Universities by Research Publications in United States
Universities and colleges ranked by the number of scholarly works indexed by OpenAlex. This measures research volume, not teaching quality. OpenAlex is an open scholarly index; larger and older institutions tend to have more indexed research.
1Harvard University191,751,595 citations
1,070,718
2University of Michigan74,294,497 citations
1,004,841
3Stanford University97,341,563 citations
557,937
4University of Washington106,423,500 citations
543,394
5University of California, Los Angeles69,670,755 citations
532,270
6Johns Hopkins University82,231,828 citations
522,954
7University of California, Berkeley63,242,687 citations
490,094
8University of Pennsylvania65,145,894 citations
457,399
9Yale University57,710,706 citations
436,819
10Columbia University56,539,084 citations
430,344
11University of Minnesota44,859,148 citations
424,292
12The Ohio State University34,914,306 citations
412,120
13Massachusetts Institute of Technology80,449,818 citations
410,937
14University of California San Diego57,907,903 citations
405,391
15University of Wisconsin–Madison47,010,255 citations
393,760
16University of Pittsburgh41,321,372 citations
377,634
17University of Florida33,603,625 citations
376,406
18Cornell University44,985,092 citations
365,403
19Michigan State University21,047,147 citations
365,362
20The University of Texas at Austin25,246,185 citations
358,026
21University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign34,281,897 citations
357,086
22Pennsylvania State University30,561,266 citations
357,071
23University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill39,890,260 citations
350,916
24Northwestern University40,892,375 citations
330,050
25University of California, San Francisco60,087,248 citations
329,466
26New York University34,529,386 citations
323,834
27University of California, Davis32,657,009 citations
306,666
28University of Chicago38,862,876 citations
301,078
29University of Southern California31,511,637 citations
295,250
30Duke University36,636,447 citations
294,797
31Purdue University West Lafayette21,875,668 citations
290,783
32Washington University in St. Louis49,667,861 citations
285,954
33California Institute of Technology40,161,367 citations
283,095
34University of Arizona24,685,425 citations
278,722
35Texas A&M University21,533,194 citations
276,783
36Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey20,801,515 citations
255,259
37University of Maryland, College Park24,597,048 citations
241,876
38Emory University28,412,029 citations
235,364
39University of Utah23,418,698 citations
224,820
40Boston University28,271,677 citations
224,604
41Princeton University27,487,074 citations
213,896
42University of Virginia19,923,864 citations
213,820
43University of California, Irvine22,577,128 citations
205,396
44University of Iowa21,245,299 citations
203,874
45Vanderbilt University24,915,906 citations
202,502
46Georgia Institute of Technology18,690,960 citations
200,814
47Arizona State University14,668,562 citations
197,920
48Iowa State University13,059,666 citations
196,238
49North Carolina State University12,933,883 citations
187,420
50University of Illinois Chicago16,519,313 citations
186,138
Highlights
Within United States, Harvard University ranks first in 2026 with 1,070,718, followed by University of Michigan (1,004,841) and Stanford University (557,937).
Across 50 entries, values run from 1,070,718 (Harvard University) to 186,138 (University of Illinois Chicago), with a median of 326,650.
Source: OpenAlex, institutional Publications, 2026. Unit: works.
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