2016 tables: Institutions - physical sciences - academic

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

2015	Institution	WFC 2014	WFC 2015	AC 2015	Change in WFC 2014-2015
1	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	201.57	215.96	853	7.1%
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	212.08	205.23	875	-3.2%
3	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	212.83	205.11	867	-3.6%
4	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	183.82	167.58	947	-8.8%
5	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	195.16	167.08	1266	-14.4%
6	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	137.39	139.26	517	1.4%
7	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	147.23	124.26	852	-15.6%
8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	108.61	122.09	692	12.4%
9	Peking University (PKU), China	110.95	109.09	564	-1.7%
10	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	101.99	104.95	563	2.9%
11	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	116.84	103.51	396	-11.4%
12	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	103.75	101.19	402	-2.5%
13	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	94.87	99.72	1003	5.1%
14	Tsinghua University (TH), China	97.51	98.47	477	1.0%
15	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	111.02	96.17	563	-13.4%
16	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	90.74	92.4	651	1.8%
17	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	84.25	86.6	433	2.8%
18	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	81.94	85.68	376	4.6%
19	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	60.38	85.36	424	41.4%
20	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	81.59	84.76	368	3.9%
21	Nanjing University (NJU), China	70.15	81.36	365	16.0%
22	Tohoku University, Japan	75.8	81.34	314	7.3%
23	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	68.6	78.02	303	13.7%
24	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	98.38	76.42	455	-22.3%
25	Kyoto University, Japan	75.68	76.1	319	0.6%
26	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	71.1	75.48	366	6.2%
27	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	72.88	72.36	170	-0.7%
28	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	69.41	70.14	243	1.1%
29	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	67.37	68.97	456	2.4%
30	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	82.97	67.22	165	-19.0%
31	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	51.45	65.91	432	28.1%
32	Fudan University, China	56.29	65.38	142	16.1%
33	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	50.98	61.69	173	21.0%
34	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	72.58	60.53	241	-16.6%
35	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	57.95	60.07	220	3.7%
36	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	57.77	59.93	383	3.7%
37	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	64.82	59.02	462	-8.9%
38	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	74.3	57.9	251	-22.1%
39	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	45.84	57.13	350	24.6%
40	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	56	55.4	437	-1.1%
41	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	74.99	55.07	461	-26.6%
42	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	65.88	54.21	369	-17.7%
43	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	49	53.52	195	9.2%
44	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	46.12	53.4	415	15.8%
45	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany	48.95	53.26	360	8.8%
46	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	68.17	53.24	191	-21.9%
47	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	48.46	51.86	142	7.0%
48	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	54.03	51.73	202	-4.3%
49	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	47.91	51.48	265	7.5%
50	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	52.39	51.34	1034	-2.0%
51	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	50.69	50.72	348	0.0%
52	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	53.7	50.51	231	-5.9%
53	Osaka University, Japan	67.26	48.37	225	-28.1%
54	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	49.78	46.98	371	-5.6%
55	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	36.67	46.67	100	27.3%
56	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	59.12	46.17	101	-21.9%
57	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	53.59	46.09	184	-14.0%
58	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	52.36	44.53	466	-15.0%
59	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	36.14	44.19	353	22.3%
60	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	43.16	44.11	382	2.2%
61	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	41.61	43.88	268	5.4%
62	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	42.67	43.39	240	1.7%
63	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	48.1	42.86	240	-10.9%
64	University of Würzburg, Germany	34.99	41.54	186	18.7%
65	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	43.24	40.96	265	-5.3%
66	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	32.2	40.75	221	26.6%
67	The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	50.5	40.66	474	-19.5%
68	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	52.94	40.16	216	-24.2%
69	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	54.64	40.1	149	-26.6%
70	Soochow University, China	31.93	39.99	86	25.2%
71	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	35.89	39.57	458	10.2%
72	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	39.03	39.47	86	1.1%
73	Leiden University, Netherlands	34.2	38.92	433	13.8%
74	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	38.14	38.48	298	0.9%
75	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	42.63	38.17	484	-10.5%
76	Lund University (LU), Sweden	30.6	37.24	191	21.7%
77	Nagoya University, Japan	37.96	37.05	253	-2.4%
78	University of Waterloo, Canada	42.04	36.96	125	-12.1%
79	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	42.07	36.65	114	-12.9%
80	McGill University, Canada	28.12	36.31	229	29.1%
81	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	33.45	36.28	102	8.5%
82	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	34.88	36.17	596	3.7%
83	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	29.38	36.13	193	23.0%
84	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	40.94	34.98	109	-14.6%
85	Aalto University, Finland	36.5	34.58	210	-5.3%
86	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	36.69	34.46	136	-6.1%
87	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	34.04	34.33	305	0.8%
88	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	31.56	34.17	99	8.3%
89	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	31.32	34.01	117	8.6%
90	University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany	29.93	33.8	353	12.9%
91	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	33.39	32.86	101	-1.6%
92	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	33.09	32.83	252	-0.8%
93	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	40.55	32.65	64	-19.5%
94	The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK)	29.23	32.47	129	11.1%
95	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany	28.77	32.18	228	11.9%
96	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	30.95	31.81	160	2.8%
97	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	33.77	31.77	275	-5.9%
98	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	38.34	31.51	146	-17.8%
99	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	34.7	31.15	287	-10.2%
100	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	30.72	30.81	417	0.3%

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 28 November 2016 with the most recent institution and article corrections.

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