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Top Ophthalmology Research Institutions

L V Prasad Eye Institute ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 94 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 L V Prasad Eye InstituteIndia · Hyderabad 100.0 11.2% 422 1.4k#14
2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 84.7 21.8% 202 1.4k#4
3 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 75.8 23.2% 184 1.4k#2
4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 69.5 20.4% 330 2.2k#41
5 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 64.6 22.1% 167 1.2k#1
6 Massachusetts Eye and Ear InfirmaryUnited States · Boston 60.6 19.4% 169 1k#5
7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 57.2 26.3% 112 1.1k#92
8 University of MiamiUnited States · Coral Gables 54.2 19.0% 204 1.1k#3
9 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 51.6 18.9% 164 1.1k#79
10 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 49.3 26.9% 91 907—
11 Beijing Tongren HospitalChina · Beijing 47.2 18.1% 166 877#98
12 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina · Wenzhou 45.3 22.9% 147 1.1k—
13 Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation TrustUnited Kingdom · London 43.5 24.7% 99 791#18
14 Singapore National Eye CenterSingapore · Singapore 41.9 28.0% 82 823#30
15 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 40.4 23.6% 106 782#6
16 Singapore Eye Research InstituteSingapore · Singapore 39.0 27.5% 82 820#34
17 Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 37.6 30.9% 67 710—
18 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 36.4 19.3% 160 993—
19 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia · New Delhi 35.2 7.4% 342 668#75
20 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 34.1 25.5% 69 673#17
21 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 33.0 20.9% 107 742#27
22 Moorfields Eye HospitalUnited Kingdom · London 32.0 20.3% 103 615#23
23 Medical University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 31.0 34.7% 80 695#24
24 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 30.0 34.0% 66 766#42
25 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong · Hong Kong 29.2 25.8% 82 745#39
26 Doheny Eye InstituteUnited States · Los Angeles 28.3 30.9% 75 639#10
27 Affiliated Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical CollegeChina · Wenzhou 27.5 22.3% 114 842—
28 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 26.7 22.0% 104 755#15
29 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 25.9 25.0% 102 797#7
30 University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 25.1 24.0% 90 624#36
31 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 24.4 16.9% 126 731#37
32 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 23.7 21.8% 93 691—
33 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 23.0 21.5% 83 595#28
34 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 22.4 17.6% 118 652#13
35 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 21.7 25.5% 83 637—
36 Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research InstituteUnited States · San Francisco 21.1 27.3% 66 611#61
37 UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney 20.5 28.8% 72 587#86
38 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States · Birmingham 19.9 29.3% 68 551#50
39 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 19.4 21.4% 110 597#19
40 Wills Eye HospitalUnited States · Philadelphia 18.8 14.1% 134 763#8
41 Aravind Eye HospitalIndia · Madurai 18.3 4.0% 351 667#87
42 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 17.7 17.8% 102 590#52
43 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 17.2 18.3% 96 523#20
44 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 16.7 18.4% 82 545#26
45 InsermFrance · Paris 16.2 20.3% 62 443#69
46 He Eye HospitalChina · Shenyang 15.7 15.5% 107 413—
47 Cleveland Eye ClinicUnited States · Brecksville 15.3 17.6% 74 403#57
48 Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States · Portland 14.8 21.4% 85 556#12
49 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 14.3 18.0% 92 585—
50 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 13.9 18.6% 77 501#46
51 Cleveland ClinicUnited States · Cleveland 13.5 18.4% 71 392#38
52 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 13.0 25.6% 66 482—
53 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 12.6 16.3% 108 552—
54 University of UtahUnited States · Salt Lake City 12.2 16.5% 80 466#54
55 Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 11.8 14.2% 117 585—
56 Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and ResearchIndia · Chandigarh 11.4 9.8% 136 400—
57 Tianjin Medical UniversityChina · Tianjin 11.0 15.7% 93 522—
58 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 10.6 18.7% 67 398#60
59 Thomas Jefferson UniversityUnited States · Philadelphia 10.3 13.3% 87 466#40
60 Sankara NethralayaIndia · Chennai 9.9 5.2% 206 536—
61 Peking Union Medical College HospitalChina · Beijing 9.5 19.3% 70 405—
62 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 9.2 19.4% 61 339#51
63 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 8.8 20.1% 61 414#16
64 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia · Riyadh 8.5 13.7% 80 402—
65 Cairo UniversityEgypt · Giza 8.1 5.9% 139 539—
66 Tianjin Medical University Eye HospitalChina · Tianjin 7.8 14.6% 80 435—
67 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 7.5 15.6% 75 351—
68 Creative CommonsUnited States · Mountain View 7.1 3.0% 306 567—
69 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran · Tehran 6.8 11.9% 88 354—
70 Narayana NethralayaIndia · Bengaluru 6.5 8.5% 120 371—
71 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 6.2 16.6% 65 332#9
72 Saarland UniversityGermany · Saarbrücken 5.9 11.5% 89 302—
73 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael · Tel Aviv 5.6 14.0% 71 344#85
74 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 5.3 11.6% 92 332#80
75 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Istanbul 5.0 4.3% 178 416—
76 Shahid Beheshti University of Medical SciencesIran · Tehran 4.7 8.6% 94 375—
77 S:t Eriks ÖgonsjukhusSweden · Stockholm 4.4 10.0% 65 160—
78 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 4.1 7.1% 78 221—
79 University of California, DavisUnited States · Davis 3.8 12.3% 63 311#72
80 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 3.5 10.5% 68 259—
81 Alexandria UniversityEgypt · Alexandria 3.3 4.7% 78 156—
82 Vasan Eye Care HospitalIndia · Chennai 3.0 7.0% 84 151—
83 Tanta UniversityEgypt · Tanta 2.7 8.1% 66 168—
84 Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye HospitalIndia · Delhi 2.5 5.9% 79 147—
85 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt · Cairo 2.2 2.4% 97 154—
86 Centre for SightIndia · New Delhi 2.0 4.5% 63 96—
87 King Khaled Eye Specialist HospitalSaudi Arabia · Riyadh 1.7 3.9% 67 156—
88 Benha UniversityEgypt · Banhā 145.2 2.7% 63 101—
89 Mohammed V UniversityMorocco · Rabat 120.3 3.5% 60 62—
90 Al-Azhar UniversityEgypt · Cairo 95.7 1.2% 84 77—
91 Intersectoral Research and Technology Complex Eye MicrosurgeryRussia · Moscow 71.4 0.2% 128 87—
92 Institute of Medical SciencesIndia · Varanasi 47.3 0.6% 108 111—
93 Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Eye DiseasesRussia · Moscow 23.5 0.5% 97 102—
94 Federal State Scientific Institution Research Institute of Eye DiseasesRussia · Moscow 0.0 0.6% 90 98—

institutions ranked worldwide in Ophthalmology (94). 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.

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Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 L V Prasad Eye InstituteIndia 423 works
  2. 2 Aravind Eye HospitalIndia 351 works
  3. 3 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 342 works
  4. 4 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 330 works
  5. 5 Creative CommonsUnited States 306 works
  6. 6 Sankara NethralayaIndia 206 works
  7. 7 University of MiamiUnited States 204 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 202 works
  9. 9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 184 works
  10. 10 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 178 works
  11. 11 Massachusetts Eye and Ear InfirmaryUnited States 169 works
  12. 12 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 167 works
  13. 13 Beijing Tongren HospitalChina 166 works
  14. 14 Capital Medical UniversityChina 164 works
  15. 15 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 161 works

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