| 01 | Harvard | 97.7 |
| 02 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 64.2 |
| 03 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 51.9 |
| 04 | Stanford University | 49.7 |
| 05 | University of Oxford | 46.0 |
| 06 | Max Planck Society | 45.5 |
| 07 | National Institutes of Health | 44.4 |
| 08 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | 38.3 |
| 09 | University of Science and Technology of China | 37.9 |
| 10 | nature.com Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders | 34.4 |
| 11 | Massachusetts General Hospital | 25.0 |
| 12 | Johns Hopkins University | 21.9 |
| 13 | Zhejiang University | 21.0 |
| 14 | Peking University | 20.0 |
| 15 | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | 19.2 |
| 16 | Russian Academy of Sciences | 19.2 |
| 17 | French National Centre for Scientific Research | 19.2 |
| 18 | UC Berkeley | 16.9 |
| 19 | California Institute of Technology | 16.3 |
| 20 | Princeton University | 15.8 |
| 21 | US News Best Global Universities | 15.0 |
| 22 | CERN | 12.5 |
| 23 | Shanghai Ranking (ARWU) | 11.5 |
| 24 | Times Higher Education World University Rankings | 10.2 |