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Top Nuclear and High Energy Physics Research Institutions

European Organization for Nuclear Research ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 263 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 European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSwitzerland · Geneva 100.0 35.3% 597 4.2k#1
2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 87.6 45.3% 446 4.3k#12
3 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Cambridge 80.3 55.0% 236 3.2k#7
4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 75.1 41.6% 649 4.6k#59
5 Brookhaven National LaboratoryUnited States · Upton 71.1 46.8% 294 2.8k#6
6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 67.8 51.4% 192 2.6k#19
7 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESYGermany · Hamburg 65.1 28.9% 440 2.2k#16
8 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 62.7 50.8% 310 2.9k#86
9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 60.6 48.8% 496 3.8k—
10 Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUnited States · Berkeley 58.7 44.3% 239 2.3k#8
11 University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 57.0 57.5% 170 2k#35
12 Stony Brook UniversityUnited States · Stony Brook 55.4 52.3% 186 2.3k#22
13 Institute of Modern PhysicsChina · Lanzhou 54.0 54.1% 281 2.3k—
14 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 52.6 37.7% 220 2.2k#10
15 The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo 51.4 38.7% 331 2.6k#20
16 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 50.2 52.9% 186 2.3k#17
17 Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryUnited States · Batavia 49.2 21.2% 467 4k#5
18 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 48.1 55.0% 138 1.9k#23
19 Technical University of MunichGermany · Munich 47.2 49.3% 208 1.9k#30
20 Universitat de ValènciaSpain · Valencia 46.2 48.5% 191 1.8k#47
21 Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton 45.4 51.7% 185 2.7k#2
22 Max Planck Institute for PhysicsGermany · Munich 44.5 52.9% 156 1.5k#14
23 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 43.7 36.1% 397 2.5k—
24 Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGermany · Karlsruhe 43.0 43.0% 240 1.9k#38
25 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain · Madrid 42.2 48.8% 145 1.5k#46
26 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom · Durham 41.5 59.2% 164 1.9k#21
27 University of BonnGermany · Bonn 40.9 40.6% 160 1.3k#63
28 Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany · Mainz 40.2 39.7% 198 1.6k#44
29 Institute of Theoretical PhysicsChina · Beijing 39.6 57.2% 189 2k—
30 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 39.0 47.8% 152 1.4k#31
31 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 38.4 46.8% 254 1.9k—
32 University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park 37.8 48.5% 137 1.6k#26
33 GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion ResearchGermany · Darmstadt 37.3 26.0% 340 1.5k#78
34 Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg 36.7 41.3% 158 1.3k#49
35 Université Paris-SaclayFrance · Gif-sur-Yvette 36.2 46.1% 190 1.8k—
36 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 35.7 42.6% 212 1.6k—
37 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States · Los Alamos 35.2 28.6% 332 2.3k#13
38 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States · Pasadena 34.7 46.3% 133 2.1k#9
39 University of BernSwitzerland · Bern 34.3 51.0% 94 1.1k#60
40 Max Planck Institute for Nuclear PhysicsGermany · Heidelberg 33.8 54.6% 150 1.4k#41
41 Instituto de Física CorpuscularSpain · Paterna 33.4 43.6% 147 1.2k—
42 Central China Normal UniversityChina · Wuhan 32.9 48.8% 170 1.3k—
43 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 32.5 45.8% 131 1.5k#97
44 Perimeter InstituteCanada · Waterloo 32.1 62.7% 104 1.7k#43
45 Institute of High Energy PhysicsChina · Beijing 31.7 40.7% 270 1.8k—
46 Kyoto UniversityJapan · Kyoto 31.3 40.4% 211 1.5k#52
47 Michigan State UniversityUnited States · East Lansing 30.9 50.1% 159 1.4k#56
48 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance · Paris 30.5 43.7% 185 1.6k#39
49 Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUnited States · Livermore 30.2 39.5% 215 1.4k#32
50 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 29.8 42.8% 144 1.9k#15
51 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 29.4 56.8% 95 1.8k#4
52 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 29.1 43.4% 119 1.8k#11
53 Argonne National LaboratoryUnited States · Lemont 28.7 47.6% 130 1.3k#24
54 Lanzhou UniversityChina · Lanzhou 28.4 61.3% 145 1.4k—
55 Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-CurieFrance · Orsay 28.1 38.3% 171 1.3k—
56 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 27.8 59.0% 97 1.1k—
57 McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 27.4 57.9% 91 1.3k#77
58 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di TorinoItaly · Turin 27.1 38.1% 149 1.1k#68
