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Top Radiation Research Institutions

Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 42 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 22.4% 238 1.4k#43
2 Tsinghua UniversityChina · Beijing 81.5 19.4% 156 760#56
3 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States · Los Alamos 70.6 15.1% 194 550#2
4 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 62.9 24.0% 139 701—
5 Paul Scherrer InstituteSwitzerland · Villigen 56.9 21.4% 130 677#11
6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 52.1 36.6% 74 408—
7 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 47.9 17.5% 90 574#16
8 Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States · Oak Ridge 44.4 12.4% 202 514#1
9 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 41.2 19.8% 87 400#5
10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 38.4 20.8% 104 533#21
11 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 35.8 22.2% 95 613#14
12 European Organization for Nuclear ResearchSwitzerland · Geneva 33.5 22.3% 97 438#12
13 Argonne National LaboratoryUnited States · Lemont 31.4 17.8% 101 442#3
14 Nara Institute of Science and TechnologyJapan · Ikoma 29.4 30.5% 71 515—
15 Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUnited States · Livermore 27.5 18.7% 106 350#8
16 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 25.8 27.1% 67 458—
17 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina · Xi'an 24.2 25.4% 78 335—
18 Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUnited States · Berkeley 22.7 18.7% 94 405#7
19 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina · Hefei 21.2 16.0% 121 484—
20 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESYGermany · Hamburg 19.9 13.5% 90 335#45
21 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 18.5 19.9% 72 415—
22 Institute of High Energy PhysicsChina · Beijing 17.3 18.3% 81 322—
23 Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFrance · Paris 16.1 18.9% 84 288#15
24 Japan Atomic Energy AgencyJapan · Tōkai Mura 15.0 14.9% 105 286#9
25 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 13.9 16.4% 74 268#13
26 China Institute of Atomic EnergyChina · Beijing 12.8 15.6% 78 208—
27 National Institutes for Quantum Science and TechnologyJapan · Chiba 11.8 13.1% 91 342—
28 Bhabha Atomic Research CentreIndia · Mumbai 10.8 11.2% 103 277#36
29 The University of OsakaJapan · Osaka 9.9 15.4% 69 276#32
30 Homi Bhabha National InstituteIndia · Mumbai 9.0 14.0% 86 275—
31 Tohoku UniversityJapan · Sendai 8.1 10.0% 105 349#39
32 Brookhaven National LaboratoryUnited States · Upton 7.3 13.6% 67 225#4
33 Kyoto UniversityJapan · Kyoto 6.5 11.6% 81 267#34
34 The University of TokyoJapan · Tokyo 5.7 14.4% 65 271#30
35 Idaho National LaboratoryUnited States · Idaho Falls 4.9 12.3% 78 129#60
36 China Academy of Engineering PhysicsChina · Mianyang 4.1 14.7% 66 248—
37 Kurchatov InstituteRussia · Moscow 3.4 8.3% 100 185—
38 Joint Institute for Nuclear ResearchRussia · Dubna 2.7 8.5% 101 142#52
39 National Research Nuclear University MEPhIRussia · Moscow 2.0 7.5% 80 126—
40 Chengdu University of TechnologyChina · Chengdu 130.5 9.7% 60 210—
41 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia · Moscow 64.5 8.0% 71 184—
42 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 0.0 1.8% 131 109—

institutions ranked worldwide in Radiation (42). 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 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 238 works
  2. 2 Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States 202 works
  3. 3 Los Alamos National LaboratoryUnited States 194 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 156 works
  5. 5 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 139 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 131 works
  7. 7 Paul Scherrer InstituteSwitzerland 130 works
  8. 8 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 121 works
  9. 9 Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUnited States 106 works
  10. 10 Tohoku UniversityJapan 105 works
  11. 11 Japan Atomic Energy AgencyJapan 105 works
  12. 12 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 104 works
  13. 13 Bhabha Atomic Research CentreIndia 103 works
  14. 14 Argonne National LaboratoryUnited States 101 works
  15. 15 Joint Institute for Nuclear ResearchRussia 101 works

Radiation by country