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	FC 2015	FC 2016	AC 2016	Change in Adjusted FC 2015-2016 ^*
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	224.77	235.83	669	7.2%
2	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	227.44	223.65	579	0.5%
3	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	174.91	184.82	550	8.0%
4	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	221.81	168.61	523	-22.3%
5	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	168.86	162.21	501	-1.9%
6	Peking University (PKU), China	123.06	142.08	535	18.0%
7	Tsinghua University (TH), China	117.96	136.49	571	18.2%
8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	130.02	126.52	423	-0.6%
9	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	127.1	124.79	507	0.3%
10	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	137.69	124.59	328	-7.6%
11	Nanjing University (NJU), China	86.16	121.33	361	43.9%
12	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	110.82	109.09	317	0.6%
13	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	93.58	108.33	382	18.3%
14	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	102.1	103.51	358	3.6%
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	103.43	100.45	267	-0.8%
16	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	117.27	98.55	319	-14.1%
17	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	107.91	98.36	302	-6.9%
18	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	101.11	97.14	216	-1.9%
19	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	87.11	96.97	224	13.7%
20	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	91.11	95.17	251	6.7%
21	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	108.41	92.58	266	-12.7%
22	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	107.65	91.57	320	-13.1%
23	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	105.37	90.63	368	-12.1%
24	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	86.17	90.6	191	7.4%
25	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.64	84.5	253	2.0%
26	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	87.25	80.24	308	-6.0%
27	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	80.06	79.6	221	1.6%
28	Tohoku University, Japan	87.52	77.84	210	-9.1%
29	Soochow University, China	66.8	73.43	134	12.3%
30	Fudan University, China	79.62	71.81	182	-7.9%
31	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	85.78	71.24	231	-15.2%
32	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	73.7	71.04	226	-1.5%
33	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	81.29	70.94	220	-10.8%
34	Kyoto University, Japan	80.59	70.38	247	-10.8%
35	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	90.3	69.59	274	-21.3%
36	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	62.17	69.16	263	13.7%
37	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	74.79	67.22	283	-8.2%
38	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	56.63	66.9	193	20.7%
39	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	71.72	65.39	184	-6.8%
40	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	60.97	65.21	216	9.3%
41	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	86.9	65.08	213	-23.5%
42	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	63.5	64.68	192	4.1%
43	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	53.79	63.77	199	21.1%
44	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	68.92	60.06	230	-11.0%
45	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	69.91	60.02	183	-12.3%
46	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	61.08	59.69	208	-0.2%
47	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	41.69	58.01	137	42.2%
48	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	61.83	56.79	214	-6.2%
49	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	60.69	56.7	225	-4.6%
50	Osaka University, Japan	48.96	56.44	221	17.8%
51	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.23	55.76	227	5.0%
52	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.14	54.69	158	3.2%
53	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	59.15	54.63	248	-5.6%
54	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	60.75	53.34	118	-10.3%
55	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	41.45	52.76	176	30.0%
56	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	44.21	50.27	210	16.2%
57	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	53.02	49.39	175	-4.8%
58	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	39.58	48.81	252	26.0%
59	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	42.27	48.5	211	17.2%
60	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	49.95	48.24	517	-1.3%
61	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	37.47	48.24	121	31.5%
62	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	30.56	47.94	102	60.3%
63	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	61.09	47.61	240	-20.4%
64	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	51.41	47.47	235	-5.7%
65	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	40.77	46.81	158	17.3%
66	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	43.9	46.23	205	7.6%
67	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	36.04	45.51	254	29.0%
68	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	42.47	44.04	117	5.9%
69	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	41.83	43.56	263	6.4%
70	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	38.6	41.15	399	8.9%
71	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	42.69	40.83	189	-2.3%
72	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	47.52	40.76	179	-12.4%
73	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	33.51	39.41	238	20.1%
74	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	23.95	39.08	236	66.7%
75	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	42.57	39.04	177	-6.3%
76	Beihang University (BUAA), China	29.45	38.68	131	34.2%
77	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	41.87	38.39	184	-6.3%
78	University of Würzburg, Germany	45.42	37.86	159	-14.8%
79	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	48.15	37.27	146	-20.9%
80	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	43.24	37.19	156	-12.1%
81	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	48.12	37.16	126	-21.1%
82	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	21.04	36.82	68	78.8%
83	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	23.36	36.23	85	58.4%
84	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	33.69	35.86	103	8.7%
85	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	29.87	35.74	125	22.2%
86	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	44.47	35.57	183	-18.3%
87	Aalto University, Finland	38.66	35.55	169	-6.1%
88	Nagoya University, Japan	36.45	35.08	153	-1.7%
89	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	36.76	34.97	77	-2.8%
90	University of Waterloo, Canada	40.16	34.53	93	-12.2%
91	Nankai University (NKU), China	27.37	34.36	103	28.2%
92	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	32.36	33.76	238	6.6%
93	Lund University (LU), Sweden	39.89	33.59	167	-14.0%
94	University of California Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	29.7	33.46	157	15.1%
95	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	30.68	33.45	226	11.4%
96	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	26.36	33.41	268	29.5%
97	Yonsei University, South Korea	40.98	33.34	95	-16.9%
98	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	24.24	33.13	170	39.6%
99	Wuhan University (WHU), China	24.94	32.99	77	35.1%
100	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	35.13	32.75	55	-4.7%

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 7 June 2018 with the most recent institution and article corrections.

^*The change in adjusted FC accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. FC values have been adjusted to 2017 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.

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