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	Share 2015	Share 2016	Count 2016	Change in adjusted Share^* 2015–2016 (%)
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	1,617.39	1,589.88	3,856	0.8%
2	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	883.03	876.04	2,290	1.8%
3	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	794.03	770.09	4,293	-0.5%
4	Max Planck Society, Germany	745.30	766.40	2,432	5.5%
5	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	636.27	603.86	1,481	-2.7%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	567.76	580.33	1,749	4.8%
7	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	541.52	528.91	2,067	0.2%
8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	438.28	466.85	1,248	9.3%
9	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	432.89	438.52	1,277	3.9%
10	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	527.00	427.14	1,096	-16.9%
11	Peking University (PKU), China	369.67	386.50	1,256	7.2%
12	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	426.81	384.78	1,179	-7.5%
13	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	377.17	355.01	910	-3.5%
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)	391.01	342.16	850	-10.2%
16	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	363.83	333.41	937	-6.0%
17	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	345.08	328.07	888	-2.5%
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	278.84	315.87	1,019	16.2%
21	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	325.91	313.30	908	-1.4%
22	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	287.13	307.03	865	9.7%
23	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	328.52	291.99	788	-8.8%
24	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	269.04	288.86	652	10.1%
25	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	302.78	284.07	670	-3.8%
26	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	261.56	275.75	732	8.1%
27	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	296.28	267.88	820	-7.3%
28	Kyoto University, Japan	311.72	264.41	674	-13.0%
29	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	312.66	260.77	653	-14.5%
30	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	281.28	259.89	683	-5.2%
31	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	269.21	257.65	750	-1.8%
32	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	266.33	251.23	634	-3.2%
33	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	263.38	244.10	777	-4.9%
34	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	254.33	234.67	510	-5.4%
35	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	228.57	234.26	570	5.1%
36	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	243.06	233.72	634	-1.4%
37	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	253.18	228.83	590	-7.3%
38	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	222.83	220.35	481	1.4%
39	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	222.99	216.15	792	-0.6%
40	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	235.76	211.55	1,082	-8.0%
41	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	213.84	210.00	619	0.7%
42	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	212.58	209.52	576	1.1%
43	Leibniz Association, Germany	222.03	208.50	717	-3.7%
44	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	211.59	208.41	659	1.0%
45	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	207.29	203.43	521	0.7%
46	UCL, United Kingdom (UK)	224.31	203.08	767	-7.1%
47	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	208.12	201.42	559	-0.7%
48	Osaka University, Japan	206.39	196.71	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)	216.45	188.13	528	-10.8%
51	Fudan University, China	209.78	184.54	454	-9.8%
52	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	180.45	182.62	450	3.8%
53	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	181.05	181.49	602	2.8%
54	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	171.74	181.09	379	8.2%
55	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	187.12	180.12	828	-1.3%
56	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	190.87	176.21	661	-5.3%
57	Tohoku University, Japan	194.63	175.48	438	-7.5%
58	McGill University, Canada	190.41	174.11	547	-6.2%
59	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	161.38	172.05	769	9.4%
60	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	196.92	169.17	627	-11.9%
61	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	176.99	167.13	483	-3.1%
62	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	166.96	165.97	424	2.0%
63	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	129.81	164.50	461	30.0%
64	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	110.38	159.07	880	47.8%
65	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	156.06	157.77	321	3.7%
66	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	135.19	156.71	454	18.9%
67	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	167.65	156.60	553	-4.2%
68	RIKEN, Japan	151.88	155.91	543	5.3%
69	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	139.12	153.80	325	13.4%
70	Nankai University (NKU), China	157.34	152.94	419	-0.3%
71	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	133.90	151.21	589	15.8%
72	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	125.69	151.14	691	23.3%
73	Soochow University, China	140.28	150.07	277	9.7%
74	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	167.21	145.87	427	-10.5%
75	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	157.55	145.71	521	-5.1%
76	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	152.11	145.62	398	-1.8%
77	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	125.38	145.31	506	18.9%
78	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	177.02	145.03	467	-16.0%
79	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	135.05	144.89	442	10.0%
80	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	118.90	144.15	548	24.4%
81	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	140.83	138.03	361	0.5%
82	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	144.36	136.19	554	-3.2%
83	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	161.19	135.74	391	-13.6%
84	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	144.91	134.66	308	-4.7%
85	Nagoya University, Japan	148.32	132.62	350	-8.3%
86	Monash University, Australia	118.12	132.44	430	15.0%
87	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	154.94	130.36	417	-13.7%
88	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	107.26	128.21	449	22.6%
89	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	127.13	128.10	274	3.3%
90	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	128.62	126.49	515	0.9%
91	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	139.34	126.30	530	-7.0%
92	Xiamen University (XMU), China	119.69	124.40	228	6.6%
93	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	106.91	122.85	614	17.9%
94	University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia	113.92	122.29	311	10.1%
95	Wuhan University (WHU), China	114.67	122.07	235	9.2%
96	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	123.77	121.72	577	0.9%
97	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	123.99	121.21	274	0.3%
