2017 tables: Institutions

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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	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	1620.68	1592.44	3864	0.8%
2	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	886.99	880.71	2298	1.9%
3	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	790.39	768.29	4260	-0.3%
4	Max Planck Society, Germany	745.18	765.91	2431	5.4%
5	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	636.11	603.7	1480	-2.6%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	565.4	576.48	1749	4.6%
7	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	537.54	524.2	2047	0.0%
8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	438.45	466.63	1248	9.2%
9	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	429.85	437.4	1269	4.4%
10	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	526.72	427.87	1096	-16.7%
11	Peking University (PKU), China	369.66	386.16	1255	7.2%
12	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	426.91	383.03	1178	-8.0%
13	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	376.17	355.64	910	-3.0%
14	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	338.34	349.15	872	5.9%
15	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	390.9	341.52	849	-10.4%
16	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	362.62	333.78	938	-5.6%
17	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	345.35	327.07	887	-2.9%
18	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	368.46	321.43	858	-10.5%
19	Nanjing University (NJU), China	290.48	319.47	747	12.8%
20	Tsinghua University, China	278.86	315.87	1019	16.2%
21	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	325.11	312.04	898	-1.5%
22	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	287.08	306.86	865	9.6%
23	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	328.66	291.99	788	-8.9%
24	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	269.54	287.79	650	9.5%
25	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	302.78	284.82	671	-3.5%
26	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	261.37	275.83	733	8.3%
27	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	295.28	267.93	820	-6.9%
28	Kyoto University, Japan	311.72	264.34	673	-13.0%
29	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	312.66	260.77	653	-14.4%
30	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	281.28	258.89	682	-5.6%
31	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	269.24	258.28	751	-1.6%
32	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	266.16	251.1	634	-3.2%
33	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	263.46	244.25	777	-4.9%
34	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	254.33	233.93	510	-5.6%
35	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	242.4	233.72	634	-1.1%
36	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	228.55	233.71	567	4.9%
37	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	253.18	229	591	-7.2%
38	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	235.63	226.25	899	-1.5%
39	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	222.73	220.34	481	1.5%
40	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	236.1	213.32	858	-7.3%
41	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	236.59	211.51	1077	-8.3%
42	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	212	209.44	575	1.3%
43	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	213.87	209.35	619	0.4%
44	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	211.87	208.41	659	0.9%
45	Leibniz Association, Germany	221.26	206.11	716	-4.4%
46	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	207.3	203.44	521	0.7%
47	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	209.41	200.12	558	-2.0%
48	Osaka University, Japan	206.39	196.84	525	-2.2%
49	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	184.49	193.58	426	7.6%
50	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	216.16	187.86	528	-10.9%
51	Fudan University, China	209.74	184.54	453	-9.7%
52	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	180.48	181.82	449	3.3%
53	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	171.74	181.09	379	8.2%
54	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	181.1	180.71	601	2.4%
55	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	187.01	180.59	828	-0.9%
56	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	191.62	176.57	663	-5.5%
57	Tohoku University, Japan	194.63	175.41	437	-7.5%
58	McGill University, Canada	190.41	174.12	547	-6.2%
59	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	161.41	172.13	769	9.4%
60	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	196.54	168.29	628	-12.2%
61	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	166.93	165.97	424	2.0%
62	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	174.87	165.69	477	-2.8%
63	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	130.21	164.5	461	29.6%
64	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	170.63	164.1	316	-1.3%
65	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	156.02	157.77	321	3.7%
66	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	105.84	156.86	870	52.0%
67	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	135.22	156.68	453	18.9%
68	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	167.56	156.57	553	-4.2%
69	RIKEN, Japan	151.88	155.91	543	5.3%
70	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	139.07	153.78	325	13.4%
71	Nankai University (NKU), China	157.34	152.94	419	-0.3%
72	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	135.78	152.79	589	15.4%
