| 2016 | 2015 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 | 2 | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 80.2 | 97.2 | 96.8 | 95.6 | 91.5 |
| 2 | 4 | University of Michigan | United States | 71.1 | 84.5 | 96.1 | 100.0 | 88.6 |
| 3 | 1 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden | 85.8 | 94.0 | 88.5 | 83.2 | 86.7 |
| 4 | 7 | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom | 83.1 | 69.7 | 89.2 | 92.5 | 86.4 |
| 5 | 3 | University of Gothenburg | Sweden | 74.8 | 58.6 | 95.6 | 96.2 | 85.8 |
| 6 | 6 | Tokyo Medical and Dental University | Japan | 100.0 | 83.3 | 80.1 | 77.0 | 85.5 |
| 7 | 5 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | 71.8 | 62.1 | 100.0 | 90.6 | 84.9 |
| 8 | 13 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 65.9 | 82.1 | 91.5 | 96.2 | 84.3 |
| 9 | 12 | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) | Brazil | 64.6 | 96.3 | 86.2 | 95.0 | 83.4 |
| 10 | 16 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 69.0 | 74.4 | 90.5 | 93.2 | 83.3 |
| 11 | 9 | Harvard University | United States | 73.3 | 100.0 | 81.4 | 89.2 | 83.2 |
| 12 | 8 | University of Otago | New Zealand | 64.6 | 72.5 | 96.5 | 85.6 | 81.3 |
| 13 | 11 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 66.7 | 72.5 | 94.8 | 84.8 | 81.1 |
| 14 | 10 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 71.4 | 47.1 | 91.8 | 91.2 | 81.0 |
| 15 | 49 | University of Washington | United States | 61.9 | 57.5 | 90.4 | 96.7 | 80.5 |
| 16 | 17= | Peking University | China | 70.4 | 85.8 | 88.4 | 78.9 | 79.9 |
| 17= | 23 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 70.3 | 69.0 | 92.7 | 79.8 | 79.7 |
| 17= | 41= | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 64.7 | 71.7 | 93.0 | 84.0 | 79.7 |
| 19 | 15 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 67.2 | 84.9 | 86.6 | 83.2 | 79.6 |
| 20 | 17= | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) | Brazil | 69.2 | 79.1 | 84.6 | 83.2 | 79.0 |
| 21 | 32 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 62.3 | 79.2 | 84.7 | 89.2 | 78.8 |
| 22 | 26 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 60.3 | 77.0 | 90.4 | 83.2 | 77.9 |
| 23 | 20 | University of Bern | Switzerland | 59.4 | 36.1 | 95.1 | 92.5 | 77.7 |
| 24 | 30 | Boston University | United States | 64.9 | 66.9 | 89.0 | 82.4 | 77.6 |
| 25= | 31 | Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" | Brazil | 64.3 | 75.1 | 82.8 | 86.3 | 77.5 |
| 25= | 19 | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 58.2 | 56.4 | 93.5 | 87.8 | 77.5 |
| 27 | 14 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 64.8 | 83.9 | 87.1 | 78.0 | 77.4 |
| 28 | 27= | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 61.3 | 80.6 | 85.5 | 84.0 | 77.3 |
| 29 | 25 | The University of Adelaide | Australia | 63.1 | 71.5 | 88.4 | 80.7 | 76.8 |
| 30= | 21= | Malmo University | Sweden | 65.9 | 61.0 | 90.4 | 78.9 | 76.7 |
| 30= | 24 | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) | United States | 76.4 | 63.2 | 81.2 | 77.0 | 76.7 |
| 32 | 29 | Columbia University | United States | 53.7 | 81.4 | 89.2 | 84.8 | 76.5 |
| 33 | 40 | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) | Spain | 62.2 | 57.0 | 90.4 | 83.2 | 76.4 |
| 34= | 21= | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 76.6 | 69.1 | 82.4 | 71.9 | 76.2 |
| 34= | 27= | University of Helsinki | Finland | 61.7 | 74.6 | 88.5 | 78.9 | 76.2 |
| 36 | 35= | University of Iowa | United States | 68.2 | 46.5 | 87.1 | 81.5 | 75.7 |
| 37 | 37 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom | 60.6 | 56.1 | 88.5 | 83.2 | 75.3 |
| 38 | 44 | Osaka University | Japan | 66.5 | 81.5 | 82.4 | 74.0 | 75.0 |
| 39 | University of Southern California | United States | 59.4 | 63.5 | 85.3 | 82.4 | 74.5 | |
| 40 | 34 | Ohio State University | United States | 54.1 | 73.3 | 90.2 | 78.9 | 74.3 |
| 41 | 33 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands | 55.0 | 44.0 | 93.0 | 84.0 | 74.0 |
| 42 | 38= | The University of Sydney | Australia | 67.5 | 81.8 | 80.8 | 70.8 | 73.9 |
| 43 | University of Turku | Finland | 49.4 | 89.2 | 88.5 | 78.0 | 73.7 | |
| 44 | 35= | University of Minnesota | United States | 49.5 | 52.8 | 91.6 | 86.3 | 73.5 |
| 45= | 45 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 58.8 | 86.1 | 83.4 | 73.0 | 73.2 |
| 45= | 47= | University of Florida | United States | 53.2 | 72.0 | 85.3 | 81.5 | 73.2 |
| 47 | 50 | University of Toronto | Canada | 55.6 | 78.7 | 81.4 | 79.8 | 72.9 |
| 48 | 47= | University of Oulu | Finland | 39.0 | 69.5 | 94.4 | 85.6 | 72.7 |
| 49 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 51.2 | 49.9 | 90.2 | 83.2 | 72.4 | |
| 50 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 58.4 | 71.5 | 80.6 | 78.0 | 72.3 |
