The Hardman Rankings

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. Its research is ranked in the Research Index.

Research Index

A · Quality
99.6
B · Strength
71.5

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: 5. On strength alone: =372. 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
19.6% (18.4%–20.8%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
2.7% (2.2%–3.2%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
550
All papers (fractional count)
2,800
International co-authored
67.4%
Open access
80.3%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
1 (0.15 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 sciences59range 23–105 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=123range 46–222 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science182range 92–347 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering63range 36–101 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

top 10%2006–2009: 51 of 5712020–2023: 102 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

102Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
71ARWU 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
3

Alumni: 2 Turing Award, 2 Nobel. Most recent: Arieh Warshel (Nobel Chemistry, 2013), Ada Yonath (Nobel Chemistry, 2009), Adi Shamir (Turing Award, 2002), Amir Pnueli (Turing Award, 1996). Counted from Wikidata (CC0). Shown for context; this university is not in the overall ranking.