98	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	124.74	120.30	617	-1.1%
99	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	98.66	119.22	403	23.9%
100	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	131.35	119.03	418	-7.1%
101	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	146.87	118.91	359	-17.0%
102	Hokkaido University, Japan	119.43	118.32	261	1.6%
103	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	125.08	117.48	307	-3.7%
104	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	116.30	116.98	377	3.2%
105	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	129.67	116.00	366	-8.2%
106	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	106.97	115.13	343	10.4%
107	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	105.09	114.69	389	11.9%
108	The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France	115.87	114.46	937	1.3%
109	Kyushu University, Japan	92.77	113.98	334	26.0%
110	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	146.68	113.67	453	-20.5%
111	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	116.95	112.03	183	-1.7%
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)	113.38	111.01	500	0.4%
114	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	120.61	109.49	256	-6.9%
115	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	92.29	107.96	246	20.0%
116	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	105.70	106.64	264	3.5%
117	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	112.86	106.42	331	-3.3%
118	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	115.85	105.57	344	-6.5%
119	Sorbonne University, France	117.38	105.52	1,057	-7.8%
120	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	103.86	104.36	354	3.1%
121	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	91.58	102.61	287	14.9%
122	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	105.14	102.56	308	0.1%
123	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	106.73	102.36	295	-1.6%
124	Sichuan University (SCU), China	98.82	101.98	216	5.8%
125	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	96.31	101.21	180	7.8%
126	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	100.65	101.19	297	3.1%
127	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	92.71	101.10	284	11.8%
128	University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany	120.45	100.59	318	-14.3%
129	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	110.79	100.18	223	-7.3%
130	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	103.45	100.16	485	-0.7%
131	University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	106.42	99.09	279	-4.5%
132	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA)	93.07	98.32	319	8.4%
133	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	88.63	98.16	258	13.6%
134	University of Göttingen, Germany	106.02	97.99	330	-5.2%
135	Lund University (LU), Sweden	99.51	95.93	377	-1.1%
136	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	108.58	95.65	282	-9.6%
137	Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands	71.66	95.43	496	36.6%
138	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	103.87	95.40	261	-5.8%
139	Aarhus University (AU), Denmark	87.15	95.10	243	11.9%
140	Uppsala University (UU), Sweden	94.29	94.95	421	3.3%
141	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	103.16	94.62	377	-5.9%
142	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	78.94	94.15	340	22.3%
143	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	100.81	93.83	310	-4.5%
144	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	104.51	93.45	312	-8.3%
145	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	103.94	92.91	359	-8.3%
146	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	74.98	92.63	262	26.7%
147	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	86.82	91.91	230	8.6%
148	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	115.83	91.82	285	-18.7%
149	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	89.62	91.71	372	5.0%
150	Yonsei University, South Korea	102.75	91.10	226	-9.1%
151	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	99.23	90.82	894	-6.1%
152	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	93.16	90.76	325	-0.1%
153	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	90.47	90.56	263	2.7%
154	Jilin University (JLU), China	103.60	89.93	211	-11.0%
155	Shandong University (SDU), China	76.19	89.69	292	20.7%
156	University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany	95.60	88.73	325	-4.8%
157	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	78.74	88.33	241	15.1%
158	Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany	103.10	86.95	460	-13.5%
159	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	98.69	86.90	181	-9.7%
160	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	91.76	86.77	125	-3.0%
161	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	77.59	85.99	280	13.7%
162	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	69.39	84.83	345	25.4%
163	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	86.41	84.81	370	0.7%
164	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	93.24	84.00	221	-7.6%
165	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	83.47	83.12	223	2.1%
166	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	98.79	82.74	239	-14.1%
167	Hunan University (HNU), China	99.35	82.74	140	-14.6%
168	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	89.38	81.86	332	-6.1%
169	Leiden University, Netherlands	86.38	81.25	310	-3.5%
170	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	108.04	81.14	335	-23.0%
171	The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK)	78.83	81.09	317	5.5%
172	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	89.83	80.64	253	-7.9%
173	University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA)	88.75	80.19	288	-7.3%
174	The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia	80.04	79.34	324	1.7%
175	The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA)	73.88	79.33	197	10.1%
176	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	61.96	78.45	148	29.9%
177	University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA)	76.67	77.92	258	4.3%
178	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	59.93	77.86	150	33.3%
179	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	77.55	77.80	203	2.9%
180	Stockholm University, Sweden	94.87	77.43	410	-16.3%
181	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	95.76	77.31	237	-17.2%
182	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	62.33	77.27	499	27.1%
183	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	77.54	76.88	344	1.7%
184	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	85.84	76.76	164	-8.3%
185	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	84.85	76.67	249	-7.3%
186	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	69.93	76.44	373	12.1%
187	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	94.79	76.15	342	-17.6%
188	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	72.58	76.03	248	7.4%
189	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA)	79.56	75.95	348	-2.1%
190	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	92.07	75.80	268	-15.6%
