2016 tables: Institutions

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	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	1308.67	1364.74	3468	4.3%
2	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	858.61	774.45	2677	-9.8%
3	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	749.41	697.05	4953	-7.0%
4	Max Planck Society, Germany	646.31	656.57	3096	1.6%
5	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	477.24	536.62	1573	12.4%
6	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	458.99	487.88	1379	6.3%
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	508.8	482.91	1678	-5.1%
8	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	443.45	425.69	1787	-4.0%
9	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	357.81	396.76	1372	10.9%
10	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	406.92	394.72	1569	-3.0%
11	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	367.13	362.85	1394	-1.2%
12	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	342.08	333.9	786	-2.4%
13	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	349.24	326.64	957	-6.5%
14	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	338.26	311.12	851	-8.0%
15	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	299.72	304.35	1007	1.5%
16	Peking University (PKU), China	296.44	304.04	1122	2.6%
17	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	304.59	299	950	-1.8%
18	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	268.61	276.05	855	2.8%
19	Kyoto University, Japan	287.49	271.49	716	-5.6%
20	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	262.87	270.45	842	2.9%
21	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	258.14	267.49	903	3.6%
22	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	261.55	261.32	615	-0.1%
23	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	260.84	258.94	926	-0.7%
24	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	253.73	257.72	646	1.6%
25	Nanjing University (NJU), China	214.38	252.44	667	17.8%
26	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	234.39	246.68	771	5.2%
27	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	271.01	246.63	1335	-9.0%
28	The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	226.03	232.64	900	2.9%
29	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	215.54	231.66	673	7.5%
30	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	275.35	231.26	723	-16.0%
31	Tsinghua University (TH), China	210.69	230.65	782	9.5%
32	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	223.36	224.09	703	0.3%
33	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	208.27	223.97	783	7.5%
34	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	234.89	216.24	691	-7.9%
35	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	195.55	213.99	971	9.4%
36	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	204.95	210.48	679	2.7%
37	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	201.34	208.06	414	3.3%
38	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	241.22	203.92	1714	-15.5%
39	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	211.24	199.58	838	-5.5%
40	Osaka University, Japan	220.19	194.88	532	-11.5%
41	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	158.24	194.31	641	22.8%
42	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	202.25	185.61	591	-8.2%
43	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	191.48	183.57	390	-4.1%
44	Fudan University, China	166.76	178.01	384	6.7%
45	Tohoku University, Japan	179.78	177.54	494	-1.2%
46	University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	190.07	174.3	453	-8.3%
47	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	196.58	173.53	469	-11.7%
48	Leibniz Association, Germany	164.89	171.7	841	4.1%
49	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	212.72	169.15	779	-20.5%
50	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany	182.2	166.75	664	-8.5%
51	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	166.9	165.58	507	-0.8%
52	McGill University, Canada	134.6	163.97	579	21.8%
53	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	175.64	162.59	302	-7.4%
54	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	164.31	161.88	853	-1.5%
55	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	179.19	160.38	460	-10.5%
56	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	160.35	159.39	862	-0.6%
57	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	143.87	155.43	509	8.0%
58	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	173.53	154.69	926	-10.9%
59	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	172.76	154.67	647	-10.5%
60	Nankai University (NKU), China	98.21	152.17	336	55.0%
61	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	144.08	151.49	400	5.1%
62	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	161.59	149.77	372	-7.3%
63	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	145.05	149.34	666	3.0%
64	Institute of Chemistry (ICCAS), CAS, China	121.62	148.91	417	22.4%
65	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	142.54	142.17	675	-0.3%
66	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	143.54	140.64	582	-2.0%
67	RIKEN, Japan	143.28	137.13	532	-4.3%
68	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	161.17	132.3	407	-17.9%
69	Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), CAS, China	114.06	131.75	245	15.5%
70	University of California Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	170.15	131.05	436	-23.0%
71	Nagoya University, Japan	127.87	129.81	437	1.5%
72	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	129.79	129.19	483	-0.5%
73	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	132.71	126.29	469	-4.8%
