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Top Surgery Research Institutions

Harvard University ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 1,816 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 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 100.0 23.3% 1.2k 9.6k#1
2 Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 90.8 22.2% 1.3k 9.4k—
3 Cleveland ClinicUnited States · Cleveland 85.4 15.5% 1.5k 6.8k#4
4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 81.5 20.2% 943 6.1k#6
5 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina · Beijing 78.6 17.4% 1.4k 8.3k#91
6 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina · Guangzhou 76.1 21.5% 908 6.1k—
7 Mayo ClinicUnited States · Rochester 74.1 22.7% 1k 6.6k#3
8 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States · Boston 72.3 18.4% 1k 5.7k#7
9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina · Shanghai 70.7 21.9% 850 6.4k—
10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 69.3 18.9% 737 5.1k#18
11 Brigham and Women's HospitalUnited States · Boston 68.0 21.3% 698 5.4k#5
12 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 66.9 17.8% 994 5.9k#10
13 Peking UniversityChina · Beijing 65.8 19.5% 1k 6.2k—
14 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States · Scottsdale 64.8 16.5% 1.2k 5.7k#21
15 West China Hospital of Sichuan UniversityChina · Chengdu 63.9 20.4% 841 5.5k—
16 Mayo Clinic in FloridaUnited States · Jacksonville 63.1 20.6% 786 4.7k#54
17 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 62.2 18.9% 763 4.7k#17
18 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 61.5 23.9% 455 3.8k—
19 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiUnited States · New York 60.8 15.7% 818 4.2k#42
20 Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere ScientificoItaly · Rome 60.1 24.5% 672 4.9k—
21 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 59.4 17.5% 855 5k#13
22 InsermFrance · Paris 58.8 19.1% 584 4.2k#25
23 Washington University in St. LouisUnited States · St Louis 58.2 18.7% 821 4.7k#11
24 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 57.7 16.5% 849 4.7k#14
25 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterUnited States · Nashville 57.1 17.7% 632 3.4k#49
26 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States · San Francisco 56.6 18.5% 841 5.1k#2
27 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 56.1 17.7% 545 3.5k#22
28 Duke UniversityUnited States · Durham 55.6 20.6% 626 4.1k#43
29 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States · Los Angeles 55.1 14.7% 652 3.4k#16
30 Cornell UniversityUnited States · Ithaca 54.7 20.1% 694 4.4k#20
31 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States · Houston 54.2 17.9% 759 4.6k#28
32 Johns Hopkins MedicineUnited States · Baltimore 53.8 20.7% 547 3.6k#39
33 Central South UniversityChina · Changsha 53.4 21.8% 547 4.1k—
34 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 53.0 17.1% 840 4.7k#23
35 Hospital for Special SurgeryUnited States · New York 52.6 20.6% 820 4.5k#34
36 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 52.2 21.6% 515 3.5k#30
37 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States · Dallas 51.9 16.3% 758 3.8k#8
38 Rush University Medical CenterUnited States · Chicago 51.5 18.5% 731 3.5k#48
39 Medical University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 51.2 17.7% 507 3.1k—
40 Capital Medical UniversityChina · Beijing 50.8 16.7% 996 5.3k—
41 Amsterdam University Medical CentersNetherlands · Amsterdam 50.5 23.9% 469 3.7k—
42 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterUnited States · New York 50.2 19.0% 600 3.9k#15
43 Northwestern UniversityUnited States · Evanston 49.9 17.7% 626 3.6k#29
44 Emory UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 49.6 14.3% 775 3.5k#40
45 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 49.3 15.2% 627 3.5k#9
46 University of PaduaItaly · Padua 49.0 20.0% 557 3.4k#81
47 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 48.7 9.6% 970 3.3k#33
48 Erasmus MCNetherlands · Rotterdam 48.4 23.3% 404 3k#45
49 NYU Langone HealthUnited States · New York 48.1 18.6% 673 3.6k—
50 Nanjing Medical UniversityChina · Nanjing 47.9 19.7% 680 3.9k—
51 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 47.6 20.3% 496 3.4k#46
52 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina · Wuhan 47.3 22.3% 489 3.8k—
53 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong · Hong Kong 47.1 26.4% 342 2.8k—
54 Southern Medical UniversityChina · Guangzhou 46.8 24.0% 395 3.3k—
55 University of UtahUnited States · Salt Lake City 46.6 16.4% 691 3.2k#52
