World University Index

CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 — Life and earth sciences (PP top 10%)

2025 edition, life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers). Published by CWTS, Leiden University.

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

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Recorded placements 142

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
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
6 Princeton University 6th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
7 Harvard University 7th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
8 Yale University 8th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
11 Stanford University 11th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
15 California Institute of Technology 15th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
18 University of Oxford 18th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
20 ETH Zurich 20th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
22 University of Warwick 22nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
24 Queen Mary University of London 24th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
26 University of Cambridge 26th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
28 University of Technology Sydney 28th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
29 Tsinghua University 29th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
31 University of St Andrews 31st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
33 University of California, Berkeley 33rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
34 Columbia University 34th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
35 University of California, San Francisco 35th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
38 Durham University 38th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
44 University of Bristol 44th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
49 University of Hong Kong 49th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
50 National University of Singapore 50th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
51 University of Amsterdam 51st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
54 Peking University 54th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
60 New York University 60th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
62 University College London 62nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
67 Imperial College London 67th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
71 King's College London 71st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
74 Utrecht University 74th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
78 EPFL 78th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
82 University of Texas at Austin 82nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
83 University of Chicago 83rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
87 Vanderbilt University 87th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
91 University of Edinburgh 91st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
95 Rice University 95th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
97 University of Zurich 97th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
98 Zhejiang University 98th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
104 University of California, Los Angeles 104th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
105 University of Birmingham 105th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
107 University of Manchester 107th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
108 City University of Hong Kong 108th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
109 University of New South Wales 109th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
110 University of Leeds 110th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
111 University of Washington 111th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
112 Edith Cowan University 112th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
113 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 113th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
115 Chinese University of Hong Kong 115th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
116 Monash University 116th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
132 University of Southern California 132nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
133 Cornell University 133rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
135 University of California, San Diego 135th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
137 University of Southampton 137th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
142 University of Pennsylvania 142nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
143 University of British Columbia 143rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
152 Trinity College Dublin 152nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
156 Nanyang Technological University 156th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
158 University of Glasgow 158th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
159 Australian National University 159th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
160 Boston University 160th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
163 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 163rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
164 University of Nottingham 164th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
174 University of Maryland, College Park 174th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
183 Duke University 183rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
184 KAIST 184th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
186 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 186th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
194 University of Sydney 194th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
195 University of Copenhagen 195th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
199 University of Melbourne 199th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
200 Heidelberg University 200th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
202 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 202nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
208 Deakin University 208th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
212 RMIT University 212th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
217 Macquarie University 217th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
219 Curtin University 219th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
223 Johns Hopkins University 223rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
225 Northwestern University 225th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
230 Fudan University 230th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
232 University of Sheffield 232nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
235 University of Pittsburgh 235th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
238 University of Vienna 238th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
239 University of Queensland 239th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
244 Carnegie Mellon University 244th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
245 University of Southern Queensland 245th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
251 McGill University 251st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
255 James Cook University 255th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
260 Lund University 260th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
261 Georgia Institute of Technology 261st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
266 Pennsylvania State University 266th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
269 University of Western Australia 269th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
277 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 277th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
280 Karolinska Institute 280th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
286 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 286th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
297 PSL University 297th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
299 University of Science and Technology of China 299th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
313 Brown University 313th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
335 University of Newcastle 335th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
353 Technical University of Munich 353rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
369 KU Leuven 369th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
387 Murdoch University 387th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
388 University of Adelaide 388th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
392 University of Toronto 392nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
394 University of Wisconsin-Madison 394th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
405 Western Sydney University 405th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
412 University of Auckland 412th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
426 Sorbonne University 426th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
435 Queensland University of Technology 435th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
451 Charles Sturt University 451st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
457 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 457th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
462 Griffith University 462nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
466 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 466th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
468 Delft University of Technology 468th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
477 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 477th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
478 La Trobe University 478th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
487 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 487th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
500 Swinburne University of Technology 500th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
509 Flinders University 509th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
517 Purdue University 517th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
520 University of Minnesota 520th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
557 Ohio State University 557th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
579 University of Otago 579th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
585 Tel Aviv University 585th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
592 Charles Darwin University 592nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
635 Politecnico di Milano 635th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
640 University of Montreal 640th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
652 University of Wollongong 652nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
723 University of Alberta 723rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
766 University of the Sunshine Coast 766th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
792 Yonsei University 792nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
799 University of Canberra 799th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
806 University of New England 806th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
852 Victoria University 852nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
946 Korea University 946th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
975 RWTH Aachen University 975th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1018 Seoul National University 1018th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1019 Universiti Malaya 1019th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1033 Tohoku University 1033rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1037 University of Tokyo 1037th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1069 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 1069th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1082 Osaka University 1082nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1087 University of Sao Paulo 1087th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1169 Kyoto University 1169th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1195 National Autonomous University of Mexico 1195th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
1247 University of Buenos Aires 1247th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)