Top 50 universities and research institutions by papers published (2026)

Chinese Academy of Sciences published the most research papers of any institution in the last 29 days, with 7,814 papers. This ranking counts papers with at least one author from each university or research institute.

Updated automatically every day. Data: 29 fully counted days, September 26, 2026 – October 24, 2026. Source: OpenAlex and PubMed.

Top 50 institutions by papers published

Rank	Institution	Country	Papers (29 days)
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	7,814
2	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France	5,882
3	University of London	United Kingdom	3,859
4	Harvard University	United States	2,962
5	Russian Academy of Sciences	Russia	2,870
6	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	2,657
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	2,555
8	Zhejiang University	China	2,553
9	Tsinghua University	China	2,413
10	State Council of the People's Republic of China	China	2,239
11	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres	Germany	2,102
12	Peking University	China	1,954
13	Inserm	France	1,754
14	Stanford University	United States	1,669
15	University College London	United Kingdom	1,236
16	United States Department of Energy	United States	1,203
17	Fudan University	China	1,177
18	University of Toronto	Canada	1,094
19	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	1,077
20	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1,012
21	Government of India	India	1,008
22	Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology	Switzerland	983
23	University of British Columbia	Canada	880
24	Sun Yat-sen University	China	879
25	Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico	Italy	868
26	Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs	China	834
27	Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes	Ecuador	823
28	Johns Hopkins University	United States	687
29	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	653
30	Max Planck Society	Germany	646
31	University of Science and Technology of China	China	613
32	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	553
33	Mass General Brigham	United States	549
34	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	Spain	520
35	National University of Singapore	Singapore	483
36	Sichuan University	China	475
37	Mayo Clinic	United States	466
38	University of Michigan	United States	455
39	University of Washington	United States	416
40	Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris	France	385
41	The University of Tokyo	Japan	377
42	Université Paris-Saclay	France	374
43	Office of Science	United States	330
44	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	321
45	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China	315
46	Seoul National University	South Korea	310
47	Nanjing University	China	309
48	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China	298
49	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	296
50	Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul	Brazil	281

How is this different from university rankings?

Rankings such as QS or Times Higher Education mix teaching, reputation and citations. This list measures one thing only: how many research papers each institution publishes, counted every day from open data. Large national research organisations (for example academies of sciences) often top it because they include many institutes.

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