| 1 | | UC San Diego Health System | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 257 | 473.855 | 958 | 1.781 |
| 2 | | Stanford Health Care | California | Decision Sciences | 230 | 312.762 | 1.181 | 1.850 |
| 3 | | Stanford University | California | Engineering | 222 | 183.406 | 749 | 1.103 |
| 4 | | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | California | Neuroscience | 220 | 198.727 | 729 | 1.068 |
| 5 | | California Institute for Regenerative Medicine | California | Medicine | 215 | 193.599 | 769 | 1.309 |
| 6 | | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 212 | 190.356 | 592 | 924 |
| 7 | | California Institute of Technology | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 210 | 173.364 | 694 | 1.141 |
| 8 | | University of California, Riverside | California | Materials Science | 208 | 222.294 | 2.120 | 5.549 |
| 9 | | Scripps Research Institute | California | Medicine | 204 | 183.486 | 1.104 | 1.697 |
| 10 | | University of Southern California | California | Medicine | 202 | 194.080 | 1.583 | 3.610 |
| 11 | | University of California, Berkeley | California | Chemistry | 200 | 250.150 | 396 | 940 |
| 12 | | University of San Diego | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 200 | 166.300 | 952 | 2.101 |
| 13 | | University of California, Los Angeles | California | Medicine | 198 | 200.259 | 1.479 | 2.947 |
| 14 | | University of California San Diego | California | Medicine | 195 | 180.452 | 901 | 1.225 |
| 15 | | Scripps Research Institute | California | Chemistry | 190 | 149.726 | 967 | 1.531 |
| 16 | | Twitter (United States) | California | Physics and Astronomy | 188 | 220.457 | 2.510 | 3.970 |
| 17 | | California Institute of Technology | California | Physics and Astronomy | 186 | 179.890 | 1.424 | 2.358 |
| 18 | | California Institute of Technology | California | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 185 | 138.356 | 802 | 1.374 |
| 19 | | University of California San Diego | California | Medicine | 182 | 167.750 | 693 | 1.028 |
| 20 | | UCLA Medical Center | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 180 | 163.061 | 997 | 1.833 |
| 21 | | Scripps Research Institute | California | Medicine | 180 | 122.545 | 838 | 1.696 |
| 22 | | La Jolla Institute for Immunology | California | Immunology and Microbiology | 175 | 123.598 | 900 | 1.439 |
| 23 | | Scripps Research Institute | California | Immunology and Microbiology | 174 | 101.113 | 586 | 800 |
| 24 | | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | California | Chemistry | 174 | 95.885 | 559 | 1.115 |
| 25 | | Palo Alto University | California | Psychology | 173 | 159.759 | 576 | 991 |
| 26 | | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 173 | 134.541 | 487 | 646 |
| 27 | | VA Palo Alto Health Care System | California | Medicine | 173 | 134.411 | 870 | 1.504 |
| 28 | | Stanford Medicine | California | Immunology and Microbiology | 173 | 111.609 | 525 | 899 |
| 29 | | California Institute of Technology | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 173 | 99.621 | 352 | 476 |
| 30 | | University of California, Santa Cruz | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 172 | 216.812 | 405 | 715 |
| 31 | | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | California | Physics and Astronomy | 171 | 152.029 | 1.607 | 2.263 |
| 32 | | University of California, San Francisco | California | Medicine | 171 | 115.625 | 805 | 1.312 |
| 33 | | Twitter (United States) | California | Physics and Astronomy | 170 | 162.601 | 1.939 | 2.696 |
| 34 | | University of California San Diego | California | Immunology and Microbiology | 170 | 135.784 | 388 | 566 |
| 35 | | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | California | Engineering | 170 | 127.813 | 537 | 1.122 |
| 36 | | San Francisco VA Medical Center | California | Medicine | 170 | 126.357 | 891 | 1.556 |
| 37 | | Salk Institute for Biological Studies | California | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 169 | 132.611 | 339 | 532 |
| 38 | | University of San Diego | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 169 | 99.108 | 368 | 490 |
| 39 | | University of California, San Francisco | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 168 | 145.168 | 398 | 580 |
| 40 | | University of California, San Francisco | California | Neuroscience | 168 | 79.802 | 409 | 526 |
| 41 | | Sutter Health | California | Medicine | 167 | 118.813 | 603 | 938 |
| 42 | | San Francisco VA Medical Center | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 166 | 219.469 | 402 | 533 |
| 43 | | Twitter (United States) | California | Physics and Astronomy | 166 | 176.006 | 1.903 | 2.954 |
| 44 | | Twitter (United States) | California | Physics and Astronomy | 166 | 155.259 | 1.966 | 2.644 |
| 45 | | University of California, Los Angeles | California | Materials Science | 166 | 117.767 | 510 | 728 |
| 46 | | Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | California | Medicine | 166 | 109.233 | 430 | 642 |
| 47 | | Stanford University | California | Engineering | 165 | 112.006 | 647 | 1.432 |
| 48 | | University of California San Diego | California | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 165 | 102.449 | 420 | 525 |
| 49 | | University of California, San Francisco | California | Immunology and Microbiology | 165 | 99.625 | 462 | 714 |
| 50 | | LIGO Scientific Collaboration | California | Physics and Astronomy | 164 | 207.492 | 991 | 1.616 |