73	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	125.81	151.17	691	23.3%
74	Soochow University, China	140.7	150.67	279	9.8%
75	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	177.02	146.01	467	-15.4%
76	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	167.21	145.87	427	-10.5%
77	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	157.55	145.71	521	-5.1%
78	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	152.11	145.62	398	-1.8%
79	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	135	145.31	442	10.4%
80	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	125.36	144.98	506	18.6%
81	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	118.67	143.52	547	24.1%
82	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	146.22	138.1	554	-3.1%
83	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	140.83	138.03	361	0.5%
84	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	161.35	135.69	390	-13.7%
85	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	144.91	135.66	309	-4.0%
86	Nagoya University, Japan	148.32	133.29	351	-7.8%
87	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	131.37	132.88	183	3.8%
88	Monash University, Australia	117.38	132.46	431	15.8%
89	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	154.94	130.36	417	-13.7%
90	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	107.61	128.29	449	22.3%
91	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	127.13	127.43	273	2.8%
92	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	128.69	126.46	514	0.8%
93	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	139.21	125.96	529	-7.2%
94	Xiamen University (XMU), China	119.69	124.4	228	6.6%
95	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	114.33	123.13	313	10.5%
96	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	123.77	121.71	577	0.9%
97	Wuhan University (WHU), China	114.67	121.41	234	8.6%
98	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	123.99	121.25	274	0.3%
99	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	124.74	120.3	617	-1.1%
100	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	104.98	119.55	614	16.8%
101	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	98.66	119.22	403	24.0%
102	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	131.49	119.06	417	-7.1%
103	Hokkaido University, Japan	119.43	118.39	262	1.7%
104	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	146.79	118.33	358	-17.3%
105	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	125.21	117.48	307	-3.8%
106	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	116.55	116.98	377	3.0%
107	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	129.67	116	366	-8.2%
108	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	106.83	115.14	343	10.6%
109	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	105.09	114.83	390	12.1%
110	Kyushu University, Japan	92.77	113.79	334	25.8%
111	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	146.68	113.63	452	-20.5%
112	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	127.47	111.22	366	-10.5%
113	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	113.37	110.99	500	0.4%
114	Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France	110.98	110.69	873	2.3%
115	University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	120.61	108.5	255	-7.7%
116	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	92.29	107.96	246	20.0%
117	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	112.86	106.42	331	-3.3%
118	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	115.86	105.57	344	-6.5%
119	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	117.51	105.19	1058	-8.2%
120	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	105.7	104.47	261	1.4%
121	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	103.81	104.36	354	3.1%
122	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	92.14	103.67	287	15.4%
123	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	94.14	102.7	284	11.9%
124	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	105.14	102.56	308	0.1%
125	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	106.73	102.27	295	-1.7%
126	Sichuan University (SCU), China	98.82	101.98	216	5.9%
127	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	100.68	101.23	297	3.1%
128	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	96.31	101.21	180	7.8%
129	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	103.45	100.59	487	-0.3%
130	University of Würzburg, Germany	120.45	100.59	318	-14.3%
131	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	111.34	100.18	223	-7.7%
132	University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	106.42	99.09	279	-4.5%
133	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA)	93.07	98.32	319	8.4%
134	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	88.63	98.15	258	13.6%
135	University of Göttingen, Germany	106.06	98	330	-5.2%
136	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	104.61	97.54	259	-4.4%
137	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	108.59	96.66	283	-8.7%
138	Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), India	81.88	96.63	203	21.1%
139	Aarhus University (AU), Denmark	87.15	95.98	244	13.0%
140	Lund University (LU), Sweden	99.51	95.62	375	-1.4%
141	Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands	71.66	95.43	496	36.6%
142	Uppsala University (UU), Sweden	94.03	94.9	421	3.5%
143	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	79.57	94.84	340	22.3%
144	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	103.16	94.58	376	-6.0%
145	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	100.81	93.8	309	-4.6%
