2016 tables: Institutions - physical sciences - academic

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The 2016 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015.

2015	Institution	FC 2015	AC 2015
1	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	227.44	613
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	224.77	672
3	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	221.81	610
4	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	174.91	550
5	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	168.86	507
6	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	137.69	347
7	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	130.02	447
8	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	127.1	444
9	Peking University (PKU), China	123.06	463
10	Tsinghua University (TH), China	117.96	508
11	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	117.27	331
12	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	110.82	319
13	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	108.41	287
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	107.91	305
15	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	107.65	310
16	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	105.37	378
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	103.43	283
18	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	102.1	332
19	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	101.11	216
20	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	93.58	330
21	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	91.11	235
22	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	90.3	273
23	Tohoku University, Japan	87.52	213
24	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	87.25	319
25	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	87.11	210
26	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	86.9	195
27	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	86.17	189
28	Nanjing University (NJU), China	86.16	296
29	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	85.78	238
30	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.64	218
31	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	81.29	220
32	Kyoto University, Japan	80.59	252
33	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	80.06	207
34	Fudan University, China	79.62	163
35	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	74.79	283
36	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	73.7	201
37	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	71.72	199
38	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	69.91	198
39	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	68.92	248
40	Soochow University, China	66.8	127
41	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	63.5	167
42	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	62.17	242
43	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	61.83	204
44	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	61.09	257
45	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	61.08	181
46	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	60.97	205
47	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	60.75	136
48	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	60.69	202
49	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	59.15	246
50	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	56.63	194
51	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.23	237
52	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.14	168
53	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	53.79	177
54	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	53.02	199
55	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	51.41	233
56	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	49.95	517
57	Osaka University, Japan	48.96	194
58	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	48.15	162
59	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	48.12	124
60	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	47.52	172
61	University of Würzburg, Germany	45.42	165
62	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	44.47	173
63	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	44.21	213
64	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	43.9	207
65	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	43.24	177
66	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	42.69	185
67	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	42.57	186
68	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	42.47	89
69	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	42.27	221
70	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	41.87	182
71	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	41.83	250
72	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	41.69	119
73	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	41.45	137
74	Yonsei University, South Korea	40.98	107
75	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	40.82	133
76	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	40.77	116
77	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	40.43	101
78	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	40.43	94
79	University of Waterloo, Canada	40.16	105
80	Lund University (LU), Sweden	39.89	158
81	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	39.8	84
82	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	39.7	199
83	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	39.58	214
84	Aalto University, Finland	38.66	167
85	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	38.6	383
86	McGill University, Canada	38.45	167
87	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	37.53	158
88	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	37.51	77
89	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	37.47	88
90	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	37.29	175
91	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	36.76	70
92	Nagoya University, Japan	36.45	191
93	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	36.15	101
94	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	36.05	78
95	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	36.04	238
96	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	35.52	108
97	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	35.25	146
98	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	35.13	57
99	Korea University (KU), South Korea	35	145
100	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany	34.37	221

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. It is important for users to understand that the data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, that they cover the natural sciences only and that outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output). We encourage users to combine the free-to-access Nature Index data with information from other sources.

The tables were last updated on 7 June 2018 with the most recent institution and article corrections.

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