversityChina · Hefei 6.0 26.1% 63 642—
74 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States · Scottsdale 5.7 19.4% 63 497—
75 Fujian Medical UniversityChina · Fuzhou 5.4 19.8% 65 574—
76 Chandigarh UniversityIndia · Mohali 5.1 12.0% 99 435—
77 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 4.8 15.7% 75 601#40
78 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 4.5 18.5% 62 573#50
79 Hebei Medical UniversityChina · Shijiazhuang 4.3 22.3% 64 662—
80 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia · Coimbatore 4.0 16.6% 84 405—
81 Harbin Medical UniversityChina · Harbin 3.7 21.7% 61 502—
82 Manipal Academy of Higher EducationIndia · Manipal 3.5 15.2% 61 388—
83 University of MiamiUnited States · Coral Gables 3.2 15.2% 65 459#78
84 Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationIndia · Vijayawada 2.9 11.4% 93 453—
85 Graphic Era UniversityIndia · Dehradun 2.7 11.4% 71 336—
86 Medical University of South CarolinaUnited States · Charleston 2.4 15.4% 75 641—
87 Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia · Chennai 2.2 8.9% 79 305—
88 University of KentuckyUnited States · Lexington 1.9 14.5% 62 446#62
89 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 1.7 11.3% 79 426—
90 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 141.4 7.0% 109 457#37
91 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 117.2 8.0% 86 380#47
92 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran · Tehran 93.2 10.7% 66 462—
93 Kalasalingam Academy of Research and EducationIndia · Srivilliputhur 69.6 12.3% 60 270—
94 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia · New Delhi 46.1 8.0% 71 279—
95 Sechenov UniversityRussia · Moscow 22.9 2.2% 101 276—
96 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical UniversityRussia · Moscow 0.0 1.6% 79 172—

institutions ranked worldwide in Neurology (96). 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 Saveetha UniversityIndia 244 works
  2. 2 Capital Medical UniversityChina 230 works
  3. 3 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 219 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 185 works
  5. 5 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 176 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 173 works
  7. 7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 158 works
  8. 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 150 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 145 works
  10. 10 Chitkara UniversityIndia 137 works
  11. 11 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 128 works
  12. 12 Fudan UniversityChina 126 works
  13. 13 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina 123 works
  14. 14 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 122 works
  15. 15 Sichuan UniversityChina 119 works

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