2017 tables: Institutions - physical sciences - academic

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The 2017 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

2016	Institution	WFC 2015	WFC 2016	AC 2016	Change in WFC 2015-2016
1	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	205.41	203.6	807	-0.9%
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	204.15	202.16	859	-1.0%
3	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	167.14	171.44	1231	2.6%
4	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	215.96	166.21	784	-23.0%
5	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	167.63	154.15	952	-8.0%
6	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	139.26	127.85	551	-8.2%
7	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	122.11	114.21	682	-6.5%
8	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	125.69	111.54	910	-11.3%
9	Peking University (PKU), China	109.19	108.78	602	-0.4%
10	Tsinghua University (TH), China	98.49	106.59	520	8.2%
11	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	99.77	105	1124	5.2%
12	Nanjing University (NJU), China	81.25	104.11	421	28.1%
13	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	105.04	103.75	613	-1.2%
14	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	101.19	103.44	430	2.2%
15	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	85.68	100.56	413	17.4%
16	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	103.51	88.61	400	-14.4%
17	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	96.24	85.77	588	-10.9%
18	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	76.42	80.4	502	5.2%
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	86.6	80.34	494	-7.2%
20	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	92.39	79.07	675	-14.4%
21	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	84.83	77.97	357	-8.1%
22	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	67.24	73.77	171	9.7%
23	Tohoku University, Japan	81.34	71.69	323	-11.9%
24	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	85.24	69.58	428	-18.4%
25	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	68.97	68.59	470	-0.5%
26	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	50.76	67.16	377	32.3%
27	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	78.22	66.53	290	-14.9%
28	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	75.48	66.43	411	-12.0%
29	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	70.14	65.3	252	-6.9%
30	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	62.9	64.8	177	3.0%
31	Kyoto University, Japan	76.1	64.14	317	-15.7%
32	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	72.21	61.9	150	-14.3%
33	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	59.04	60.53	480	2.5%
34	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	50.52	59.67	224	18.1%
35	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	57.65	59.42	270	3.1%
36	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	51.48	58.75	318	14.1%
37	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	65.91	57.16	435	-13.3%
38	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	60.53	55.08	234	-9.0%
39	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	60.08	54.94	230	-8.6%
40	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	53.34	53.31	191	-0.1%
41	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany	53.26	52.13	392	-2.1%
42	Fudan University, China	65.38	51.36	142	-21.4%
43	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	43.89	50.76	301	15.6%
44	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	44.23	50.08	425	13.2%
45	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	54.21	49.93	398	-7.9%
46	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	53.52	49.84	175	-6.9%
47	Osaka University, Japan	48.37	49.69	242	2.7%
48	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	59.95	49.05	427	-18.2%
49	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	53.43	48.91	510	-8.5%
50	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	51.2	48.8	1079	-4.7%
51	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	51.73	47.67	217	-7.8%
52	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	51.88	47.57	154	-8.3%
53	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	57.14	47.5	349	-16.9%
54	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	41.39	46.97	211	13.5%
55	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	46.09	46.53	193	0.9%
56	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	55.01	45.68	500	-17.0%
57	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	44.19	45.25	456	2.4%
58	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	34.33	45.21	355	31.7%
59	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	54.23	43.94	443	-19.0%
60	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	44.23	43.66	508	-1.3%
61	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	39.58	42.72	495	7.9%
62	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	61.69	41.68	168	-32.4%
63	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	38.17	41.67	535	9.2%
64	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	47.03	40.26	394	-14.4%
65	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	37.3	39.35	188	5.5%
66	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	39.5	39.18	111	-0.8%
67	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	43.39	38.97	270	-10.2%
68	Soochow University, China	39.99	38.65	74	-3.3%
69	The Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	40.38	38.33	466	-5.1%
70	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	40.16	37.91	226	-5.6%
71	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	44.82	37.43	84	-16.5%
72	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	32.86	36.9	140	12.3%
73	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	30.37	36.81	453	21.2%
74	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	29.98	35.85	95	19.6%
75	Leiden University, Netherlands	38.81	35.68	511	-8.1%
76	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	42.86	35.39	199	-17.4%
77	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	24.75	35.34	75	42.8%
78	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	28.92	34.81	431	20.3%
79	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	41.39	34.63	273	-16.3%
80	Aalto University, Finland	34.58	34.55	250	-0.1%
81	University of Würzburg, Germany	41.54	34.29	178	-17.5%
82	Lund University (LU), Sweden	37.24	33.91	218	-9.0%
83	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	24.47	32.35	119	32.2%
84	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	32.65	32.06	73	-1.8%
85	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	28.8	31.87	62	10.7%
86	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	31.81	31.81	145	0.0%
87	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	29.77	31.74	343	6.6%
88	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	29.89	31.71	255	6.1%
89	Uppsala University (UU), Sweden	29.93	31.27	240	4.5%
90	Nagoya University, Japan	37.1	30.84	216	-16.9%
91	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	26.49	30.82	230	16.3%
92	University of California Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	23.98	30.66	211	27.9%
93	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	34.01	30.65	133	-9.9%
94	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	20	30.54	292	52.7%
95	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	34.98	30.46	121	-12.9%
96	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	36.65	30.19	118	-17.6%
97	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	30.09	29.93	172	-0.5%
98	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	27.35	29.62	147	8.3%
99	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	23.81	29.58	234	24.3%
100	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	30.81	29.56	415	-4.1%

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 30 August 2017 with the most recent institution and article corrections.

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