2016 tables: Institutions - NPO/NGO

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

2015	Institution	Share 2015	Count 2015
1	Max Planck Society, Germany	745.30	2,262
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	541.52	1,990
3	Leibniz Association, Germany	222.03	696
4	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	161.38	726
5	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	139.12	306
6	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	98.66	371
7	The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	54.75	139
8	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.73	157
9	HHMI Janelia Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	51.71	108
10	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.84	130
11	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India	43.80	75
12	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	42.45	167
13	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	42.30	129
14	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA)	37.85	90
15	Pasteur Institute, France	34.82	205
16	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	32.19	95
17	Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	30.49	178
18	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA)	30.41	119
19	Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium	25.81	140
20	Ames Laboratory, United States of America (USA)	24.03	62
21	Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium	23.01	53
22	Curie Institute, France	21.83	138
23	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA)	21.17	96
24	Fraunhofer Society, Germany	20.84	102
25	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands	20.46	101
26	Cluster of Excellence - Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPS-M), LMU, Germany	20.17	73
27	Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of America (USA)	19.76	37
28	Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain	18.73	270
29	John Innes Centre (JIC), United Kingdom (UK)	16.87	42
30	Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria	15.58	73
31	The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), United States of America (USA)	14.73	50
32	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), United States of America (USA)	14.64	73
33	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia	13.85	61
34	Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), United States of America (USA)	13.73	59
35	La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), United States of America (USA)	13.69	50
36	Gladstone Institutes, United States of America (USA)	13.51	47
37	Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States of America (USA)	12.62	27
38	Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), France	11.36	68
39	Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia	11.32	94
40	Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy	10.26	43
41	International Solvay Institutes, Belgium	10.12	42
42	Center for Scientific Studies (CECs), Chile	9.18	20
43	CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain	9.15	28
44	American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), United States of America (USA)	9.11	57
45	Cluster of Excellence - Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), LMU, Germany	8.38	39
46	National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM), Italy	8.32	50
47	Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal	8.25	16
48	Gulbenkian Science Institute (IGC), Portugal	8.18	24
49	Cancer Research UK (CRUK), United Kingdom (UK)	8.13	75
50	Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada	7.98	82
51	Ludwig Cancer Research, United States of America (USA)	7.96	92
52	The Wistar Institute, United States of America (USA)	7.95	20
53	Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC), Italy	7.93	40
54	Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Spain	7.91	22
55	Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia	7.82	45
56	Institute of Microbial Chemistry (IMC), Japan	7.82	12
57	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), United States of America (USA)	7.56	20
58	QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia	7.30	60
59	International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy	7.28	16
60	Babraham Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	7.27	28
61	Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), United States of America (USA)	6.53	19
62	Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada	6.52	26
63	Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR), United States of America (USA)	6.48	17
64	Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Spain	6.47	23
65	Cluster of Excellence - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED), TU Dresden, Germany	6.33	48
66	J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), United States of America (USA)	6.23	30
67	Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), UChicago, United States of America (USA)	5.97	28
68	National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan	5.53	24
69	Leloir Institute, CONICET, Argentina	5.51	10
70	Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), United States of America (USA)	5.32	24
71	Van Andel Research Institute (VAI), United States of America (USA)	5.21	25
72	The Aerospace Corporation, United States of America (USA)	5.17	21
73	Telethon Foundation, Italy	5.16	25
74	Santa Fe Institute (SFI), United States of America (USA)	5.14	36
75	Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), International	5.03	34
76	Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom (UK)	4.74	18
77	Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia	4.65	26
78	Universities Space Research Association (USRA), United States of America (USA)	4.60	73
79	Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Germany	4.39	14
80	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland	4.37	45
81	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India	4.35	28
82	Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China	4.29	27
83	National Graduate School of Engineering and Research Center (ENSICAEN), France	4.15	35
84	Planetary Science Institute (PSI), United States of America (USA)	4.14	27
85	Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), United States of America (USA)	4.06	13
86	SRI International, United States of America (USA)	4.05	16
87	National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, Slovenia	3.96	16
88	Cluster of Excellence - Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Uni Tübingen, Germany	3.88	15
89	Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR), Germany	3.83	13
90	Canadian Light Source Inc., Canada	3.81	23
91	National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Estonia	3.77	67
92	Cluster of Excellence - Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), UoC, Germany	3.74	34
93	TUM Cluster of Excellence - Origin and Structure of the Universe (Excellence Cluster Universe), Germany	3.69	39
94	National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece	3.67	11
95	European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), Belgium	3.63	16
96	Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique SA (CSEM SA), Switzerland	3.61	8
97	Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), United States of America (USA)	3.58	19
98	Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), United States of America (USA)	3.50	16
99	Bose Institute, India	3.44	22
100	Romanian Academy, Romania	3.43	12

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