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Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 538–1589 of 2,287 · score 35.1
Research Index =811

How it scores

Research
64
Alumni outcomes
72
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)
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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
39.3
B · Strength
34.0

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =803. On strength alone: =861. 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
9.1% (8.3%–9.9%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.8% (0.6%–1.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
221
All papers (fractional count)
2,437
International co-authored
53.8%
Open access
76.9%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
2 (0.25 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=835range 661–994 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=199range 113–355 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science–fewer than 200 papers
Physical sciences & engineering=895range 706–1150 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities=912range 712–1051 of 1,262

Position over time

bottom2006–2009: 387 of 5712020–2023: 811 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

=811Research 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
1
Staff laureates
3

Alumni: 1 Nobel. Most recent: Hermann Staudinger (Nobel Chemistry, 1953). 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.