| # | Institution | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | University of Strathclyde | 1 | 2,457 | 3.8K | 50 |
| 1 | Scottish Universities Physics Alliance | 1 | 2,457 | 261 | 16 |
| 3 | Tel Aviv University | 6 | 1,591 | 2.9K | 442 |
| 4 | University of Glasgow | 2 | 1,484 | 4.8K | 416 |
| 5 | University of Southern California | 3 | 1,457 | 5.0K | 730 |
| 6 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 1 | 1,377 | 4.6K | 377 |
| 7 | Harvard University | 4 | 1,076 | 3.7K | 1.1K |
| 8 | University of Sheffield | 2 | 941 | 5.0K | 714 |
| 9 | University of Central Florida | 3 | 935 | 1.9K | 185 |
| 10 | Tianjin University | 2 | 932 | 2.4K | 313 |
| 11 | University of Sydney | 5 | 923 | 4.6K | 1.2K |
| 12 | University of Edinburgh | 1 | 848 | 7.8K | 990 |
| 12 | Imperial College London | 1 | 848 | 7.3K | 1.3K |
| 12 | University of Padua | 1 | 848 | 6.6K | 750 |
| 12 | University of Leeds | 1 | 848 | 6.9K | 735 |
| 12 | University of Florence | 1 | 848 | 5.1K | 472 |
| 12 | University of York | 1 | 848 | 4.0K | 406 |
| 12 | Technical University of Denmark | 1 | 848 | 3.4K | 498 |
| 12 | Palacký University Olomouc | 1 | 848 | 1.5K | 61 |
| 20 | National Center for Scientific Research | 6 | 741 | 4.7K | 1.8K |
| 21 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 4 | 713 | 5.1K | 1.9K |
| 22 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2 | 607 | 4.3K | 1.4K |
| 23 | University of the Witwatersrand | 2 | 586 | 2.9K | 268 |
| 24 | University of Adelaide | 2 | 556 | 4.2K | 858 |
| 25 | University of Connecticut | 3 | 488 | 3.5K | 931 |
| 26 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | 3 | 460 | 466 | 118 |
| 27 | Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics | 1 | 442 | 419 | 58 |
| 28 | Pennsylvania State University | 2 | 382 | 7.3K | 2.3K |
| 29 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 2 | 360 | 4.7K | 1.5K |
| 29 | Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology | 2 | 360 | 119 | 59 |
| 31 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 333 | 3.0K | 1.1K |
| 32 | Fudan University | 1 | 324 | 5.3K | 1.3K |
| 33 | Aston University | 3 | 319 | 885 | 321 |
| 34 | Nanjing University | 1 | 310 | 3.7K | 876 |
| 35 | University of Rochester | 7 | 302 | 1.5K | 1.4K |
| 36 | University of Twente | 2 | 300 | 2.1K | 667 |
| 37 | University of Queensland | 1 | 294 | 8.7K | 2.6K |
| 38 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 | 278 | 4.5K | 1.4K |
| 39 | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | 1 | 274 | 174 | 48 |
| 40 | Baylor University | 2 | 258 | 1.3K | 291 |
| 41 | University of California | 5 | 249 | 10.8K | 7.2K |
| 42 | Novosibirsk State University | 1 | 248 | 1.1K | 123 |
| 43 | Chalmers University of Technology | 2 | 222 | 2.1K | 891 |
| 44 | Peking University | 3 | 221 | 3.6K | 1.8K |
| 45 | Princeton University | 1 | 190 | 4.5K | 1.8K |
| 46 | Polytechnic University of Bari | 1 | 189 | 760 | 170 |
