World University Index

CWTS Leiden Ranking: scientific impact, PP(top 10%) (2025)

2025 edition, scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers). Published by Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University.

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  • the University of Konstanz again ranks first nationally in the traditional edition of the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025

    University of Konstanz , source , retrieved

Recorded placements 145

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

Rank Institution Claim
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
2 Princeton University 2nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
3 California Institute of Technology 3rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
4 Harvard University 4th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
5 Stanford University 5th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
7 University of Oxford 7th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
8 Nanyang Technological University 8th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
9 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 9th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
10 University of Cambridge 10th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
11 University of California, Berkeley 11th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
12 Australian Catholic University 12th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
13 ETH Zurich 13th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
14 Imperial College London 14th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
15 City University of Hong Kong 15th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
18 National University of Singapore 18th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
19 EPFL 19th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
20 Yale University 20th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
21 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 21st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
23 Tsinghua University 23rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
24 Columbia University 24th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
26 University of California, San Francisco 26th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
30 University College London 30th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
31 University of Technology Sydney 31st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
34 Cornell University 34th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
36 King's College London 36th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
40 Rice University 40th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
42 Queen Mary University of London 42nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
43 University of California, San Diego 43rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
47 Chinese University of Hong Kong 47th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
49 Swinburne University of Technology 49th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
50 London School of Economics and Political Science 50th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
51 Edith Cowan University 51st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
52 University of Amsterdam 52nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
53 Northwestern University 53rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
54 University of Glasgow 54th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
55 University of California, Los Angeles 55th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
60 University of Pennsylvania 60th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
62 University of Chicago 62nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
66 Utrecht University 66th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
67 New York University 67th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
70 University of Edinburgh 70th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
71 RMIT University 71st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
75 University of Hong Kong 75th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
76 University of Southern Queensland 76th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
77 University of New South Wales 77th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
87 University of Maryland, College Park 87th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
89 Johns Hopkins University 89th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
92 Karolinska Institute 92nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
96 University of Birmingham 96th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
100 University of Science and Technology of China 100th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
101 Carnegie Mellon University 101st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
102 Peking University 102nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
106 University of Washington 106th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
111 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 111th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
114 Duke University 114th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
118 University of Manchester 118th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
120 University of Leeds 120th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
121 University of Bristol 121st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
124 PSL University 124th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
125 University of Zurich 125th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
129 Durham University 129th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
134 University of Southampton 134th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
139 University of Warwick 139th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
141 Delft University of Technology 141st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
144 KU Leuven 144th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
146 University of Southern California 146th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
154 Vanderbilt University 154th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
156 Trinity College Dublin 156th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
157 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 157th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
160 Monash University 160th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
161 Boston University 161st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
162 Deakin University 162nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
164 University of St Andrews 164th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
166 University of Toronto 166th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
174 University of Melbourne 174th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
175 McGill University 175th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
176 University of Sheffield 176th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
178 University of Sydney 178th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
179 University of Texas at Austin 179th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
180 Zhejiang University 180th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
181 University of Queensland 181st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
192 Macquarie University 192nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
208 CQUniversity 208th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
210 University of Nottingham 210th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
212 University of Adelaide 212th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
220 Victoria University 220th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
221 Georgia Institute of Technology 221st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
224 University of British Columbia 224th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
228 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 228th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
231 University of Pittsburgh 231st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
240 Brown University 240th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
241 Curtin University 241st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
261 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 261st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
262 Australian National University 262nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
266 University of Vienna 266th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
276 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 276th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
279 University of Copenhagen 279th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
289 Sorbonne University 289th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
290 University of Wisconsin-Madison 290th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
299 Griffith University 299th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
306 Fudan University 306th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
309 Murdoch University 309th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
310 Heidelberg University 310th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
314 University of Wollongong 314th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
316 Queensland University of Technology 316th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
321 Ohio State University 321st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
336 La Trobe University 336th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
353 Pennsylvania State University 353rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
358 University of Minnesota 358th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
363 James Cook University 363rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
369 Western Sydney University 369th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
379 Lund University 379th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
395 University of Newcastle 395th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
400 Flinders University 400th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
407 KAIST 407th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
414 University of Western Australia 414th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
428 Technical University of Munich 428th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
432 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 432nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
438 Purdue University 438th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
466 Politecnico di Milano 466th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
496 University of Auckland 496th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
549 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 549th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
553 University of Alberta 553rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
652 University of Otago 652nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
692 University of Montreal 692nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
704 University of New England 704th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
725 RWTH Aachen University 725th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
744 Charles Darwin University 744th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
814 University of Canberra 814th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
821 Charles Sturt University 821st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
854 University of the Sunshine Coast 854th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
869 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 869th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
938 Yonsei University 938th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
949 Universiti Malaya 949th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
993 University of Tokyo 993rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
999 Tel Aviv University 999th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1077 Seoul National University 1077th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1087 Korea University 1087th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1182 Kyoto University 1182nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1243 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 1243rd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1252 Tohoku University 1252nd in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1267 Osaka University 1267th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1306 University of Sao Paulo 1306th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1425 National Autonomous University of Mexico 1425th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
1451 University of Buenos Aires 1451st in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)