The Weizmann Institute of Science has been ranked sixth in the world in the 2025 rating of analysis high quality printed by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University, the Netherlands. This marks an increase of 4 locations from tenth in 2024 and represents the institute’s highest place for the reason that rating was first launched in 2006.
Weizmann’s place refers to the size-adjusted rating, which accounts for the relative scale of analysis establishments. The achievement carries specific significance in a 12 months when the institute suffered two missile strikes in the course of the warfare with Iran, inflicting injury estimated at $2 billion. However, the 2025 rating is predicated on knowledge from 2020–2023, and subsequently doesn’t replicate the results of the educational boycott of Israel that started on the finish of 2023.
At the highest of the checklist is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), adopted by Princeton University in second place, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in third, Harvard University in fourth, and Stanford University in fifth.
Weizmann’s sixth-place place locations it forward of Oxford University (seventh), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia (ninth), Cambridge University (tenth), and UC Berkeley (eleventh).
A extra troubling discovering is the broad hole between Weizmann and different Israeli establishments. Unlike the Shanghai Ranking, which lists three Israeli universities among the many world’s prime 100, in the Leiden index the subsequent Israeli establishment, Hebrew University, seems solely at 869th, adopted by the Technion at 875th, and Tel Aviv University at 999th.
The Leiden Ranking is compiled yearly by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. It is predicated fully on quantitative knowledge, not subjective surveys. The methodology evaluates the variety of scientific publications, quotation counts (a key indicator of scientific influence), and different metrics that account for the scale and output of every analysis establishment.
According to the 2025 rating, between 2020 and 2023, Weizmann researchers printed 2,422 scientific papers, which had been collectively cited 39,185 instances. More than 63% of those papers ranked in the highest half of the world’s most influential scientific articles, 18% had been in the highest decile, and a couple of.5% in the highest percentile, putting Weizmann among the many global elite of analysis establishments