United States
Harvard University
173,192 5-year works3,458,186 citations-2.7% growth
ITS Research Intelligence
Worldwide University Research Database
Search real institution-level research data, compare output and impact, and move from a directory entry to evidence-based research intelligence.
Leading research universities
These profiles meet the public quality gate: enough recent research activity, multi-year history and subject signals to support a substantive analytical page rather than a thin directory record.
United Kingdom
University College London
172,008 5-year works2,443,901 citations11.1% growth
United States
Stanford University
130,687 5-year works2,021,646 citations0.4% growth
United States
University of Washington
116,133 5-year works1,572,311 citations0.7% growth
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
181,718 5-year works1,981,134 citations-1.9% growth
Canada
University of Toronto
147,822 5-year works1,953,104 citations0.9% growth
United Kingdom
University of Cambridge
116,710 5-year works1,632,130 citations-0.8% growth
United States
Johns Hopkins University
130,229 5-year works1,800,641 citations-4.1% growth
United Kingdom
Imperial College London
116,645 5-year works1,541,914 citations-1.3% growth
China
Tsinghua University
136,887 5-year works2,366,826 citations30.4% growth
Hong Kong
University of Hong Kong
83,864 5-year works1,206,224 citations40.2% growth
Singapore
National University of Singapore
86,173 5-year works1,472,459 citations16.8% growth
United States
Yale University
114,240 5-year works1,266,921 citations65.6% growth
China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
195,306 5-year works3,173,752 citations-5.6% growth
United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
65,399 5-year works1,130,870 citations6.8% growth
United States
Cornell University
110,486 5-year works1,397,475 citations7.6% growth
China
Zhejiang University
159,128 5-year works2,235,549 citations21.1% growth
France
Université Paris Cité
92,495 5-year works1,240,549 citations8.1% growth
China
Peking University
166,278 5-year works2,006,191 citations5.9% growth
Hong Kong
Chinese University of Hong Kong
62,844 5-year works928,374 citations38.3% growth
United States
University of Pennsylvania
85,351 5-year works1,379,416 citations1.6% growth
China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
162,490 5-year works2,193,445 citations13.6% growth
Canada
University of British Columbia
94,995 5-year works1,157,422 citations-1.2% growth
United States
University of California San Diego
91,957 5-year works1,286,994 citations5.0% growth
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.