| 47 | University of Oxford | 1 | 183 | 9.7K | 3.8K |
| 48 | University of Jena | 1 | 174 | 3.0K | 1.0K |
| 49 | Tsinghua University | 1 | 172 | 5.3K | 2.0K |
| 50 | University of Barcelona | 2 | 168 | 4.6K | 2.1K |
| 51 | ETH Zürich | 1 | 163 | 4.7K | 2.2K |
| 51 | Yale University | 1 | 163 | 6.6K | 2.7K |
| 51 | University of Southampton | 1 | 163 | 6.1K | 2.3K |
| 54 | Cornell University | 1 | 161 | 7.6K | 3.3K |
| 54 | City University of New York | 1 | 161 | 5.1K | 1.4K |
| 54 | Queens College | 1 | 161 | 920 | 189 |
| 57 | Mitre Corporation | 1 | 156 | 320 | 73 |
| 58 | Los Alamos National Laboratory | 1 | 150 | 2.0K | 957 |
| 59 | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | 1 | 139 | 4.7K | 1.6K |
| 60 | University of Valencia | 3 | 136 | 2.8K | 1.6K |
| 61 | University of Toronto | 3 | 129 | 8.1K | 5.5K |
| 62 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 1 | 127 | 5.6K | 1.6K |
| 62 | University of Gothenburg | 1 | 127 | 5.6K | 2.5K |
| 62 | University of Dayton | 1 | 127 | 1.2K | 301 |
| 65 | University of California, Berkeley | 1 | 119 | 4.9K | 2.5K |
| 66 | Zhejiang University | 1 | 115 | 6.1K | 2.8K |
| 67 | RMIT University | 2 | 113 | 2.4K | 1.3K |
| 68 | Arizona State University | 1 | 111 | 6.6K | 3.0K |
| 69 | University of Science and Technology of China | 2 | 106 | 2.5K | 1.4K |
| 70 | Hunan University | 1 | 100 | 2.1K | 976 |
| 70 | University at Buffalo | 1 | 100 | 5.8K | 2.7K |
| 70 | Nanyang Technological University | 1 | 100 | 4.8K | 2.2K |
| 70 | State University of New York | 1 | 100 | 6.7K | 3.1K |
| 74 | Monash University | 1 | 95 | 8.0K | 4.0K |
| 74 | Georgia State University | 1 | 95 | 3.4K | 1.6K |
| 76 | University of Murcia | 1 | 92 | 3.0K | 1.2K |
| 77 | University College London | 1 | 91 | 8.4K | 4.5K |
| 77 | Czech Academy of Sciences | 1 | 91 | 3.4K | 1.7K |
| 79 | Duke University | 3 | 90 | 3.7K | 3.3K |
| 80 | Polytechnic University of Milan | 2 | 86 | 2.4K | 1.6K |
| 81 | Federal University of Pernambuco | 1 | 83 | 3.2K | 875 |
| 82 | University of Ottawa | 1 | 82 | 6.5K | 3.3K |
| 83 | National University of Singapore | 1 | 76 | 7.7K | 4.3K |
| 84 | University of California, Riverside | 1 | 75 | 1.7K | 1.0K |
| 85 | University of New Mexico | 1 | 72 | 4.7K | 2.5K |
| 86 | Xidian University | 1 | 68 | 1.3K | 664 |
| 86 | Bar-Ilan University | 1 | 68 | 3.2K | 1.6K |
| 88 | Washington State University | 2 | 62 | 3.5K | 3.0K |
| 89 | Ioffe Institute | 1 | 61 | 404 | 171 |
| 90 | University of Marburg | 1 | 58 | 3.1K | 2.0K |
| 91 | Warsaw University of Technology | 1 | 55 | 1.8K | 876 |
| 92 | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone | 1 | 52 | 522 | 272 |
| 93 | National Cheng Kung University | 1 | 49 | 3.7K | 2.3K |
| 94 | University of Ferrara | 1 | 47 | 2.5K | 1.8K |
| 95 | ITMO University | 1 | 46 | 560 | 283 |
| 96 | City College of New York | 1 | 45 | 1.5K | 995 |
| 97 | United States Military Academy | 1 | 40 | 351 | 230 |
| 97 | University of Naples Federico II | 1 | 40 | 4.9K | 3.6K |