146	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	104.51	93.45	312	-8.3%
147	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	103.94	92.92	359	-8.3%
148	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	75.05	92.72	262	26.7%
149	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	89.58	91.92	356	5.3%
150	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	115.83	91.82	285	-18.7%
151	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	86.49	91.56	228	8.6%
152	Yonsei University, South Korea	102.71	91.1	226	-9.0%
153	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	93.16	91.05	328	0.3%
154	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	90.5	90.62	263	2.7%
155	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	99.67	90.33	888	-7.0%
156	Jilin University (JLU), China	103.6	89.93	211	-11.0%
157	Shandong University (SDU), China	76.29	89.71	292	20.6%
158	University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany	95.64	88.91	325	-4.6%
159	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	78.74	88.37	241	15.1%
160	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	98.69	86.9	181	-9.7%
161	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	91.76	86.77	125	-3.0%
162	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	77.22	85.88	280	14.1%
163	Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany	101.94	85.61	437	-13.9%
164	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	87.62	85.32	227	-0.1%
165	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	86.35	84.85	370	0.8%
166	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	69.39	84.73	344	25.3%
167	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	93.27	83.83	220	-7.8%
168	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	83.47	83.12	223	2.2%
169	Hunan University (HNU), China	99.35	82.76	141	-14.6%
170	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	98.79	82.74	239	-14.1%
171	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	89.38	81.86	332	-6.1%
172	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	108.95	81.47	337	-23.3%
173	The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK)	78.83	81.09	317	5.5%
174	Leiden University, Netherlands	86.11	80.98	307	-3.5%
175	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	89.82	80.64	253	-7.9%
176	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	102.37	80.5	402	-19.3%
177	University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA)	88.75	80.19	288	-7.3%
178	The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia	81.07	79.55	325	0.7%
179	The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA)	73.87	79.43	197	10.3%
180	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	80.06	78.58	372	0.7%
181	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	61.99	78.45	148	29.8%
182	University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA)	76.67	77.92	258	4.3%
183	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	59.93	77.86	150	33.3%
184	Stockholm University, Sweden	95.09	77.5	410	-16.4%
185	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	95.48	77.31	237	-16.9%
186	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	62.16	77.13	496	27.3%
187	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	77.54	77.13	345	2.0%
188	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	85.8	76.75	163	-8.2%
189	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	84.83	76.67	249	-7.3%
190	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	70.77	76.63	374	11.1%
191	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	72.6	76	248	7.4%
192	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA)	79.56	75.95	348	-2.1%
193	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	92.07	75.77	267	-15.6%
194	Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore	88.48	75.69	288	-12.3%
195	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	74.09	75.58	159	4.6%
196	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	83.21	75.03	248	-7.5%
197	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany	90.27	74.74	460	-15.1%
198	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany	92.25	74.68	295	-17.0%
199	Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic	70.38	74.47	345	8.5%
200	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	84.31	74.21	347	-9.7%
201	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	73.2	73.85	323	3.5%
202	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	80.26	73.84	198	-5.6%
203	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	90.65	73.61	260	-16.7%
204	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	58.5	73.28	197	28.5%
205	The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China	68.03	72.91	313	9.9%
206	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	61.33	72.64	245	21.5%
207	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	76.73	72.2	658	-3.5%
208	University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA)	67.55	72.01	273	9.4%
209	Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA)	63.57	71.63	299	15.6%
210	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK)	72.12	71.54	388	1.8%
211	University of Waterloo, Canada	86.21	71.51	155	-14.9%
212	University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany	81.88	71.47	266	-10.5%
213	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	63.46	70.99	213	14.7%
214	Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea	61.95	70.8	278	17.2%
215	Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA)	67.03	70.73	327	8.3%
216	University of Barcelona (UB), Spain	67.8	70.71	283	7.0%
