TOP 100 UNIVERSITIES BY GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS

Google Scholar Citations introduced very recently the institutional profiles for providing rankings of scientists who shared the same standardized name and email address of an institution. The total number of individual profiles is probably close to one million, while the number of universities profiles is over 5000, so it is possible to build a global ranking that although still incomplete can be representative at least for the best universities.

     This ranking is an experiment for testing the suitability of including GSC data in the Rankings Web, but it is still in beta as there are many shortcomings that should be solved in future editions. The current methodology is simple:

          1. Only institutional profiles are chosen. If your university or your faculty members are not included, please promote they set up (voluntarily) their own Google Scholar Citations public profile with a normalized (official) name of the university in the affiliation and using the institutional email address.

          2. Data from the top 10 public profiles of each university are collected. This number of profiles is for allowing size independent comparisons, but we will probably increase it significantly in the future.

          3. The head of the list is excluded for improving representativeness. For the rest of the top 10 (maximum 9 profiles) the number of citations are added and the institutions are ranked in descending order of this indicator. If there are several entries for the same author, only the best profile is used penalizing not cleaning duplicates from the list.

     4. The figures are valid only at the time of collection. We don`t comment on the numbers or absences as for this edition no changes will be done as it is only a test. For future editions we will try to implement addition/correction systems. Please, contact directly with Google Scholar for any aspect related with its database or profiles.

IMPORTANT INFO: To set up an personal profile in Google Scholar Citations database is voluntary, but once made it public the responsibility for info correctness belongs to the author. GSC automatically updates the profiles that is very practical but that sometimes adds non-pertinent records and citations to the profile. Authors should be aware of these issues and clean their profiles periodically. Also institutions should monitor their members profiles for intended (or unintended) fake, incorrect or duplicate records. This is key for the ranking as any institution with at least one of these problems can be excluded from future editions of the ranking.

RANK	UNIVERSITY	COUNTRY	CITATIONS
1	Harvard University	USA	1299019
2	University of Chicago	USA	858075
3	Stanford University	USA	856971
4	University of California Berkeley	USA	790276
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	757406
6	University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM	716322
7	University College London	UNITED KINGDOM	714700
8	University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM	676667
9	Johns Hopkins University	USA	659611
10	University of Michigan	USA	640486
11	Michigan State University	USA	639518
12	Yale University	USA	630426
13	University of California San Diego	USA	616416
14	University of California Los Angeles UCLA	USA	602609
15	Columbia University New York	USA	592347
16	Duke University	USA	590529
17	University of Washington	USA	566464
18	Princeton University	USA	562373
19	Carnegie Mellon University	USA	561052
20	Washington University Saint Louis	USA	558963
21	University of Rochester	USA	536708
22	University of Toronto	CANADA	535909
23	Imperial College London	UNITED KINGDOM	522296
24	Arizona State University	USA	510222
25	Pennsylvania State University	USA	499541
26	Cornell University	USA	493838
27	New York University	USA	470827
28	University of Minnesota	USA	465958
29	Temple University	USA	460264
30	University of British Columbia	CANADA	458698
31	Ohio State University	USA	452394
32	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	USA	450851
33	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	USA	447055
34	Boston University	USA	439805
35	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA	439620
36	University of Southern California	USA	435041
37	University of California San Francisco	USA	432362
38	University of California Irvine	USA	431602
39	University of Maryland	USA	425543
40	National University of Singapore	SINGAPORE	419702
41	University of California Santa Barbara	USA	402858
42	McMaster University	CANADA	400677
43	Northwestern University	USA	398406
44	King's College London	UNITED KINGDOM	393975
45	University of Southampton	UNITED KINGDOM	391322
46	University of Texas Austin	USA	391261
47	University of Wisconsin Madison	USA	387222
48	University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA	384361
49	University of Pittsburgh	USA	381621
50	University of Pennsylvania	USA	381547
51	Lund University / Lunds Universitet	SWEDEN	378657
52	Vanderbilt University	USA	377209
53	University of California Davis	USA	376357
54	California Institute of Technology Caltech	USA	370540
55	University of Florida	USA	367929
56	Rice University	USA	366110
57	Australian National University	AUSTRALIA	364752
58	University of Glasgow	UNITED KINGDOM	357821
59	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	SWITZERLAND	353766
60	University of Edinburgh	UNITED KINGDOM	353092
61	Northeastern University	USA	345189
62	Rutgers The State University of New Jersey	USA	336983
63	McGill University	CANADA	336441
64	University of Manchester	UNITED KINGDOM	336015
65	Bristol University	UNITED KINGDOM	328089
66	Emory University	USA	322036
67	Tufts University	USA	315706
68	Texas A&M University	USA	313657
69	VU University of Amsterdam / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	NETHERLANDS	311417
70	Indiana University Bloomington	USA	309288
71	University of Notre Dame	USA	302242
72	Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa	CANADA	301908
73	Brown University	USA	301212
74	M D Anderson Cancer Center University of Texas	USA	299271
75	University of Vermont	USA	298246
76	Sungkyunkwan University / 성균관대학교	SOUTH KOREA	296359
77	Iowa State University	USA	296174
78	Catholic University of Leuven	BELGIUM	295789
79	Korea University / 고려대학교	SOUTH KOREA	295681
80	University of Texas San Antonio	USA	288043
81	Leiden University / Universiteit Leiden	NETHERLANDS	285995
82	Seoul National University / 서울대학교	SOUTH KOREA	285585
83	University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA	285434
84	Stony Brook University	USA	282814
85	Zhejiang University (National Che Kiang University) / 浙江大学	CHINA	281891
86	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	USA	281463
87	University of Alberta	CANADA	279343
88	Simon Fraser University	CANADA	278767
89	Karolinska Institute / Karolinska Institutet	SWEDEN	278622
90	Dartmouth College	USA	278149
91	University of California Santa Cruz	USA	276763
92	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	HONG KONG	276629
93	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	SWITZERLAND	276084
94	University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA	275963
95	University of Utah	USA	275412
96	Tsinghua University China / 清华大学	CHINA	273153
97	Purdue University	USA	272979
98	University of Helsinki / Helsingin yliopisto	FINLAND	270672
99	Université de Montréal	CANADA	269993
100	Kyoto University / 京都大学	JAPAN