| Rank | Institution | Country | Peer score | Citations per paper |
| 1 | Cambridge University | UK | 100.0 | 7.6 |
| 2 | Oxford University | UK | 95.0 | 7.5 |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | US | 93.1 | 93.1 |
| 4 | Harvard University | US | 88.1 | 11.1 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US | 87.8 | 9.6 |
| 6 | Princeton University | US | 80.1 | 11.6 |
| 7 | Stanford University | US | 79.1 | 9.5 |
| 8 | California Institute of Technology | US | 73.2 | 11.9 |
| 9 | Imperial College London | UK | 72.9 | 6.3 |
| 10 | Tokyo University | Japan | 72.1 | 5.6 |
| 11 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 71.6 | 6.8 |
| 12 | Beijing University | China | 67.6 | 3.3 |
| 13 | Kyoto University | Japan | 66.6 | 4.9 |
| 14 | Yale University | US | 65.7 | 9.5 |
| 15 | Cornell University | US | 64.5 | 6.9 |
| 16 | Australian National University | Australia | 63.1 | 6.1 |
| 17 | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris | France | 68.8 | 6.0 |
| 18 | University of Chicago | US | 60.4 | 11.6 |
| 19 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | 60.1 | 2.0 |
| 20 | University of Toronto | Canada | 54.9 | 6.0 |
| 21 | University of California, Los Angeles | US | 53.1 | 8.2 |
| 22= | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 52.4 | 3.5 |
| 22= | Pierre and Marie Curie University | France | 52.4 | 4.8 |
| 24 | Ecole Polytechnique | France | 52.3 | 4.9 |
| 25 | University of Columbia | US | 49.9 | 8.8 |
| 26 | University of Texas at Austin | US | 49.2 | 6.6 |
| 27 | Melbourne University | Australia | 48.6 | 5.0 |
| 28 | Heidelberg University | Germany | 48.0 | 6.7 |
| 29 | University of Illinois | US | 47.5 | 6.0 |
| 30 | La Sapienza University, Rome | Italy | 46.4 | 4.6 |
| 31 | University of California, Santa Barbara | US | 46.3 | 9.4 |
| 32 | China University of Science & Technology | China | 45.7 | 3.3 |
| 33 | Indian Institutes of Technology | India | 45.1 | - |
| 34 | University of Michigan | US | 45.0 | 7.1 |
| 35 | Sydney University | Australia | 44.8 | 4.4 |
| 36 | University of California, San Diego | US | 44.0 | 8.3 |
| 37= | Göttingen University | Germany | 43.6 | 4.7 |
| 37= | McGill University | Canada | 43.6 | 5.0 |
| 39 | Paris XI — Orsay | France | 43.5 | 5.5 |
| 40 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 43.5 | 4.2 |
| 41= | New South Wales University | Australia | 43.1 | 4.9 |
| 41= | Tsing Hua University | China | 43.3 | 2.3 |
| 43 | Munich University | Germany | 43.0 | 5.9 |
| 44 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 42.4 | 5.8 |
| 45 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 41.3 | 6.4 |
| 46 | Edinburgh University | UK | 40.6 | 7.8 |
| 47 | Copenhagen University | Denmark | 40.2 | 4.8 |
| 48 | Johns Hopkins University | US | 40.0 | 9.9 |
| 49 | Osaka University | Japan | 39.6 | 4.6 |
| 50 | Technion — Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 39.1 | 3.9 |
| 51 | University of Wisconsin | US | 39 | 6.5 |
| 52 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 38.5 | 5.0 |
| 53 | Bonn University | Germany | 38.3 | 4.6 |
| 54 | Monash University | Australia | 37.9 | - |
| 55 | Pennsylvania University | US | 37.8 | 9.4 |
| 56= | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 37.7 | 5.6 |
| 56= | Technical University Berlin | Germany | 37.7 | - |
| 58= | Auckland University | New Zealand | 37.5 | - |
| 58= | Queensland University | Australia | 37.5 | 4.3 |
| 58= | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 37.5 | 5.4 |
| 61 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | 37.4 | 3.4 |
| 62 | Malaysia National University | Malaysia | 36.8 | - |
| 63 | Fudan University | China | 36.7 | - |
| 64 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 36.6 | 6.4 |
| 65= | Tohoku University | Japan | 36.2 | 4.6 |
| 65= | Warwick University | UK | 36.2 | - |
| 67= | Humboldt University Berlin | Germany | 36.1 | 5.3 |
| 67= | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 36.1 | - |
| 69 | Hong Kong University Science & Technology | Hong Kong | 35.8 | - |
| 70 | Nanjing University | China | 35.7 | 2.7 |
| 71 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 35.3 | - |
| 72 | Helsinki University | Finland | 35.2 | 6.0 |
| 73= | St Petersburg State University | Russia | 35.1 | - |
| 73= | Vienna University | Australia | 35.1 | 4.7 |
| 75 | Technical University Munich | Germany | 34.9 | 5.9 |
| 76 | Georgia Institute of Technology | US | 34.2 | 5.8 |
| 77 | Penn State University | US | 34.1 | 7.0 |
| 78 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 34.0 | 6.5 |
| 79 | Lund University | Sweden | 33.9 | 6.2 |
| 80 | University of Adelaide | Australia | 33.8 | - |
| 81 | Aachen RWTH | Germany | 33.6 | 4.9 |
| 82= | Korea Advanced Inst Science & Technology | South Korea | 32.9 | - |
| 82= | New York University | US | 32.9 | - |
| 84 | King’s College London | UK | 32.8 | - |
| 85 | Nagoya University | Japan | 32.7 | 5.4 |
| 86 | Manchester University & Umist | UK | 32.5 | 5.0 |
| 87= | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 32.4 | - |
| 87= | Vienna Technical University | Australia | 32.4 | - |
| 89 | Carnegie Mellon University | US | 32.3 | 9.9 |
| 90= | Free University Berlin | Germany | 32.2 | 4.6 |
| 90= | University College London | UK | 32.2 | 6.0 |
| 90= | State University New York | US | 32.2 | 7.5 |
| 93= | Bristol University | UK | 32.1 | 6.1 |
| 93= | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 32.1 | - |
| 95 | Malaya University | Malaysia | 31.9 | - |
| 96 | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden | 31.7 | 4.4 |
| 97= | Maryland University | US | 31.5 | 7.2 |
| 97= | University of Waterloo | Canada | 31.5 | - |
| 99 | Brown University | US | 31.0 | 8.4 |
| 100= | Uppsala University | Sweden | 30.7 | 5.3 |
| 100= | Washington University | US | 30.7 | 8.9 |