74	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	102.81	125.71	785	22.3%
75	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	122.98	125.65	684	2.2%
76	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	115.19	124.65	719	8.2%
77	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	130.67	124.63	296	-4.6%
78	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	109.45	124.42	549	13.7%
79	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	111.22	122.74	689	10.4%
80	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	125.31	122.25	335	-2.4%
81	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	130.58	120.28	364	-7.9%
82	The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), United States of America (USA)	136.83	119.93	274	-12.3%
83	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	136.48	119.8	170	-12.2%
84	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	126.32	117.17	391	-7.2%
85	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	113.61	114.86	306	1.1%
86	University of Würzburg, Germany	97.42	114.79	327	17.8%
87	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	131.73	114.1	523	-13.4%
88	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	113.61	113.65	504	0.0%
89	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	108.27	113.5	308	4.8%
90	Xiamen University (XMU), China	98.23	112.64	241	14.7%
91	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	119.27	111.94	328	-6.1%
92	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	132.01	111.82	414	-15.3%
93	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	121.09	110.84	390	-8.5%
94	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	105.16	109.3	511	3.9%
95	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	148.56	109.23	446	-26.5%
96	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	98.52	109.12	289	10.8%
97	Soochow University, China	95.07	108.79	210	14.4%
98	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	116.12	108.56	478	-6.5%
99	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	111.19	106.44	501	-4.3%
100	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	117.93	106.17	226	-10.0%
101	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	89.17	104.91	251	17.6%
102	Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France	114.28	104.14	1168	-8.9%
103	Hokkaido University (Hokudai), Japan	100.55	103.08	222	2.5%
104	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	98.13	102.25	1528	4.2%
105	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	84.39	101.06	303	19.8%
106	Wuhan University (WHU), China	96.71	100.85	186	4.3%
107	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	108.67	98.36	351	-9.5%
108	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	104.6	98.26	228	-6.1%
109	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	97.5	97.53	482	0.0%
110	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	93.69	97.16	551	3.7%
111	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	79.4	95.96	292	20.9%
112	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	91.03	95.48	1182	4.9%
113	Hunan University (HNU), China	78.1	93.77	145	20.1%
114	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	79.11	93.75	403	18.5%
115	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	97.79	93.63	445	-4.3%
116	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	99.53	93.27	356	-6.3%
117	Monash University, Australia	103.32	93.15	366	-9.8%
118	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	108.04	92.46	281	-14.4%
119	University of Göttingen, Germany	99.39	92.26	372	-7.2%
120	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	85.94	92.16	242	7.2%
121	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	111.71	92.15	441	-17.5%
122	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	88.36	92.03	504	4.2%
123	University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	106.04	91.83	282	-13.4%
124	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	79.63	90.87	445	14.1%
125	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	89.72	90.46	356	0.8%
126	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	110.44	90.4	179	-18.1%
127	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	82.38	90.34	410	9.7%
128	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	69.56	89.92	263	29.3%
129	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	86.97	89.87	292	3.3%
130	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	116.86	89.82	528	-23.1%
131	Institute of Physics (IOP), CAS, China	86.96	89.56	268	3.0%
132	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	70.4	89.5	159	27.1%
133	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	88.05	89.44	733	1.6%
134	University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany	81.41	89.42	516	9.8%
135	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	89.04	89.09	550	0.1%
136	University of California Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	94.86	87.7	272	-7.5%
137	Jilin University (JLU), China	104.93	87.58	187	-16.5%
138	Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany	63.06	86.51	384	37.2%
139	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	80.13	85.74	747	7.0%
140	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	94.06	85.45	137	-9.2%
141	Lund University (LU), Sweden	79.8	85.38	336	7.0%
142	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	98.35	85.37	265	-13.2%
143	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	97.07	85.11	349	-12.3%
144	Kyushu University, Japan	100.77	84.71	280	-15.9%
145	Uppsala University (UU), Sweden	76.94	84.5	425	9.8%
146	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	83.17	84.04	164	1.0%
147	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	96.76	83.82	272	-13.4%
