Top Philosophy Research Institutions

University of Oxford ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Cambridge, out of 307 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	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford	100.0	15.8%	450	1.1k	#1
2	Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris	87.9	6.2%	1.5k	531	#5
3	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge	80.8	13.6%	318	571	#2
4	Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge	75.8	17.4%	120	418	#4
5	University of ViennaAustria · Vienna	71.9	14.2%	223	320	#40
6	Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford	68.7	18.5%	96	211	#3
7	University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago	66.0	10.6%	182	169	#11
8	Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton	63.7	16.4%	131	289	#7
9	Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency FoundationUnited States · Sebastopol	61.6	3.4%	763	0	-
10	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich	59.8	10.5%	212	207	#22
11	University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne	58.1	12.9%	128	135	#91
12	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh	56.6	17.9%	175	338	#14
13	Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York	55.2	12.3%	108	177	#10
14	University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen	53.9	15.7%	142	340	#15
15	University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich	52.7	16.2%	136	266	#41
16	University of TorontoCanada · Toronto	51.6	10.4%	293	318	#9
17	Université de LyonFrance · Lyon	50.5	6.7%	283	75	#59
18	University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	49.5	17.8%	164	569	#13
19	Université Paris CitéFrance · Paris	48.6	8.8%	163	98	#66
20	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London	47.7	17.4%	195	513	#27
21	University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego	46.8	20.7%	69	225	#17
22	New York UniversityUnited States · New York	46.0	14.1%	143	276	#6
23	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin	45.2	14.0%	143	243	#18
24	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley	44.5	11.3%	112	131	#12
25	Freie Universität BerlinGermany · Berlin	43.8	9.1%	136	89	#94
26	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany · Berlin	43.1	13.7%	132	133	#50
27	McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal	42.4	17.3%	104	239	#28
28	Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg	41.8	17.7%	109	191	#55
29	Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven	41.2	11.1%	134	209	#8
30	University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	40.6	16.9%	102	213	#52
31	KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven	40.0	14.6%	203	218	#31
32	Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye · Ankara	39.5	7.6%	534	711	-
33	University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki	38.9	16.4%	169	213	#80
34	University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen	38.4	11.6%	126	110	-
35	University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine	37.9	25.7%	75	279	#46
36	University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen	37.4	20.8%	108	307	#47
37	University of FribourgSwitzerland · Fribourg	36.9	15.4%	88	137	-
38	University of Notre DameUnited States · Notre Dame	36.5	12.8%	150	143	#37
39	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen	36.0	13.2%	93	113	#54
40	Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem	35.6	14.7%	92	134	#65
41	University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom · St Andrews	35.2	14.2%	147	169	#33
42	Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain · Madrid	34.7	14.1%	352	184	-
43	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht	34.3	14.6%	96	208	#77
44	Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham	33.9	14.9%	92	141	#51
45	Leibniz AssociationGermany · Berlin	33.5	15.8%	87	76	#67
46	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance · Paris	33.1	6.1%	219	83	-
47	University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor	32.8	13.4%	92	181	#20
48	Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca	32.4	9.4%	96	116	#16
49	Ruhr University BochumGermany · Bochum	32.0	12.6%	131	207	-
50	University of BonnGermany · Bonn	31.7	11.1%	91	56	-
51	Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus	31.3	14.0%	125	241	#45
52	University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter	31.0	15.4%	87	315	#68
53	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles	30.7	14.6%	69	114	#23
54	Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance · Paris	30.3	7.6%	109	39	-
55	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam	30.0	15.5%	111	217	-
56	Goethe University FrankfurtGermany · Frankfurt am Main	29.7	13.5%	123	98	#85
57	Max Planck SocietyGermany · Munich	29.4	10.6%	71	84	#26
58	Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm	29.1	16.1%	77	132	#81
59	Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg	28.8	12.8%	128	192	#78
60	University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom · Glasgow	28.5	12.7%	138	352	-
61	Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany · Mainz	28.2	14.0%	83	104	-
62	Uppsala UniversitySweden · Uppsala	27.9	19.4%	97	243	-
63	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom · Birmingham	27.7	16.6%	108	268	-
64	University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw	27.4	9.1%	304	144	-
65	The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne	27.1	19.2%	96	228	#43
66	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom · Manchester	26.8	12.8%	104	162	#34
67	University of OsloNorway · Oslo	26.6	15.9%	136	285	#70
68	Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance · Paris	26.3	6.7%	185	39	#19
69	University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol	26.1	13.1%	94	213	#74
70	University of PotsdamGermany · Potsdam	25.8	11.5%	82	72	-
71	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison	25.6	13.2%	81	98	#42
72	University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh	25.3	12.5%	79	147	#21
73	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana	25.1	17.9%	62	119	#44
74	Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona	24.8	9.4%	175	159	-
75	University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver	24.6	15.7%	89	177	#76
76	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville	24.4	16.3%	60	127	#62
77	Leiden UniversityNetherlands · Leiden	24.2	19.7%	65	179	-
78	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance · Paris	23.9	5.8%	119	35	#35
79	Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom · Durham	23.7	12.6%	150	145	#60
80	The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney	23.5	14.2%	121	188	-
81	Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne	23.3	17.2%	77	134	#24
82	University of YorkUnited Kingdom · York	23.1	22.1%	72	140	#71
83	University of CologneGermany · Cologne	22.8	11.7%	114	118	-
84	Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael · Tel Aviv	22.6	14.1%	90	118	-
85	University of LeedsUnited Kingdom · Leeds	22.4	11.1%	109	145	#98
86	Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina · Buenos Aires	22.2	8.0%	256	74	-
87	Université de StrasbourgFrance · Strasbourg	22.0	6.4%	130	44	#86
88	University of BernSwitzerland · Bern	21.8	16.2%	73	160	-
89	UCLouvainBelgium · Louvain-la-Neuve	21.6	17.5%	82	84	-
90	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom · Coventry	21.4	17.1%	124	229	#38
91	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus	21.2	20.2%	72	136	-
92	Université Grenoble AlpesFrance · Saint-Martin-d'Hères	21.0	6.2%	130	49	-
93	University of GenevaSwitzerland · Geneva	20.9	16.5%	85	120	-
94	Arizona State UniversityUnited States · Tempe	20.7	12.4%	72	125	#82
95	Universität InnsbruckAustria · Innsbruck	20.5	10.9%	62	54	-
96	University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom · Southampton	20.3	16.3%	77	130	-
97	Universidad de SevillaSpain · Seville	20.1	15.8%	131	63	-
98	Indiana UniversityUnited States · Bloomington	19.9	9.7%	119	148	#39
99	Lund UniversitySweden · Lund	19.8	20.6%	73	143	-
100	Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyUnited States · New Brunswick	19.6	13.0%	79	135	#58

institutions ranked worldwide in Philosophy (307). 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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