Materials Science Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Materials Science topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Materials Science currently has 65 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 264,305 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is 0.7%.
The ranking below combines the strength of an institution’s field signal with its overall research-performance score and recent growth. It should be read as a research-intelligence indicator, not as a complete subject ranking of teaching, reputation, facilities or student outcomes.
Leading universities in Materials Science
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | United States | 66.1 | 30,635 | 26,470 | -21.6% |
| #2 | Tohoku University | Japan | 61.1 | 12,498 | 46,558 | -7.6% |
| #3 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | 60.3 | 12,271 | 185,542 | -23.8% |
| #4 | University of Science and Technology Beijing | China | 60.3 | 10,020 | 43,145 | 7.7% |
| #5 | Tsinghua University | China | 59.4 | 8,718 | 138,968 | 7.8% |
| #6 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | China | 59.0 | 8,461 | 88,191 | 2.8% |
| #7 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 58.3 | 2,163 | 102,279 | 467.0% |
| #8 | South China University of Technology | China | 58.1 | 7,097 | 62,629 | 7.9% |
| #9 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 57.8 | 6,903 | 83,893 | 5.2% |
| #10 | Tianjin University | China | 57.6 | 7,021 | 68,484 | -2.8% |
| #11 | Sichuan University | China | 57.2 | 7,240 | 123,220 | -16.9% |
| #12 | Jilin University | China | 56.9 | 6,559 | 69,432 | -10.0% |
| #13 | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | 56.7 | 6,550 | 73,158 | -15.6% |
| #14 | Nankai University | China | 56.6 | 5,899 | 49,898 | -0.7% |
| #15 | Sungkyunkwan University | South Korea | 56.3 | 5,908 | 40,745 | -8.5% |
| #16 | Chongqing University | China | 56.2 | 5,414 | 65,858 | 3.6% |
| #17 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 55.9 | 5,796 | 92,637 | -15.9% |
| #18 | Harbin Institute of Technology | China | 54.9 | 4,140 | 86,528 | 12.4% |
| #19 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 54.9 | 4,210 | 59,019 | 9.0% |
| #20 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | China | 54.7 | 4,065 | 57,124 | 9.9% |
| #21 | National Cheng Kung University | Taiwan | 54.6 | 4,567 | 22,178 | -9.8% |
| #22 | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 54.1 | 4,399 | 63,076 | -16.9% |
| #23 | University of Science and Technology of China | China | 54.0 | 3,836 | 90,353 | 1.9% |
| #24 | Dalian University of Technology | China | 53.5 | 3,225 | 53,791 | 16.2% |
| #25 | Korea University | South Korea | 53.5 | 3,457 | 35,904 | 4.5% |
| #26 | Zhejiang University | China | 53.4 | 3,801 | 157,802 | -10.6% |
| #27 | Kyushu University | Japan | 53.4 | 3,833 | 38,501 | -13.1% |
| #28 | Peking University | China | 53.0 | 3,694 | 163,127 | -17.4% |
| #29 | Hunan University | China | 52.8 | 2,986 | 42,964 | 10.0% |
| #30 | The University of Osaka | Japan | 52.6 | 3,697 | 43,352 | -27.2% |
| #31 | Zhengzhou University | China | 52.5 | 3,457 | 61,040 | -20.3% |
| #32 | Beijing Institute of Technology | China | 51.7 | 2,513 | 62,349 | 9.6% |
| #33 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | 51.6 | 2,719 | 44,707 | -5.2% |
| #34 | Southeast University | China | 51.3 | 2,469 | 69,995 | 3.8% |
| #35 | Nanjing University | China | 51.2 | 2,511 | 66,464 | -1.0% |
| #36 | Soochow University | China | 51.0 | 2,592 | 55,442 | -11.9% |
| #37 | Wuhan University of Technology | China | 50.8 | 2,021 | 42,633 | 21.7% |
| #38 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 50.6 | 2,026 | 88,325 | 17.2% |
| #39 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | 50.6 | 2,379 | 40,531 | -8.1% |
| #40 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | China | 50.6 | 2,271 | 64,006 | -1.5% |
| #41 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 50.5 | 2,481 | 35,076 | -16.3% |
| #42 | Xiamen University | China | 50.0 | 2,130 | 51,854 | -4.7% |
| #43 | Brown University | United States | 50.0 | 2,190 | 45,712 | -10.1% |
| #44 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | 50.0 | 1,926 | 27,145 | 9.1% |
| #45 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 49.9 | 2,148 | 67,893 | -8.9% |
| #46 | University of the Basque Country | Spain | 49.8 | 2,103 | 29,999 | -8.4% |
| #47 | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain | 49.2 | 1,994 | 54,398 | -16.1% |
| #48 | Universitat de València | Spain | 48.9 | 1,849 | 38,981 | -11.4% |
| #49 | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | Taiwan | 48.8 | 1,855 | 30,450 | -15.2% |
| #50 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | Germany | 48.6 | 1,611 | 34,595 | 2.7% |
| #51 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 48.4 | 1,794 | 40,114 | -19.0% |
| #52 | Arizona State University | United States | 48.0 | 1,548 | 47,052 | -5.9% |
| #53 | Lyon 1 Université | France | 47.9 | 1,828 | 56,701 | -34.4% |
| #54 | Yonsei University | South Korea | 47.7 | 1,532 | 54,970 | -12.1% |
| #55 | University of Florence | Italy | 47.5 | 1,282 | 42,614 | 10.5% |
| #56 | Tufts University | United States | 47.4 | 1,166 | 25,854 | 23.7% |
| #57 | University of Tsukuba | Japan | 47.3 | 1,365 | 28,803 | -3.0% |
| #58 | University of Delaware | United States | 46.9 | 1,084 | 23,139 | 23.4% |
| #59 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 46.8 | 1,377 | 33,679 | -16.6% |
| #60 | Shanghai University | China | 46.8 | 1,235 | 40,068 | 0.5% |
| #61 | University of Malaya | Malaysia | 46.8 | 1,260 | 36,332 | -3.1% |
| #62 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | 46.5 | 1,242 | 29,381 | -8.7% |
| #63 | Hiroshima University | Japan | 46.0 | 1,145 | 22,616 | -8.9% |
| #64 | Technische Universität Dresden | Germany | 45.9 | 1,178 | 40,536 | -15.5% |
| #65 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway | 45.7 | 961 | 50,300 | 11.4% |
How to interpret this field page
Field classifications are inferred from the scholarly works associated with institutions in OpenAlex. An institution can therefore appear strongly in several fields at once, and topic classifications may evolve as the scholarly graph is updated. ITS Research Solution does not infer a faculty or department simply from the existence of a topic signal.
Why every database record does not become an SEO page
ITS Research Solution only indexes pages when the underlying data is rich enough to support useful comparison and interpretation. Registry-only records, short research histories, missing topics and low-completeness profiles stay in the database but remain outside the public sitemap. This prevents repetitive, thin institution and subject pages.