| Rank | Institution | Country | Peer score | Citations per paper |
| 1 | Cambridge University | UK | 100.0 | 12.8 |
| 2 | Harvard University | US | 99.1 | 14.0 |
| 3 | Oxford University | UK | 95.1 | 13.0 |
| 4 | Imperial College London | UK | 83.7 | 9.5 |
| 5 | Stanford University | US | 81.8 | 14.4 |
| 6 | Johns Hopkins University | US | 76.2 | 11.6 |
| 7 | Melbourne University | Australia | 73.9 | 7.2 |
| 8 | Beijing University | China | 70.8 | - |
| 9 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 70.7 | 5.6 |
| 10 | University of California , Berkeley | US | 69.6 | 15.0 |
| 11 | Yale University | US | 68.1 | 12.5 |
| 12 | Tokyo University | Japan | 67.5 | 9.0 |
| 13 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US | 66.3 | 22.5 |
| 14= | Edinburgh University | UK | 63.6 | 9.6 |
| 14= | University of California, San Diego | US | 63.6 | 12.9 |
| 16 | University College London | UK | 60.1 | 9.7 |
| 17 | Kyoto University | Japan | 59.9 | 8.8 |
| 18 | University of Toronto | Canada | 59.7 | 8.9 |
| 19 | Monash University | Australia | 58.9 | 7.5 |
| 20 | Sydney University | Australia | 58.1 | 6.5 |
| 21 | McGill University | Canada | 57.1 | 9.1 |
| 22 | Cornell University | US | 56.4 | 10.8 |
| 23 | Queensland University | Australia | 56.0 | 6.8 |
| 24 | Australian National University | Australia | 53.5 | - |
| 25 | California Institute of Technology | US | 52.1 | 20.3 |
| 26= | Auckland University | New Zealand | 52.0 | - |
| 26= | University of California, Los Angeles | US | 52.0 | 10.8 |
| 28 | King's College London | UK | 51.9 | 7.8 |
| 29 | Columbia University | US | 50.7 | 10.8 |
| 30 | Heidelberg University | Germany | 50.3 | 7.5 |
| 31 | Hong Kong University | Hong Kong | 48.7 | 6.5 |
| 32 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 48.5 | 8.4 |
| 33 | Duke University | US | 47.4 | 11.1 |
| 34 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 47.3 | 4.1 |
| 35 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 47.1 | 11.5 |
| 36 | Manchester University & Umist | UK | 46.5 | 8.2 |
| 37 | Princeton University | US | 46.0 | 15.2 |
| 38 | Osaka University | Japan | 45.3 | 9.4 |
| 39 | University of Chicago | US | 44.9 | 10.9 |
| 40 | Uppsala University | Sweden | 44.2 | 7.7 |
| 41 | Vienna University | Austria | 44.1 | 7.1 |
| 42 | Helsinki University | Finland | 43.6 | 8.8 |
| 43 | University of Adelaide | Australia | 42.1 | - |
| 44 | Copenhagen University | Denmark | 42.0 | 7.5 |
| 45 | University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg | France | 40.8 | 9.3 |
| 46 | Washington University, St Louis | US | 40.6 | 12.3 |
| 47 | Fudan University | China | 40.2 | - |
| 48 | Chinese University Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 39.6 | 5.0 |
| 49 | York University | UK | 39.4 | - |
| 50 | Boston University | US | 39.3 | 9.6 |
| 51 | Nottingham University | UK | 39.1 | 6.7 |
| 52= | University of New South Wales | Australia | 38.6 | 6.0 |
| 52= | Lund University | Sweden | 38.6 | 7.2 |
| 54 | Gottingen University | Germany | 38.5 | 6.5 |
| 55 | University of Michigan | US | 38.1 | 10.1 |
| 56= | Munich University | Germany | 37.8 | 7.8 |
| 56= | Malaysia National University | Malaysia | 37.8 | - |
| 58 | Pennsylvania University | US | 37.5 | 10.7 |
| 59 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | 37.0 | - |
| 60 | Washington University | US | 36.8 | 11.0 |
| 61 | Hong Kong University Science & Technology | Hong Kong | 36.5 | - |
| 62 | Pierre and Marie Curie University | France | 36.0 | 7.4 |
| 63= | Tsing Hua University | China | 35.9 | - |
| 63= | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 35.9 | 7.8 |
| 65 | University of Western Australia | Australia | 35.8 | 6.9 |
| 66 | Queensland University of Technology | Australia | 35.7 | - |
| 67 | Carnegie Mellon University | US | 35.5 | - |
| 68= | Vanderbilt University | US | 34.8 | 10.9 |
| 68= | University of California , Davis | US | 34.8 | 8.0 |
| 70= | Indian Institutes of Technology | India | 34.7 | - |
| 70= | Amsterdam University | Netherlands | 34.7 | 8.5 |
| 70= | Cardiff University | UK | 34.7 | 7.2 |
| 73 | Gadjah Mada University | Indonesia | 34.5 | - |
| 74 | Otago University | New Zealand | 34.4 | - |
| 75= | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | 34.1 | - |
| 75= | Glasgow University | UK | 34.1 | 9.2 |
| 77= | Ecole Normale Superieure Paris | France | 34.0 | - |
| 77= | Tubingen University, Reutlingen | Germany | 34.0 | 7.3 |
| 79 | Humboldt University Berlin | Germany | 33.9 | 8.5 |
| 80 | Chulalongkorn University | Thailand | 33.7 | - |
| 81 | New York University | US | 33.6 | 9.6 |
| 82= | Catholic University Leuven (Flemish) | Belgium | 33.4 | 8.4 |
| 82= | Bristol University | UK | 33.4 | 8.0 |
| 84 | Nanjing University | China | 33.0 | - |
| 85 | Dundee University | UK | 32.7 | 11.1 |
| 86= | Aarhus University | Denmark | 32.6 | 7.3 |
| 86= | Newcastle University | UK | 32.6 | 8.5 |
| 88 | Free University Berlin | Germany | 32.5 | 8.3 |
| 89 | Basel University | Switzerland | 31.9 | 9.2 |
| 90 | Tohoku University | Japan | 31.5 | 5.9 |
| 91= | Frankfurt University | Germany | 31.2 | 8.5 |
| 91= | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 31.2 | 7.7 |
| 93 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 31.0 | - |
| 94 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 30.9 | - |
| 95= | Hokkaido University | Japan | 30.8 | 5.4 |
| 95= | Malaysia University Sains | Malaysia | 30.8 | - |
| 97= | University of Alberta | Canada | 30.7 | 7.2 |
| 97= | Texas A&M University | US | 30.7 | 6.7 |
| 99= | Jawaharlal Nehru University | India | 30.4 | - |
| 99= | University of Bologna | Italy | 30.4 | 5.8 |