Scholarly Influence: QS World University Rankings on Citations per Faculty

The Citations per Faculty category of the QS World University Rankings evaluates universities based on the academic impact of their research, measured by the number of times their published work is cited by scholars worldwide.

According to the rankings data as of January 31, 2023, three universities secured the top position with an index score of 100 in the Citations per Faculty category:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Harvard University California Institute of Technology (Caltech) These universities have demonstrated a strong influence on the academic community through their research output and the recognition their work receives from other scholars.

The QS World University Rankings on Citations per Faculty recognize universities that produce influential research and contribute significantly to the advancement of knowledge in their respective fields.

QS World University Rankings For Citations per Faculty January 2023 (Index, January 2023)

University Country Index
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 100
1 Harvard University United States 100
1 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 100
1 Princeton University United States 100
1 Carnegie Mellon University United States 100
1 University of Washington United States 100
1 Indian Institute of Science India 100
1 Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) South Korea 100
2 Stanford University United States 99.9
2 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 99.9
2 University of Science and Technology of China China 99.9
2 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) South Korea 99.9
3 Tel Aviv University Israel 99.7
4 EPFL Switzerland 99.4
5 Cornell University United States 99.3
5 The Australian National University Australia 99.3
6 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Switzerland 99.2
7 The University of Western Australia Australia 98.9
8 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 98.6
9 Yeshiva University United States 98.5
10 University of Bern Switzerland 98.3
11 Tsinghua University China 98.1
11 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 98.1
12 Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) South Korea 98
13 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology South Korea 97.7
14 The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) Australia 97.6
15 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 97.3
16 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) United States 97.2
17 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 97.1
18 Western University Canada 96.9
19 Peking University China 96.7
20 Harbin Institute of Technology China 96.5
21 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon France 96.4
22 Nanjing University China 96.1
23 University of Basel Switzerland 95.7
24 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 95.5
25 The University of Melbourne Australia 95
26 The University of Adelaide Australia 94.5
27 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Singapore 94.1
28 Institut Polytechnique de Paris France 94
29 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong 92.9
30 KU Leuven Belgium 92.7
31 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 92.3
32 The University of Sydney Australia 92.1
33 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 91.8
34 Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) Spain 91.5
34 Université Paris Cité France 91.5
35 University of Texas at Austin United States 90.9
36 The University of Queensland Australia 90.8
37 University of Technology Sydney Australia 90.4
38 University of Oxford United Kingdom 90
39 Brown University United States 89.9
40 Curtin University Australia 89.4
41 Aalto University Finland 89.3
42 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 88.7
43 Zhejiang University China 88.4
44 Wuhan University China 88.1
45 University of Wollongong Australia 88
46 Tongji University China 87.5
47 Johns Hopkins University United States 87.3
48 Swinburne University of Technology Australia 87
49 University of Chicago United States 86.8
50 Rice University United States 86.7
50 The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON) Australia 86.7
50 Dartmouth College United States 86.7
51 Technische Universität Wien Austria 86.6
52 Imperial College London United Kingdom 86.5
53 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) India 86.4
54 Sorbonne University France 86.3
55 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 85.9
56 University of Tasmania Australia 85.4
57 The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom 84.6
58 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 84.4
59 Northwestern University United States 84.2
60 Université PSL France 84.1
61 University of Southampton United Kingdom 82.7
62 University of Waterloo Canada 82.5
63 Radboud University Netherlands 82.4
64 Lancaster University United Kingdom 82.2
65 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 81.6
66 Technical University of Darmstadt Germany 81.4
67 Southern University of Science and Technology China 80.9
68 University of Sussex United Kingdom 80.5
69 University of Ottawa Canada 80.3
70 Utrecht University Netherlands 79.6
71 Monash University Australia 79.3
