World University Index

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

2025 edition, social sciences and humanities (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

    University of Konstanz , source , retrieved

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.

Rank Institution Claim
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
2 Princeton University 2nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
5 Stanford University 5th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
7 Harvard University 7th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
10 ETH Zurich 10th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
13 University of Chicago 13th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
17 California Institute of Technology 17th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
19 Northwestern University 19th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
20 Yale University 20th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
21 University of California, Los Angeles 21st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
22 University of California, Berkeley 22nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
26 University of Pennsylvania 26th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
27 Imperial College London 27th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
30 University of California, San Diego 30th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
31 University of Zurich 31st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
32 Australian Catholic University 32nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
33 University College London 33rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
35 University of Cambridge 35th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
37 University of Oxford 37th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
38 Columbia University 38th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
40 London School of Economics and Political Science 40th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
41 University of Amsterdam 41st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
44 EPFL 44th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
45 Duke University 45th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
47 University of Sheffield 47th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
50 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 50th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
54 New York University 54th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
56 University of Southampton 56th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
63 Peking University 63rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
66 University of Southern California 66th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
67 King's College London 67th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
68 University of Maryland, College Park 68th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
71 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 71st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
73 Rice University 73rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
76 Utrecht University 76th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
78 Tsinghua University 78th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
84 Cornell University 84th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
87 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 87th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
88 University of St Andrews 88th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
90 Carnegie Mellon University 90th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
92 Boston University 92nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
93 University of Washington 93rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
96 Durham University 96th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
97 Chinese University of Hong Kong 97th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
99 Brown University 99th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
105 Delft University of Technology 105th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
108 Edith Cowan University 108th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
112 University of British Columbia 112th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
118 Vanderbilt University 118th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
135 Georgia Institute of Technology 135th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
136 Queen Mary University of London 136th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
138 University of Minnesota 138th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
143 PSL University 143rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
145 National University of Singapore 145th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
150 Macquarie University 150th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
151 University of Pittsburgh 151st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
152 University of Science and Technology of China 152nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
161 University of California, San Francisco 161st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
167 Johns Hopkins University 167th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
171 University of New South Wales 171st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
178 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 178th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
179 Curtin University 179th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
184 Karolinska Institute 184th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
185 Ohio State University 185th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
193 University of Bristol 193rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
194 University of Glasgow 194th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
198 University of Manchester 198th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
203 University of Wisconsin-Madison 203rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
204 University of Newcastle 204th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
208 McGill University 208th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
210 Zhejiang University 210th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
213 University of Texas at Austin 213th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
215 University of Toronto 215th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
217 Fudan University 217th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
226 University of Vienna 226th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
231 Trinity College Dublin 231st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
233 University of Birmingham 233rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
236 Institut Polytechnique de Paris 236th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
237 Deakin University 237th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
238 University of Edinburgh 238th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
239 City University of Hong Kong 239th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
240 University of Queensland 240th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
242 University of Hong Kong 242nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
244 Griffith University 244th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
245 Sorbonne University 245th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
246 Politecnico di Milano 246th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
249 University of Warwick 249th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
264 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 264th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
267 University of Leeds 267th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
272 Swinburne University of Technology 272nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
276 Pennsylvania State University 276th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
282 Flinders University 282nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
288 Monash University 288th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
294 Nanyang Technological University 294th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
296 Purdue University 296th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
303 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 303rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
308 La Trobe University 308th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
314 University of Melbourne 314th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
324 University of Sydney 324th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
352 KU Leuven 352nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
359 Technical University of Munich 359th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
384 Victoria University 384th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
391 University of Copenhagen 391st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
413 Heidelberg University 413th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
423 University of Otago 423rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
426 University of New England 426th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
441 Queensland University of Technology 441st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
447 University of Western Australia 447th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
451 University of Nottingham 451st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
465 RMIT University 465th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
479 University of Wollongong 479th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
493 University of Alberta 493rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
510 Lund University 510th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
513 RWTH Aachen University 513th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
520 University of the Sunshine Coast 520th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
527 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 527th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
530 James Cook University 530th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
531 Western Sydney University 531st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
543 University of Auckland 543rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
551 University of Montreal 551st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
570 University of Technology Sydney 570th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
574 University of Adelaide 574th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
575 Murdoch University 575th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
589 Australian National University 589th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
590 University of Southern Queensland 590th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
655 Universiti Malaya 655th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
706 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 706th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
722 Charles Sturt University 722nd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
736 Charles Darwin University 736th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
740 University of Canberra 740th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
754 Tel Aviv University 754th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
755 Kyoto University 755th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
759 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 759th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
781 KAIST 781st in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
803 Korea University 803rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
816 University of Sao Paulo 816th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
819 University of Buenos Aires 819th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
824 Yonsei University 824th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
825 University of Tokyo 825th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
847 Seoul National University 847th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
853 Osaka University 853rd in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
896 Tohoku University 896th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)
925 National Autonomous University of Mexico 925th in the world for social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers)