2016 tables: Institutions - physical sciences

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

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# Institution Share 2015 Count 2015
1 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 325.30 1734
2 Max Planck Society, Germany 320.16 1057
3 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 206.28 858
4 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 169.92 521
5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 139.00 353
6 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 130.10 451
7 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 123.49 597
8 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 103.42 283
9 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 91.82 503
10 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 86.17 321
11 Leibniz Association, Germany 81.68 230
12 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 74.48 534
13 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 68.07 541
14 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 67.41 303
15 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 63.17 375
16 Sorbonne University, France 55.71 550
17 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 54.31 242
18 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 54.12 178
19 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 51.21 236
20 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 45.50 168
21 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 44.46 175
22 TU Dresden, Germany 44.33 216
23 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 43.94 211
24 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 43.44 193
25 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 41.69 119
26 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 41.67 224
27 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 41.47 88
28 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 41.45 138
29 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 41.20 201
30 Lund University (LU), Sweden 40.58 164
31 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 39.60 392
32 Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden 39.24 83
33 Aalto University, Finland 38.94 170
34 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 38.57 140
35 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy 37.12 157
36 Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain 36.07 241
37 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria 35.52 109
38 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 34.78 146
39 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 33.96 102
40 Leiden University, Netherlands 33.66 108
41 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 33.43 244
42 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 32.72 97
43 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 32.03 226
44 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 31.93 167
45 The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK) 31.64 65
46 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 31.57 170
47 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 30.80 240
48 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 30.39 167
49 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 30.27 240
50 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 30.07 242
51 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 30.01 153
52 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 29.68 64
53 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 29.52 73
54 University of Stuttgart, Germany 28.45 73
55 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 28.21 210
56 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 28.15 135
57 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 28.02 212
58 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 27.53 243
59 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 26.81 273
60 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 26.71 264
61 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy 26.45 98
62 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 26.23 336
63 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 25.64 69
64 Stockholm University, Sweden 25.56 187
65 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 25.05 143
66 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 24.98 201
67 Paris Cité University, France 24.89 357
68 Université PSL, France 24.56 272
69 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 24.37 168
70 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 24.27 66
71 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 24.10 244
72 University of Warsaw (UW), Poland 24.04 109
73 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 23.90 54
74 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 23.81 195
75 University of Göttingen, Germany 23.67 144
76 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 23.36 59
77 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 23.32 246
78 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 23.18 134
79 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany 22.62 55
80 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 22.49 326
81 Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy 21.62 89
82 Linköping University (LiU), Sweden 21.61 54
83 Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia 21.24 246
84 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia 21.22 287
85 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK) 21.19 144
86 University of Vienna, Austria 20.87 74
87 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 20.19 37
88 University of Lyon, France 20.04 156
89 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 19.91 121
90 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 19.85 167
91 University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain 19.85 98
92 Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany 19.78 62
93 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 19.49 64
94 University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy 19.43 188
95 Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium 18.80 41
96 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium 18.76 118
97 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 18.25 47
98 Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia 17.91 139
99 University of Toulouse, France 17.62 132
100 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 17.61 58

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