2023 tables: Institutions - health sciences - academic

The 2023 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

Table criteria

# Institution Share 2022 Count 2022
1 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 487.47 1636
2 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 131.71 512
3 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 128.89 565
4 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 128.60 575
5 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 109.39 429
6 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 107.83 386
7 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 104.56 521
8 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 95.08 441
9 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 89.55 452
10 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 87.86 243
11 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 85.24 367
12 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 84.31 354
13 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 83.16 495
14 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 80.63 444
15 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 76.78 479
16 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 75.73 415
17 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 70.06 409
18 Fudan University, China 68.58 222
19 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 67.97 349
20 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 66.65 181
21 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 66.27 356
22 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 64.58 341
23 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 61.75 309
24 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 61.54 168
25 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 60.82 275
26 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 59.38 326
27 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 58.60 401
28 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 58.36 340
29 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 58.19 290
30 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 56.82 241
31 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 55.85 319
32 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), MSHS, United States of America (USA) 55.62 331
33 The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China 55.25 152
34 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 54.50 265
35 Peking University (PKU), China 52.03 177
36 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 49.04 318
37 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 48.93 226
38 McGill University, Canada 48.13 207
39 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 48.12 256
40 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 47.79 308
41 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 47.44 218
42 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China 47.04 213
43 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 46.77 239
44 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 46.61 125
45 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 45.85 107
46 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 45.67 228
47 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 45.40 252
48 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 43.18 269
49 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 42.55 251
50 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 39.54 253
51 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 38.97 142
52 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 38.93 302
53 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 37.97 194
54 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 37.73 206
55 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 36.96 298
56 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 36.80 305
57 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China 35.82 109
58 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 35.10 140
59 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom (UK) 35.09 229
60 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 34.33 176
61 Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Austria 34.31 157
62 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 34.20 196
63 The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA) 33.99 207
64 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 33.36 205
65 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 33.28 128
66 McMaster University, Canada 32.69 155
67 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 32.35 172
68 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 32.20 224
69 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 32.18 188
70 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 31.64 135
71 Sichuan University (SCU), China 31.61 107
72 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 31.53 177
73 Monash University, Australia 31.31 238
74 Leiden University, Netherlands 31.10 176
75 University of Calgary (U of C), Canada 31.05 159
76 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 30.90 197
77 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 30.89 149
78 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 30.47 198
79 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 29.17 180
80 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 28.69 161
81 Southern Medical University (SMU), China 28.67 78
82 Central South University (CSU), China 28.31 93
83 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 28.16 142
84 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 28.13 137
85 University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMass Chan Medical School), United States of America (USA) 27.36 115
86 Yonsei University, South Korea 27.29 96
87 Brown University, United States of America (USA) 27.25 130
88 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 26.36 221
89 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 25.94 177
90 Paris Cité University, France 25.62 335
91 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 24.93 163
92 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 24.73 247
93 Capital Medical University, China 24.47 93
94 University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden 24.43 130
95 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 24.08 126
96 University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA) 23.69 126
97 Lund University (LU), Sweden 23.49 118
98 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 23.45 163
99 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 23.33 117
100 Nanjing Medical University (NJMU), China 23.23 89

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