SCImago Institutions Rankings 2026

SCImago Institutions Rankings 2026 by SCImago Research Group: 100 universities ranked, led by Harvard University. The entries on record, movement since the last...

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Harvard ranked first among 5,491 higher-education institutions, followed by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang, Tsinghua and Shanghai Jiao Tong; Chinese universities took 5 of the top 10. Bukhara State Pedagogical Institute (Uzbekistan) appears at 56th.

Altmetrics indicator replaced by a Media Mentions indicator; 61 universities flagged for self-citation rates above 25%.

The list on record

This page shows the 100 entries on record of 5491 published. Top 100 (ranks 1 to 100 with ties) transcribed from scimagoir.com pages 1 to 5; the full list of 5,491 is public on scimagoir.com (20 rows per page). SIR publishes positions, not composite scores. See the original list.

Rank	Name	Location	Since 2025
1	Harvard University	USA	No change
2	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	CHN	No change
3	Zhejiang University	CHN	Up 2
4	Tsinghua University	CHN	Down 1
5	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CHN	Up 1
6	Peking University	CHN	Up 1
7	Harvard Medical School	USA	Down 3
8	Stanford University	USA	No change
9	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	CHN
10	University of Oxford	GBR	Down 1
11	University College London	GBR
12	Sichuan University	CHN
13	Johns Hopkins University	USA	Down 3
14	University of Toronto	CAN
15	Sun Yat-Sen University	CHN
16	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
17	Central South University	CHN
18	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	USA
19	University of Washington	USA
20	Fudan University	CHN
21	University of Pennsylvania	USA
22	Harbin Institute of Technology	CHN
23	Xi'an Jiaotong University	CHN
24	National University of Singapore	SGP
25	Cornell University	USA
26	University of Cambridge	GBR
27	Columbia University	USA
28	Imperial College London	GBR
29	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
30	University of Melbourne	AUS
31	University of Amsterdam	NLD
32	Yale University	USA
33	University of Science and Technology of China	CHN
34	Shandong University	CHN
35	Wuhan University	CHN
=36	Tongji University	CHN
=36	Southeast University, Nanjing	CHN
38	Tianjin University	CHN
39	University of Sydney	AUS
40	Monash University, Melbourne	AUS
41	University of California, Berkeley	USA
42	University of California, San Francisco	USA
43	Universidade de Sao Paulo	BRA
44	Zhengzhou University	CHN
45	University of New South Wales	AUS
46	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	NLD
47	South China University of Technology	CHN
48	Duke University	USA
49	New York University	USA
50	Jilin University	CHN
51	Universitat de Barcelona	ESP
52	University of California, San Diego	USA
53	University of Chicago	USA
54	The University of Queensland	AUS
55	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	CHN
56	Bukhara State Pedagogical Institute	UZB
57	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	CHE
58	Seoul National University	KOR
59	Nanyang Technological University	SGP
=60	Sorbonne Universite	FRA
=60	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	USA
62	University of Tokyo	JPN
63	Northwestern University, Evanston	USA
64	The University of British Columbia	CAN
65	Kings College London	GBR
66	Ohio State University, Columbus	USA
67	BeiHang University	CHN
68	Utrecht University	NLD
69	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	HKG
70	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	USA
71	University of Florida	USA
72	Chongqing University	CHN
73	McGill University	CAN
74	Beijing Institute of Technology	CHN
75	University of Wisconsin, Madison	USA
76	University of Copenhagen	DNK
77	Nanjing University	CHN
78	Catholic University of Leuven	BEL
79	The University of Edinburgh	GBR
80	Technische Universitat Munchen	DEU
81	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College	CHN
82	University of Southern California	USA
83	University of California, Davis	USA
84	The University of Hong Kong	HKG
85	The University of Manchester	GBR
86	Pennsylvania State University	USA
87	Karolinska Institute	SWE
88	Northwestern Polytechnical University	CHN
89	Washington University in Saint Louis	USA
90	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA
91	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	ESP
92	Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology	USA
93	University of Pittsburgh	USA
94	Emory University	USA
95	Weill Cornell Medicine	USA
96	University of Texas, Austin	USA
97	Universite de Paris Cite	FRA
98	Shenzhen University	CHN
99	University of Groningen	NLD
100	Universite Paris-Saclay	FRA

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