56 Baylor College of MedicineUnited States · Houston 46.4 14.0% 688 3.6k#26
57 Sapienza University of RomeItaly · Rome 46.1 20.7% 543 3.2k—
58 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 45.9 24.1% 342 2.7k#27
59 Karolinska InstitutetSweden · Stockholm 45.7 25.8% 471 3.4k#36
60 University of MilanItaly · Milan 45.4 23.7% 471 3k#85
61 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 45.2 16.9% 574 3k#12
62 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 45.0 25.1% 333 2.7k#79
63 Fudan UniversityChina · Shanghai 44.8 20.4% 455 3.2k—
64 Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterUnited States · Los Angeles 44.6 16.7% 457 2.5k#59
65 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 44.4 20.9% 366 2.7k#86
66 University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam 44.2 28.5% 281 2.7k#67
67 Fujian Medical UniversityChina · Fuzhou 44.0 17.0% 599 3.2k—
68 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 43.8 21.3% 271 2.1k—
69 Soochow UniversityChina · Suzhou 43.6 20.0% 464 3.2k—
70 University of Colorado DenverUnited States · Denver 43.4 17.6% 476 2.6k#64
71 Chinese PLA General HospitalChina · Beijing 43.2 16.5% 611 3.4k—
72 Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinGermany · Berlin 43.0 12.1% 698 2.6k#99
73 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 42.8 18.4% 438 2.7k#90
74 University of Alabama at BirminghamUnited States · Birmingham 42.6 13.6% 593 2.8k#66
75 University Medical Center GroningenNetherlands · Groningen 42.5 25.9% 300 2.3k—
76 University of BolognaItaly · Bologna 42.3 23.8% 398 2.4k—
77 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States · Los Angeles 42.1 16.9% 610 3.2k#31
78 Brown UniversityUnited States · Providence 41.9 18.7% 490 2.6k—
79 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea · Seoul 41.8 16.2% 625 3.2k—
80 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 41.6 15.4% 502 2.3k#56
81 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 41.4 19.5% 348 2.3k#95
82 Wenzhou Medical UniversityChina · Wenzhou 41.3 20.4% 420 2.6k—
83 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina · Xi'an 41.1 24.4% 244 2.5k—
84 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 41.0 17.1% 521 2.7k#51
85 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusUnited States · Aurora 40.8 18.9% 390 2.2k—
86 Columbia University Irving Medical CenterUnited States · New York 40.6 15.1% 566 2.6k#70
87 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 40.5 17.6% 469 2.4k#77
88 McMaster UniversityCanada · Hamilton 40.3 20.2% 391 2.7k#55
89 Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States · Cleveland 40.2 15.4% 384 1.8k#60
90 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 40.0 17.4% 489 2.6k#61
91 WinnMedUnited States · Decorah 39.9 16.3% 495 2.4k—
92 University Hospital of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 39.7 21.3% 335 2.3k#100
93 University of Naples Federico IIItaly · Naples 39.6 25.6% 302 2.2k—
94 Agostino Gemelli University PolyclinicItaly · Rome 39.5 19.5% 437 2.4k—
95 Leiden University Medical CenterNetherlands · Leiden 39.3 26.2% 349 2.5k#93
96 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 39.2 13.2% 660 2.9k#96
97 Wuhan UniversityChina · Wuhan 39.0 22.5% 302 2.3k—
98 The Ohio State University Wexner Medical CenterUnited States · Columbus 38.9 15.9% 452 2.3k—
99 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece · Athens 38.8 17.3% 430 2.3k—
100 Duke Medical CenterUnited States · Durham 38.6 19.9% 330 2.3k#41

institutions ranked worldwide in Surgery (1,816). 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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One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 1.5k works
  2. 2 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 1.5k works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina 1.4k works
  4. 4 Sichuan UniversityChina 1.3k works
  5. 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 1.2k works
  6. 6 Mayo Clinic in ArizonaUnited States 1.2k works
  7. 7 Ain Shams UniversityEgypt 1.1k works
  8. 8 Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye 1.1k works
  9. 9 Mayo ClinicUnited States 1k works
  10. 10 Massachusetts General HospitalUnited States 1k works
  11. 11 Peking UniversityChina 1k works
  12. 12 Capital Medical UniversityChina 996 works
  13. 13 Stanford UniversityUnited States 994 works
  14. 14 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 970 works
  15. 15 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 943 works

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