148	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	103.33	83.74	386	-19.0%
149	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	79.85	83.59	312	4.7%
150	Sichuan University (SCU), China	92.64	83.22	186	-10.2%
151	Leiden University, Netherlands	73.75	82.94	598	12.5%
152	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	87.03	82.89	352	-4.7%
153	Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), CAS, China	82.21	82.82	142	0.7%
154	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	71.35	82.63	177	15.8%
155	Yonsei University, South Korea	72.09	82.57	215	14.5%
156	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany	86.02	82.46	469	-4.1%
157	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	107.55	82.46	377	-23.3%
158	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	87.57	81.75	360	-6.6%
159	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	82.29	81.45	515	-1.0%
160	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	99.77	81.3	220	-18.5%
161	Stockholm University, Sweden	68.09	81.25	529	19.3%
162	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	76.8	81.14	375	5.6%
163	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	77.02	80.84	448	5.0%
164	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	108.59	79.87	208	-26.5%
165	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	78.19	79.49	257	1.7%
166	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany	78.18	79.3	270	1.4%
167	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	90.92	78.85	253	-13.3%
168	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), India	77.94	78.67	138	0.9%
169	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA)	92.01	78.57	312	-14.6%
170	Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore	103.42	78.01	255	-24.6%
171	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	60.78	76.27	222	25.5%
172	Aarhus University (AU), Denmark	87.56	76.22	286	-12.9%
173	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	74.62	76.21	200	2.1%
174	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	89.69	75.91	213	-15.4%
175	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	83.87	75.85	226	-9.6%
176	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	70.26	73.52	195	4.6%
177	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	78.13	73.43	396	-6.0%
178	The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia	82.98	73.32	459	-11.6%
179	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	64.4	72.58	156	12.7%
180	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), CAS, China	70.9	72.48	110	2.2%
181	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	49.11	72.19	176	47.0%
182	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	52	72.04	330	38.5%
183	University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany	66.33	71.95	276	8.5%
184	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	83.83	71.16	519	-15.1%
185	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA)	77.69	70.77	326	-8.9%
186	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK)	67.82	70.37	312	3.8%
187	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	80.45	70.22	695	-12.7%
188	University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA)	92.42	69.88	247	-24.4%
189	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	65.87	69.67	317	5.8%
190	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	75.25	69.62	204	-7.5%
191	The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA)	62.31	69.22	166	11.1%
192	Iowa State University (ISU), United States of America (USA)	72.8	69.09	315	-5.1%
193	Shandong University (SDU), China	63.09	68.93	277	9.2%
194	University of Waterloo, Canada	71.09	68.81	177	-3.2%
195	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	51.61	68.41	236	32.6%
196	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK)	67.48	68.22	390	1.1%
197	NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI), United States of America (USA)	65.96	68.1	210	3.2%
198	Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU), Germany	58.78	67.49	199	14.8%
199	University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA)	70.38	67.24	275	-4.5%
200	National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan	66.15	65.86	176	-0.4%
201	University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA)	61.76	65.66	294	6.3%
202	The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK)	77.72	65.32	217	-15.9%
203	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	52.76	64.76	162	22.7%
204	University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	71.35	64.63	575	-9.4%
205	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	59.75	64.62	186	8.2%
206	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	64.23	64.54	413	0.5%
207	The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK)	70.55	64.48	376	-8.6%
208	University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA)	82.54	64.44	391	-21.9%
209	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), Czech Republic	56.44	63.7	389	12.9%
210	Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA)	58.49	62.98	295	7.7%
211	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France	60.91	62.91	1166	3.3%
212	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA)	62.15	62.74	214	0.9%
213	Tianjin University (TJU), China	41.79	62.73	207	50.1%
214	Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), CAS, China	63.79	62.69	95	-1.7%
215	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	43.95	62.46	369	42.1%
216	University of Bern, Switzerland	55.35	62.3	348	12.6%
217	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	81.42	61.45	150	-24.5%
