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	745.18	2262
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	537.54	1970
3	Leibniz Association, Germany	221.26	696
4	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	161.41	726
5	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	139.07	306
6	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	98.66	371
7	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.73	157
8	HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	51.71	108
9	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.84	130
10	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	44.68	179
11	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India	43.8	75
12	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	42.3	129
13	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA)	37.85	90
14	Pasteur Institute, France	34.82	205
15	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	32.19	95
16	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	30.49	178
17	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA)	30.41	119
18	Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium	25.92	140
19	Ames Laboratory, United States of America (USA)	24.03	62
20	Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), Netherlands	23.85	255
21	Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium	23.01	53
22	Curie Institute, France	21.77	137
23	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA)	21.21	97
24	Fraunhofer Society, Germany	20.61	102
25	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands	20.56	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	Cluster of Excellence - Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions and Structure of Matter (PRISMA), JGU, Germany	19.62	53
29	Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain	18.73	270
30	Cancer Research UK (CRUK), United Kingdom (UK)	18.33	166
31	John Innes Centre (JIC), United Kingdom (UK)	16.87	42
32	Synchrotron SOLEIL, France	15.91	67
33	Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria	15.58	73
34	The Jackson Laboratory, United States of America (USA)	14.73	50
35	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), United States of America (USA)	14.64	73
36	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia	13.85	61
37	Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), United States of America (USA)	13.73	59
38	La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), United States of America (USA)	13.69	50
39	Gladstone Institutes, United States of America (USA)	13.51	47
40	Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States of America (USA)	12.62	27
41	Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), France	11.36	68
42	Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia	11.32	94
43	Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy	10.26	43
44	International Solvay Institutes, Belgium	10.12	42
45	Center for Scientific Studies (CECs), Chile	9.18	20
46	CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain	9.15	28
47	American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), United States of America (USA)	9.11	57
48	Ludwig Cancer Research, United States of America (USA)	8.59	92
49	Cluster of Excellence - Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), LMU, Germany	8.38	39
50	Laboratory for the Synthesis and Characterisation of Organometallic Molecular Materials (CR LASCAMM), Italy	8.32	50
51	Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal	8.25	16
52	Gulbenkian Science Institute (IGC), Portugal	8.23	25
53	Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada	7.98	82
54	The Wistar Institute, United States of America (USA)	7.95	20
55	Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC), Italy	7.93	40
56	Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Spain	7.91	22
57	Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia	7.82	45
58	Institute of Microbial Chemistry (IMC), Japan	7.82	12
59	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), United States of America (USA)	7.68	20
60	QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia	7.3	60
61	International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy	7.28	16
62	Babraham Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	7.27	28
63	Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), United States of America (USA)	6.53	19
64	Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada	6.52	26
65	Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR), United States of America (USA)	6.48	17
66	Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Spain	6.47	23
67	Cluster of Excellence - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED), TU Dresden, Germany	6.33	48
68	J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), United States of America (USA)	6.23	30
69	Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), UChicago, United States of America (USA)	5.97	28
70	National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan	5.53	24
71	Instituto de Investigeciones Bioquimicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA), CONICET, Argentina	5.51	10
72	Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), United States of America (USA)	5.32	24
73	Van Andel Research Institute (VAI), United States of America (USA)	5.21	25
74	The Aerospace Corporation, United States of America (USA)	5.17	21
75	Telethon Foundation, Italy	5.16	25
76	Santa Fe Institute (SFI), United States of America (USA)	5.14	36
77	Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), International	5.03	34
78	Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom (UK)	4.74	18
79	Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia	4.65	26
80	Universities Space Research Association (USRA), United States of America (USA)	4.56	73
81	Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Germany	4.39	14
82	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India	4.35	28
83	Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China	4.29	27
84	National Graduate School of Engineering and Research Center (ENSICAEN), France	4.15	35
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	International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), UH Mānoa, United States of America (USA)	3.86	16
90	Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR), Germany	3.83	13
91	Canadian Light Source Inc., Canada	3.81	23
92	Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont Ferrand (OPGC), France	3.78	24
93	National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Estonia	3.75	66
94	Cluster of Excellence - Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), UoC, Germany	3.74	34
95	TUM Cluster of Excellence - Origin and Structure of the Universe (Excellence Cluster Universe), Germany	3.69	39
96	National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece	3.67	11
97	Planetary Science Institute (PSI), United States of America (USA)	3.64	26
98	VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland	3.62	44
99	Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique SA (CSEM SA), Switzerland	3.61	8
100	Cluster of Excellence - Cells-in-Motion (CiM), WWU, Germany	3.59	19

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