72 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) India 79
73 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands 78.2
74 UCL United Kingdom 77
74 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 77
75 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 76.4
75 Beijing Normal University China 76.4
76 Macquarie University Australia 74.6
77 University of Geneva Switzerland 74
78 The University of Tokyo Japan 73.3
78 RWTH Aachen University Germany 73.3
79 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 72.6
80 KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany 72
81 University of Southern California United States 71.7
82 University of Porto Portugal 71.4
83 University of Maryland, College Park United States 71.1
84 University of Pennsylvania United States 70.9
84 Purdue University United States 70.9
85 Technical University of Denmark Denmark 70.8
86 Fudan University China 70.4
87 Seoul National University South Korea 70.3
88 The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 70.1
89 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands 70
90 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 68.9
91 University of California, Davis United States 68.7
91 Emory University United States 68.7
92 University of Twente Netherlands 67.9
93 Texas A&M University United States 67.8
93 Universite libre de Bruxelles Belgium 67.8
94 Pennsylvania State University United States 67.7
95 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Spain 66.9
96 Deakin University Australia 66.8
97 RMIT University Australia 66
98 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Japan 65.9
99 Leiden University Netherlands 65.8
99 Case Western Reserve University United States 65.8
99 Heriot-Watt University United Kingdom 65.8
100 Durham University United Kingdom 65.7
101 University of Massachusetts Amherst United States 65.3
102 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) India 65.2
103 Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Australia 65.1
104 Freie Universitaet Berlin Germany 63.5
105 The University of Warwick United Kingdom 63.1
105 Maastricht University Netherlands 63.1
106 University of Oslo Norway 62.7
107 Queen Mary University of London United Kingdom 62.6
108 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor United States 62.5
108 Stockholm University Sweden 62.5
109 Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) Belgium 61.7
110 Boston University United States 61.6
111 University of Lausanne Switzerland 61
112 King's College London United Kingdom 60.5
113 Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Ireland 60.2
114 Arizona State University United States 59.9
114 University of California, Irvine United States 59.9
115 McGill University Canada 59.6
116 Osaka University Japan 59.1
116 University of Bath United Kingdom 59.1
117 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 59
118 University of St Andrews United Kingdom 58.9
118 Newcastle University United Kingdom 58.9
118 Michigan State University United States 58.9
118 Universität Hamburg Germany 58.9
119 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) India 58.3
120 Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Germany 57.3
121 Ecole des Ponts ParisTech France 56.7
122 Washington University in St. Louis United States 55.6
123 University of Bristol United Kingdom 55.3
123 The University of Exeter United Kingdom 55.3
124 Aarhus University Denmark 55.2
125 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) India 55.1
126 University of Rochester United States 55
126 University of Reading United Kingdom 55
127 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 54.9
128 Kyoto University Japan 54.2
129 The University of Auckland New Zealand 54.1
130 University of Alberta Canada 53.9
131 Politecnico di Milano Italy 53.5
132 Khalifa University of Science and Technology United Arab Emirates 51.9
132 Università di Padova Italy 51.9
133 Yale University United States 51.5
134 University of Otago New Zealand 51.4
135 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Saudi Arabia 50.9
136 King Abdulaziz University (KAU) Saudi Arabia 50.6
136 University of Aberdeen United Kingdom 50.6
137 Sapienza University of Rome Italy 50.2
138 University of Helsinki Finland 49.8
139 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 49.7
139 Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna Italy 49.7
140 Queen's University at Kingston Canada 49.6
141 Université Paris-Saclay France 49.5
142 University of Zurich Switzerland 49.3
143 University of Minnesota Twin Cities United States 49.2
144 University of York United Kingdom 48.6
145 Wageningen University & Research Netherlands 48.2
146 University of Leeds United Kingdom 47.8
147 National Tsing Hua University Taiwan 47.7
148 University of Notre Dame United States 47.3
149 Columbia University United States 47.2
149 USI - Università della Svizzera italiana Switzerland 47.2
150 The University of Sheffield United Kingdom 46.9
151 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States 46.6
152 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Taiwan 46.2
153 Sun Yat-sen University China 46
154 University of Birmingham United Kingdom 45.9
155 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 45.5
156 University of Nottingham United Kingdom 45.2