218	Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands	71.91	61.32	523	-14.7%
219	National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy	57.08	60.64	1062	6.2%
220	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK)	57.41	60.47	357	5.3%
221	University of Barcelona (UB), Spain	67.78	60.23	416	-11.1%
222	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	59.28	59.8	286	0.9%
223	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	72.89	59.27	213	-18.7%
224	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	68.23	58.87	584	-13.7%
225	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	58.6	57.94	275	-1.1%
226	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	64.09	57.83	175	-9.8%
227	The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China	71.85	57.6	252	-19.8%
228	University of Strasbourg, France	57.07	57.58	393	0.9%
229	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	59.65	56.67	226	-5.0%
230	Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany	60.25	56.29	240	-6.6%
231	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	51	55.78	179	9.4%
232	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	57.87	55.64	233	-3.9%
233	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	50.68	55.26	152	9.0%
234	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany	63.56	54.75	128	-13.9%
235	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	52.82	54.74	159	3.6%
236	University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada	65.31	54.56	132	-16.5%
237	Keio University, Japan	45.45	54.3	119	19.5%
238	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	63.56	54.03	205	-15.0%
239	IBM Corporation, United States of America (USA)	57.17	53.89	129	-5.7%
240	Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), CAS, China	52.09	53.54	157	2.8%
241	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	69.15	53.44	249	-22.7%
242	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	45.77	52.95	112	15.7%
243	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	57.98	52.88	231	-8.8%
244	Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea	29.04	52.81	189	81.8%
245	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	46.35	52.77	219	13.9%
246	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA)	48.42	52.2	152	7.8%
247	Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland	57.54	52.13	428	-9.4%
248	German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Germany	53.96	51.71	383	-4.2%
249	University of Cologne (UoC), Germany	69.74	51.44	227	-26.2%
250	University of Stuttgart, Germany	47.43	51.42	119	8.4%
251	University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA)	50.9	51.39	117	1.0%
252	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	39.88	51.26	141	28.5%
253	Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA)	39.74	51.14	908	28.7%
254	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China	35.9	50.64	203	41.1%
255	Korea University (KU), South Korea	61.38	50.55	189	-17.6%
256	Colorado State University (CSU), United States of America (USA)	58.2	50.19	127	-13.8%
257	University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA)	43.7	50.16	136	14.8%
258	Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France	64.58	50.15	655	-22.3%
259	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	66.64	50.13	121	-24.8%
260	University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA)	50.86	50	165	-1.7%
261	University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK)	62.28	49.95	304	-19.8%
262	Jülich Research Centre (FZJ), Germany	56.05	49.86	222	-11.0%
263	Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA)	48.51	49.68	146	2.4%
264	University of Calgary (U of C), Canada	51.39	49.67	235	-3.3%
265	University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil	47.53	49.56	315	4.3%
266	Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA)	63.06	49.37	404	-21.7%
267	University of Vienna, Austria	54.01	49.29	241	-8.7%
268	Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China	52.34	49.17	104	-6.0%
269	University of Tsukuba, Japan	53.74	48.92	240	-9.0%
270	Ghent University (UGent), Belgium	48.37	48.57	258	0.4%
271	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	48.96	48.47	170	-1.0%
272	Aalto University, Finland	45.96	48.39	244	5.3%
273	University of Toulouse, France	46.55	48.33	488	3.8%
274	Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany	52.67	48.18	103	-8.5%
275	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	33.01	47.55	138	44.1%
276	The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA)	54.12	47.43	157	-12.4%
277	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel	34.14	47.42	100	38.9%
278	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	39.69	46.56	151	17.3%
279	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India	30.02	46.53	228	55.0%
280	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	47.74	46.45	139	-2.7%
281	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	44.91	46.11	446	2.7%
282	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	44.24	45.7	333	3.3%
283	University of Helsinki, Finland	56.05	45.62	305	-18.6%
284	University of Valencia (UV), Spain	41.24	45.53	279	10.4%
285	Southwest University (SWU), China	22.67	45.27	66	99.7%
286	University of Lyon, France	48.97	45.2	423	-7.7%
287	National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), CAS, China	21.16	45.08	110	113.0%
288	University of York, United Kingdom (UK)	38.49	45.06	124	17.1%
289	Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK)	42.38	45.05	275	6.3%
290	Division III: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, PAS, Poland	46.73	45.04	401	-3.6%
