Top-cited scientists by institution in Switzerland

44 institutions with 10 or more listed authors · Switzerland

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Which institutions in Switzerland have the most top 2% scientists?

44 universities and institutes in Switzerland have 10 or more researchers in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. ETH Zürich has the most (545), followed by Universität Zürich (316) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (250). Each institution’s page has its top fields and subfields and its first 100 scientists.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k
1	ETH Zürich	545	325
2	Universität Zürich	316	161
3	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	250	118
4	Université de Genève	174	77
5	University of Bern	163	83
6	Universität Basel	151	58
7	Organisation Mondiale de la Santé	122	37
8	Université de Lausanne (UNIL)	101	65
9	University Hospital Bern	97	34
10	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois	95	27
11	Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève	95	30
12	UniversitatsSpital Zurich	81	25
13	Universitätsspital Basel	70	18
14	Paul Scherrer Institut	66	21
15	Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology	57	31
16	Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire	52	11
17	University of Fribourg	34	21
18	Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology	31	12
19	Université de Genève Faculté de Médecine	30	8
20	Biozentrum, Universität Basel	29	14
21	Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL	24	13
22	University of Bern, Faculty of Medicine	24	12
23	Novartis International AG	21	4
24	Università della Svizzera italiana	19	6
25	Kinderspital Zürich	18	5
26	Université de Neuchâtel	18	14
27	University of St. Gallen	17	14
28	F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG	16	2
29	Kantonsspital St.Gallen	16	4
30	Universität Zürich, Medizinische Fakultät	15	7
31	Centre Universitaire de Médecine Générale et Santé Publique, Lausanne	14	3
32	Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques	13	7
33	ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences	13	5
34	Agroscope	12	6
35	Faculté de biologie et de médecine	12	4
36	IBM Research - Zurich	12	2
37	Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima	12	11
38	Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine	12	5
39	EPFL	11	5
40	Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale	11	2
41	Uniklinik Balgrist	11	2
42	Vetsuisse-Fakultät	11	3
43	SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics	10	4
44	Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Swiss TPH	10	5

Institution names are only recorded for large institutions. The 421 in Switzerland with fewer than 10 listed authors are not listed here; the authors table finds them by name.