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	514.32	1339
2	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	325.33	1723
3	Max Planck Society, Germany	320.1	1056
4	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	227.48	614
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	224.8	677
6	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	223.25	613
7	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	202.89	841
8	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	175.53	563
9	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	169.84	519
10	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	138	352
11	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	130.09	450
12	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	125.51	447
13	Peking University (PKU), China	123.74	466
14	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	123.46	596
15	Tsinghua University, China	117.99	511
16	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	117.36	333
17	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	110.85	321
18	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	108.38	288
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	108.35	308
20	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	107.8	314
21	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	105.38	379
22	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	103.43	283
23	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	102.45	338
24	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	100.43	218
25	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	93.68	333
26	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	91.81	502
27	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	90.61	235
28	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	90.3	275
29	Tohoku University, Japan	87.66	212
30	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	87.39	321
31	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	86.9	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	298
35	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	86.16	240
36	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	85.66	468
37	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.77	221
38	Leibniz Association, Germany	81.88	230
39	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	81.47	222
40	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	80.29	209
41	Fudan University, China	79.62	163
42	Kyoto University, Japan	79.59	253
43	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	79.18	228
44	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	74.81	285
45	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	74.52	534
46	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	73.71	202
47	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	71.73	201
48	RIKEN, Japan	69.77	259
49	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	69.18	250
50	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	69.11	200
51	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	67.28	303
52	Soochow University, China	66.8	127
53	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA)	65.36	224
54	Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France	64.23	508
55	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	63.5	167
56	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	63.12	374
57	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	63.03	179
58	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	62.57	142
59	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	62.37	244
60	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	61.84	205
61	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	61.12	185
62	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	61.1	259
63	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	61.09	182
64	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	60.79	204
65	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	60.72	336
66	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	60.69	135
67	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	59.33	232
68	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	59.18	248
69	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	56.63	195
70	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	55.68	545
71	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.3	241
72	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.15	169
73	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	54.12	178
74	IBM Corporation, United States of America (USA)	53.18	101
75	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	52.02	199
76	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	51.42	235
77	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA)	50.42	259
78	Osaka University, Japan	49.07	196
79	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	48.59	127
80	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	48.16	163
81	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.69	129
82	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	47.61	174
83	University of Würzburg, Germany	45.49	167
84	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	44.79	175
85	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	44.26	215
86	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	43.94	210
87	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	43.68	193
88	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	43.41	179
89	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	42.6	254
90	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	42.58	187
91	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	42.29	223
92	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	42.07	184
93	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	41.69	119
94	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	41.47	88
95	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	41.45	138
96	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	41.2	200
97	Yonsei University, South Korea	40.98	107
98	Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA)	40.89	114
99	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	40.83	134
100	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	40.78	118

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