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Rockefeller University

United StatesROR 0420db125
Not ranked
774.9 core papers (fractional count) in 2020–2023; the Research Index needs 1,500

Not ranked in the World University Rankings

This is a graduate-only or graduate-dominant institution: students can’t apply to it for a first degree, or almost none do, so it isn’t ranked overall. It has fewer than 1,500 core papers, so it isn’t ranked in the Research Index either; its research data is shown below.

Research Index

The Research Index ranks a university only when it has at least 1,500 fractionally counted core publications over four years, so that a handful of highly cited papers can’t produce an extreme score. Its field ranks (where it has 200 or more papers in a field) and all of its data are shown here.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
28.8% (26.2%–31.3%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
4.8% (3.6%–6.1%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
223
All papers (fractional count)
774.9
International co-authored
53.7%
Open access
89.2%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
0 (0.00 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=64range 26–124 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science–fewer than 200 papers
Physical sciences & engineering–fewer than 200 papers
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

Not enough periods to show a trend.

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

–Research Index 2026 (not ranked)
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
32ARWU 2026

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
4
Staff laureates
28

Alumni: 4 Nobel. Most recent: Yoshinori Ohsumi (Nobel Medicine, 2016), Ralph Steinman (Nobel Medicine, 2011), David Baltimore (Nobel Medicine, 1975), Gerald Edelman (Nobel Medicine, 1972). Counted from Wikidata (CC0). Shown for context; this university is not in the overall ranking.