2016 tables: Institutions - physical sciences

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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	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	513.46	1334
2	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	318.86	1671
3	Max Planck Society, Germany	306.99	1022
4	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	227.44	613
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	224.77	672
6	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	221.81	610
7	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	202.04	833
8	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	174.91	550
9	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	168.86	507
10	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	137.69	347
11	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	130.02	447
12	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	127.1	444
13	Peking University (PKU), China	123.06	463
14	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	122.71	589
15	Tsinghua University (TH), China	117.96	508
16	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	117.27	331
17	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	110.82	319
18	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	108.41	287
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	107.91	305
20	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	107.65	310
21	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	105.37	378
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	103.43	283
23	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	102.1	332
24	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	101.11	216
25	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	93.58	330
26	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	91.11	235
27	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	90.94	493
28	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	90.3	273
29	Tohoku University, Japan	87.52	213
30	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	87.25	319
31	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	87.11	210
32	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	86.9	195
33	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	86.17	189
34	Nanjing University (NJU), China	86.16	296
35	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	85.78	238
36	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	85.66	466
37	Institute of Physics (IOP), CAS, China	85.51	260
38	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.64	218
39	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	81.29	220
40	Kyoto University, Japan	80.59	252
41	Leibniz Association, Germany	80.36	224
42	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	80.06	207
43	Fudan University, China	79.62	163
44	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	79.62	229
45	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	74.79	283
46	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	73.7	201
47	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	71.72	199
48	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	70.99	503
49	RIKEN, Japan	70.03	259
50	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	69.91	198
51	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	68.92	248
52	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	67.16	303
53	Soochow University, China	66.8	127
54	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA)	65.36	224
55	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	63.5	167
56	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	63.03	179
57	Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France	62.83	495
58	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	62.57	142
59	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	62.51	360
60	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	62.17	242
61	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	61.83	204
62	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	61.12	185
63	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	61.09	257
64	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	61.08	181
65	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	60.97	205
66	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	60.75	136
67	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	60.71	333
68	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	60.69	202
69	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	59.15	246
70	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	58.53	231
71	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	56.63	194
72	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.23	237
73	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.14	168
74	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	53.79	177
75	IBM Corporation, United States of America (USA)	53.18	101
76	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	53.02	199
77	German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Germany	51.91	318
78	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	51.41	233
79	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	49.95	517
80	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA)	49.88	247
81	Osaka University, Japan	48.96	194
82	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	48.15	162
83	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	48.12	124
84	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.69	129
85	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	47.52	172
86	University of Würzburg, Germany	45.42	165
87	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	44.47	173
88	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	44.21	213
89	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	43.9	207
90	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	43.24	177
91	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	42.69	185
92	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	42.57	186
93	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	42.47	89
94	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	42.27	221
95	Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA)	41.89	115
96	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	41.87	182
97	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	41.83	250
98	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	41.69	119
99	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	41.45	137
100	Institute of Chemistry (ICCAS), CAS, China	41.28	143

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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