ITS Research Intelligence

Universities by Research Impact

The Impact Score combines citation intensity, h-index, mean citedness and i10 visibility. It is not presented as a field-normalized citation score.

Ranking table

The table is recalculated after database refreshes. Because citation and affiliation metadata change over time, the ranking is presented as a dated analytical snapshot rather than a permanent claim.

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	University of Washington	United States	68.9	116,133	1,572,311	0.7%
#2	Academy of Medicine	Singapore	67.7	321	125,551	71.1%
#3	Harvard University	United States	67.1	173,192	3,458,186	-2.7%
#4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	64.6	65,399	1,130,870	6.8%
#5	Stanford University	United States	64.3	130,687	2,021,646	0.4%
#6	Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology	United States	64.2	1,330	44,993	-16.2%
#7	University of Pennsylvania	United States	63.0	85,351	1,379,416	1.6%
#8	Northwestern University	United States	62.6	58,235	1,035,865	-2.2%
#9	University College London	United Kingdom	62.5	172,008	2,443,901	11.1%
#10	California Institute of Technology	United States	62.4	32,692	475,971	-1.0%
#11	Johns Hopkins University	United States	62.3	130,229	1,800,641	-4.1%
#12	Tsinghua University	China	62.2	136,887	2,366,826	30.4%
#13	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	62.1	116,710	1,632,130	-0.8%
#14	Rockefeller University	United States	62.0	6,583	134,878	29.6%
#15	University of California, San Francisco	United States	61.7	78,367	1,154,116	2.3%
#16	National University of Singapore	Singapore	61.4	86,173	1,472,459	16.8%
#17	Institute of Cancer Research	United Kingdom	61.4	5,325	118,076	-13.6%
#18	Princeton University	United States	61.3	44,013	637,257	4.6%
#19	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	61.3	59,190	1,078,171	21.4%
#20	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	61.2	116,645	1,541,914	-1.3%
#21	University of Toronto	Canada	61.1	147,822	1,953,104	0.9%
#22	Cornell University	United States	61.1	110,486	1,397,475	7.6%
#23	The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center	United States	61.1	15,109	339,858	9.2%
#24	University of California San Diego	United States	61.1	91,957	1,286,994	5.0%
#25	Oncode Institute	The Netherlands	61.0	5,349	145,201	-0.1%
#26	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel	61.0	13,966	255,820	-2.7%
#27	University of Michigan	United States	61.0	119,673	1,489,386	4.8%
#28	Columbia University	United States	60.9	85,462	1,137,213	2.9%
#29	University of Science and Technology of China	China	60.9	89,129	1,480,499	26.7%
#30	European Graduate School of Neuroscience	Netherlands	60.9	125	7,321	13.6%
#31	Université Paris Cité	France	60.9	92,495	1,240,549	8.1%
#32	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	60.7	69,100	896,664	3.3%
#33	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	60.6	195,306	3,173,752	-5.6%
#34	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	60.4	42,788	825,814	36.8%
#35	The University of Queensland	Australia	60.4	80,120	1,100,408	-1.0%
#36	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	60.3	181,718	1,981,134	-1.9%
#37	Heidelberg University	Germany	60.3	81,873	1,043,700	-2.9%
#38	College Board	United States	60.2	177	4,705	108.2%
#39	University of California, Berkeley	United States	60.1	90,219	1,124,753	-10.8%
#40	Karolinska Institutet	Sweden	60.0	65,806	913,304	5.8%
#41	Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business	China	59.9	342	16,237	83.9%
#42	University of Minnesota	United States	59.9	60,557	810,861	-6.8%
#43	Center for Life Sciences	China	59.9	8,150	190,938	-2.5%
#44	Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences	China	59.8	2,766	67,277	-33.6%
#45	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	59.8	83,864	1,206,224	40.2%
#46	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	59.8	101,122	1,222,341	-0.1%
#47	University of Amsterdam	The Netherlands	59.7	63,870	976,160	4.7%
#48	UNSW Sydney	Australia	59.7	80,632	1,190,352	-5.2%
#49	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	United States	59.7	41,739	594,281	25.6%
#50	Zhejiang University	China	59.7	159,128	2,235,549	21.1%
#51	Hunan University	China	59.6	42,183	764,452	42.6%
#52	Boston University	United States	59.6	46,726	642,048	2.4%
#53	University of Colorado Denver	United States	59.6	37,854	652,771	0.5%
#54	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	59.6	52,133	668,829	13.4%
#55	University of Groningen	The Netherlands	59.5	51,696	715,580	-4.5%
#56	McMaster University	Canada	59.5	49,086	730,881	0.8%
