The Nature scientific journal’s “Nature Index” has ranked the Hadassah Medical Organization as Israel’s No. 1 hospital for scientific output and among the top 200 hospitals worldwide for research production.
According to the index, which tracks primary research articles in health and science journals dated between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025, Hadassah led all Israeli hospitals in publications across clinical sciences, oncology and carcinogenesis, microbiology, genetics, cardiovascular medicine and hematology.
Eyal Mishani, head of Hadassah’s Research and Development division, said Nature ranked the hospitals “based on impact factors, such as what they’ve published, the number of times an article was quoted and how many online visits each received.” He attributed the achievement to investigators who “focus on the hottest areas of research.”
The rankings placed Hadassah at 179 globally, with most of the medical center’s published articles on the topic of clinical sciences, which encompasses “every facet of patient-centered medicine,” according to Nature. (Nature ranked the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center as No. 1 worldwide.
Authors from Hadassah published in 56 journals, including the American Journal of Human Genetics, the International Journal of Epidemiology and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