59 Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des ParticulesFrance · Paris 26.8 49.3% 107 1.1k#84
60 University of PaduaItaly · Padua 26.5 39.7% 147 1.1k#100
61 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 26.2 45.2% 185 1.5k—
62 Joint Institute for Nuclear ResearchRussia · Dubna 25.9 20.8% 546 1.4k#76
63 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona 25.6 50.4% 93 1.2k—
64 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di PadovaItaly · Padua 25.4 41.7% 127 1.1k#89
65 École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 25.1 46.8% 137 1.6k—
66 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 24.8 51.5% 127 1k—
67 Max Planck Institute for Plasma PhysicsGermany · Garching 24.5 54.4% 119 882#87
68 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 24.3 47.5% 102 1.1k#34
69 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 24.0 41.6% 100 1.2k#65
70 University of LisbonPortugal · Lisbon 23.8 45.2% 124 1.1k—
71 Uppsala UniversitySweden · Uppsala 23.5 45.1% 121 1.1k—
72 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator FacilityUnited States · Newport News 23.2 38.0% 149 1.1k#67
73 Tohoku UniversityJapan · Sendai 23.0 42.3% 127 1.1k—
74 Beihang UniversityChina · Beijing 22.8 52.1% 107 988—
75 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma IItaly · Rome 22.5 43.1% 107 1.1k#73
76 The University of OsakaJapan · Osaka 22.3 37.4% 177 1.1k#99
77 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 22.0 46.8% 152 1.3k#28
78 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 21.8 45.0% 114 1k#36
79 Institute for Advanced StudyUnited States · Princeton 21.6 55.5% 66 1.7k#3
80 CEA Paris-SaclayFrance · Gif-sur-Yvette 21.4 46.3% 107 1.1k#58
81 University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom · Southampton 21.1 48.6% 114 1k#74
82 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 20.9 44.2% 102 1k#29
83 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 20.7 55.1% 70 927#66
84 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus 20.5 46.0% 123 1.1k#33
85 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom · Manchester 20.3 38.1% 119 909—
86 Homi Bhabha National InstituteIndia · Mumbai 20.1 36.0% 216 953—
87 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany · Aachen 19.9 23.9% 203 946#62
88 National Institute for Subatomic PhysicsNetherlands · Amsterdam 19.6 50.6% 76 844#95
89 University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam 19.4 53.9% 64 1.1k—
90 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia · Moscow 19.2 20.6% 364 1.1k—
91 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany · Frankfurt am Main 19.0 42.2% 141 1.1k#71
92 Shandong UniversityChina · Jinan 18.9 43.3% 147 1k—
93 ETH ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 18.7 37.8% 116 1.1k#69
94 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland · Krakow 18.5 33.0% 130 712—
95 Ruhr University BochumGermany · Bochum 18.3 40.8% 98 818—
96 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the UniverseJapan · Kashiwa 18.1 57.1% 81 1.1k—
97 University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva 17.9 39.7% 92 916—
98 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 17.7 37.3% 133 915#40
99 Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchIndia · Mumbai 17.5 34.2% 161 849#70
100 Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm 17.4 50.9% 69 909—

institutions ranked worldwide in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (263). 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.

17 – 21: 21 places21 – 26: 16 places26 – 30: 13 places30 – 34: 11 places34 – 38: 8 places38 – 42: 6 places42 – 46: 6 places46 – 50: 4 places50 – 55: 3 places55 – 59: 2 places59 – 63: 3 places63 – 67: 1 places67 – 71: 1 places71 – 75: 2 places75 – 79: 0 places79 – 83: 1 places83 – 88: 1 places88 – 92: 0 places92 – 96: 0 places96 – 100: 1 places17100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 649 works
  2. 2 European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSwitzerland 597 works
  3. 3 Joint Institute for Nuclear ResearchRussia 546 works
  4. 4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 496 works
  5. 5 Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryUnited States 467 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 446 works
  7. 7 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESYGermany 440 works
  8. 8 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 397 works
  9. 9 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 364 works
  10. 10 GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion ResearchGermany 340 works
  11. 11 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States 332 works
  12. 12 The University of TokyoJapan 331 works
  13. 13 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 329 works
  14. 14 Peking UniversityChina 310 works
  15. 15 Kurchatov InstituteRussia 297 works

Nuclear and High Energy Physics by country