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

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.

1. #4Massachusetts Institute of Technology4th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
2. #6Princeton University6th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
3. #7Harvard University7th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
4. #8Yale University8th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
5. #11Stanford University11th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
6. #15California Institute of Technology15th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
7. #18University of Oxford18th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
8. #20ETH Zurich20th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
9. #22University of Warwick22nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
10. #24Queen Mary University of London24th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
11. #26University of Cambridge26th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
12. #28University of Technology Sydney28th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
13. #29Tsinghua University29th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
14. #31University of St Andrews31st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
15. #33University of California, Berkeley33rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
16. #34Columbia University34th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
17. #35University of California, San Francisco35th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
18. #38Durham University38th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
19. #44University of Bristol44th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
20. #49University of Hong Kong49th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
21. #50National University of Singapore50th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
22. #51University of Amsterdam51st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
23. #54Peking University54th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
24. #60New York University60th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
25. #62University College London62nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
26. #67Imperial College London67th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
27. #71King's College London71st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
28. #74Utrecht University74th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
29. #78EPFL78th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
30. #82University of Texas at Austin82nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
31. #83University of Chicago83rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
32. #87Vanderbilt University87th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
33. #91University of Edinburgh91st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
34. #95Rice University95th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
35. #97University of Zurich97th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
36. #98Zhejiang University98th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
37. #104University of California, Los Angeles104th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
38. #105University of Birmingham105th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
39. #107University of Manchester107th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
40. #108City University of Hong Kong108th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
41. #109University of New South Wales109th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
42. #110University of Leeds110th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
43. #111University of Washington111th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
44. #112Edith Cowan University112th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
45. #113King Abdullah University of Science and Technology113th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
46. #115Chinese University of Hong Kong115th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
47. #116Monash University116th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
48. #132University of Southern California132nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
49. #133Cornell University133rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
50. #135University of California, San Diego135th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
51. #137University of Southampton137th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
52. #142University of Pennsylvania142nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
53. #143University of British Columbia143rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
54. #152Trinity College Dublin152nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
55. #156Nanyang Technological University156th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
56. #158University of Glasgow158th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
57. #159Australian National University159th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
58. #160Boston University160th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
59. #163Hong Kong University of Science and Technology163rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
60. #164University of Nottingham164th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
61. #174University of Maryland, College Park174th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
62. #183Duke University183rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
63. #184KAIST184th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
64. #186KTH Royal Institute of Technology186th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
65. #194University of Sydney194th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
66. #195University of Copenhagen195th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
67. #199University of Melbourne199th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
68. #200Heidelberg University200th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
69. #202University of Michigan-Ann Arbor202nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
70. #208Deakin University208th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
71. #212RMIT University212th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
72. #217Macquarie University217th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
73. #219Curtin University219th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
74. #223Johns Hopkins University223rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
75. #225Northwestern University225th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
76. #230Fudan University230th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
77. #232University of Sheffield232nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
78. #235University of Pittsburgh235th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
79. #238University of Vienna238th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
80. #239University of Queensland239th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
81. #244Carnegie Mellon University244th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
82. #245University of Southern Queensland245th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
83. #251McGill University251st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
84. #255James Cook University255th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
85. #260Lund University260th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
86. #261Georgia Institute of Technology261st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
87. #266Pennsylvania State University266th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
88. #269University of Western Australia269th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
89. #277University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill277th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
90. #280Karolinska Institute280th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
91. #286Shanghai Jiao Tong University286th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
92. #297PSL University297th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
93. #299University of Science and Technology of China299th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
94. #313Brown University313th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
95. #335University of Newcastle335th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
96. #353Technical University of Munich353rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
97. #369KU Leuven369th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
98. #387Murdoch University387th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
99. #388University of Adelaide388th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
100. #392University of Toronto392nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
101. #394University of Wisconsin-Madison394th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
102. #405Western Sydney University405th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
103. #412University of Auckland412th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
104. #426Sorbonne University426th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
105. #435Queensland University of Technology435th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
106. #451Charles Sturt University451st in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
107. #457University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign457th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
108. #462Griffith University462nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
109. #466Institut Polytechnique de Paris466th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
110. #468Delft University of Technology468th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
111. #477Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich477th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
112. #478La Trobe University478th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
113. #487Hebrew University of Jerusalem487th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
114. #500Swinburne University of Technology500th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
115. #509Flinders University509th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
116. #517Purdue University517th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
117. #520University of Minnesota520th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
118. #557Ohio State University557th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
119. #579University of Otago579th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
120. #585Tel Aviv University585th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
121. #592Charles Darwin University592nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
122. #635Politecnico di Milano635th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
123. #640University of Montreal640th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
124. #652University of Wollongong652nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
125. #723University of Alberta723rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
126. #766University of the Sunshine Coast766th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
127. #792Yonsei University792nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
128. #799University of Canberra799th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
129. #806University of New England806th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
130. #852Victoria University852nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
131. #946Korea University946th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
132. #975RWTH Aachen University975th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
133. #1018Seoul National University1018th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
134. #1019Universiti Malaya1019th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
135. #1033Tohoku University1033rd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
136. #1037University of Tokyo1037th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
137. #1069Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile1069th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
138. #1082Osaka University1082nd in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
139. #1087University of Sao Paulo1087th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
140. #1169Kyoto University1169th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
141. #1195National Autonomous University of Mexico1195th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)
142. #1247University of Buenos Aires1247th in the world for life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers)