Universities by Research h-index in United States

Universities and colleges ranked by OpenAlex's institutional h-index, which combines publication volume and citation impact. This is a research metric, not a measure of teaching quality. OpenAlex is an open scholarly index; larger and older institutions tend to have more indexed research.

📅 2026📏 h-index50 entries🇺🇸 See all of this country’s rankings →

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Every dot is one entry, placed by its value (h-index); the vertical bar marks each row’s median.

University of Washington543,394 works

3,525

Harvard University1,070,718 works

3,236

Stanford University557,937 works

2,674

Massachusetts Institute of Technology410,937 works

2,553

Johns Hopkins University522,954 works

2,309

University of Michigan1,004,841 works

2,222

University of California, Berkeley490,094 works

2,007

Washington University in St. Louis285,954 works

1,947

Yale University436,819 works

1,922

University of California, Los Angeles532,270 works

1,918

California Institute of Technology283,095 works

1,912

University of California, San Francisco329,466 works

1,912

University of Pennsylvania457,399 works

1,853

University of California San Diego405,391 works

1,848

Columbia University430,344 works

1,820

University of Chicago301,078 works

1,773

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill350,916 works

1,675

Cornell University365,403 works

1,649

New York University323,834 works

1,612

Northwestern University330,050 works

1,596

Baylor College of Medicine173,649 works

1,594

Princeton University213,896 works

1,569

University of Minnesota424,292 works

1,562

Duke University294,797 works

1,534

University of Southern California295,250 works

1,524

University of Wisconsin–Madison393,760 works

1,514

University of Pittsburgh377,634 works

1,471

Boston University224,604 works

1,462

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign357,086 works

1,440

Pennsylvania State University357,071 works

1,400

The Ohio State University412,120 works

1,376

Emory University235,364 works

1,367

University of Maryland, College Park241,876 works

1,344

University of Arizona278,722 works

1,335

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai171,304 works

1,325

University of Florida376,406 works

1,302

University of California, Davis306,666 works

1,255

The University of Texas at Austin358,026 works

1,247

University of Utah224,820 works

1,237

University of Colorado Boulder179,619 works

1,197

Vanderbilt University202,502 works

1,196

Rockefeller University46,221 works

1,192

Carnegie Mellon University164,799 works

1,191

University of Rochester164,188 works

1,191

University of California, Irvine205,396 works

1,190

Weill Cornell Medicine108,420 works

1,164

Georgia Institute of Technology200,814 works

1,161

Case Western Reserve University183,823 works

1,158

University of California, Santa Barbara143,147 works

1,145

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey255,259 works

1,144

Highlights

Within United States, University of Washington ranks first in 2026 with 3,525, followed by Harvard University (3,236) and Stanford University (2,674).

Across 50 entries, values run from 3,525 (University of Washington) to 1,144 (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), with a median of 1,519.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Research h-index, 2026. Unit: h-index.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Research h-index · CC0 1.0 (OpenAlex) · fetched Oct 17, 2026 — OpenAlex indexes scholarly works and citations. Coverage and citation practices vary by institution and field; this is a research measure, not a ranking of teaching quality.

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Highlights

Within United States, University of Washington ranks first in 2026 with 3,525, followed by Harvard University (3,236) and Stanford University (2,674).

Across 50 entries, values run from 3,525 (University of Washington) to 1,144 (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey), with a median of 1,519.

Source: OpenAlex, institutional Research h-index, 2026. Unit: h-index.