The rockefeller university

Rockefeller has topped a survey that weighs what percentage of an institution’s scientific publications are frequently cited by other researchers. According to the CWTS Leiden Ranking Open Edition of over 2,800 universities from 120 countries, Rockefeller has the highest percentage of most frequently cited scientific publications as a proportion of the total number of its publications. This impact ranking underscores how the findings of Rockefeller scientists are seen as significant and relevant to others in the scientific community. 

In the 2025 Leiden Ranking Open Edition, which examined the time period of 2020 to 2023, 28.8% percent of Rockefeller publications were among the top 10 percent most frequently cited of all scientific publications. In second place, MIT, had 23.1 percent; Shoolini University in India, the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK, and Stanford University were close behind. When measuring the proportion of publications in the top one percent, Rockefeller also took first place with 4.8 percent of university publications in the top one percent. MIT, Princeton University, Hunan University of Technolgy in China, Caltech, and Stanford University were also highly ranked. 

Institutional publication data was based on open data from the OpenAlex database. Rockefeller has also repeatedly excelled in similar reports such as U-Multirank.