217	University of Cologne (UoC), Germany	58.83	69.81	230	21.7%
218	Tianjin University (TJU), China	91.59	69.5	343	-22.2%
219	Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU), Germany	72.35	69.27	230	-1.8%
220	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA)	70.94	68.97	221	-0.3%
221	Keio University, Japan	56.86	68.8	158	24.1%
222	Ghent University (UGent), Belgium	70.94	68.68	254	-0.7%
223	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK)	79.11	68.35	288	-11.4%
224	University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK)	54.36	68.28	326	28.8%
225	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	82.82	67.33	184	-16.6%
226	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	52.46	67.2	142	31.4%
227	The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK)	69.11	66.84	184	-0.8%
228	University of Bern, Switzerland	71.83	66.69	324	-4.8%
229	Southeast University (SEU), China	40.35	66.07	125	68.0%
230	University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA)	77.37	65.54	218	-13.1%
231	University of Strasbourg, France	64.04	65.48	432	4.9%
232	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA)	56.22	65.31	197	19.2%
233	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	71.97	65.06	338	-7.3%
234	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China	61.66	64.98	268	8.1%
235	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	68.19	64.65	296	-2.7%
236	University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada	59.91	64.44	168	10.3%
237	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany	65.76	63.29	141	-1.3%
238	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	62.32	63	142	3.7%
239	Korea University (KU), South Korea	63.74	62.67	225	0.9%
240	University of Tsukuba, Japan	57.71	61.92	249	10.1%
241	University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA)	51.86	61.25	212	21.1%
242	University of Vienna, Austria	53.53	61.2	220	17.3%
243	Iowa State University, United States of America (USA)	74.13	60.92	240	-15.7%
244	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	62.28	60.86	224	0.2%
245	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	45.06	60.55	310	37.8%
246	Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France	55.83	60.12	576	10.5%
247	Tongji University, China	59.72	59.76	198	2.7%
248	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	58.19	59.18	174	4.3%
249	National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan	79.15	58.86	180	-23.7%
250	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	66.06	58.75	180	-8.8%
251	Oregon State University, United States of America (USA)	59.64	57.5	161	-1.1%
252	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	66.24	57.31	302	-11.3%
253	People's Liberation Army (PLA), China	43.97	56.85	199	32.6%
254	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	44.96	56.7	133	29.4%
255	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	53.15	56.56	241	9.1%
256	Temple University, United States of America (USA)	40.24	56.2	136	43.3%
257	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands	46.65	55.93	349	23.0%
258	University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain	45.38	55.87	232	26.3%
259	University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA)	59.38	55.66	188	-3.8%
260	University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA)	50.16	55.53	170	13.6%
261	Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany	59.76	55.37	185	-5.0%
262	University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany	46.23	54.99	114	22.0%
263	University of Calgary (U of C), Canada	62.18	54.45	232	-10.2%
264	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK)	60.88	54.34	211	-8.4%
265	Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA)	46.9	54.01	162	18.1%
266	Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China	30.21	53.84	109	82.8%
267	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	63.25	53.8	354	-12.8%
268	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	46.25	53.25	164	18.1%
269	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France	67.25	52.87	552	-19.3%
270	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	63.58	52.78	162	-14.8%
271	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	59.68	52.16	201	-10.3%
272	Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea	45.15	52.14	151	18.5%
273	University of Helsinki, Finland	58.32	51.7	307	-9.1%
274	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	58.25	50.88	392	-10.4%
275	University of Toulouse, France	58.88	50.7	416	-11.7%
276	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	47.61	50.62	141	9.1%
277	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	46.46	50.47	187	11.4%
278	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.73	50.4	164	-3.8%
279	University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil	48.37	50.22	270	6.5%
280	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland	45.23	50.04	242	13.5%
281	Beihang University (BUAA), China	44.88	50.01	168	14.3%
282	University of Valencia (UV), Spain	46.29	49.71	263	10.2%
283	University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK)	51.12	49.62	305	-0.4%
284	University of Konstanz, Germany	43.99	49.41	93	15.2%
285	The University of Dublin, Ireland	44.55	49.34	141	13.6%
286	McMaster University, Canada	52.51	49.3	116	-3.7%
287	Wayne State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	46.33	49.21	190	9.0%
288	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	32.19	49.01	150	56.2%
289	Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland	58.9	49	321	-14.7%
