| 1 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
| China | 76.65 | 114.73 | 38.08 | 49.7% |
| 2 |
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
| China | 44.57 | 73.67 | 29.10 | 65.3% |
| 3 |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
| South Korea | 59.30 | 86.82 | 27.52 | 46.4% |
| 4 |
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
| United States of America (USA) | 52.27 | 70.98 | 18.71 | 35.8% |
| 5 |
Sichuan University (SCU)
| China | 60.69 | 78.66 | 17.98 | 29.6% |
| 6 |
University of Toronto (U of T)
| Canada | 45.39 | 62.90 | 17.51 | 38.6% |
| 7 |
Osaka University
| Japan | 31.21 | 47.37 | 16.16 | 51.8% |
| 8 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
| South Korea | 61.06 | 76.98 | 15.92 | 26.1% |
| 9 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
| United States of America (USA) | 65.88 | 81.74 | 15.85 | 24.1% |
| 10 |
The University of Queensland (UQ)
| Australia | 16.50 | 30.79 | 14.29 | 86.6% |
| 11 |
City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
| China | 37.02 | 50.14 | 13.12 | 35.4% |
| 12 |
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
| United States of America (USA) | 61.67 | 74.19 | 12.52 | 20.3% |
| 13 |
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
| China | 15.41 | 27.88 | 12.46 | 80.9% |
| 14 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
| Switzerland | 65.34 | 77.70 | 12.36 | 18.9% |
| 15 |
Columbia University in the City of New York (CU)
| United States of America (USA) | 30.77 | 42.75 | 11.98 | 38.9% |
| 16 |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
| United States of America (USA) | 13.60 | 25.54 | 11.93 | 87.7% |
| 17 |
Wenzhou University (WZU)
| China | 2.97 | 14.81 | 11.84 | 399.2% |
| 18 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
| Singapore | 104.29 | 115.66 | 11.37 | 10.9% |
| 19 |
Imperial College London (ICL)
| United Kingdom (UK) | 39.47 | 50.71 | 11.24 | 28.5% |
| 20 |
Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU)
| Germany | 2.33 | 13.36 | 11.03 | 473.9% |
| 21 |
Xiamen University (XMU)
| China | 68.06 | 78.95 | 10.89 | 16.0% |
| 22 |
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
| China | 533.11 | 543.86 | 10.75 | 2.0% |
| 23 |
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)
| India | 8.85 | 19.52 | 10.67 | 120.6% |
| 24 |
University of Groningen (RUG)
| Netherlands | 22.13 | 32.42 | 10.29 | 46.5% |
| 25 |
The University of Chicago (UChicago)
| United States of America (USA) | 32.71 | 42.72 | 10.01 | 30.6% |
| 26 |
Ningbo University (NBU)
| China | 3.41 | 13.41 | 10.00 | 293.5% |
| 27 |
University of Cambridge
| United Kingdom (UK) | 70.36 | 80.36 | 10.00 | 14.2% |
| 28 |
Korea University
| South Korea | 23.13 | 33.03 | 9.90 | 42.8% |
| 29 |
University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego)
| United States of America (USA) | 42.15 | 52.05 | 9.90 | 23.5% |
| 30 |
University of Delaware (UD)
| United States of America (USA) | 9.54 | 19.19 | 9.65 | 101.2% |
| 31 |
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
| United States of America (USA) | 54.97 | 64.49 | 9.53 | 17.3% |
| 32 |
Zhengzhou University (ZZU)
| China | 31.49 | 40.70 | 9.21 | 29.3% |
| 33 |
National Taiwan University (NTU)
| Taiwan | 17.72 | 26.62 | 8.90 | 50.2% |
| 34 |
Shandong University (SDU)
| China | 37.23 | 45.96 | 8.73 | 23.5% |
| 35 |
Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)
| China | 15.31 | 24.00 | 8.69 | 56.7% |
| 36 |
Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT)
| China | 11.57 | 20.11 | 8.55 | 73.9% |
| 37 |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
| United States of America (USA) | 22.37 | 30.75 | 8.38 | 37.5% |
| 38 |
Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)
| United States of America (USA) | 7.99 | 16.35 | 8.36 | 104.6% |
| 39 |
Max Planck Society
| Germany | 119.95 | 128.23 | 8.28 | 6.9% |
| 40 |
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
| Japan | 45.46 | 53.46 | 8.00 | 17.6% |
| 41 |
University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
| United States of America (USA) | 11.37 | 19.16 | 7.79 | 68.5% |
| 42 |
Zhejiang University (ZJU)
| China | 118.29 | 125.91 | 7.63 | 6.4% |
| 43 |
Anhui University (AHU)
| China | 12.78 | 20.36 | 7.58 | 59.3% |
| 44 |
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
| Germany | 66.95 | 74.46 | 7.51 | 11.2% |
| 45 |
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
| Singapore | 20.17 | 27.37 | 7.20 | 35.7% |
| 46 |
Jilin University (JLU)
| China | 85.47 | 92.62 | 7.15 | 8.4% |
| 47 |
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)
| Germany | 22.01 | 29.12 | 7.11 | 32.3% |
| 48 |
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse
| China | 6.73 | 13.84 | 7.11 | 105.6% |
| 49 |
ShanghaiTech University
| China | 16.46 | 23.56 | 7.10 | 43.2% |
| 50 |
Wuhan University of Technology (WUT)
| China | 19.07 | 26.10 | 7.03 | 36.9% |
