Top Paleontology Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Cambridge, out of 37 ranked institutions.

Quality score: the square root of excellence (the share of works in the world top 10% against what the place's own topics predict, on English-language articles and reviews) times the square root of the journal factor (its papers in the Nature Index's selective journals against what its topics predict), times output to the power 0.3 times breadth (how much of the selected area it works in) to the power 0.25. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.

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Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#	Institution	Score	Top-10% rate	Works	Citations	All time
1	Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	100.0	15.6%	581	4k	#1
2	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	80.8	9.8%	709	3k	#2
3	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	69.6	27.7%	89	719	#5
4	Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin	61.6	10.0%	165	619	#8
5	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	55.4	18.0%	84	544	#4
6	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing	50.4	14.0%	111	763	#7
7	Smithsonian InstitutionUnited States · Washington	46.1	9.9%	167	591	#14
8	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	42.4	21.9%	63	511	#21
9	China University of GeosciencesChina · Wuhan	39.2	15.4%	105	795	#13
10	University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol	36.2	20.5%	70	586	#11
11	University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen	33.6	17.1%	84	522	#42
12	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain · Madrid	31.2	11.5%	176	639	#23
13	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	29.0	21.5%	70	551	#15
14	Natural History MuseumUnited Kingdom · London	26.9	9.8%	163	570	#26
15	Universidad de IbaguéColombia · Ibagué	25.0	0.0%	250	4	-
16	Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina · Buenos Aires	23.2	7.0%	414	1.6k	#24
17	American Museum of Natural HistoryUnited States · New York	21.5	16.9%	82	444	#19
18	China University of Geosciences (Beijing)China · Beijing	20.0	12.8%	87	541	#49
19	Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde StuttgartGermany · Stuttgart	18.5	3.9%	103	149	-
20	Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain · Cerdanyola del Vallès	17.0	10.5%	77	351	#70
21	Northwest UniversityChina · Xi'an	15.7	10.5%	63	373	#60
22	University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville	14.4	12.7%	62	331	#55
23	Chengdu University of TechnologyChina · Chengdu	13.2	14.5%	85	565	-
24	Czech Academy of SciencesCzechia · Prague	12.0	6.8%	71	257	-
25	Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka · Colombo	10.9	8.2%	162	70	-
26	Polish Academy of SciencesPoland · Warsaw	9.8	6.9%	104	346	-
27	University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa · Johannesburg	8.7	14.1%	67	296	-
28	Oxford ArchaeologyUnited Kingdom · Oxford	7.7	13.8%	74	155	-
29	Sunchon National UniversitySouth Korea · Suncheon	6.7	0.0%	66	0	-
30	China National Petroleum Corporation (China)China · Beijing	5.8	12.2%	91	495	-
31	Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo	4.9	8.2%	122	340	-
32	Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina · La Plata	4.0	4.4%	77	243	-
33	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico · Mexico City	3.2	6.6%	170	418	-
34	Russian Academy of SciencesRussia · Moscow	2.3	3.1%	875	1.5k	-
35	Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil · Rio de Janeiro	1.5	6.5%	68	229	-
36	National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine · Kyiv	75.9	1.6%	123	88	-
37	Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia · Moscow	0.0	2.9%	68	151	-

institutions ranked worldwide in Paleontology (37). rank on the quality score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (about 6% in Dentistry, 21% in Economics).

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Ranked by volume, 2022-now

1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 988 works
2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 920 works
3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 724 works
4 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 491 works
5 Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of TechnologyPhilippines 334 works
6 Leibniz AssociationGermany 271 works
7 Universidad de IbaguéColombia 250 works
8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 241 works
9 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 213 works
10 Natural History MuseumUnited Kingdom 211 works
11 Smithsonian InstitutionUnited States 192 works
12 Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka 183 works
13 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde StuttgartGermany 180 works
14 University of CreteGreece 175 works
15 University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaUnited States 165 works

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