| # | Institution | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Helmholtz Zentrum München | 683 | 49,101 | 3 | 39 |
| 2 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | 576 | 38,465 | 39 | 9 |
| 3 | Imperial College London | 161 | 17,098 | 332 | 278 |
| 4 | National Research Centre | 153 | 13,490 | 323 | 175 |
| 5 | Utrecht University | 111 | 12,283 | 116 | 46 |
| 6 | Department of Public Health | 124 | 12,282 | 194 | 345 |
| 7 | Erasmus MC | 44 | 11,265 | 832 | 380 |
| 8 | University of Melbourne | 138 | 8,142 | 1.2K | 1.2K |
| 9 | University of Groningen | 69 | 8,056 | 358 | 208 |
| 10 | University of Basel | 78 | 7,351 | 134 | 91 |
| 11 | King's College London | 34 | 7,261 | 2.2K | 893 |
| 12 | Pompeu Fabra University | 103 | 7,182 | 35 | 52 |
| 13 | German Center for Lung Research | 126 | 5,633 | 6 | 14 |
| 14 | list of universities in Germany | 37 | 5,607 | 820 | 667 |
| 15 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 14 | 5,548 | 1.6K | 368 |
| 16 | University of Verona | 98 | 5,196 | 82 | 67 |
| 17 | University of British Columbia | 33 | 5,005 | 2.2K | 1.3K |
| 18 | University of Southern California | 21 | 4,704 | 1.7K | 583 |
| 19 | QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute | 10 | 4,596 | 725 | 256 |
| 20 | Department of Medical Sciences | 87 | 4,553 | 65 | 128 |
| 21 | Stanford University | 12 | 4,433 | 7.6K | 3.0K |
| 22 | University of California, San Francisco | 11 | 3,949 | 4.5K | 1.4K |
| 23 | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | 9 | 3,845 | 1.8K | 410 |
| 24 | VU University Medical Center | 5 | 3,713 | 1.5K | 292 |
| 25 | Washington University School of Medicine | 6 | 3,594 | 3.6K | 717 |
| 26 | University of Pavia | 60 | 3,556 | 700 | 571 |
| 27 | University of Texas System | 2 | 2,724 | 1.6K | 89 |
| 28 | Ulm University | 13 | 2,330 | 469 | 106 |
| 29 | National Institute of Public Health | 13 | 2,184 | 233 | 64 |
| 30 | San Francisco City Clinic | 40 | 1,815 | 1 | 1 |
| 31 | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute | 20 | 1,508 | 175 | 252 |
| 32 | Sophia Children's Hospital | 9 | 1,272 | 206 | 73 |
| 33 | University of Jena | 28 | 1,227 | 264 | 291 |
| 34 | University of Augsburg | 10 | 1,118 | 152 | 46 |
| 35 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 6 | 1,026 | 926 | 345 |
| 36 | University of Antwerp | 32 | 939 | 551 | 844 |
| 37 | University Hospitals of Cleveland | 4 | 620 | 3.4K | 1.4K |
| 38 | University of Iowa | 4 | 575 | 4.7K | 2.6K |
| 39 | Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto | 13 | 563 | 222 | 385 |
| 40 | The Australia Institute | 3 | 537 | 346 | 184 |
| 41 | Center for Environmental Health | 10 | 407 | 63 | 93 |
| 42 | Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute | 7 | 399 | 823 | 978 |
| 43 | Geisel School of Medicine | 12 | 374 | 366 | 643 |
| 44 | Florida International University | 4 | 344 | 1.4K | 665 |
| 45 | Fraunhofer Society | 3 | 296 | 756 | 269 |
| 46 | Indiana University | 4 | 265 | 6.1K | 5.0K |
| 47 | Cancer Prevention Institute of California | 2 | 204 | 160 | 160 |
| 48 | Leibniz Association | 6 | 177 | 1.4K | 1.7K |
| 49 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 3 | 129 | 12.3K | 11.6K |
| 50 | University of Colorado Boulder | 3 | 107 | 3.2K | 3.1K |
| 51 | Max Planck Society | 5 | 102 | 8.7K | 14.6K |
| 52 | Anthropologie | 2 | 100 | 191 | 189 |
| 53 | University of Connecticut | 1 | 99 | 4.8K | 2.9K |
| 53 | SUNY Downstate Medical Center | 1 | 99 | 981 | 556 |
| 53 | UC San Diego School of Medicine | 1 | 99 | 598 | 418 |
| 56 | Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center | 1 | 73 | 574 | 542 |
| 56 | Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science | 1 | 73 | 2.0K | 1.9K |
| 58 | Royal Institute of Technology | 1 | 69 | 5.8K | 3.9K |
| 59 | University of Münster | 2 | 47 | 3.5K | 4.2K |
| 60 | Panjab University | 1 | 28 | 1.4K | 1.3K |
| 61 | Wright State University | 1 | 22 | 530 | 580 |
| 61 | Boonshoft School of Medicine | 1 | 22 | 232 | 235 |
| 63 | Tianjin University | 1 | 21 | 7.8K | 8.0K |
| 64 | Tohoku University | 1 | 4 | 9.8K | 14.9K |
| 64 | Instituto Biológico | 1 | 4 | 266 | 495 |
