| # | Institution | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | Purdue University | 12 | 8,704 | 1.9K | 65 |
| 2 | Michigan State University | 6 | 4,741 | 3.3K | 160 |
| 3 | University of California | 10 | 4,423 | 8.1K | 1.5K |
| 4 | Fukuyama University | 1 | 3,425 | 272 | 2 |
| 5 | University of Florida | 5 | 3,386 | 4.9K | 340 |
| 6 | University of Essex | 2 | 2,979 | 1.6K | 19 |
| 7 | University of California, Davis | 3 | 2,040 | 2.3K | 183 |
| 8 | North Carolina State University | 4 | 1,944 | 2.9K | 280 |
| 9 | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center | 1 | 1,675 | 201 | 17 |
| 10 | University of Sheffield | 1 | 1,574 | 6.6K | 421 |
| 11 | Washington State University | 4 | 1,532 | 2.3K | 266 |
| 12 | Lund University | 1 | 1,481 | 6.9K | 575 |
| 13 | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 2 | 1,392 | 975 | 168 |
| 14 | Lancaster University | 1 | 1,266 | 3.2K | 144 |
| 15 | John Innes Centre | 5 | 1,248 | 208 | 81 |
| 16 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 1 | 1,210 | 3.5K | 326 |
| 17 | University of Melbourne | 1 | 1,201 | 9.1K | 979 |
| 18 | University of Wales | 1 | 1,196 | 2.4K | 97 |
| 19 | Stanford University | 1 | 1,174 | 8.6K | 1.3K |
| 20 | University of California, Berkeley | 1 | 1,129 | 4.9K | 521 |
| 21 | University of Maryland | 2 | 1,111 | 6.9K | 1.0K |
| 22 | Rutgers University | 3 | 1,035 | 4.5K | 736 |
| 23 | Cornell University | 2 | 994 | 5.8K | 1.2K |
| 24 | Virginia Tech | 2 | 973 | 4.4K | 491 |
| 25 | Oregon State University | 1 | 956 | 4.4K | 454 |
| 26 | University of Missouri | 3 | 936 | 4.0K | 573 |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 4 | 770 | 5.8K | 1.9K |
| 28 | New York University | 1 | 750 | 6.1K | 696 |
| 29 | University of Toronto Scarborough | 1 | 707 | 613 | 25 |
| 30 | Utrecht University | 1 | 677 | 6.2K | 1.1K |
| 31 | University of Massachusetts | 1 | 669 | 5.6K | 668 |
| 32 | University of Neuchâtel | 2 | 649 | 711 | 101 |
| 33 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | 1 | 635 | 3.3K | 326 |
| 34 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 2 | 623 | 4.1K | 459 |
| 35 | University of Bayreuth | 2 | 616 | 1.3K | 252 |
| 36 | Michigan Technological University | 1 | 613 | 1.6K | 140 |
| 37 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 1 | 610 | 5.1K | 703 |
| 38 | University of British Columbia | 1 | 584 | 10.0K | 2.0K |
| 38 | University of Bristol | 3 | 584 | 3.9K | 1.1K |
| 40 | Pennsylvania State University | 2 | 578 | 7.3K | 1.7K |
| 41 | Duke University | 1 | 577 | 6.1K | 1.1K |
| 42 | Miami University | 1 | 575 | 2.3K | 153 |
| 43 | National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan | 1 | 556 | 354 | 82 |
| 44 | University of Calgary | 1 | 510 | 7.3K | 1.2K |
| 45 | University of Bremen | 1 | 505 | 2.6K | 262 |
| 45 | Nagoya University | 3 | 505 | 2.9K | 730 |
| 47 | University of Queensland | 1 | 477 | 8.7K | 1.9K |
| 48 | University of Zurich | 1 | 462 | 5.7K | 1.2K |
| 48 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | 462 | 3.2K | 537 |
| 50 | Dartmouth College | 2 | 456 | 1.8K | 437 |
| 51 | University of Pennsylvania | 2 | 452 | 7.0K | 2.2K |
| 52 | Wageningen University & Research | 1 | 445 | 3.1K | 877 |
