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Top Paleontology Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 31 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 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 100.0 42.4% 236 1.7k#15
2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 79.8 58.0% 89 717#3
3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 68.0 40.8% 204 1.1k#1
4 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina · Buenos Aires 59.6 40.5% 189 788#28
5 University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen 53.1 56.3% 61 372#23
6 Natural History MuseumUnited Kingdom · London 47.8 27.1% 163 570#8
7 China University of GeosciencesChina · Wuhan 43.3 44.2% 103 786#44
8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 39.4 49.1% 68 540#4
9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 36.0 45.3% 111 763#80
10 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 32.9 43.9% 80 529#2
11 University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol 30.2 55.6% 70 576#9
12 University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa · Johannesburg 27.6 48.3% 67 296#10
13 American Museum of Natural HistoryUnited States · New York 25.3 38.7% 82 444#6
14 Nanjing Institute of Geology and PaleontologyChina · Nanjing 23.1 39.0% 93 492#42
15 Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and PaleoanthropologyChina · Beijing 21.1 52.1% 66 375#26
16 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 19.3 21.9% 120 330#38
17 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico · Mexico City 17.5 15.1% 170 418#63
18 China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China · Beijing 15.8 30.7% 87 541—
19 National Museum of Natural HistoryUnited States · Washington 14.3 16.8% 112 272#18
20 Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka · Colombo 12.8 18.3% 162 70—
21 Oxford ArchaeologyUnited Kingdom · Oxford 11.3 26.8% 74 155#34
22 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina · La Plata 10.0 32.7% 77 243—
23 Institute of Paleontology A A BorisyakRussia · Moscow 8.7 14.7% 189 279—
24 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil · Rio de Janeiro 7.5 31.1% 67 227—
25 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde StuttgartGermany · Stuttgart 6.3 15.5% 103 149—
26 Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and DevelopmentChina · Beijing 5.1 30.0% 61 333—
27 Geological InstituteRussia · Moscow 4.0 19.9% 64 144—
28 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia · Moscow 3.0 14.4% 68 151—
29 Zoological InstituteRussia · St Petersburg 1.9 15.6% 71 104—
30 Universidad de IbaguéColombia · Ibagué 95.5 0.1% 250 4—
31 Sunchon National UniversitySouth Korea · Suncheon 0.0 0.0% 66 0—

institutions ranked worldwide in Paleontology (31). 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 Universidad de IbaguéColombia 250 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 235 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 204 works
  4. 4 Institute of Paleontology A A BorisyakRussia 189 works
  5. 5 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 189 works
  6. 6 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 170 works
  7. 7 Natural History MuseumUnited Kingdom 163 works
  8. 8 Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka 162 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 120 works
  10. 10 National Museum of Natural HistoryUnited States 112 works
  11. 11 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 111 works
  12. 12 China University of GeosciencesChina 103 works
  13. 13 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde StuttgartGermany 103 works
  14. 14 Nanjing Institute of Geology and PaleontologyChina 93 works
  15. 15 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 89 works

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