| # | Institutions | Citations | Articles | R-Rank |
|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 18,955 | 486 | 174 |
| 2 | University of California | 17,178 | 319 | 476 |
| 3 | (former) Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement | 14,493 | 286 | 16 |
| 4 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 13,196 | 68 | 31 |
| 5 | University of Chicago | 12,361 | 31 | 97 |
| 6 | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences | 11,103 | 260 | 9 |
| 7 | National Center for Scientific Research | 10,446 | 221 | 181 |
| 8 | Argonne National Laboratory | 10,239 | 7 | 41 |
| 9 | Hope College | 10,015 | 2 | 1 |
| 10 | Agricultural Research Service | 8,823 | 159 | 17 |
| 11 | Wageningen University & Research | 8,070 | 174 | 63 |
| 13 | University of Queensland | 7,476 | 106 | 91 |
| 17 | Zhejiang University | 6,603 | 126 | 99 |
| 18 | Wellcome Sanger Institute | 6,505 | 90 | 21 |
| 20 | China Agricultural University | 6,338 | 141 | 29 |
| 21 | Iowa State University | 6,285 | 127 | 62 |
| 22 | Nanjing Agricultural University | 6,211 | 152 | 19 |
| 25 | Huazhong Agricultural University | 5,419 | 147 | 22 |
| 28 | J. Craig Venter Institute | 5,201 | 51 | 13 |
| 29 | University of Georgia | 5,150 | 104 | 97 |
| 30 | North Carolina State University | 5,121 | 93 | 88 |
| 32 | Kansas State University | 4,701 | 60 | 42 |
| 33 | Washington State University | 4,353 | 82 | 65 |
| 35 | University of Guelph | 4,141 | 63 | 60 |
| 36 | University of California, Davis | 4,137 | 76 | 59 |
| 37 | University of Missouri | 4,106 | 86 | 72 |
| 41 | Bielefeld University | 3,937 | 80 | 28 |
| 46 | Wellcome Genome Campus | 3,567 | 64 | 32 |
| 48 | Peking Union Medical College | 3,414 | 58 | 47 |
| 59 | Academia Sinica | 3,020 | 78 | 77 |
| 61 | Southwest University | 2,889 | 60 | 25 |
| 62 | South China Agricultural University | 2,876 | 77 | 21 |
| 68 | French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development | 2,664 | 44 | 8 |
| 69 | Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University | 2,661 | 90 | 12 |
| 71 | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | 2,652 | 49 | 95 |
| 72 | Sichuan Agricultural University | 2,648 | 100 | 12 |
| 75 | Radboud University Medical Centre | 2,618 | 19 | 55 |
| 79 | Krembil Research Institute | 2,549 | 1 | 2 |
| 83 | Oklahoma State University | 2,453 | 41 | 49 |
| 89 | University of Victoria | 2,314 | 36 | 52 |
| 95 | Simon Fraser University | 2,214 | 43 | 86 |
| 99 | Aix-Marseille University | 2,177 | 22 | 57 |