290	Tufts University, United States of America (USA)	43.71	48.96	267	14.9%
291	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	50.47	48.87	174	-0.7%
292	Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK)	37.54	48.44	192	32.4%
293	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude), United States of America (USA)	42.3	48.43	113	17.4%
294	Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China	42.83	48.08	95	15.2%
295	Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France	48.61	48.07	456	1.4%
296	University of Lyon, France	51.94	47.73	442	-5.7%
297	Leipzig University, Germany	44.68	47.34	166	8.7%
298	University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA)	57.03	47.22	129	-15.1%
299	University of Stuttgart, Germany	59.91	46.91	126	-19.7%
300	Brandeis University, United States of America (USA)	40.99	46.8	141	17.1%
301	University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA)	63.81	45.98	138	-26.1%
302	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	47.64	45.66	234	-1.7%
303	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	27.55	45.62	97	69.9%
304	Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China	71.96	45.6	98	-35.0%
305	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium	38.74	45.53	196	20.6%
306	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	44.68	45.5	197	4.5%
307	Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany	53.08	45.41	119	-12.2%
308	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA)	41.86	45.18	191	10.7%
309	HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	51.71	44.98	92	-10.8%
310	Aalto University, Finland	55.77	44.88	217	-17.5%
311	The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA)	45.85	44.85	194	0.3%
312	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India	48.02	44.6	167	-4.7%
313	Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK)	49.16	44.58	262	-7.0%
314	University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal	35.2	44.57	223	29.9%
315	The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA)	51.3	44.42	175	-11.2%
316	University of York, United Kingdom (UK)	49.85	44.39	148	-8.7%
317	Western University (UWO), Canada	34.14	44.2	109	32.8%
318	Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA)	40.82	44.17	244	11.0%
319	Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany	44.98	43.93	173	0.2%
320	F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland	45.66	43.91	99	-1.4%
321	Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA)	55.29	43.78	145	-18.8%
322	City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China	41.58	43.77	141	8.0%
323	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	52.77	43.64	159	-15.2%
324	University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA)	37.14	43.54	113	20.2%
325	Central China Normal University (CCNU), China	30.71	43.5	121	45.3%
326	Southwest University (SWU), China	47.91	43.01	65	-7.9%
327	IBM Corporation, United States of America (USA)	62.14	42.89	105	-29.2%
328	Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia	38.01	42.63	331	15.1%
329	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel	52.52	42.48	92	-17.0%
330	Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China	26.85	42.45	102	62.2%
331	University of Montpellier, France	46.11	41.89	304	-6.8%
332	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	39.06	41.77	261	9.7%
333	Novartis International AG, Switzerland	48.57	41.29	122	-12.8%
334	Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Italy	52.43	41.21	207	-19.4%
335	The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA)	47.08	41	216	-10.7%
336	University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA)	31.6	40.44	132	31.3%
337	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	60.96	40.17	109	-32.4%
338	Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt), Germany	27.95	40.16	113	47.4%
339	University of Kiel (CAU), Germany	41.06	39.93	171	-0.2%
340	University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA)	41.08	39.87	126	-0.5%
341	The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA)	41.02	39.75	245	-0.6%
342	The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA)	43.3	39.75	203	-5.8%
343	Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA)	47.2	39.72	125	-13.7%
344	Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK)	40.36	39.55	179	0.5%
345	University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA)	39.23	39.36	121	2.9%
346	Pasteur Institute, France	34.82	39.26	211	15.7%
347	Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain	38.71	39.08	172	3.6%
348	The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA)	37.93	38.88	67	5.1%
349	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary	42.08	38.85	253	-5.3%
350	National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan	38.53	38.57	91	2.7%
351	University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy	44.71	38.09	268	-12.6%
352	National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy	39.77	37.99	165	-2.0%
353	Chiba University, Japan	19.07	37.65	105	102.5%
354	University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria	28.64	37.64	196	34.8%
355	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	49.45	37.41	333	-22.4%
356	Curtin University, Australia	29.16	37.35	138	31.4%
357	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	42.3	37.32	103	-9.5%
358	Ulm University, Germany	38.43	37.23	142	-0.6%
359	University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA)	44.29	36.91	122	-14.5%
360	Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA)	32.44	36.87	79	16.6%
