CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 — Social sciences and humanities (PP top 10%)

Recorded placements 143

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. #1Massachusetts Institute of Technology1st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
2. #2Princeton University2nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
3. #5Stanford University5th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
4. #7Harvard University7th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
5. #10ETH Zurich10th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
6. #13University of Chicago13th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
7. #17California Institute of Technology17th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
8. #19Northwestern University19th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
9. #20Yale University20th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
10. #21University of California, Los Angeles21st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
11. #22University of California, Berkeley22nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
12. #26University of Pennsylvania26th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
13. #27Imperial College London27th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
14. #30University of California, San Diego30th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
15. #31University of Zurich31st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
16. #32Australian Catholic University32nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
17. #33University College London33rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
18. #35University of Cambridge35th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
19. #37University of Oxford37th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
20. #38Columbia University38th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
21. #40London School of Economics and Political Science40th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
22. #41University of Amsterdam41st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
23. #44EPFL44th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
24. #45Duke University45th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
25. #47University of Sheffield47th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
26. #50Hong Kong University of Science and Technology50th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
27. #54New York University54th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
28. #56University of Southampton56th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
29. #63Peking University63rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
30. #66University of Southern California66th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
31. #67King's College London67th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
32. #68University of Maryland, College Park68th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
33. #71University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill71st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
34. #73Rice University73rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
35. #76Utrecht University76th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
36. #78Tsinghua University78th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
37. #84Cornell University84th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
38. #87University of Michigan-Ann Arbor87th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
39. #88University of St Andrews88th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
40. #90Carnegie Mellon University90th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
41. #92Boston University92nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
42. #93University of Washington93rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
43. #96Durham University96th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
44. #97Chinese University of Hong Kong97th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
45. #99Brown University99th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
46. #105Delft University of Technology105th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
47. #108Edith Cowan University108th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
48. #112University of British Columbia112th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
49. #118Vanderbilt University118th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
50. #135Georgia Institute of Technology135th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
51. #136Queen Mary University of London136th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
52. #138University of Minnesota138th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
53. #143PSL University143rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
54. #145National University of Singapore145th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
55. #150Macquarie University150th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
56. #151University of Pittsburgh151st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
57. #152University of Science and Technology of China152nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
58. #161University of California, San Francisco161st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
59. #167Johns Hopkins University167th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
60. #171University of New South Wales171st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
61. #178Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich178th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
62. #179Curtin University179th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
63. #184Karolinska Institute184th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
64. #185Ohio State University185th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
65. #193University of Bristol193rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
66. #194University of Glasgow194th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
67. #198University of Manchester198th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
68. #203University of Wisconsin-Madison203rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
69. #204University of Newcastle204th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
70. #208McGill University208th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
71. #210Zhejiang University210th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
72. #213University of Texas at Austin213th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
73. #215University of Toronto215th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
74. #217Fudan University217th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
75. #226University of Vienna226th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
76. #231Trinity College Dublin231st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
77. #233University of Birmingham233rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
78. #236Institut Polytechnique de Paris236th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
79. #237Deakin University237th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
80. #238University of Edinburgh238th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
81. #239City University of Hong Kong239th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
82. #240University of Queensland240th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
83. #242University of Hong Kong242nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
84. #244Griffith University244th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
85. #245Sorbonne University245th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
86. #246Politecnico di Milano246th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
87. #249University of Warwick249th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
88. #264University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign264th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
89. #267University of Leeds267th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
90. #272Swinburne University of Technology272nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
91. #276Pennsylvania State University276th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
92. #282Flinders University282nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
93. #288Monash University288th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
94. #294Nanyang Technological University294th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
95. #296Purdue University296th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
96. #303Shanghai Jiao Tong University303rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
97. #308La Trobe University308th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
98. #314University of Melbourne314th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
99. #324University of Sydney324th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
100. #352KU Leuven352nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
101. #359Technical University of Munich359th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
102. #384Victoria University384th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
103. #391University of Copenhagen391st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
104. #413Heidelberg University413th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
105. #423University of Otago423rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
106. #426University of New England426th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
107. #441Queensland University of Technology441st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
108. #447University of Western Australia447th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
109. #451University of Nottingham451st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
110. #465RMIT University465th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
111. #479University of Wollongong479th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
112. #493University of Alberta493rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
113. #510Lund University510th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
114. #513RWTH Aachen University513th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
115. #520University of the Sunshine Coast520th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
116. #527Hebrew University of Jerusalem527th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
117. #530James Cook University530th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
118. #531Western Sydney University531st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
119. #543University of Auckland543rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
120. #551University of Montreal551st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
121. #570University of Technology Sydney570th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
122. #574University of Adelaide574th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
123. #575Murdoch University575th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
124. #589Australian National University589th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
125. #590University of Southern Queensland590th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
126. #655Universiti Malaya655th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
127. #706KTH Royal Institute of Technology706th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
128. #722Charles Sturt University722nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
129. #736Charles Darwin University736th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
130. #740University of Canberra740th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
131. #754Tel Aviv University754th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
132. #755Kyoto University755th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
133. #759Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile759th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
134. #781KAIST781st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
135. #803Korea University803rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
136. #816University of Sao Paulo816th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
137. #819University of Buenos Aires819th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
138. #824Yonsei University824th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
139. #825University of Tokyo825th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
140. #847Seoul National University847th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
141. #853Osaka University853rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
142. #896Tohoku University896th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
143. #925National Autonomous University of Mexico925th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)