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Medical University Rankings (OpenAlex)

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Medical University Rankings (OpenAlex)

Medical University Rankings (OpenAlex)

Rank medical universities worldwide by scholarly impact using OpenAlex. Returns citation count, h-index, works count and ROR identifier. Filter by country.

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Rank medical universities and academic medical centers worldwide by real scholarly impact metrics using OpenAlex — the open-access replacement for Microsoft Academic Graph covering 250+ million publications. Returns citation count, h-index, works count, 2-year mean citedness and ROR identifier. No API key required.

Features

  • Ranks by total citation count (most cited = rank 1)
  • Returns h-index and 2-year mean citedness for recency
  • Filter by country (ISO 2-letter code)
  • Customize search term: medical university, university hospital, health sciences, etc.
  • Returns ROR (Research Organization Registry) ID for integration with other systems
  • OpenAlex is fully open — no paywalls, no rate-limit registration

Input

FieldTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
searchTermstringmedical universityInstitution name keyword. Try hospital or health sciences for wider results
countrystringworldwideISO 2-letter country code, e.g. DE, AT, GB, US
maxResultsinteger100Max institutions (1–2,000)

Output

{
"rank": 1,
"name": "The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center",
"country": "US",
"type": "healthcare",
"citedByCount": 20297821,
"worksCount": 98432,
"hIndex": 1218,
"twoYearMeanCitedness": 8.4,
"rorId": "https://ror.org/03c3r2d17",
"openalexId": "https://openalex.org/I136199984",
"url": "https://www.utsouthwestern.edu"
}

Use Cases

1. European Medical School Benchmarking

A European hospital management consultant filters country=DE (or AT, CH, GB) to benchmark German-speaking medical universities by citation impact — presenting the results to hospital boards for strategic positioning.

2. Research Collaboration Targeting

A pharmaceutical company identifying academic partners for a Phase II trial scrapes the top 50 global medical universities ranked by h-index — creating a shortlist of high-impact institutions for partnership outreach.

3. Medical School Application Research

A pre-med advisor uses the global ranking filtered to GB to show prospective students a citation-impact-based ranking of UK medical schools — a complement to reputation-based rankings like QS or THE.

Data Source

OpenAlex API — free, open scholarly infrastructure. Updated weekly. Covers 250M+ works and 100,000+ institutions globally.

Pricing

Pay-per-result. Top 100 global medical universities ≈ $0.50.