291	Oregon State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	48.03	44.9	127	-6.5%
292	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	41.84	44.78	473	7.0%
293	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan	40.81	44.21	412	8.3%
294	NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), United States of America (USA)	41.69	43.91	125	5.3%
295	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	53.88	43.76	514	-18.8%
296	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	33.53	43.6	282	30.0%
297	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	53.13	43.47	179	-18.2%
298	McMaster University, Canada	51.31	43.37	132	-15.5%
299	University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA)	44.92	43.2	156	-3.8%
300	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India	52.74	43.18	84	-18.1%
301	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	48.89	43.17	149	-11.7%
302	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), United States of America (USA)	44.02	42.56	554	-3.3%
303	The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia	38.44	42.31	326	10.1%
304	University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy	40.78	42.31	475	3.7%
305	Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA)	43.05	42.15	141	-2.1%
306	Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Italy	37.29	41.87	212	12.3%
307	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	37.11	41.87	187	12.8%
308	University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA)	45.06	41.8	115	-7.2%
309	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	39.2	41.51	113	5.9%
310	University of Bordeaux, France	50.62	41.41	287	-18.2%
311	Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France	41.4	41.4	646	-0.0%
312	University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK)	40.76	41.38	100	1.5%
313	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom (UK)	44.66	41.32	88	-7.5%
314	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India	51.45	41.27	74	-19.8%
315	Novartis International AG, Switzerland	28.48	41.04	119	44.1%
316	Wayne State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	43.01	40.84	157	-5.0%
317	The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA)	46.37	40.6	227	-12.4%
318	Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy	35.55	40.43	129	13.7%
319	F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland	50.11	40.31	93	-19.6%
320	University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK)	34.78	39.97	299	15.0%
321	University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain	20.97	39.84	212	90.0%
322	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	33.06	39.73	86	20.2%
323	RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Japan	28.41	39.64	136	39.5%
324	University of Montpellier, France	39.53	39.55	318	0.1%
325	Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany	34.52	39.16	165	13.4%
326	Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA)	31.07	39.11	124	25.9%
327	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	52.22	38.93	89	-25.4%
328	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	57.01	38.8	312	-31.9%
329	Leipzig University, Germany	43.8	38.74	123	-11.6%
330	HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	30.01	38.52	82	28.4%
331	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	40.19	38.51	358	-4.2%
332	The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA)	35.36	38.31	210	8.4%
333	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	41.23	38.31	204	-7.1%
334	The University of Dublin, Ireland	37.3	38.12	128	2.2%
335	Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), Germany	36.46	38.01	75	4.2%
336	University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA)	32.36	37.89	110	17.1%
337	University of Konstanz, Germany	35.54	37.8	79	6.4%
338	Southeast University (SEU), China	50.45	37.56	82	-25.5%
339	University of Warsaw (UW), Poland	31.92	37.5	211	17.5%
340	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary	38.93	37.49	284	-3.7%
341	University of Kiel (CAU), Germany	41.62	37.4	177	-10.1%
342	Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK)	28.11	37.32	177	32.8%
343	University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA)	47.32	37.13	89	-21.5%
344	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	36.44	36.77	128	0.9%
345	Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia	39.41	36.76	364	-6.7%
346	University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	44.34	36.65	120	-17.3%
347	Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA)	42.82	36.57	119	-14.6%
348	The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA)	46.88	36.55	173	-22.0%
349	University of Rostock, Germany	30.63	36.12	130	17.9%
350	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA)	24.32	36.11	75	48.5%
351	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium	39.38	36.09	195	-8.4%
352	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands	37.72	36.04	316	-4.4%
353	Hiroshima University (HU), Japan	28	35.61	164	27.2%
354	Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF), Germany	33.98	35.36	117	4.1%
355	Tufts University, United States of America (USA)	48.83	35.35	234	-27.6%
356	Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea	49.69	35.17	96	-29.2%
357	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	46.52	35.12	91	-24.5%
358	Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HIPS), CAS, China	38.22	35.01	141	-8.4%
359	University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy	32.5	34.97	282	7.6%
360	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude), United States of America (USA)	33.01	34.97	85	6.0%
