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	Share 2015	Count 2015
1	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	227.48	614
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	226.35	677
3	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	223.53	614
4	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	173.38	563
5	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	169.91	520
6	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	139.00	353
7	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	130.09	450
8	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	125.51	447
9	Peking University (PKU), China	123.74	466
10	Tsinghua University, China	117.99	511
11	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	117.65	334
12	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	110.85	321
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	109.06	289
14	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	108.35	308
15	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	107.80	314
16	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	105.41	379
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	103.42	283
18	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	102.50	338
19	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	100.43	218
20	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	94.00	334
21	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	90.61	235
22	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	90.31	276
23	Tohoku University, Japan	87.66	212
24	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	87.65	212
25	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	86.90	195
26	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	86.17	189
27	Nanjing University (NJU), China	86.17	299
28	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	86.17	321
29	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	86.16	240
30	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.27	220
31	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	81.47	222
32	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	80.29	209
33	Fudan University, China	79.62	163
34	Kyoto University, Japan	79.59	253
35	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	74.81	285
36	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	73.71	202
37	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	71.73	201
38	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	69.18	250
39	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	69.11	200
40	Soochow University, China	66.80	127
41	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	63.50	167
42	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	62.69	206
43	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	62.37	244
44	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	61.17	204
45	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	61.10	259
46	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	61.09	182
47	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	60.98	206
48	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	60.71	135
49	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	59.18	248
50	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	56.63	195
51	Sorbonne University, France	55.68	545
52	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.30	241
53	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.15	169
54	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	54.12	178
55	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	52.02	199
56	UCL, United Kingdom (UK)	51.20	235
57	Osaka University, Japan	49.07	196
58	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	48.59	127
59	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	48.16	163
60	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	47.59	174
61	University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany	45.49	167
62	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	44.46	175
63	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	44.32	215
64	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	43.93	210
65	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	43.43	192
66	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	43.41	179
67	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	42.60	254
68	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	42.58	187
69	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	42.04	184
70	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	41.69	119
71	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	41.66	223
72	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	41.47	88
73	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	41.45	138
74	Yonsei University, South Korea	40.98	107
75	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	40.83	134
76	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	40.78	118
77	Lund University (LU), Sweden	40.58	163
78	University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia	40.51	87
79	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	40.40	94
80	University of Waterloo, Canada	40.16	105
81	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	39.71	200
82	University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France	39.60	391
83	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	39.47	212
84	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	39.24	83
85	Aalto University, Finland	38.94	170
86	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	38.60	99
87	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	38.57	140
88	McGill University, Canada	38.46	169
89	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	37.51	160
90	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	37.48	88
91	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	37.11	175
92	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	36.83	130
93	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	36.76	70
94	Nagoya University, Japan	36.48	193
95	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	36.07	240
96	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	36.05	78
97	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	35.52	109
98	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	35.26	147
99	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	35.13	57
100	Korea University, South Korea	34.81	143

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