| 53 | University of Kentucky | 1 | 441 | 6.3K | 1.1K |
| 54 | University of Newcastle | 1 | 422 | 5.0K | 809 |
| 55 | Baylor College of Medicine | 1 | 416 | 4.2K | 1.1K |
| 55 | University of Nevada, Reno | 1 | 416 | 4.3K | 476 |
| 57 | University of Leicester | 1 | 397 | 4.4K | 767 |
| 58 | Scottish Crop Research Institute | 2 | 382 | 182 | 94 |
| 59 | University of Exeter | 1 | 370 | 4.4K | 766 |
| 60 | State University of New York at Albany | 1 | 363 | 958 | 141 |
| 61 | Carleton University | 1 | 360 | 3.5K | 480 |
| 61 | Norwegian University of Life Sciences | 1 | 360 | 1.2K | 263 |
| 63 | Australian National University | 1 | 343 | 5.6K | 1.3K |
| 64 | University of Tokyo | 1 | 330 | 8.5K | 2.4K |
| 65 | University of Groningen | 1 | 322 | 5.9K | 1.7K |
| 66 | Yale University | 1 | 321 | 6.6K | 1.9K |
| 67 | University of Edinburgh | 2 | 310 | 5.9K | 2.0K |
| 68 | University of Dundee | 1 | 301 | 3.0K | 731 |
| 69 | Rice University | 1 | 286 | 3.1K | 786 |
| 70 | Monsanto | 1 | 282 | 110 | 25 |
| 71 | University of Southampton | 1 | 273 | 6.1K | 1.7K |
| 72 | Scripps Research | 1 | 266 | 1.5K | 634 |
| 73 | (former) Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | 1 | 259 | 2.4K | 895 |
| 74 | Kansas State University | 1 | 241 | 3.5K | 882 |
| 75 | University of Reading | 1 | 230 | 3.7K | 1.0K |
| 76 | National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences | 1 | 225 | 420 | 153 |
| 77 | Iowa State University | 1 | 222 | 5.4K | 1.7K |
| 78 | Heidelberg University | 1 | 219 | 5.3K | 1.9K |
| 79 | University of Cologne | 1 | 215 | 4.6K | 1.4K |
| 80 | University of Arizona | 2 | 209 | 5.8K | 2.6K |
| 81 | Massachusetts General Hospital | 1 | 197 | 4.5K | 2.0K |
| 82 | University of Cambridge | 1 | 195 | 9.0K | 3.5K |
| 83 | University of Georgia | 2 | 178 | 4.7K | 2.2K |
| 84 | University of Chicago | 1 | 176 | 6.7K | 2.7K |
| 84 | University of Illinois at Chicago | 1 | 176 | 5.8K | 2.0K |
| 86 | University of Michigan | 1 | 168 | 10.6K | 4.7K |
| 86 | University of Minnesota | 1 | 168 | 10.0K | 4.3K |
| 88 | Ohio State University | 1 | 163 | 9.7K | 3.9K |
| 89 | University of Oxford | 1 | 150 | 9.7K | 4.1K |
| 89 | New Mexico State University | 1 | 150 | 2.2K | 582 |
| 91 | University of Iowa | 1 | 149 | 6.5K | 2.7K |
| 92 | State University of New York | 1 | 146 | 6.7K | 2.5K |
| 93 | Oklahoma State University | 1 | 144 | 3.6K | 1.1K |
| 94 | Utah State University | 1 | 136 | 2.9K | 1.0K |
| 95 | University of Göttingen | 1 | 107 | 4.3K | 2.2K |
| 96 | University of Toronto | 2 | 102 | 9.5K | 6.0K |
| 97 | Waksman Institute of Microbiology | 1 | 96 | 58 | 34 |
| 98 | University of California, Los Angeles | 1 | 93 | 5.5K | 3.1K |
| 99 | University of Regensburg | 1 | 88 | 2.8K | 1.5K |
| 100 | Johns Hopkins University | 1 | 64 | 7.4K | 4.7K |
| 101 | University of Bonn | 1 | 56 | 4.5K | 3.0K |
| 102 | University of York | 1 | 52 | 4.1K | 2.7K |
| 103 | University of Washington | 1 | 47 | 10.2K | 7.1K |
| 104 | Brandeis University | 1 | 6 | 1.6K | 2.2K |
| 105 | California Institute of Technology | 1 | 5 | 3.0K | 3.9K |
| 106 | Tuskegee University | 1 | 3 | 390 | 808 |
| 107 | University of Guelph | 1 | 1 | 3.9K | 5.8K |
