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Subfield · Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Top Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Research Institutions

Edith Cowan University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 52 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 Edith Cowan UniversityAustralia · Perth 100.0 31.5% 73 797#17
2 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 82.5 32.3% 83 954#66
3 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 72.2 32.4% 78 797—
4 Beijing Sport UniversityChina · Beijing 64.9 23.1% 136 614—
5 Shanghai University of SportChina · Shanghai 59.3 25.6% 102 683—
6 Universidad de GranadaSpain · Granada 54.7 20.9% 97 741#77
7 German Sport University CologneGermany · Cologne 50.8 20.9% 118 586#92
8 Hospital for Special SurgeryUnited States · New York 47.4 16.6% 141 774#6
9 University of CalgaryCanada · Calgary 44.4 18.9% 104 824#12
10 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 41.7 19.1% 102 818#2
11 La Trobe UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 39.3 20.2% 123 654#28
12 Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom · Loughborough 37.1 31.8% 79 556#53
13 Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece · Thessaloniki 35.1 22.4% 88 568—
14 Auckland University of TechnologyNew Zealand · Auckland 33.2 21.5% 76 562#23
15 Universidad de ExtremaduraSpain · Badajoz 31.5 24.3% 98 655#97
16 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 29.8 24.2% 91 672—
17 Universidade do PortoPortugal · Porto 28.3 23.6% 81 599—
18 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 26.8 21.5% 66 693#10
19 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 25.5 18.6% 74 456#16
20 University of BolognaItaly · Bologna 24.2 24.1% 70 468—
21 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece · Athens 22.9 18.2% 95 485—
22 Universidad Europea de MadridSpain · Madrid 21.8 23.2% 67 378—
23 Universidad de MurciaSpain · Murcia 20.6 17.7% 79 503#79
24 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 19.6 21.8% 66 459#13
25 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 18.5 18.4% 73 422#18
26 University of MilanItaly · Milan 17.5 23.7% 62 399#64
27 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 16.6 20.4% 61 350#26
28 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 15.7 9.3% 119 341#29
29 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 14.8 18.4% 61 451#15
30 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 13.9 11.0% 115 464#58
31 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 13.1 18.8% 64 429#19
32 University of the Basque CountrySpain · Leioa 12.3 21.5% 64 467—
33 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 11.5 15.8% 68 419#7
34 Universitat de ValènciaSpain · Valencia 10.8 18.8% 65 336—
35 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 10.0 17.6% 61 305—
36 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 9.3 14.6% 66 391#30
37 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 8.6 14.8% 71 255—
38 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 7.9 14.4% 64 254#5
39 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia · Yogyakarta 7.3 11.0% 111 209—
40 University of ZagrebCroatia · Zagreb 6.6 15.5% 67 292—
41 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 6.0 12.8% 78 321—
42 University of UtahUnited States · Salt Lake City 5.4 14.8% 60 249#35
43 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil · Belo Horizonte 4.8 10.9% 67 255—
44 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran · Tehran 4.2 11.5% 60 250—
45 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye · Ankara 3.7 8.2% 81 207—
46 Waseda UniversityJapan · Tokyo 3.1 10.4% 68 279—
47 University of KentuckyUnited States · Lexington 2.6 8.8% 65 233—
48 Cairo UniversityEgypt · Giza 2.0 5.7% 88 229—
49 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil · São Paulo 1.5 6.6% 62 210—
50 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Istanbul 99.3 4.3% 99 162—
51 Hiroshima UniversityJapan · Hiroshima 49.1 6.6% 62 202—
52 University of BaghdadIraq · Baghdad 0.0 5.4% 77 106—

institutions ranked worldwide in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (52). 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 Hospital for Special SurgeryUnited States 141 works
  2. 2 Beijing Sport UniversityChina 137 works
  3. 3 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 123 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 119 works
  5. 5 German Sport University CologneGermany 118 works
  6. 6 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 115 works
  7. 7 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 111 works
  8. 8 University of CalgaryCanada 104 works
  9. 9 Shanghai University of SportChina 102 works
  10. 10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 102 works
  11. 11 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 99 works
  12. 12 Universidad de ExtremaduraSpain 98 works
  13. 13 Universidad de GranadaSpain 97 works
  14. 14 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece 95 works
  15. 15 Peking UniversityChina 91 works

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