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Top Software Research Institutions

Nanjing University ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Peking University and Chinese Academy of Sciences, out of 7 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.

Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1Nanjing UniversityChina · Nanjing 100.0 17.2% 96 728#6
2Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 64.4 21.2% 62 521#10
3Chinese Academy of SciencesChina · Beijing 43.5 11.0% 130 614#19
4Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany · Berlin 28.8 7.7% 83 324#24
5Beihang UniversityChina · Beijing 17.3 15.2% 103 666#46
6Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 7.9 5.5% 98 322#18
7National University of Defense TechnologyChina · Changsha 0.0 8.2% 92 404-

institutions ranked worldwide in Software (7). 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).

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 140 works
  2. 2 Beihang UniversityChina 109 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 107 works
  4. 4 Nanjing UniversityChina 102 works
  5. 5 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 99 works
  6. 6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 91 works
  7. 7 Peking UniversityChina 66 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 59 works
  9. 9 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 59 works
  10. 10 Technical University of MunichGermany 55 works
  11. 11 Tsinghua UniversityChina 54 works
  12. 12 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 53 works
  13. 13 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 51 works
  14. 14 University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 51 works
  15. 15 University of StuttgartGermany 46 works

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