361	Nanoscale Materials Division (MANA), NIMS, Japan	33.54	34.96	91	4.2%
362	Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), CAS, China	31.87	34.86	72	9.4%
363	University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA)	49.39	34.75	140	-29.6%
364	Queen's University, Canada	37.19	34.65	179	-6.8%
365	People's Liberation Army (PLA), China	35.27	34.64	175	-1.8%
366	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	42.66	34.62	102	-18.8%
367	Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), CAS, China	28.38	34.61	266	22.0%
368	University of Sussex (US), United Kingdom (UK)	30.8	34.12	252	10.8%
369	Northeast Normal University (NENU), China	47.93	34	47	-29.1%
370	Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA)	32.41	33.99	150	4.9%
371	Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden), Germany	27.09	33.92	78	25.2%
372	Tongji University, China	46.03	33.77	110	-26.6%
373	NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), United States of America (USA)	32.48	33.7	73	3.8%
374	Brandeis University, United States of America (USA)	43.14	33.63	130	-22.1%
375	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	39.59	33.57	389	-15.2%
376	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA)	44.58	33.52	260	-24.8%
377	Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK)	33.86	33.43	197	-1.3%
378	Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain	40.23	33.41	195	-17.0%
379	Okayama University, Japan	25.16	33.21	151	32.0%
380	University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA)	36.23	32.91	98	-9.2%
381	University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK)	38.37	32.85	110	-14.4%
382	University of Hannover (LUH), Germany	33.61	32.8	82	-2.4%
383	Chongqing University (CQU), China	19.09	32.78	68	71.7%
384	Western University (UWO), Canada	41.35	32.64	130	-21.1%
385	Fuzhou University (FZU), China	35.92	32.52	57	-9.5%
386	Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom (UK)	29.12	32.39	550	11.2%
387	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA)	30.97	32.3	75	4.3%
388	Ulm University, Germany	31.1	32.1	114	3.2%
389	National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France	27.87	32.07	256	15.1%
390	Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK)	39.97	32.04	125	-19.8%
391	Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China	30.34	32.03	53	5.6%
392	City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China	31.97	32.01	105	0.1%
393	Beihang University (BUAA), China	23.38	31.81	99	36.0%
394	University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal	43.03	31.44	273	-26.9%
395	École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), France	33.84	31.31	483	-7.5%
396	University of Otago, New Zealand	27.6	31.08	99	12.6%
397	Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland	25.54	30.99	185	21.4%
398	Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (MPIBC), Germany	34.16	30.95	94	-9.4%
399	Umeå University (UMU), Sweden	22	30.86	83	40.3%
400	The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA)	36.21	30.66	197	-15.3%
401	National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), CSIR, India	40.85	30.54	49	-25.2%
402	University of Turin (UNITO), Italy	26.61	30.52	312	14.7%
403	The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia	36.83	30.48	181	-17.2%
404	Charles University (CU), Czech Republic	22.3	30.43	277	36.4%
405	Waseda University, Japan	21.6	30.27	163	40.1%
406	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany	28.48	30.2	112	6.0%
407	Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), BIST, Spain	32.24	30.19	50	-6.4%
408	University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany	30.02	29.73	67	-1.0%
409	University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany	31.26	29.67	92	-5.1%
410	Ewha Womans University (Ewha), South Korea	29.13	29.29	102	0.6%
411	National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan	46.48	29.26	76	-37.1%
412	University of Potsdam, Germany	24.74	29.25	146	18.2%
413	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea	23.3	29.16	106	25.2%
414	NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), United States of America (USA)	22.55	29.13	68	29.2%
415	Temple University, United States of America (USA)	34.58	29.09	89	-15.9%
416	University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy	38.35	29.06	478	-24.2%
417	Pasteur Institute, France	29.78	29	173	-2.6%
418	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA)	27.6	28.93	299	4.8%
419	University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden	34.58	28.85	109	-16.6%
420	Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (MPIKOFO), Germany	27.19	28.78	46	5.8%
421	Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA)	29.19	28.69	66	-1.7%
422	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Russia	41.93	28.47	271	-32.1%
423	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany	32.22	28.47	96	-11.6%
424	Shanghai University (SHU), China	31.87	28.47	76	-10.7%
425	Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada	26.54	28.41	176	7.0%
426	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India	24.13	28.37	38	17.6%
427	Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	37.72	28.29	74	-25.0%
428	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India	34.54	28.27	47	-18.1%
429	Bielefeld University, Germany	23.53	28.16	75	19.7%
430	German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association (DKFZ), Germany	28.54	28.11	126	-1.5%
431	Linköping University (LiU), Sweden	26.7	27.95	80	4.7%
432	Institute of Biophysics (IBP), CAS, China	19.36	27.79	100	43.5%
433	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), United States of America (USA)	28.35	27.79	117	-2.0%