#57	Monash University	Australia	59.4	95,198	1,368,088	4.6%
#58	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	China	59.4	23,001	451,121	25.9%
#59	The University of Sydney	Australia	59.4	94,178	1,200,869	2.8%
#60	Baylor College of Medicine	United States	59.4	43,046	546,611	3.9%
#61	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China	59.4	110,703	1,567,220	9.9%
#62	University of Zurich	Switzerland	59.3	61,651	748,628	1.0%
#63	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	59.2	56,867	982,455	62.9%
#64	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	59.1	22,992	409,880	8.0%
#65	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	59.1	32,533	548,576	60.2%
#66	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	59.1	162,490	2,193,445	13.6%
#67	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	59.1	54,889	710,066	13.5%
#68	University of Chicago	United States	59.1	74,344	828,571	15.1%
#69	Nanjing University	China	59.1	67,196	971,606	26.7%
#70	University of Southern California	United States	59.0	62,414	759,601	4.0%
#71	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	59.0	62,844	928,374	38.3%
#72	Peking University	China	59.0	166,278	2,006,191	5.9%
#73	Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian	United States	59.0	8,519	163,697	0.0%
#74	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	58.9	49,484	634,761	9.6%
#75	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	United States	58.9	59,027	766,984	-20.9%
#76	Lackland Independent School District	United States	58.8	113	2,756	-22.0%
#77	Yale University	United States	58.8	114,240	1,266,921	65.6%
#78	KU Leuven	Belgium	58.8	84,133	1,027,092	4.6%
#79	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	58.7	76,360	1,012,193	10.6%
#80	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	58.7	45,144	564,571	16.8%
#81	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	58.7	77,640	932,337	8.0%
#82	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	58.7	19,428	261,116	7.5%
#83	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Saudi Arabia	58.7	22,459	380,855	21.8%
#84	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	58.7	54,967	766,615	6.4%
#85	King's College London	United Kingdom	58.7	81,426	1,050,790	5.3%
#86	The University of Melbourne	Australia	58.7	108,688	1,292,642	5.6%
#87	Wuhan University	China	58.6	90,814	1,261,487	15.0%
#88	Bond University	Australia	58.6	5,236	208,261	13.4%
#89	University of Wisconsin–Madison	United States	58.6	76,160	843,870	12.6%
#90	New York University	United States	58.6	70,745	837,501	18.8%
#91	Duke University	United States	58.6	72,420	855,997	4.8%
#92	Radboud University Nijmegen	The Netherlands	58.5	58,188	712,942	0.3%
#93	University of British Columbia	Canada	58.5	94,995	1,157,422	-1.2%
#94	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	58.5	41,746	581,929	15.3%
#95	Innovative Genomics Institute	United States	58.5	1,186	34,778	8.9%
#96	Pennsylvania State University	United States	58.3	67,548	757,529	-0.8%
#97	Institut für Schlaganfall- und Demenzforschung	Germany	58.3	1,121	32,552	5.8%
#98	Molecular Immunity Unit	United Kingdom	58.3	255	11,417	-32.5%
#99	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	58.3	77,584	918,032	10.7%
#100	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	58.2	45,821	577,013	0.3%

Transparent methodology

How ITS Research Score v3 is constructed

One formula applies to every index-ready institution, using the five most recent complete calendar years: 25% research output, 25% citations, 20% h-index and 5% i10-index (log-normalized so the largest universities do not dominate linearly), 15% citation impact (the institution’s percentile on citations per work, reduced below 500 works so small samples cannot win by chance), 5% publication growth and 5% international-collaboration share. When collaboration data is not yet available, the other weights are rescaled.

Data-quality controls: the unfinished current year is never counted, and a year in which recorded output jumps to more than three times the institution’s usual level while being at least 90% open access is treated as a bulk dataset or repository deposit and scored at the usual level. Raw data are kept and every adjustment is logged. Open-access share and topic diversity are published as separate rankings and do not affect the main score. Citation impact is not field-normalized.

These indicators assess research activity only. They do not measure teaching quality, student experience, employability, reputation, finances or accreditation. Missing data are left missing rather than fabricated.