Neuroscience Research Strength
Explore universities with the strongest current Neuroscience topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.
Research landscape
Neuroscience currently has 79 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 306,977 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 0.0, while average five-year publication growth is -3.9%.
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 Neuroscience
| Rank | University | Country | Field score | Field signal | Overall works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | University College London | United Kingdom | 66.6 | 18,304 | 164,247 | -9.9% |
| #2 | Yale University | United States | 66.4 | 13,132 | 116,263 | 40.1% |
| #3 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 65.5 | 8,659 | 92,221 | 86.4% |
| #4 | New York University | United States | 64.0 | 11,843 | 68,911 | -2.6% |
| #5 | Harvard University | United States | 64.0 | 13,441 | 156,655 | -24.4% |
| #6 | McGill University | Canada | 63.6 | 12,226 | 68,222 | -17.3% |
| #7 | University of California San Diego | United States | 62.8 | 10,244 | 89,480 | -8.9% |
| #8 | Radboud University Nijmegen | The Netherlands | 61.4 | 8,881 | 54,596 | -19.3% |
| #9 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 60.8 | 7,460 | 49,436 | -6.2% |
| #10 | Stanford University | United States | 60.7 | 7,597 | 124,451 | -11.6% |
| #11 | Columbia University | United States | 60.6 | 7,451 | 78,881 | -12.3% |
| #12 | Vanderbilt University | United States | 60.5 | 7,468 | 34,732 | -14.6% |
| #13 | Karolinska Institutet | Sweden | 60.3 | 7,260 | 62,423 | -13.9% |
| #14 | University of Toronto | Canada | 60.2 | 7,387 | 136,717 | -20.1% |
| #15 | Emory University | United States | 60.2 | 6,905 | 63,631 | -9.4% |
| #16 | King's College London | United Kingdom | 59.9 | 6,780 | 77,599 | -12.2% |
| #17 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 59.8 | 6,787 | 78,911 | -16.2% |
| #18 | University of Milan | Italy | 59.7 | 1,824 | 216,132 | 444.4% |
| #19 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 58.8 | 5,804 | 66,456 | -15.2% |
| #20 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 58.5 | 5,294 | 39,029 | -7.7% |
| #21 | University of Tübingen | Germany | 57.9 | 4,901 | 38,123 | -10.0% |
| #22 | Oregon Health & Science University | United States | 57.9 | 3,493 | 38,931 | 45.7% |
| #23 | Boston University | United States | 57.5 | 4,980 | 43,208 | -20.8% |
| #24 | Case Western Reserve University | United States | 57.4 | 4,805 | 32,459 | -18.8% |
| #25 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 57.4 | 4,760 | 124,053 | -18.0% |
| #26 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 56.6 | 4,202 | 58,065 | -16.2% |
| #27 | Duke University | United States | 56.5 | 4,035 | 68,734 | -12.6% |
| #28 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | 56.2 | 4,066 | 93,873 | -20.9% |
| #29 | University of Freiburg | Germany | 56.1 | 2,944 | 39,835 | 29.8% |
| #30 | Western University | Canada | 56.0 | 3,885 | 42,968 | -17.4% |
| #31 | University of California, San Francisco | United States | 55.9 | 3,836 | 72,937 | -18.8% |
| #32 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | United States | 55.9 | 3,600 | 52,409 | -9.5% |
| #33 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 55.5 | 2,566 | 108,566 | 36.6% |
| #34 | University of Washington | United States | 55.3 | 3,533 | 108,488 | -20.0% |
| #35 | Capital Medical University | China | 55.2 | 3,782 | 63,030 | -34.9% |
| #36 | University of Kentucky | United States | 54.8 | 2,318 | 38,793 | 36.3% |
| #37 | University of Iowa | United States | 54.6 | 3,022 | 33,333 | -10.8% |
