| 2016 | 2015 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 | 2 | University of Pittsburgh | United States | 100.0 | 58.9 | 92.9 | 93.8 | 96.6 |
| 2 | 1 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 98.2 | 74.2 | 85.9 | 88.5 | 94.8 |
| 3 | 3 | Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick | United States | 96.8 | 47.6 | 92.7 | 92.1 | 93.5 |
| 4 | 4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 90.4 | 100.0 | 86.1 | 100.0 | 91.4 |
| 5 | 5= | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 88.6 | 99.2 | 82.0 | 82.2 | 87.8 |
| 6 | 5= | Harvard University | United States | 88.2 | 98.1 | 82.0 | 82.2 | 87.5 |
| 7 | 8 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 85.6 | 95.7 | 83.9 | 77.4 | 85.1 |
| 8 | 7 | Princeton University | United States | 84.1 | 83.3 | 91.8 | 82.2 | 84.6 |
| 9 | 9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 84.1 | 80.4 | 88.5 | 82.2 | 84.2 |
| 10 | 20 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 81.6 | 88.4 | 90.9 | 84.4 | 83.2 |
| 11 | 13 | University of Notre Dame | United States | 84.6 | 68.7 | 79.2 | 79.9 | 82.8 |
| 12 | 10 | Stanford University | United States | 81.6 | 91.0 | 81.8 | 77.4 | 81.7 |
| 13 | 11 | Yale University | United States | 79.4 | 87.5 | 89.9 | 84.4 | 81.4 |
| 14 | 25 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 82.5 | 74.3 | 77.2 | 71.9 | 80.5 |
| 15 | 32 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany | 83.1 | 55.5 | 72.0 | 74.8 | 79.8 |
| 16 | 14 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom | 78.0 | 85.4 | 85.8 | 82.2 | 79.6 |
| 17 | 16= | University of Toronto | Canada | 76.2 | 69.2 | 82.5 | 88.5 | 77.7 |
| 18 | 16= | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 76.4 | 85.1 | 85.4 | 74.8 | 77.6 |
| 19 | 22= | Columbia University | United States | 76.3 | 79.1 | 84.0 | 77.4 | 77.3 |
| 20 | 19 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 70.9 | 83.0 | 100.0 | 92.1 | 76.5 |
| 21 | 15 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 73.8 | 82.1 | 84.4 | 84.4 | 76.3 |
| 22 | 18 | University of Chicago | United States | 77.7 | 77.6 | 74.7 | 65.5 | 76.2 |
| 23 | 21 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | France | 82.1 | 77.5 | 55.3 | 48.1 | 75.8 |
| 24 | 22= | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) | France | 75.4 | 62.5 | 84.2 | 65.5 | 74.6 |
| 25 | 12 | University of Michigan | United States | 72.2 | 73.6 | 85.5 | 77.4 | 74.1 |
| 26 | 24 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | 71.0 | 78.0 | 75.1 | 82.2 | 72.9 |
| 27 | 27 | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom | 70.2 | 87.4 | 81.6 | 74.8 | 72.7 |
| 28 | 29 | Universität Frankfurt am Main | Germany | 72.6 | 64.3 | 83.7 | 65.5 | 72.6 |
| 29 | 37= | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 69.4 | 46.9 | 86.6 | 82.2 | 71.3 |
| 30 | 46= | University of Helsinki | Finland | 69.1 | 62.1 | 81.7 | 79.9 | 71.1 |
| 31 | 37= | Cornell University | United States | 67.0 | 74.5 | 83.8 | 82.2 | 70.6 |
| 32 | 51-100 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 64.5 | 85.6 | 86.5 | 86.5 | 70.0 |
| 33 | 37= | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Germany | 67.9 | 82.9 | 77.8 | 68.8 | 69.7 |
| 34 | 33 | McGill University | Canada | 66.9 | 68.2 | 86.9 | 71.9 | 69.5 |
| 35 | 36 | Peking University | China | 72.9 | 87.5 | 50.3 | 48.1 | 68.9 |
| 36 | 35 | University of Arizona | United States | 65.2 | 57.3 | 86.3 | 84.4 | 68.8 |
| 37 | 51-100 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 63.7 | 80.8 | 85.3 | 82.2 | 68.6 |
| 38 | 48= | Western University | Canada | 66.5 | 68.7 | 78.9 | 65.5 | 67.8 |
| 39 | 41 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 67.8 | 71.8 | 72.6 | 57.8 | 67.5 |
| 40 | 34 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 66.9 | 47.8 | 78.1 | 68.8 | 67.3 |
| 41 | 48= | Universitat de Barcelona (UB) | Spain | 68.9 | 72.0 | 65.4 | 53.3 | 67.1 |
| 42 | 26 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 68.5 | 74.0 | 65.9 | 53.3 | 67.0 |
| 43 | 31 | Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) | Belgium | 70.1 | 67.7 | 60.1 | 48.1 | 66.8 |
| 44 | 42 | City University of New York | United States | 62.3 | 53.4 | 81.7 | 90.3 | 66.6 |
| 45 | 44 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 61.8 | 68.5 | 87.2 | 79.9 | 66.5 |
| 46 | 51-100 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 60.6 | 85.1 | 81.9 | 82.2 | 66.1 |
| 47 | 30 | Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) | France | 75.4 | 82.8 | 26.2 | 26.6 | 66.0 |
| 48 | 51-100 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 61.8 | 74.0 | 75.9 | 77.4 | 65.4 |
| 49 | 51-100 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 68.6 | 80.8 | 49.6 | 48.1 | 65.3 |
| 50 | 51-100 | Boston College | United States | 68.8 | 55.3 | 60.5 | 48.1 | 65.2 |