434	EMBL - Heidelberg, Germany, Germany	25.97	27.5	72	5.9%
435	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	27.43	27.26	162	-0.6%
436	University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria	37.84	27.1	203	-28.4%
437	University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada	27.71	27.09	89	-2.3%
438	Laval University (UL), Canada	35.88	26.65	144	-25.7%
439	Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain	36.88	26.53	329	-28.1%
440	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway	23.7	26.5	72	11.8%
441	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	29.26	26.42	727	-9.7%
442	University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK)	28.7	26.42	174	-7.9%
443	Cleveland Clinic, United States of America (USA)	35.57	25.97	75	-27.0%
444	Merck & Co., Inc., United States of America (USA)	22.68	25.94	53	14.4%
445	University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou), United States of America (USA)	44.81	25.85	71	-42.3%
446	GlaxoSmithKline plc. (GSK), United Kingdom (UK)	23.39	25.77	81	10.2%
447	Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea	32.59	25.75	120	-21.0%
448	Central China Normal University (CCNU), China	22.48	25.61	114	13.9%
449	Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt), Germany	32.55	25.5	95	-21.7%
450	University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy	28.73	25.5	259	-11.2%
451	Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Russia	17.48	25.36	122	45.1%
452	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	20.78	25.33	33	21.9%
453	University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain	29.72	25.26	129	-15.0%
454	University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy	22.27	25.13	345	12.8%
455	Kobe University, Japan	22.22	25.05	149	12.7%
456	University of Crete (UOC), Greece	19.74	24.95	95	26.4%
457	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), India	17.32	24.85	57	43.5%
458	University of Jyväskylä, Finland	33.21	24.81	160	-25.3%
459	Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel	24.63	24.78	68	0.6%
460	University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China	29.48	24.71	48	-16.2%
461	Curtin University, Australia	19.23	24.62	236	28.0%
462	Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP), Germany	24.9	24.56	162	-1.4%
463	University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA)	33.77	24.54	88	-27.3%
464	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal), India	21.09	24.52	32	16.3%
465	Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China	31.35	24.44	56	-22.0%
466	Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA)	24.97	24.44	106	-2.1%
467	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA)	26.77	24.42	147	-8.8%
468	Braunschweig University of Technology (TU Braunschweig), Germany	23.37	24.15	111	3.3%
469	International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS), Italy	26.41	24.15	133	-8.5%
470	Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium	27.89	24.12	121	-13.5%
471	Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP), CAS, China	20.61	24.12	47	17.0%
472	Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany	28.25	23.97	65	-15.2%
473	University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain	23.86	23.91	110	0.2%
474	Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI), Germany	16.54	23.85	61	44.2%
475	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea	24.83	23.83	59	-4.0%
476	University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium	26.69	23.78	128	-10.9%
477	University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands	42.83	23.66	56	-44.8%
478	Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China	19.67	23.59	68	19.9%
479	National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), CAS, China	20.82	23.54	307	13.1%
480	NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), United States of America (USA)	28.42	23.52	86	-17.2%
481	São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil	15.93	23.52	112	47.6%
482	Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy (HZB), Germany	21.17	23.45	97	10.7%
483	University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark	22.86	23.43	82	2.5%
484	Changzhou University (CZU), China	14.83	23.43	33	57.9%
485	Georgia State University (GSU), United States of America (USA)	26.52	23.4	157	-11.8%
486	University of Victoria (UVic), Canada	29.09	23.35	252	-19.7%
487	Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), BIST, Spain	31.8	23.31	64	-26.7%
488	École Polytechnique, France	24.54	23.3	353	-5.1%
489	Central South University (CSU), China	19.64	23.28	73	18.6%
490	University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy	22.35	23.28	327	4.1%
491	Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP), CAS, China	24.56	23.01	76	-6.3%
492	Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China	23.58	22.93	59	-2.8%
493	Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), CAS, China	29.39	22.93	47	-22.0%
494	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China	32	22.62	83	-29.3%
495	Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China	21.16	22.6	60	6.8%
496	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China	19.4	22.57	50	16.3%
497	Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPI MPQ), Germany	15.29	22.45	59	46.8%
498	Drexel University, United States of America (USA)	34.17	22.39	80	-34.5%
499	Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS), Germany	19.92	22.38	72	12.4%
500	University of Graz (Uni Graz), Austria	23.79	22.36	70	-6.0%

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