361	Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA)	41.84	36.85	165	-9.7%
362	French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France	33.87	36.8	367	11.5%
363	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	41.87	36.69	145	-10.1%
364	Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium	30.03	35.98	149	22.9%
365	University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK)	44.99	35.94	100	-18.1%
366	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA)	30.41	35.72	139	20.5%
367	Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy	47.88	35.64	133	-23.6%
368	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China	28.8	35.45	95	26.3%
369	Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium	25.92	35.41	152	40.1%
370	University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany	35.93	35.17	121	0.4%
371	University of Bordeaux, France	40.47	35.04	232	-11.2%
372	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA)	27.09	34.99	83	32.5%
373	University of Potsdam, Germany	30.85	34.96	126	16.3%
374	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	26.33	34.39	43	34.0%
375	University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China	29.89	34.36	79	17.9%
376	University of Missouri (Mizzou), United States of America (USA)	29.82	34.23	86	17.8%
377	The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia	38.2	34.21	214	-8.1%
378	University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden	34.34	34.17	128	2.1%
379	Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	32.24	34.17	105	8.7%
380	Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA)	48.39	34.09	153	-27.7%
381	The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia	48.61	34.04	221	-28.2%
382	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.84	33.7	103	-27.7%
383	University of Warsaw (UW), Poland	37.18	33.61	172	-7.3%
384	Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada	28.08	33.41	172	22.1%
385	University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain	31.23	33.26	143	9.3%
386	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.36	33.11	76	1.8%
387	Ewha Womans University (Ewha), South Korea	33.91	32.82	98	-0.7%
388	Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands	35.7	32.7	139	-6.0%
389	Shanghai University (SHU), China	35.24	32.68	92	-4.9%
390	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany	37.73	32.66	125	-11.2%
391	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	29.17	32.49	509	14.3%
392	Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria	26.95	32.37	240	23.2%
393	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	31.98	32.29	101	3.6%
394	University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy	29.04	32.18	285	13.7%
395	Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel	32.63	32.11	84	1.0%
396	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea	41.48	31.83	123	-21.3%
397	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA)	34.49	31.79	163	-5.4%
398	University of Otago, New Zealand	33.75	31.78	118	-3.4%
399	University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada	36.69	31.43	78	-12.1%
400	University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK)	22.05	31.38	95	46.0%
401	University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands	29.67	31.17	65	7.8%
402	AstraZeneca plc, United Kingdom (UK)	23.98	31.15	112	33.2%
403	Hiroshima University (HU), Japan	39.97	31.1	125	-20.2%
404	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA)	34.35	30.86	325	-7.8%
405	University of Sussex (US), United Kingdom (UK)	33.19	30.82	171	-4.7%
406	Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom (UK)	32.72	30.58	428	-4.1%
407	Chongqing University (CQU), China	35.22	30.52	87	-11.1%
408	Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA)	25.57	30.51	56	22.4%
409	National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France	37.42	30.49	289	-16.4%
410	Kobe University, Japan	27.67	30.21	149	12.0%
411	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China	16.27	30.19	87	90.4%
412	Linköping University (LiU), Sweden	38.01	30.06	105	-18.9%
413	The University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia	25.14	29.91	101	22.0%
414	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China	27.3	29.76	106	11.8%
415	Merck & Co., Inc., United States of America (USA)	26.03	29.74	71	17.2%
416	Queen's University, Canada	40.13	29.58	163	-24.4%
417	Clemson University, United States of America (USA)	24.63	29.46	59	22.7%
418	TU Dortmund University, Germany	22.92	29.45	174	31.8%
419	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India	28.97	29.44	47	4.2%
420	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA)	39.19	29.06	76	-23.9%
421	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India	43.8	29	56	-32.1%
422	Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria	15.58	28.96	92	90.6%
423	Kanazawa University (KU), Japan	19.12	28.96	78	55.3%
424	Charles University (CU), Czech Republic	29.55	28.92	254	0.4%
425	Fuzhou University (FZU), China	34.04	28.62	49	-13.7%
426	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan	44.41	28.6	161	-33.9%
427	Drexel University, United States of America (USA)	29.19	28.6	95	0.5%
428	University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium	29.29	28.34	144	-0.8%
429	State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), United States of America (USA)	17.67	28.24	145	63.9%
430	Northwest University (NWU), China	19.92	28.02	53	44.3%
431	Pfizer Inc., United States of America (USA)	20.41	27.72	60	39.3%
