World University Index

CWTS Leiden Ranking: PP(top 10%), physical sciences and engineering (2025)

2025 edition, physical sciences and engineering (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 138

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 Edith Cowan University 1st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
2 University of Southern Queensland 2nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
3 Harvard University 3rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
4 Stanford University 4th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
5 National University of Singapore 5th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
8 Nanyang Technological University 8th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
9 Princeton University 9th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
10 City University of Hong Kong 10th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
12 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 12th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
13 University of Technology Sydney 13th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
16 Northwestern University 16th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
17 California Institute of Technology 17th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
19 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 19th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
20 Yale University 20th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
21 Columbia University 21st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
22 University of California, Berkeley 22nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
23 Rice University 23rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
24 University of California, Los Angeles 24th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
25 Cornell University 25th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
26 RMIT University 26th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
28 Chinese University of Hong Kong 28th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
31 CQUniversity 31st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
36 University of California, San Francisco 36th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
37 ETH Zurich 37th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
38 University of Oxford 38th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
43 University of Pennsylvania 43rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
45 University of Maryland, College Park 45th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
48 EPFL 48th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
49 Tsinghua University 49th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
51 University of New South Wales 51st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
52 University of California, San Diego 52nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
53 Utrecht University 53rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
58 Brown University 58th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
63 University of Cambridge 63rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
64 University of Adelaide 64th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
67 University of Sydney 67th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
69 University of Hong Kong 69th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
74 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 74th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
77 Swinburne University of Technology 77th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
80 Karolinska Institute 80th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
81 Peking University 81st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
82 University of Amsterdam 82nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
84 Queen Mary University of London 84th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
86 University of Toronto 86th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
92 Duke University 92nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
96 Imperial College London 96th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
97 King's College London 97th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
101 New York University 101st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
103 University of Science and Technology of China 103rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
105 Monash University 105th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
106 University of Melbourne 106th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
108 University of Chicago 108th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
110 University of Queensland 110th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
111 Curtin University 111th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
113 Griffith University 113th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
114 Western Sydney University 114th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
121 Australian National University 121st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
122 University College London 122nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
126 University of Zurich 126th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
130 University of Manchester 130th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
135 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 135th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
136 University of Washington 136th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
137 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 137th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
138 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 138th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
140 University of Wollongong 140th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
146 Fudan University 146th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
151 Zhejiang University 151st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
152 Delft University of Technology 152nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
156 Carnegie Mellon University 156th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
162 University of Texas at Austin 162nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
175 University of Wisconsin-Madison 175th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
176 Queensland University of Technology 176th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
182 University of Edinburgh 182nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
188 University of Glasgow 188th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
190 Deakin University 190th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
193 Durham University 193rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
196 University of Copenhagen 196th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
199 Pennsylvania State University 199th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
201 University of Nottingham 201st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
203 Murdoch University 203rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
209 Ohio State University 209th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
212 Heidelberg University 212th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
213 University of Birmingham 213th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
215 Johns Hopkins University 215th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
222 PSL University 222nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
227 McGill University 227th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
233 University of Bristol 233rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
239 Vanderbilt University 239th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
242 University of Auckland 242nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
245 University of Minnesota 245th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
255 Boston University 255th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
265 University of British Columbia 265th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
274 KU Leuven 274th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
276 Georgia Institute of Technology 276th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
278 Trinity College Dublin 278th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
280 Macquarie University 280th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
285 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 285th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
308 University of Warwick 308th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
325 University of Sheffield 325th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
331 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 331st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
334 KAIST 334th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
343 University of Leeds 343rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
347 University of Southern California 347th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
355 University of Southampton 355th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
380 University of Pittsburgh 380th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
381 University of Newcastle 381st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
391 Purdue University 391st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
409 University of Vienna 409th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
410 Lund University 410th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
421 University of Otago 421st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
475 University of Western Australia 475th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
484 James Cook University 484th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
489 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 489th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
506 Sorbonne University 506th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
507 Politecnico di Milano 507th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
515 Victoria University 515th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
526 Yonsei University 526th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
538 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 538th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
543 University of St Andrews 543rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
556 Universiti Malaya 556th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
570 Technical University of Munich 570th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
579 La Trobe University 579th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
580 University of Alberta 580th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
601 Tel Aviv University 601st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
612 Seoul National University 612th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
682 Korea University 682nd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
698 University of Tokyo 698th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
703 RWTH Aachen University 703rd in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
768 University of Montreal 768th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
837 Flinders University 837th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
916 Kyoto University 916th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
1151 Tohoku University 1151st in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
1177 University of Sao Paulo 1177th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
1188 Osaka University 1188th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
1336 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 1336th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
1346 National Autonomous University of Mexico 1346th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)
1400 University of Buenos Aires 1400th in the world for physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers)