| # | Institution | Articles | Citations | R ARank | R CRank |
|---|
| 1 | European Southern Observatory | 11 | 2,057 | 37 | 10 |
| 2 | Durham University | 3 | 1,567 | 2.2K | 183 |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | 6 | 1,535 | 4.0K | 961 |
| 4 | Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | 6 | 1,433 | 107 | 33 |
| 5 | University of Amsterdam | 6 | 1,203 | 2.9K | 744 |
| 6 | National Center for Scientific Research | 18 | 1,103 | 2.6K | 1.4K |
| 7 | Kapteyn Astronomical Institute | 6 | 967 | 31 | 8 |
| 8 | Shibaura Institute of Technology | 1 | 925 | 692 | 4 |
| 9 | University of St Andrews | 3 | 880 | 1.2K | 148 |
| 10 | National Institute for Astrophysics | 5 | 867 | 71 | 20 |
| 11 | University of Oxford | 2 | 838 | 7.6K | 1.6K |
| 12 | University of New Hampshire | 2 | 757 | 1.6K | 188 |
| 13 | University of Warwick | 2 | 729 | 3.8K | 537 |
| 14 | University of Geneva | 2 | 727 | 2.9K | 486 |
| 15 | University of Michigan | 4 | 716 | 6.4K | 2.2K |
| 16 | University of Bonn | 1 | 691 | 4.5K | 664 |
| 16 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | 1 | 691 | 3.8K | 405 |
| 16 | Los Alamos National Laboratory | 1 | 691 | 2.0K | 399 |
| 16 | University of Alberta | 1 | 691 | 9.1K | 1.3K |
| 16 | Nanjing University | 1 | 691 | 3.7K | 480 |
| 16 | National Astronomical Observatories | 1 | 691 | 184 | 21 |
| 22 | West Virginia University | 3 | 648 | 2.2K | 265 |
| 23 | Uppsala University | 5 | 638 | 2.9K | 1.1K |
| 24 | University of Maryland | 5 | 602 | 4.3K | 1.6K |
| 25 | Leiden University | 2 | 590 | 3.1K | 660 |
| 26 | Chalmers University of Technology | 3 | 586 | 1.6K | 427 |
| 27 | University of Liège | 8 | 564 | 994 | 508 |
| 28 | University of São Paulo | 2 | 548 | 7.4K | 1.4K |
| 29 | ETH Zürich | 3 | 513 | 3.0K | 1.1K |
| 30 | University of California | 6 | 503 | 10.1K | 5.4K |
| 31 | Dartmouth College | 2 | 476 | 1.7K | 419 |
| 32 | Austrian Academy of Sciences | 3 | 438 | 503 | 177 |
| 33 | University of Zagreb | 2 | 437 | 2.6K | 274 |
| 34 | Armagh Observatory | 1 | 422 | 40 | 9 |
| 34 | Institute for the Structure of Matter | 1 | 422 | 210 | 32 |
| 36 | University of Bologna | 1 | 416 | 6.8K | 1.3K |
| 37 | Goddard Space Flight Center | 4 | 414 | 341 | 185 |
| 38 | Technical University of Berlin | 2 | 405 | 2.2K | 513 |
| 39 | Drexel University | 1 | 399 | 3.1K | 472 |
| 39 | Diego Portales University | 1 | 399 | 415 | 16 |
| 39 | Agenzia Spaziale Italiana | 1 | 399 | 72 | 9 |
| 42 | Universidad Nacional de La Plata | 2 | 395 | 1.4K | 143 |
| 42 | Paris Diderot University | 4 | 395 | 941 | 376 |
| 44 | Paris Observatory | 10 | 387 | 113 | 79 |
| 45 | University of Graz | 3 | 384 | 1.3K | 398 |
| 46 | University of Groningen | 3 | 359 | 3.6K | 1.6K |
| 47 | University of Edinburgh | 1 | 347 | 7.8K | 1.9K |
| 48 | Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy | 2 | 342 | 37 | 14 |
| 49 | Aarhus University | 4 | 340 | 3.0K | 1.4K |
| 50 | United States Naval Research Laboratory | 1 | 330 | 1.1K | 286 |
| 51 | University of Leeds | 1 | 327 | 6.9K | 1.6K |
| 52 | Wayne State University | 1 | 322 | 5.2K | 1.1K |
| 52 | Saint Mary's University | 1 | 322 | 673 | 67 |
| 54 | Imperial College London | 2 | 311 | 5.8K | 2.4K |
| 55 | Heidelberg University | 5 | 296 | 2.5K | 1.6K |
| 56 | Russian Academy of Sciences | 1 | 281 | 5.8K | 1.4K |
| 56 | University of Bremen | 1 | 281 | 2.6K | 461 |
| 56 | University of Western Brittany | 1 | 281 | 899 | 151 |
| 59 | École Normale Supérieure | 1 | 280 | 1.5K | 378 |
| 60 | Space Telescope Science Institute | 2 | 275 | 65 | 28 |
| 61 | University of Turku | 3 | 266 | 2.2K | 957 |
| 62 | University of Glasgow | 2 | 261 | 4.8K | 1.7K |
| 63 | Stanford University | 3 | 260 | 5.7K | 3.2K |
| 64 | National Center for Atmospheric Research | 2 | 251 | 353 | 200 |
| 65 | University of Sheffield | 3 | 250 | 4.1K | 1.9K |
| 66 | University of Basel | 1 | 248 | 3.7K | 1.1K |
| 67 | University College London | 4 | 246 | 4.7K | 2.8K |
| 68 | University of British Columbia | 2 | 244 | 7.9K | 3.4K |
| 69 | Pennsylvania State University | 1 | 243 | 9.3K | 2.9K |
| 70 | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias | 2 | 239 | 73 | 25 |
| 71 | University of Vienna | 3 | 235 | 3.3K | 1.6K |
| 72 | Aix-Marseille University | 2 | 223 | 2.1K | 687 |
| 73 | University of Milan | 1 | 222 | 5.9K | 2.0K |
| 73 | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | 2 | 222 | 3.9K | 1.2K |
| 73 | Brera Astronomical Observatory | 1 | 222 | 47 | 15 |
| 76 | Yale University | 1 | 208 | 6.6K | 2.4K |
| 77 | University of Wrocław | 1 | 206 | 1.9K | 303 |
| 77 | Nagoya University | 1 | 206 | 4.5K | 1.4K |
| 79 | California Institute of Technology | 2 | 198 | 2.3K | 1.4K |
| 80 | European Space Agency | 2 | 194 | 207 | 83 |
| 81 | University of Central Lancashire | 2 | 193 | 901 | 238 |
| 82 | International Space Development Conference | 1 | 175 | 20 | 9 |
| 83 | University of Utah | 1 | 172 | 6.8K | 2.5K |
| 83 | University of Florence | 1 | 172 | 5.1K | 1.7K |
| 85 | Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics | 1 | 167 | 74 | 33 |
| 85 | National Research Council Canada | 1 | 167 | 1.8K | 764 |
| 87 | Fisk University | 1 | 166 | 106 | 27 |
| 87 | Eötvös Loránd University | 1 | 166 | 2.1K | 503 |
| 87 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | 1 | 166 | 6.2K | 2.5K |
| 87 | Swarthmore College | 1 | 166 | 548 | 133 |
| 87 | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | 1 | 166 | 3.1K | 834 |
| 87 | University of Washington Bothell | 1 | 166 | 101 | 30 |
| 87 | Flatiron Institute | 1 | 166 | 69 | 38 |
| 87 | Hillsdale College | 1 | 166 | 60 | 12 |
| 95 | Johns Hopkins University | 4 | 164 | 4.0K | 3.1K |
| 96 | International School for Advanced Studies | 1 | 155 | 276 | 93 |
| 97 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | 1 | 154 | 3.3K | 1.1K |
| 98 | University of Copenhagen | 1 | 151 | 7.3K | 3.1K |
| 98 | Niels Bohr Institute | 1 | 151 | 300 | 136 |
| 100 | Vassar College | 1 | 147 | 485 | 78 |
| 100 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | 1 | 147 | 1.1K | 382 |
| 102 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | 2 | 143 | 5.4K | 3.1K |
| 103 | University of Texas at Austin | 2 | 141 | 7.9K | 4.4K |
| 104 | Kyung Hee University | 1 | 140 | 3.1K | 1.0K |
| 105 | Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur | 2 | 136 | 77 | 39 |
| 106 | Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées | 1 | 135 | 177 | 83 |
| 107 | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | 1 | 129 | 5.0K | 1.4K |
| 108 | University of Manitoba | 1 | 128 | 5.6K | 2.2K |
| 108 | Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics | 1 | 128 | 65 | 35 |
| 110 | Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía | 2 | 125 | 49 | 31 |
| 111 | Freie Universität Berlin | 1 | 124 | 4.4K | 1.8K |
| 111 | German Aerospace Center | 1 | 124 | 544 | 214 |
| 111 | Université libre de Bruxelles | 2 | 124 | 2.9K | 1.7K |
| 111 | Royal Observatory of Belgium | 3 | 124 | 66 | 46 |
| 115 | Sorbonne University | 4 | 106 | 915 | 655 |
| 116 | CNES | 1 | 102 | 348 | 127 |
| 116 | University of Alabama in Huntsville | 1 | 102 | 909 | 328 |
| 116 | International Space Science Institute | 2 | 102 | 24 | 19 |
| 119 | University of Bristol | 2 | 101 | 4.8K | 3.2K |
| 120 | University of Turin | 2 | 98 | 4.1K | 2.6K |
| 121 | University of Insubria | 1 | 97 | 1.4K | 663 |
| 122 | University of Sussex | 2 | 93 | 2.6K | 1.8K |
| 123 | University of Birmingham | 1 | 92 | 7.2K | 3.6K |
| 123 | University of Oslo | 1 | 92 | 6.3K | 3.2K |
| 123 | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis | 1 | 92 | 1.2K | 554 |
| 123 | Norwegian Space Centre | 1 | 92 | 4 | 2 |
| 123 | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan | 1 | 92 | 143 | 69 |
| 128 | University of Trieste | 1 | 87 | 2.8K | 1.3K |
| 129 | Haute-Provence Observatory | 1 | 85 | 24 | 11 |
| 130 | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam | 1 | 78 | 63 | 31 |
| 131 | PSL University | 3 | 75 | 635 | 600 |
| 132 | University of Toulouse | 3 | 73 | 1.5K | 1.4K |
| 133 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | 1 | 71 | 10.0K | 6.0K |
| 133 | Lowell Observatory | 1 | 71 | 47 | 30 |
| 135 | University of Hong Kong | 1 | 63 | 6.7K | 4.0K |
| 135 | University of Leicester | 1 | 63 | 4.4K | 2.6K |
| 135 | Scottish Universities Physics Alliance | 1 | 63 | 261 | 185 |
| 138 | Liverpool John Moores University | 2 | 62 | 1.3K | 1.1K |
| 139 | University of Hawaii | 2 | 61 | 2.0K | 1.8K |
| 139 | University of Arizona | 2 | 61 | 5.8K | 4.7K |
| 141 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 1 | 60 | 7.4K | 5.0K |
| 141 | Queen's University Belfast | 1 | 60 | 3.9K | 2.3K |
| 141 | University of Delaware | 1 | 60 | 4.2K | 2.6K |
| 141 | National Space Science and Technology Center | 1 | 60 | 38 | 34 |
| 141 | Bartol Research Institute | 1 | 60 | 48 | 39 |
| 141 | University of California, Los Angeles | 1 | 60 | 5.5K | 3.7K |
| 141 | Academia Sinica | 1 | 60 | 3.5K | 2.1K |
| 141 | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency | 1 | 60 | 477 | 239 |
| 149 | Universidad de Guanajuato | 1 | 59 | 946 | 320 |
| 149 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | 1 | 59 | 2.1K | 1.2K |
| 151 | Arecibo Observatory | 1 | 58 | 55 | 33 |
| 152 | Czech Academy of Sciences | 1 | 55 | 3.4K | 2.1K |
| 152 | Air Force Research Laboratory | 1 | 55 | 180 | 124 |
| 152 | Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie | 1 | 55 | 550 | 134 |
| 152 | University of California, Berkeley | 1 | 55 | 4.9K | 3.5K |
| 152 | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | 1 | 55 | 102 | 63 |
