Dublin has been ranked the 20th most reputable city in the world. The RepTrak study places the capital ahead of New York, Paris and Barcelona.
The survey looks at how much people trust, admire, respect and have an affinity for a city or country.
The Australian city of Sydney has topped the list for 2013.
Along with Sydney, which received a score of 77.4 on a 100-point scale, the top five cities include: Toronto (76.9), Stockholm (76.9), Vienna (76.9) and Venice (75.8).
At the lower end of the scale are Cairo (46.1), Nairobi (44.4), Karachi (43.5), Tehran (32.1) and Baghdad (28.5).
The study says that Europe has "a clear dominance of the global reputation stage", with an average of 76.5 points and 15 cities listed within the top 20.
The European cities additionally improved by an average of 3.1 points in relation to 2012 scores, which saw Dublin's rating rise from almost 69% last year.
"The cities with the best reputations are those which have been able to maintain a balance and certain leadership in each of the three dimensions of our model, while those cities with a poor reputation show bias towards fewer of the mentioned dimensions" says Fernando Prado, responsible for the Place Reputation Unit of Reputation Institute.
See the top world-wide cities listed below:
