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Top Software Research Institutions

Beihang University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 4 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
1Beihang University China · Beijing 100.0 20.1% 102 663#43
2Peking University China · Beijing 50.0 36.2% 61 520#21
3Nanjing University China · Nanjing 20.8 29.7% 96 728#41
4National University of Defense Technology China · Changsha 0.0 17.1% 92 404#80

institutions ranked worldwide in Software (4). 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.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beihang University China 102 works
  2. 2 Nanjing University China 96 works
  3. 3 National University of Defense Technology China 92 works
  4. 4 Peking University China 61 works
  5. 5 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics China 57 works
  6. 6 Technical University of Munich Germany 51 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua University China 50 works
  8. 8 University of Luxembourg Luxembourg 47 works
  9. 9 RWTH Aachen University Germany 47 works
  10. 10 Carnegie Mellon University United States 46 works
  11. 11 University of Stuttgart Germany 43 works
  12. 12 Zhejiang University China 39 works
  13. 13 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 39 works
  14. 14 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany 38 works
  15. 15 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 38 works

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