| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China | 1590.28 | 1510.38 | 4088 | -3.9% |
| 2 | Harvard University, United States of America (USA) | 883.4 | 889.47 | 2233 | 1.9% |
| 3 | Max Planck Society, Germany | 759.71 | 734.95 | 2289 | -2.1% |
| 4 | French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France | 766.89 | 702.01 | 3981 | -7.4% |
| 5 | Stanford University, United States of America (USA) | 605.7 | 608.77 | 1450 | 1.7% |
| 6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) | 580.19 | 529.31 | 1659 | -7.7% |
| 7 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany | 526.35 | 489.97 | 1982 | -5.8% |
| 8 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan | 428.2 | 462.22 | 1152 | 9.2% |
| 9 | University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) | 396.09 | 409.01 | 1179 | 4.5% |
| 10 | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) | 435.18 | 406.76 | 1201 | -5.4% |
| 11 | University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) | 478.55 | 400.93 | 1174 | -15.2% |
| 12 | Peking University (PKU), China | 385.45 | 384.43 | 1273 | 0.9% |
| 13 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland | 359.34 | 373.16 | 927 | 5.1% |
| 14 | National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) | 342.32 | 372.15 | 904 | 10.0% |
| 15 | Tsinghua University (TH), China | 326.7 | 353.4 | 1084 | 9.5% |
| 16 | University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) | 323.65 | 329.84 | 844 | 3.1% |
| 17 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) | 335.09 | 324.84 | 886 | -1.9% |
| 18 | Nanjing University (NJU), China | 318.83 | 321.5 | 773 | 2.0% |
| 19 | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) | 327.6 | 313.73 | 886 | -3.1% |
| 20 | Kyoto University, Japan | 267.09 | 303.79 | 684 | 15.1% |
| 21 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) | 312.04 | 301.17 | 877 | -2.3% |
| 22 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) | 307.63 | 299.63 | 891 | -1.4% |
| 23 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China | 276.91 | 299.53 | 801 | 9.5% |
| 24 | Yale University, United States of America (USA) | 348.98 | 297.82 | 798 | -13.6% |
| 25 | Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) | 287.95 | 292.85 | 765 | 2.9% |
| 26 | University of Toronto (U of T), Canada | 295.54 | 280.15 | 717 | -4.1% |
| 27 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) | 261.43 | 275.44 | 698 | 6.6% |
| 28 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) | 289.62 | 263.06 | 625 | -8.1% |
| 29 | University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) | 268.11 | 260.38 | 814 | -1.7% |
| 30 | Cornell University, United States of America (USA) | 258.21 | 259.56 | 783 | 1.7% |
| 31 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China | 157 | 255.65 | 1359 | 64.8% |
| 32 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) | 259.55 | 253.39 | 670 | -1.2% |
| 33 | Princeton University, United States of America (USA) | 229.49 | 247.12 | 644 | 9.0% |
| 34 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore | 233.66 | 243.63 | 566 | 5.5% |
| 35 | Zhejiang University (ZJU), China | 221.54 | 240.33 | 580 | 9.8% |
| 36 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) | 241.22 | 235.66 | 756 | -1.1% |
| 37 | National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore | 209.92 | 229.18 | 574 | 10.5% |
| 38 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) | 254.49 | 221.43 | 580 | -12.0% |
| 39 | The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) | 209.36 | 221.23 | 680 | 6.9% |
| 40 | Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) | 242.68 | 218.3 | 936 | -9.0% |
| 41 | Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India | 169.68 | 214.66 | 448 | 28.0% |
| 42 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) | 193.57 | 206.95 | 449 | 8.2% |
| 43 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland | 234.22 | 205.57 | 554 | -11.2% |
| 44 | Fudan University, China | 184.69 | 202.74 | 492 | 11.1% |
| 45 | University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) | 187.85 | 198.17 | 563 | 6.7% |
| 46 | University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK) | 215.28 | 197.88 | 833 | -7.0% |
| 47 | University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) | 236.15 | 197.15 | 564 | -15.5% |
| 48 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) | 203.38 | 195.55 | 492 | -2.7% |
| 49 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) | 182.54 | 195.39 | 468 | 8.3% |
| 50 | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain | 209.29 | 193.14 | 1055 | -6.6% |