432	University of Turin (UNITO), Italy	37.25	27.66	207	-23.8%
433	University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy	36.54	27.46	177	-22.9%
434	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	21.56	27.45	84	30.6%
435	University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK)	32.09	27.44	107	-12.3%
436	University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain	25.01	27.4	126	12.4%
437	University of Hannover (LUH), Germany	36.19	27.32	84	-22.6%
438	University of Liège (ULg), Belgium	19.1	27.19	88	46.0%
439	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea	29.3	26.78	64	-6.2%
440	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	29.51	26.78	65	-6.9%
441	Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany	26.61	26.71	73	3.0%
442	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany	33.48	26.67	109	-18.3%
443	Waseda University, Japan	31.25	26.51	139	-13.0%
444	China Agricultural University (CAU), China	20.67	26.38	65	30.9%
445	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	30.49	25.89	165	-12.9%
446	Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA)	23.98	25.86	71	10.6%
447	University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada	32.62	25.82	114	-18.8%
448	Central South University (CSU), China	28.15	25.81	80	-6.0%
449	Okayama University, Japan	35.13	25.76	147	-24.8%
450	Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland	31.3	25.73	146	-15.7%
451	Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK)	37.15	25.7	84	-29.0%
452	Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea	18.84	25.62	93	39.5%
453	Umeå University (UMU), Sweden	36.5	25.52	98	-28.3%
454	University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy	33.98	25.51	238	-23.0%
455	Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), China	20.13	25.51	58	30.0%
456	Northeast Normal University (NENU), China	36.22	25.5	44	-27.8%
457	Braunschweig University of Technology (TU Braunschweig), Germany	26.43	25.48	67	-1.1%
458	University of Central Florida (UCF), United States of America (USA)	22.53	25.44	69	15.8%
459	Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain	33.09	25.26	204	-21.7%
460	University of Granada (UGR), Spain	17.69	25.23	145	46.3%
461	Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain	18.73	25.09	291	37.4%
462	University of Victoria (UVic), Canada	24.71	25.08	170	4.1%
463	The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), United States of America (USA)	15.58	25.07	62	65.1%
464	Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), United States of America (USA)	13.75	25	69	86.5%
465	Cleveland Clinic, United States of America (USA)	32.15	24.91	80	-20.5%
466	Georgetown University, United States of America (USA)	14.3	24.9	64	78.6%
467	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia	21.62	24.87	71	18.0%
468	University of Pisa (UNIPI), Italy	16.57	24.75	250	53.2%
469	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany	19.5	24.72	101	30.1%
470	University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK)	30.07	24.6	99	-16.1%
471	University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy	26.3	24.48	229	-4.5%
472	Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea	27.74	24.23	63	-10.4%
473	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan	23.71	24.2	66	4.7%
474	University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), United States of America (USA)	23.49	24.14	63	5.4%
475	Dalhousie University, Canada	26.89	24.13	70	-8.0%
476	University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy	29.47	24.08	166	-16.2%
477	University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK)	29.54	23.98	94	-16.7%
478	Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands	23.9	23.98	166	2.9%
479	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway	29.59	23.95	86	-17.0%
480	École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), France	25.61	23.91	294	-4.2%
481	Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China	26.23	23.81	57	-6.9%
482	Laval University (UL), Canada	31.06	23.65	127	-21.9%
483	International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS), Italy	25.16	23.58	105	-3.9%
484	European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France	21.24	23.57	133	13.8%
485	University of Arkansas (UARK), United States of America (USA)	22.65	23.44	68	6.1%
486	Texas Tech University (TTU), United States of America (USA)	15.09	23.42	127	59.2%
487	Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), China	15.72	23.26	48	51.8%
488	Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India	18.09	23.08	90	30.9%
489	Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands	19.55	23	96	20.7%
490	National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia	21.97	22.84	269	6.7%
491	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA)	21.21	22.72	94	9.9%
492	China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China	15.78	22.5	86	46.2%
493	Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China	8.19	22.49	47	181.8%
494	Syracuse University, United States of America (USA)	23.09	22.46	99	-0.2%
495	John Innes Centre (JIC), United Kingdom (UK)	16.87	22.44	50	36.4%
496	U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA)	19.16	22.34	130	19.6%
497	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	30.67	22.29	69	-25.4%
498	Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (UK)	21.47	22.15	67	5.8%
499	University of Wrocław (UWr), Poland	19.72	22.03	59	14.6%
500	University of Zaragoza (Unizar), Spain	22.32	22.02	114	1.2%

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