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	Share 2015	Share 2016	Count 2016	Change in adjusted Share^* 2015–2016 (%)
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	226.35	237.47	672	7.4%
2	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	227.48	223.28	582	0.5%
3	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	173.38	182.24	554	7.6%
4	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	223.53	167.80	523	-23.2%
5	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	169.91	162.40	507	-2.2%
6	Peking University (PKU), China	123.74	141.83	538	17.3%
7	Tsinghua University, China	117.99	136.19	573	18.1%
8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	130.09	126.98	426	-0.1%
9	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	139.00	124.32	331	-8.5%
10	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	125.51	124.12	511	1.2%
11	Nanjing University (NJU), China	86.17	121.33	361	44.1%
12	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	110.85	109.10	319	0.7%
13	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	94.00	108.24	381	17.9%
14	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	102.50	103.95	365	3.8%
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	103.42	101.08	270	0.0%
16	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	117.65	98.56	319	-14.3%
17	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	108.35	98.45	305	-7.0%
18	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	100.43	98.26	216	0.1%
19	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	87.65	97.01	226	13.3%
20	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	90.61	95.26	252	7.6%
21	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	109.06	92.52	266	-13.2%
22	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	107.80	91.56	321	-13.1%
23	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	105.41	90.77	375	-11.9%
24	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	86.17	90.40	190	7.4%
25	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.27	84.79	258	3.0%
26	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	80.29	79.67	224	1.6%
27	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	86.17	78.89	306	-6.3%
28	Tohoku University, Japan	87.66	78.63	213	-8.2%
29	Soochow University, China	66.80	73.78	134	13.0%
30	Fudan University, China	79.62	71.81	182	-7.7%
31	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	73.71	71.04	226	-1.4%
32	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	81.47	71.00	221	-10.8%
33	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	86.16	70.74	230	-16.0%
34	Kyoto University, Japan	79.59	70.44	248	-9.4%
35	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	90.31	69.59	275	-21.1%
36	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	62.37	69.46	265	14.0%
37	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	74.81	67.23	285	-8.0%
38	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	56.63	67.12	194	21.3%
39	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	71.73	66.39	185	-5.3%
40	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	86.90	65.11	214	-23.3%
41	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	60.98	63.83	214	7.1%
42	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	63.50	63.75	191	2.8%
43	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	54.12	62.78	200	18.7%
44	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	69.11	60.18	184	-10.9%
45	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	61.09	59.69	208	0.0%
46	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	61.17	58.44	225	-2.2%
47	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	69.18	58.10	226	-14.0%
48	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	41.69	57.64	137	41.5%
49	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	62.69	57.13	217	-6.7%
50	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.15	56.85	161	7.5%
51	Osaka University, Japan	49.07	56.39	221	17.6%
52	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.30	55.84	228	5.3%
53	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	59.18	54.64	250	-5.5%
54	Sorbonne University, France	55.68	53.54	546	-1.6%
55	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	41.45	52.76	176	30.3%
56	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	60.71	52.24	116	-11.9%
57	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	44.32	50.21	210	16.0%
58	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	39.47	48.81	248	26.6%
59	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	52.02	48.56	175	-4.4%
60	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	37.48	48.24	121	31.7%
61	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	31.23	47.94	102	57.2%
62	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	41.66	47.83	211	17.5%
63	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	61.10	47.72	244	-20.1%
64	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	40.78	46.81	158	17.5%
65	UCL, United Kingdom (UK)	51.20	46.58	236	-6.9%
66	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	43.93	46.50	207	8.3%
67	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	36.07	45.89	258	30.2%
68	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	36.83	44.39	147	23.4%
69	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	41.47	44.04	117	8.7%
70	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	42.60	43.55	265	4.6%
71	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	43.43	43.50	198	2.5%
72	University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France	39.60	41.48	404	7.2%
73	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	27.22	41.00	245	54.2%
74	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	47.59	40.82	183	-12.2%
75	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	33.42	39.62	240	21.3%
76	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	42.58	39.53	177	-5.0%
77	Beihang University (BUAA), China	28.45	39.26	132	41.2%
78	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	42.04	38.28	186	-6.8%
79	University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany	45.49	38.20	161	-14.1%
80	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	22.72	37.68	69	69.8%
81	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	48.59	37.44	129	-21.1%
82	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	48.16	37.27	146	-20.8%
83	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	43.41	37.19	156	-12.3%
84	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	44.46	36.31	185	-16.4%
85	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	23.36	36.23	85	58.7%
86	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	33.86	35.88	104	8.5%
87	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	29.88	35.74	125	22.4%
88	Nagoya University, Japan	36.48	35.73	155	0.2%
89	Aalto University, Finland	38.94	35.50	169	-6.7%
90	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	36.76	34.97	77	-2.6%
91	University of Waterloo, Canada	40.16	34.70	93	-11.6%
92	Nankai University (NKU), China	27.27	34.64	103	30.0%
93	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	30.79	33.94	229	12.8%
94	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	32.50	33.90	240	6.8%
95	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	26.70	33.71	269	29.2%
96	Lund University (LU), Sweden	40.58	33.66	169	-15.1%
97	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	29.71	33.46	157	15.3%
98	Yonsei University, South Korea	40.98	33.34	95	-16.7%
99	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	23.84	33.20	171	42.5%
100	Wuhan University (WHU), China	24.94	32.98	77	35.4%

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