| 97 | Case Western Reserve University | 1 | 40 | 5.5K | 4.1K |
| 97 | Colorado School of Mines | 1 | 40 | 1.3K | 967 |
| 97 | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | 1 | 40 | 1.5K | 928 |
| 102 | Russian Academy of Sciences | 1 | 39 | 5.8K | 3.5K |
| 102 | University of Guadalajara | 1 | 39 | 1.7K | 747 |
| 102 | Sun Yat-sen University | 1 | 39 | 5.3K | 3.7K |
| 102 | Complutense University of Madrid | 1 | 39 | 5.8K | 3.5K |
| 102 | University of Gdańsk | 1 | 39 | 1.6K | 780 |
| 102 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1 | 39 | 2.3K | 1.9K |
| 108 | University of Arizona | 1 | 37 | 7.7K | 5.7K |
| 108 | Carleton University | 1 | 37 | 3.5K | 2.4K |
| 108 | Nagoya University | 1 | 37 | 4.5K | 3.1K |
| 108 | University of Mons | 1 | 37 | 465 | 400 |
| 108 | Jinan University | 1 | 37 | 2.6K | 1.7K |
| 108 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 1 | 37 | 953 | 626 |
| 114 | Weizmann Institute of Science | 1 | 36 | 2.0K | 1.8K |
| 115 | Purdue University | 1 | 34 | 7.4K | 5.6K |
| 115 | Universidad de Guanajuato | 1 | 34 | 946 | 517 |
| 117 | Macquarie University | 1 | 26 | 4.3K | 3.7K |
| 117 | University of Shanghai for Science and Technology | 1 | 26 | 1.3K | 952 |
| 119 | Pontifical Catholic University of Chile | 1 | 25 | 3.1K | 2.5K |
| 120 | University of Tokyo | 1 | 16 | 8.5K | 7.6K |
| 120 | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 1 | 16 | 1.3K | 1.5K |
| 120 | Stony Brook University | 1 | 16 | 4.3K | 4.4K |
| 120 | University of Alabama at Birmingham | 1 | 16 | 4.8K | 4.7K |
| 120 | Stanford PULSE Institute | 1 | 16 | 4 | 6 |
| 120 | University of California, Los Angeles | 1 | 16 | 5.5K | 5.6K |
| 126 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 1 | 15 | 3.4K | 3.6K |
| 127 | Dublin City University | 1 | 13 | 1.7K | 2.0K |
| 127 | University of Burgos | 1 | 13 | 653 | 700 |
| 127 | Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | 1 | 13 | 34 | 55 |
| 127 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | 1 | 13 | 2.0K | 2.0K |
| 131 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 1 | 12 | 2.4K | 2.3K |
| 131 | Stanford University | 1 | 12 | 8.6K | 8.8K |
| 131 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | 1 | 12 | 3.8K | 4.2K |
| 131 | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | 1 | 12 | 410 | 507 |
| 131 | Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute | 1 | 12 | 78 | 143 |
| 136 | University of Pavia | 1 | 8 | 4.0K | 4.8K |
| 136 | Polytechnique Montréal | 1 | 8 | 1.2K | 1.6K |
| 138 | University of Colorado | 1 | 6 | 6.2K | 7.4K |
| 139 | Indian Institutes of Technology | 1 | 4 | 4.5K | 5.5K |
| 140 | University of Western Brittany | 1 | 3 | 900 | 1.6K |
| 141 | Humboldt University of Berlin | 1 | 2 | 4.7K | 6.5K |
| 141 | Stevens Institute of Technology | 1 | 2 | 1.1K | 1.8K |
| 141 | Chapman University | 1 | 2 | 670 | 1.4K |
| 144 | University of L'Aquila | 1 | 0 | 1.1K | 2.3K |