157 University of Antwerp Belgium 44.8
158 University of Cape Town South Africa 44.6
159 Universitat de Barcelona Spain 44.5
160 University of Toronto Canada 43.5
161 Uppsala University Sweden 43.4
162 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) Brazil 43.2
163 University College Dublin Ireland 43
164 University of Leicester United Kingdom 42.7
165 University of Groningen Netherlands 42.2
166 University of British Columbia Canada 42.1
167 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 41.9
167 University of Calgary Canada 41.9
168 Cardiff University United Kingdom 41.8
169 Lund University Sweden 41.4
170 Duke University United States 41.2
171 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany 41.1
171 University of Bergen Norway 41.1
172 Universidade de São Paulo Brazil 40.6
173 Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong 39.6
174 Universiti Malaya (UM) Malaysia 39.4
175 Vanderbilt University United States 38.5
176 Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) South Korea 37.8
177 Loughborough University United Kingdom 37.7
178 University of Pittsburgh United States 37.4
179 Queen's University Belfast United Kingdom 37.3
180 Qatar University Qatar 36.9
181 University of Virginia United States 36.5
182 University of Turku Finland 36.3
183 University of Glasgow United Kingdom 34.7
184 The Ohio State University United States 34.6
185 University of Gothenburg Sweden 34.4
186 Tohoku University Japan 34.2
187 Nagoya University Japan 33.9
188 University of Liverpool United Kingdom 33.7
189 University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha New Zealand 33.2
190 Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand 30.9
191 Hokkaido University Japan 30
192 Korea University South Korea 29.5
192 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 29.5
193 King Saud University Saudi Arabia 29.3
194 New York University (NYU) United States 28.9
195 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 28.7
196 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia 28.6
197 Yonsei University South Korea 28.4
198 Université de Montréal Canada 27.6
199 Georgetown University United States 27.3
200 Ghent University Belgium 26.9
201 Kyushu University Japan 26.8
202 University of Florida United States 26.4
203 Rutgers University–New Brunswick United States 26.3
204 University of Copenhagen Denmark 26
205 Technical University of Munich Germany 25.8
206 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium 23.8
207 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) Germany 23.6
208 Massey University New Zealand 22.6
209 National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Taiwan 22.2
210 The University of Arizona United States 21.5
211 McMaster University Canada 21.3
212 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Spain 20.8
212 University of Miami United States 20.8
213 American University of Beirut (AUB) Lebanon 20
214 Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) Malaysia 19.5
215 University of Göttingen Germany 18.7
216 Hanyang University South Korea 17.6
217 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech) Russia 16
218 Novosibirsk State University Russia 15.7
218 Graz University of Technology Austria 15.7
219 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Germany 15.1
219 University of Navarra Spain 15.1
220 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany 14.9
220 Technische Universität Dresden Germany 14.9
221 University of Tartu Estonia 14.3
222 University of Vienna Austria 14.1
223 Universidad de Chile Chile 13.9
224 National University of Ireland Galway Ireland 13.5
225 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Malaysia 13.4
226 Kyung Hee University South Korea 13.3
227 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) Chile 12.5
228 United Arab Emirates University United Arab Emirates 11.5
229 Charles University Czech Republic 10.7
230 Complutense University of Madrid Spain 10.2
231 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Malaysia 9.4
232 Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) Brunei 8.5
233 University of Warsaw Poland 7.1
234 Keio University Japan 6.6
234 Taylor's University Malaysia 6.6
234 Jagiellonian University Poland 6.6
235 Tomsk State University Russia 6.3
236 Chulalongkorn University Thailand 6.2
237 Universidad de los Andes Colombia 6.1
237 Saint Petersburg State University Russia 6.1
238 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 5.3
239 Mahidol University Thailand 5.2
240 Waseda University Japan 4.4
241 Universidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia 3.6
242 Sciences Po France 3.3
243 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico 2.9
244 UCSI University Malaysia 2.8
245 Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) Indonesia 2.3
246 Tecnológico de Monterrey Mexico 2.2
247 Universitas Indonesia Indonesia 1.9
248 Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) Argentina 1.8
248 RUDN University Russia 1.8
249 Gadjah Mada University Indonesia 1.6
250 Bauman Moscow State Technical University Russia 1.4
250 L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU) Kazakhstan 1.4
251 Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Kazakhstan 1.3
251 Belarusian State University Belarus 1.3

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