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)	224.8	677
3	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	223.25	613
4	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	175.53	563
5	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	169.84	519
6	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	138	352
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)	117.36	333
12	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	110.85	321
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	108.38	288
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)	107.8	314
16	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	105.38	379
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	103.43	283
18	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	102.45	338
19	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	100.43	218
20	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	93.68	333
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)	90.3	275
23	Tohoku University, Japan	87.66	212
24	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	87.39	321
25	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	86.9	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	298
29	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	86.16	240
30	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.77	221
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	66.8	127
41	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	63.5	167
42	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	62.57	142
43	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	62.37	244
44	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	61.84	205
45	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	61.1	259
46	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	61.09	182
47	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	60.98	206
48	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	60.79	204
49	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	60.69	135
50	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	59.18	248
51	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	56.63	195
52	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	55.68	545
53	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.3	241
54	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.15	169
55	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	54.12	178
56	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	52.02	199
57	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	51.42	235
58	Osaka University, Japan	49.07	196
59	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	48.59	127
60	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	48.16	163
61	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	47.61	174
62	University of Würzburg, Germany	45.49	167
63	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	44.79	175
64	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	44.26	215
65	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	43.94	210
66	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	43.68	193
67	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	43.41	179
68	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	42.6	254
69	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	42.58	187
70	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	42.29	223
71	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	42.07	184
72	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	41.69	119
73	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	41.47	88
74	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	41.45	138
75	Yonsei University, South Korea	40.98	107
76	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	40.83	134
77	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	40.78	118
78	Lund University (LU), Sweden	40.58	163
79	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	40.51	87
80	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	40.43	94
81	University of Waterloo, Canada	40.16	105
82	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	39.7	200
83	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	39.61	390
84	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	39.46	212
85	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	39.28	83
86	Aalto University, Finland	38.94	170
87	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	38.6	99
88	McGill University, Canada	38.46	169
89	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	37.54	160
90	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	37.47	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	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	36.15	102
96	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	36.1	242
97	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	36.05	78
98	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	35.52	109
99	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	35.26	147
100	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	35.13	57

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