World's 100 most innovative universities: India finds no mention, US tops

While a few UK and Asian schools have ascended, American universities continue to dominate the top of Reuters' ranking

For the fourth year running, Stanford University tops Reuters' ranking of the World's Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries.

Contributing to its solid foothold at No. 1 is Stanford's steady stream of patents and research, which are frequently cited by other academics around the world. Those citations play a key role in the ranking of the world's most innovative universities, which was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, and is based on proprietary data and analysis of numerous indicators including