CWTS Leiden Ranking
“The CWTS Leiden Ranking offers important insights into the scientific performance of nearly 1000 major universities worldwide.”
MIT’s placement in the CWTS Rankings:
Impact indicators were ordered by proportion of a university’s publication output.
| Field | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All sciences | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Biomedical and health sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Cognitive sciences | 3 | ||||||
| Earth and environmental sciences | 12 | ||||||
| Life and earth sciences | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Life sciences | 1 | ||||||
| Mathematics and computer science | 7 | 18 | 26 | 22 | 24 | ||
| Mathematics, computer science and engineering | 11 | ||||||
| Natural sciences and engineering | 5 | ||||||
| Natural sciences | 5 | ||||||
| Medical sciences | 2 | ||||||
| Physical sciences and engineering | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Social sciences and humanities | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | ||
| Social sciences | 2 |