Name: List of universities sorted by citations
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Published: 2026-06-10T19:23:20Z
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#	University	Articles	Citations	h-index
1	Harvard University	575,103	30.6M	1,480
2	Stanford University	309,082	16.0M	1,226
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	223,565	13.1M	1,176
4	Johns Hopkins University	278,282	12.7M	1,004
5	Cornell University	344,735	12.0M	928
6	University of Toronto	317,336	12.1M	907
7	University of Oxford	261,110	11.9M	969
8	University of California, Berkeley	207,963	11.6M	1,039
9	University of Michigan	282,663	11.6M	945
10	University of Washington	227,567	10.9M	946
11	University of Cambridge	226,404	11.0M	955
12	Columbia University	237,078	10.8M	953
13	University of California, Los Angeles	223,191	10.3M	912
14	University of California, San Diego	197,751	10.1M	951
15	Yale University	195,333	9.5M	914
16	University of California, San Francisco	178,518	9.4M	928
17	Imperial College London	228,442	9.3M	840
18	University of Texas at Austin	227,690	9.2M	866
19	University College London	224,122	9.3M	842
20	University of Minnesota	231,069	8.8M	824

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How to interpret peer-reviewed citation counts

This list ranks by citations received by the listed entity's research articles, short communications, and review articles from the same peer-reviewed set. Citations from other journal items, books, book chapters, proceedings, or preprints are not counted. Accumulation is field- and time-dependent; recent articles will be undercounted due to citation delay.

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