CWTS Leiden Ranking

It’s always a good idea to check your university’s ranking

When it comes to selecting university and course, it’s always wise to take university rankings into account at a global level. Do you know about the CWTS (Dutch: Centrum voor Wetenschap en Technologische Studies) Leiden ranking system?

What is the CWTS Leiden ranking?

The CWTS Leiden Ranking is a global university ranking recorded on an annual basis exclusively on bibliometric indicators. These rankings get compiled by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands using the Clarivate Analytics bibliographic database i.e. Web of Science as its source of the publication and citation data.

With CWTS rankings, you can check:

The top-ranked institutions in your study abroad destinations
Ranking of your desired institution
The best institution in your field
You can also check the ranking as per the indicator most important for you

About Leiden Ranking 2019

The Leiden Ranking 2019 consists of 963 universities from 56 different countries. These are all global universities that have produced at least 1000 Web of Science indexed publications in the span of 2014–2017
Indicators: The sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators include statistics at the university level on scientific impact, collaboration, open access publishing, and gender diversity
Methodology: Every publication of a university belongs to one, or sometimes to more than one, of the main fields. If a publication is in more than one main field, then the publication is fractionally assigned to each of the main fields. For example, a publication that belongs to two main fields is assigned to each of the two fields with a weight of 1 / 2 = 0.5
Main fields: The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2019 includes statistics at a wholistic level and not only at the level of science:
- Biomedical and health sciences
- Life and earth sciences
- Mathematics and computer science
- Physical sciences and engineering
- Social sciences and humanities

Top 20 universities by Leiden Rankings 2019

S. No.	Institution	Location	2019
1	Harvard University	US	1
2	University of Toronto	Canada	2
3	Johns Hopkins University	US	3
4	University of Michigan	US	4
5	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	5
6	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	6
7	University of Oxford	UK	7
8	Stanford University	US	8
9	University College London	UK	9
10	Zhejiang University	China	10
11	University of Washington - Seattle	US	11
12	University São Paulo	Brazil	12
13	Tsinghua University	China	13
14	University of Tokyo	Japan	14
15	University of California - Los Angeles	US	15
16	Peking University	China	16
17	University of Cambridge	UK	17
18	Columbia University	US	18
19	Duke University	US	19
20	Sorbonne University	France	20