Top institutions in higher education and research, 2023–2025

Universities and other research institutions ranked by the papers their authors published in the 11 tracked higher education and research journals in each year from 2023 to 2025, by publication date and OpenAlex affiliations; a paper counts once for each institution (and country) among its authors. Built from the site's archive of every paper of these journals and rebuilt daily. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2023 to 2025, University of Hong Kong published the most papers in the 11 tracked higher education and research journals (69), followed by Nanjing University (63) and Wuhan University (62).
In 2025 alone, Education University of Hong Kong led with 34 papers.
Among countries, China took part in the most papers (737), ahead of United States and United Kingdom.

Institutions#

Institutions with the most papers, 2023–2025
#	Institution	Country	2023	2024	2025	2023–2025
1	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	19	26	24	69
2	Nanjing University	China	21	24	18	63
3	Wuhan University	China	13	21	28	62
4	Education University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	6	21	34	61
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	9	13	25	47
6	Leiden University	Netherlands	8	14	22	44
7	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	7	13	22	42
8	Peking University	China	7	11	19	37
9	Zhejiang University	China	11	12	13	36
10	Beijing Normal University	China	9	9	16	34
11	Central China Normal University	China	12	13	9	34
12	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	8	11	15	34
13	KU Leuven	Belgium	10	10	14	34
14	University of Georgia	United States	8	11	14	33
15	University College London	United Kingdom	10	10	12	32
16	Monash University	Australia	5	9	15	29
17	Sun Yat-sen University	China	13	8	8	29
18	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	5	14	9	28
19	Lingnan University	Hong Kong	6	8	13	27
20	North Carolina State University	United States	5	8	14	27
21	German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies	Germany	9	13	4	26
22	Purdue University West Lafayette	United States	4	10	12	26
23	East China Normal University	China	5	8	12	25
24	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	China	5	10	10	25
25	Max Planck Society	Germany	6	9	9	24
26	Renmin University of China	China	7	9	8	24
27	National Science Library	China	3	6	14	23
28	Technical University of Munich	Germany	8	5	9	22
29	The Ohio State University	United States	6	6	10	22
30	The University of Queensland	Australia	6	8	8	22
31	University of Florida	United States	2	8	12	22
32	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	3	8	10	21
33	University of Wisconsin–Madison	United States	2	11	8	21
34	Lund University	Sweden	4	7	9	20
35	Maastricht University	Netherlands	3	10	7	20
36	Tampere University	Finland	8	1	11	20
37	The University of Melbourne	Australia	8	7	5	20
38	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	4	9	7	20
39	Arizona State University	United States	6	7	6	19
40	Florida State University	United States	5	5	9	19
41	Indiana University	United States	6	8	5	19
42	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	6	8	5	19
43	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	4	6	9	19
44	Universidad de Granada	Spain	4	8	6	18
45	University of South Australia	Australia	5	6	7	18
46	University of Tampere	Finland	7	1	10	18
47	Dalian University of Technology	China	8	5	4	17
48	Fudan University	China	3	8	6	17
49	Pennsylvania State University	United States	4	7	6	17
50	Seoul National University	South Korea	4	5	8	17

Countries#

Countries with the most papers, 2023–2025
#	Country	2023	2024	2025	2023–2025
1	China	191	253	293	737
2	United States	191	267	278	736
3	United Kingdom	73	103	105	281
4	Germany	78	89	84	251
5	Australia	57	75	76	208
6	Hong Kong	43	69	79	191
7	Spain	49	54	46	149
8	Netherlands	26	49	64	139
9	Canada	31	35	33	99
10	Italy	22	32	37	91
11	Sweden	22	29	31	82
12	South Korea	22	26	31	79
13	Norway	20	19	25	64
14	Belgium	19	19	24	62
15	Turkey	10	22	28	60
16	Japan	15	23	16	54
17	Taiwan	17	17	20	54
18	Finland	15	14	24	53
19	India	14	18	20	52
20	Poland	8	18	22	48
21	South Africa	9	23	16	48
22	France	12	13	18	43
23	Switzerland	11	17	15	43
24	Brazil	16	12	12	40
25	Israel	8	10	17	35
26	Iran	11	7	15	33
27	Denmark	11	14	6	31
28	Singapore	7	10	14	31
29	Chile	7	10	12	29
30	Austria	2	11	15	28

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Top institutions in higher education and research, 2023–2025. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/higher-education-and-research

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