Research field intelligence

Nursing Research Strength

Name: Nursing University Research Ranking & Trends – ITS Research Solution
Creator: ITS Research Solution

Explore universities with the strongest current Nursing topic signals in the ITS Research Intelligence database, alongside institution-level research performance and growth.

Research landscape

Nursing currently has 77 index-ready universities contributing strong topic signals in the local database. Their aggregated topic-signal volume is 11,087 works. The average overall ITS Research Performance Score across this set is 48.9, while average five-year publication growth is 17.9%.

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 Nursing

Rank	University	Country	Field score	Field signal	Overall works	Growth
#1	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom	84.2	4,009	31,301	-36.6%
#2	Tufts University	United States	77.4	1,184	25,854	23.7%
#3	University of Manitoba	Canada	71.8	769	27,383	-16.3%
#4	Dhaka Medical College and Hospital	Bangladesh	62.8	257	8,040	54.3%
#5	International Institute for Population Sciences	India	62.0	481	1,970	-51.8%
#6	Government Medical College	India	60.7	228	9,734	20.9%
#7	University of the West Indies	Jamaica	56.6	190	1,071	-4.8%
#8	St.John's Medical College Hospital	India	56.1	174	2,509	-15.7%
#9	Sahmyook University	South Korea	55.8	210	1,406	-30.8%
#10	Interuniversity Consortium for Magnetic Resonance	Italy	55.1	169	494	0.0%
#11	Government Medical College	India	55.0	97	3,677	64.9%
#12	Government Medical College	India	54.8	162	5,031	-32.5%
#13	Tokushima Bunri University	Japan	54.7	149	797	9.6%
#14	Buckinghamshire New University	United Kingdom	54.7	71	700	136.8%
#15	TiFN	Netherlands	54.3	189	206	-23.1%
#16	Lady Hardinge Medical College	India	53.2	129	2,308	-13.1%
#17	Somali National University	Somalia	53.2	43	842	203.9%
#18	B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences	Nepal	52.4	130	2,144	-30.6%
#19	Seoul Women's University	South Korea	51.7	105	939	-1.8%
#20	KPC Medical College and Hospital	India	51.3	78	2,064	38.1%
#21	University of Benghazi	Libya	51.1	71	3,444	34.5%
#22	Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College	India	50.7	104	5,007	-52.3%
#23	JSS Medical College and Hospital	India	50.5	86	1,990	4.4%
#24	Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College	India	50.3	72	2,250	37.4%
#25	New York Academy of Medicine	United States	50.3	69	550	44.4%
#26	Hanseo University	South Korea	50.2	90	882	-0.3%
#27	Lynn University	United States	49.6	69	910	24.3%
#28	Assam Medical College	India	49.2	71	1,510	27.1%
#29	University of Aden	Yemen	48.6	59	1,970	26.3%
#30	Rajshahi Medical College	Bangladesh	48.2	60	1,396	45.0%
#31	Dongduk Women's University	South Korea	47.3	65	674	-0.4%
#32	Université du Burundi	Burundi	47.2	58	1,424	14.8%
#33	Silla University	South Korea	47.2	71	676	-15.3%
#34	Oregon University System	United States	46.4	48	114	77.1%
#35	Narayan Medical College and Hospital	India	46.2	56	2,389	0.0%
#36	Showa Women's University	Japan	46.0	62	284	17.2%
#37	University of San Carlos	Philippines	45.4	51	1,053	-10.7%
#38	Prefectural University of Kumamoto	Japan	45.4	58	339	-5.6%
#39	Fooyin University	Taiwan	44.3	45	938	-15.2%
#40	Nambu University	South Korea	44.3	65	263	-21.7%
#41	Mount Carmel College of Nursing	United States	44.0	17	255	198.2%
#42	Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College	India	43.9	36	722	44.9%
#43	Pai Chai University	South Korea	43.9	45	467	-10.8%
#44	Bethel College	United States	43.7	45	116	47.4%
#45	Royal University of Phnom Penh	Cambodia	43.5	30	706	60.0%
#46	Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences	India	43.0	40	795	-8.8%
#47	Kinjo Gakuin University	Japan	43.0	39	377	12.9%
#48	Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies	United States	42.6	31	387	24.2%
#49	Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute	India	42.6	37	646	7.5%
#50	Bankura Sammilani Medical College	India	42.3	45	650	-21.4%
#51	Burdwan Medical College & Hospital	India	42.0	36	1,158	-14.6%
#52	Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College and Hospital	India	42.0	45	1,284	-41.9%
#53	Excelsior College	United States	41.9	14	269	169.5%
#54	University of the Incarnate Word	United States	41.5	30	1,168	-4.1%
#55	Government Medical College	India	41.1	24	910	50.2%
#56	Suzuka University of Medical Science	Japan	40.9	33	543	-17.0%
#57	Manipal College of Medical Sciences	Nepal	40.5	33	713	-19.2%
#58	Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College	India	40.3	25	787	28.6%
#59	Notre Dame of Maryland University	United States	40.2	30	262	3.1%
#60	Mysore Medical College	India	39.3	29	705	-17.8%
#61	Institut National d’Hygiène Publique	Ivory Coast	39.0	34	351	-33.3%
#62	Meiho University	Taiwan	39.0	25	541	-14.9%
#63	Regis College	United States	37.8	29	157	-15.9%
#64	Barnes-Jewish College	United States	37.6	21	203	19.4%
#65	Red River College	Canada	37.5	10	144	138.9%
#66	Al-Ghad International Health Sciences Colleges	Saudi Arabia	36.6	11	453	90.6%
#67	University of Health Sciences Vientiane	Laos	36.6	22	156	-8.3%
#68	University of Bahr El-Ghazal	South Sudan	34.4	12	230	60.6%
#69	Conestoga College	Canada	34.4	16	380	-18.2%
#70	Lubbock Christian University	United States	34.1	14	266	-8.7%
#71	Charleston Southern University	United States	32.9	16	155	-23.5%
#72	Dominican College of Blauvelt	United States	31.5	17	270	-44.3%
#73	Ursuline College	United States	30.3	12	107	-17.8%
#74	Russell Sage College	United States	29.9	12	113	-38.0%
#75	Kettering College	United States	28.2	6	118	39.5%
#76	Lambton College	Canada	28.1	6	111	33.3%
#77	College of Saint Mary	United States	25.2	6	115	-20.4%

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.

Quality before quantity

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.

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