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2016	2015	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1	1	University of California, Davis (UCD)	United States	97.0	81.8	93.1	98.4	94.7
2	2	Cornell University	United States	100.0	72.7	96.1	94.2	94.4
3	3	Royal Veterinary College , University of London	United Kingdom	99.9	36.2	96.6	98.4	92.1
4=	8	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.6	100.0	96.0	85.2	91.5
4=	19	University of Pennsylvania	United States	79.4	76.6	100.0	100.0	91.5
6	9=	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	81.8	85.9	98.9	94.2	91.1
7	5	Utrecht University	Netherlands	95.2	54.0	94.0	95.9	90.9
8	4	University of Guelph	Canada	83.7	67.3	93.7	100.0	90.0
9	11=	The University of Sydney	Australia	85.2	84.8	93.6	92.3	89.8
10	17=	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	86.4	75.1	93.2	94.2	89.7
11=	11=	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	79.7	90.0	96.4	92.3	89.5
11=	9=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	88.9	84.5	92.8	88.4	89.5
13	13=	Colorado State University	United States	83.0	59.2	96.5	98.4	89.3
14	6	Texas A&M University	United States	89.7	62.3	94.3	90.4	88.6
15	21	Michigan State University	United States	79.5	64.3	95.5	98.4	88.5
16	7	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	90.5	57.4	97.2	86.3	87.9
17	20	North Carolina State University	United States	78.4	59.8	96.3	95.9	87.2
18	28	The University of Melbourne	Australia	78.9	98.5	95.1	83.0	87.0
19	16	Wageningen University	Netherlands	84.8	86.8	91.7	83.0	86.5
20	27	University of Ghent	Belgium	78.3	66.9	92.1	94.2	86.1
21	23	Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	Spain	77.5	57.8	97.3	92.3	85.9
22	25=	Ohio State University	United States	73.7	67.2	95.9	93.3	85.6
23	25=	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	68.7	75.0	97.2	92.3	85.0
24	17=	University of Florida	United States	76.7	62.2	90.4	92.3	84.0
25=	15	Massey University	New Zealand	78.7	90.8	88.8	81.8	83.9
25=	32	University of Zurich	Switzerland	72.1	57.2	94.2	94.2	83.9
27	24	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	72.6	70.5	94.2	88.4	83.6
28	13=	University of Minnesota	United States	76.8	51.9	93.9	90.4	83.5
29	22	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	65.9	83.3	94.4	88.4	82.9
30	43=	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden	80.0	36.0	92.4	91.4	82.7
31	40	University College Dublin (UCD)	Ireland	74.2	71.5	94.4	83.0	82.6
32	30	Purdue University	United States	72.3	62.2	93.8	87.4	82.3
33	43=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	67.8	64.7	93.8	89.4	81.8
34	29	University of Missouri, Columbia	United States	65.4	50.9	96.6	93.3	81.7
35	45=	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	77.0	67.1	93.4	79.3	81.6
36	33	University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna	Austria	85.7	36.2	86.9	85.2	81.0
37	38	Murdoch University	Australia	72.3	88.2	87.8	78.0	80.3
38	36	Universidade de São Paulo (USP)	Brazil	83.5	91.9	72.7	79.3	79.8
39	37	Washington State University	United States	75.5	54.4	89.2	81.8	79.4
40	31	The University of Georgia	United States	68.7	34.4	88.8	95.1	79.2
41	35	Iowa State University	United States	71.4	43.8	92.4	84.1	78.8
42	39	Norwegian School of Veterinary Science	Norway	71.4	36.2	97.0	81.8	78.7
43	50	Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)	Spain	68.2	59.0	91.3	81.8	78.3
44=		Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	69.6	56.9	87.8	84.1	78.1
44=	42	Université de Montréal	Canada	61.8	59.7	93.3	85.2	78.1
46	45=	Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"	Brazil	75.1	80.4	70.8	84.1	77.0
47		Università degli Studi di Milano	Italy	59.7	48.6	93.0	85.2	76.2
48		Università di Bologna (UNIBO)	Italy	63.5	54.0	88.7	83.0	76.0
49		University of Liege	Belgium	53.2	75.8	91.3	83.0	75.8
50	47	University of Saskatchewan	Canada	70.5	46.5	85.4	80.6	75.6