| # | Institutions | Citations | Articles | R-Rank |
|---|
| 1 | Ames Research Center | 42,843 | 655 | 3 |
| 2 | Langley Research Center | 36,470 | 1,025 | 1 |
| 3 | Stanford University | 18,118 | 392 | 120 |
| 4 | Virginia Tech | 18,052 | 569 | 5 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 16,892 | 385 | 96 |
| 6 | University of California | 15,610 | 627 | 521 |
| 7 | California Institute of Technology | 14,953 | 323 | 59 |
| 8 | Princeton University | 13,967 | 312 | 60 |
| 9 | University of Michigan | 13,394 | 363 | 142 |
| 10 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 10,732 | 220 | 42 |
| 11 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 10,068 | 369 | 40 |
| 12 | Pennsylvania State University | 9,555 | 277 | 88 |
| 13 | Purdue University | 8,563 | 347 | 69 |
| 15 | University of Notre Dame | 7,504 | 144 | 26 |
| 18 | Glenn Research Center | 6,723 | 235 | 2 |
| 19 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | 5,557 | 273 | 35 |
| 21 | Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales | 5,413 | 134 | 1 |
| 22 | University of Notre Dame Australia | 5,233 | 72 | 5 |
| 23 | The Aerospace Corporation | 5,209 | 269 | 5 |
| 25 | University of Southampton | 4,949 | 162 | 88 |
| 29 | Florida State University | 4,545 | 95 | 55 |
| 30 | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | 3,924 | 140 | 4 |
| 34 | Old Dominion University | 3,687 | 138 | 15 |
| 37 | General Electric | 3,407 | 156 | 8 |
| 42 | Lockheed Missiles and Space Company | 3,089 | 92 | 2 |
| 43 | Air Force Institute of Technology | 3,056 | 93 | 1 |
| 45 | German Aerospace Center | 2,798 | 100 | 8 |
| 46 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 2,679 | 111 | 77 |
| 47 | École Centrale de Lyon | 2,601 | 56 | 8 |
| 51 | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | 2,365 | 89 | 15 |
| 55 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 2,324 | 115 | 79 |
| 57 | George Washington University | 2,253 | 67 | 69 |
| 60 | Polytechnic University of Turin | 2,182 | 65 | 57 |
| 61 | Mississippi State University | 2,103 | 77 | 40 |
| 64 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 2,042 | 79 | 35 |
| 68 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 1,908 | 78 | 30 |
| 72 | Naval Postgraduate School | 1,767 | 78 | 17 |
| 75 | Lehigh University | 1,680 | 62 | 67 |
| 76 | Naval Surface Warfare Center | 1,666 | 37 | 7 |
| 77 | Wright State University | 1,643 | 49 | 19 |
| 79 | National Aerospace Laboratory | 1,621 | 79 | 1 |
| 81 | Southwest Research Institute | 1,555 | 36 | 22 |
| 86 | University of Wyoming | 1,506 | 36 | 83 |
| 93 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | 1,340 | 17 | 12 |
| 94 | United States Air Force Academy | 1,334 | 12 | 2 |
| 98 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | 1,252 | 8 | 20 |
