Ranked 9th in the world for scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers)
Source: CWTS Leiden Ranking: scientific impact, PP(top 10%) (2025), 2025
Full ranking profile 34 placements
Every placement the Index records for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| Leiden 2025 Headline scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =9 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Petroleum Engineering | Quacquarelli Symonds | =11 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =12 |
| NTU 2025 Energy Science & Engineering | National Taiwan University | =32 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Materials Science | Quacquarelli Symonds | =36 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =60 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =81 |
| SCImago 2026 Chemistry | SCImago Research Group | =86 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =100 |
| SCImago 2025 Engineering | SCImago Research Group | =100 |
| SCImago 2026 Physics and Astronomy | SCImago Research Group | =109 |
| NTU 2025 Natural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =112 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =113 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =130 |
| SCImago 2026 Arts and Humanities | SCImago Research Group | =133 |
| Nature 2025 | Nature / Springer Nature | =143 |
| NTU 2025 Agriculture | National Taiwan University | =173 |
| SCImago 2026 Environmental Science | SCImago Research Group | =174 |
| SCImago 2025 Mathematics | SCImago Research Group | =176 |
| SCImago 2025 Earth and Planetary Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =182 |
| THE-Rep 2025 reputation | Times Higher Education | =201 |
| SCImago 2025 Computer Science | SCImago Research Group | =201 |
| SCImago 2026 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | SCImago Research Group | =224 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =227 |
| Nature 2025 physical sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =228 |
| SCImago 2026 | SCImago Research Group | =262 |
| SCImago 2025 Agricultural and Biological Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =264 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =279 |
| SCImago 2025 Medicine | SCImago Research Group | =354 |
| Nature 2025 biological sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =359 |
| NTU 2025 Life Sciences | National Taiwan University | =401 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =420 |
| Nature 2025 health sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =447 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =466 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.