| #38 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 54.4 | 2,921 | 30,904 | -11.7% |
| #39 | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | Germany | 54.2 | 2,837 | 30,175 | -10.7% |
| #40 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | The Netherlands | 54.0 | 2,843 | 46,058 | -15.8% |
| #41 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 53.8 | 2,532 | 90,580 | -2.1% |
| #42 | Northwestern University | United States | 53.1 | 2,504 | 53,812 | -18.7% |
| #43 | Beijing Normal University | China | 52.6 | 2,118 | 50,696 | -3.8% |
| #44 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | 52.5 | 2,101 | 43,476 | -4.8% |
| #45 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 52.2 | 2,159 | 102,835 | -15.1% |
| #46 | University of Maryland, Baltimore | United States | 52.2 | 2,208 | 28,479 | -19.2% |
| #47 | University of Southern California | United States | 52.1 | 2,122 | 58,447 | -15.5% |
| #48 | Baylor College of Medicine | United States | 52.0 | 2,154 | 40,392 | -21.7% |
| #49 | University of Gothenburg | Sweden | 51.6 | 1,865 | 42,611 | -8.0% |
| #50 | University of Illinois Chicago | United States | 51.4 | 1,708 | 43,061 | 3.3% |
| #51 | University of Virginia | United States | 51.4 | 1,626 | 44,729 | 11.0% |
| #52 | University of Utah | United States | 51.1 | 1,907 | 55,043 | -22.4% |
| #53 | Université de Bordeaux | France | 50.7 | 1,785 | 34,784 | -23.2% |
| #54 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | United States | 50.7 | 1,742 | 19,800 | -19.4% |
| #55 | University of Alabama at Birmingham | United States | 50.5 | 1,566 | 38,277 | -6.6% |
| #56 | Université de Montréal | Canada | 50.3 | 1,669 | 41,961 | -19.9% |
| #57 | Maastricht University | The Netherlands | 50.2 | 1,634 | 40,463 | -20.4% |
| #58 | University of Calgary | Canada | 50.1 | 1,562 | 49,875 | -14.5% |
| #59 | Temple University | United States | 49.9 | 1,457 | 20,345 | -9.2% |
| #60 | University of Kansas | United States | 49.5 | 1,328 | 21,406 | -2.8% |
| #61 | Georgetown University | United States | 49.5 | 1,322 | 26,953 | -3.8% |
| #62 | Ruhr University Bochum | Germany | 49.4 | 1,327 | 31,980 | -6.9% |
| #63 | Stony Brook University | United States | 49.1 | 1,341 | 26,965 | -15.7% |
| #64 | Wayne State University | United States | 48.9 | 1,330 | 23,017 | -18.4% |
| #65 | Ghent University | Belgium | 48.9 | 1,324 | 43,906 | -18.1% |
| #66 | University of Houston | United States | 48.8 | 1,210 | 22,866 | -4.4% |
| #67 | University at Buffalo, State University of New York | United States | 48.6 | 1,144 | 26,875 | -1.3% |
| #68 | Leipzig University | Germany | 47.9 | 1,043 | 48,827 | -2.7% |
| #69 | Technische Universität Dresden | Germany | 47.9 | 1,122 | 40,536 | -15.5% |
| #70 | Université Laval | Canada | 47.6 | 1,109 | 31,593 | -20.1% |
| #71 | University of New Mexico | United States | 47.6 | 1,127 | 17,007 | -23.3% |
| #72 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 47.4 | 1,043 | 33,679 | -16.6% |
| #73 | Keio University | Japan | 47.3 | 975 | 25,430 | -6.5% |
| #74 | University of Genoa | Italy | 47.3 | 935 | 28,169 | 0.3% |
| #75 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 47.2 | 987 | 21,627 | -11.7% |
| #76 | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany | 47.0 | 1,121 | 37,640 | -37.0% |
| #77 | University of South Florida | United States | 46.8 | 944 | 30,252 | -14.3% |
| #78 | Louisiana State University | United States | 46.6 | 907 | 18,634 | -13.6% |
| #79 | University of Connecticut | United States | 45.7 | 843 | 24,293 | -24.0% |
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.