| 152 | Kirtland Air Force Base | 1 | 55 | 197 | 111 |
| 158 | University of the Western Cape | 1 | 54 | 1.4K | 677 |
| 159 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1 | 51 | 5.6K | 4.2K |
| 159 | University of Münster | 1 | 51 | 4.0K | 2.7K |
| 159 | Polish Academy of Sciences | 1 | 51 | 4.5K | 2.9K |
| 159 | Hokkaido University | 1 | 51 | 5.1K | 3.1K |
| 159 | Raman Research Institute | 2 | 51 | 158 | 130 |
| 159 | University of Wollongong | 1 | 51 | 3.7K | 2.3K |
| 165 | University of Jena | 1 | 49 | 3.0K | 2.1K |
| 165 | Syracuse University | 1 | 49 | 3.4K | 2.2K |
| 165 | University of Catania | 1 | 49 | 3.6K | 2.4K |
| 165 | Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy | 1 | 49 | 32 | 21 |
| 169 | York University | 1 | 46 | 4.5K | 2.8K |
| 169 | Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 1 | 46 | 27 | 18 |
| 171 | European Space Research and Technology Centre | 1 | 44 | 232 | 169 |
| 172 | Carnegie Institution for Science | 1 | 43 | 586 | 585 |
| 172 | University of Western Australia | 1 | 43 | 5.4K | 4.1K |
| 174 | Cornell University | 1 | 42 | 7.6K | 5.6K |
| 175 | University of New South Wales | 1 | 41 | 8.2K | 5.9K |
| 176 | Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte | 2 | 39 | 29 | 25 |
| 177 | Vanderbilt University | 1 | 38 | 5.2K | 4.0K |
| 177 | University of Kiel | 2 | 38 | 1.4K | 1.9K |
| 177 | University of Barcelona | 1 | 38 | 6.1K | 4.2K |
| 177 | University of Innsbruck | 1 | 38 | 3.0K | 2.3K |
| 177 | Nawi Graz | 1 | 38 | 238 | 211 |
| 177 | Universidade do Porto | 1 | 38 | 2.4K | 1.7K |
| 183 | European University Cyprus | 1 | 36 | 165 | 104 |
| 184 | University of Colorado Boulder | 1 | 31 | 3.2K | 2.8K |
| 184 | University of Montpellier | 1 | 31 | 2.4K | 1.9K |
| 184 | University of Alicante | 1 | 31 | 2.2K | 1.5K |
| 184 | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon | 1 | 31 | 1.0K | 906 |
| 184 | Université de Lyon | 1 | 31 | 2.3K | 2.0K |
| 189 | University of Science and Technology of China | 1 | 27 | 3.2K | 2.6K |
| 189 | Southwest Research Institute | 1 | 27 | 404 | 370 |
| 191 | University of Cologne | 2 | 24 | 3.4K | 4.0K |
| 192 | British Antarctic Survey | 1 | 23 | 439 | 500 |
| 193 | Technische Universität Darmstadt | 1 | 22 | 2.4K | 2.3K |
| 193 | Kyoto University | 1 | 22 | 7.0K | 5.7K |
| 193 | Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics | 1 | 22 | 109 | 97 |
| 193 | Université de Nantes | 1 | 22 | 1.5K | 1.5K |
| 197 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1 | 20 | 2.4K | 2.4K |
| 198 | University of Bordeaux | 1 | 19 | 2.6K | 2.5K |
| 198 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | 1 | 19 | 520 | 577 |
| 198 | University of Kentucky | 1 | 19 | 6.3K | 5.7K |
| 198 | University of Exeter | 1 | 19 | 4.4K | 4.1K |
| 198 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 1 | 19 | 2.3K | 2.4K |
| 203 | Pierre and Marie Curie University | 1 | 15 | 2.7K | 3.1K |
| 203 | University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo | 1 | 15 | 299 | 489 |
| 203 | Institute Pierre Simon Laplace | 1 | 15 | 97 | 147 |
| 206 | Clemson University | 1 | 12 | 3.7K | 4.0K |
| 207 | Université de Paris | 1 | 11 | 1.7K | 1.7K |
| 208 | Paul Scherrer Institute | 1 | 5 | 981 | 1.4K |
