How much does the number of top 2% researchers move the global rankings of the world’s top 100 universities?

We use Stanford University’s two lists of top 2% researchers (T2R) based on these researchers’ career-long and single recent year impacts to find that (a) a top 100 university’s numbers of T2R move the university’s global rankings published by five ranking agencies; and (b) the elasticity between a university’s ranking and its number of T2R is approximately −1.0 and statistically equal across the five agencies. This means that a 1% increase in a university’s T2R count leads to an estimated 1% improvement in its ranking position.