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Goethe University Frankfurt

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 84–396 of 2,287 · score 55.9
Research Index 277

How it scores

Research
88
Alumni outcomes
92
Admissions & earnings
est.

Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country.

No official admissions or earnings data is used for this university yet. Its in-country score is estimated from its standing among its own country’s universities on the global measures.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
17 src
Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
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Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
not on the published top lists; estimated
Students (undergraduate / total)
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Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
73.1
B · Strength
76.4

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =329. On strength alone: 309. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
11.7% (11.1%–12.4%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
1.2% (1.0%–1.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
658
All papers (fractional count)
5,605
International co-authored
59.4%
Open access
79.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
1 (0.05 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences=186range 146–290 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=94range 60–178 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=605range 409–829 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=453range 327–620 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=498range 324–664 of 1,262

Position over time

top 30%2006–2009: 143 of 5712020–2023: 277 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

277Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

Alumni laureates
11
Staff laureates
6

Alumni: 11 Nobel. Most recent: Georg Nagel (Nobel Medicine, 2026), Benjamin List (Nobel Chemistry, 2021), Peter Grünberg (Nobel Physics, 2007), Günter Blobel (Nobel Medicine, 1999), Horst Ludwig Störmer (Nobel Physics, 1998), Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Nobel Medicine, 1995). Counted from Wikidata (CC0). Alumni laureates count toward the overall ranking per student (10 of 65 global weight points); staff laureates are shown for context only.