191	Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore	88.48	75.69	288	-12.3%
192	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	74.09	75.58	159	4.6%
193	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	83.24	75.04	248	-7.5%
194	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany	92.25	74.76	297	-16.9%
195	Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic	70.46	74.51	344	8.5%
196	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	83.95	73.98	348	-9.6%
197	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	73.20	73.86	323	3.5%
198	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	80.26	73.84	198	-5.6%
199	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	90.44	73.34	260	-16.8%
200	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	58.51	73.28	197	28.5%
201	The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China	67.43	72.87	313	10.9%
202	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	61.33	72.64	245	21.5%
203	University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA)	67.70	72.03	273	9.1%
204	University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France	76.75	71.87	724	-3.9%
205	University of Barcelona (UB), Spain	68.90	71.72	304	6.8%
206	University of Waterloo, Canada	86.21	71.51	155	-14.9%
207	University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany	81.88	71.47	266	-10.5%
208	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK)	72.05	71.45	388	1.7%
209	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany	87.61	71.35	460	-16.5%
210	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	63.71	70.99	213	14.3%
211	Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea	61.95	70.81	278	17.3%
212	Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA)	67.02	70.73	327	8.2%
213	Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA)	62.64	69.72	300	14.2%
214	University of Cologne (UoC), Germany	58.79	69.62	230	21.5%
215	Tianjin University (TJU), China	91.60	69.54	343	-22.1%
216	University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK)	55.10	69.22	347	28.8%
217	Ghent University (UGent), Belgium	70.94	68.87	254	-0.4%
218	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA)	70.76	68.84	221	-0.2%
219	Keio University, Japan	56.86	68.69	158	23.9%
220	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK)	79.11	68.35	288	-11.4%
221	Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany	72.16	68.12	219	-3.2%
222	University of Paris, France	88.35	67.55	699	-21.6%
223	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	82.95	67.48	186	-16.6%
224	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	52.46	67.20	142	31.4%
225	University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland	71.83	66.98	326	-4.3%
226	The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK)	69.11	66.84	184	-0.8%
227	Southeast University (SEU), China	40.35	66.07	125	68.0%
228	University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA)	77.37	65.54	218	-13.1%
229	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	68.42	65.06	297	-2.5%
230	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA)	55.95	65.01	197	19.2%
231	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China	61.64	64.95	268	8.1%
232	University of Strasbourg, France	63.26	64.72	433	4.9%
233	University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada	60.11	64.44	168	10.0%
234	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	68.52	63.53	350	-4.9%
235	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany	65.76	63.33	143	-1.2%
236	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	62.38	63.00	142	3.6%
237	Korea University, South Korea	63.51	62.39	225	0.8%
238	University of Tsukuba, Japan	57.71	61.92	249	10.1%
239	University of Vienna, Austria	53.53	61.46	221	17.8%
240	University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA)	51.88	61.25	212	21.1%
241	Iowa State University, United States of America (USA)	74.14	60.92	240	-15.7%
242	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	62.16	60.79	224	0.3%
243	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	45.06	60.56	310	37.8%
244	Tongji University, China	59.72	59.76	198	2.6%
245	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	57.97	58.93	173	4.3%
246	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	66.06	58.75	180	-8.8%
247	National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan	78.87	58.61	179	-23.8%
248	Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France	52.79	57.95	578	12.6%
249	Oregon State University, United States of America (USA)	58.76	57.50	161	0.4%
250	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	66.24	57.31	302	-11.3%
251	People's Liberation Army (PLA), China	43.99	56.79	199	32.4%
252	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	44.96	56.70	133	29.4%
253	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	53.15	56.56	241	9.1%
254	VU Amsterdam, Netherlands	46.75	56.24	353	23.4%
255	Temple University, United States of America (USA)	40.24	56.09	136	43.0%
256	University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain	45.38	56.09	233	26.8%
257	University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA)	59.38	55.66	188	-3.9%
258	University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA)	50.16	55.54	170	13.6%
259	Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany	59.79	55.38	185	-5.0%
260	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	57.98	55.07	215	-2.6%
261	University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany	46.23	54.99	114	22.0%
262	University of Calgary (U of C), Canada	62.18	54.45	232	-10.2%
263	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK)	60.63	54.34	211	-8.1%
264	Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA)	46.90	54.01	162	18.1%
265	Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China	30.21	53.84	109	82.8%
266	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	63.25	53.80	354	-12.8%
267	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	46.25	53.25	164	18.1%
268	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	63.61	53.07	164	-14.4%
269	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	59.71	52.37	203	-10.0%
270	Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea	45.16	52.14	151	18.4%
271	University of Helsinki, Finland	58.32	51.70	307	-9.1%
272	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India	44.04	50.94	89	18.6%
273	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	57.55	50.77	392	-9.5%
274	University of Toulouse, France	58.88	50.72	416	-11.7%
275	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	47.60	50.62	141	9.1%
276	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	46.46	50.47	187	11.4%
277	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.73	50.40	164	-3.8%
278	University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil	48.37	50.22	270	6.5%
279	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland	45.23	50.04	242	13.5%
280	Beihang University (BUAA), China	44.88	50.01	168	14.3%
281	University of Valencia (UV), Spain	46.29	49.71	263	10.1%
282	University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK)	51.12	49.62	305	-0.5%
283	University of Konstanz, Germany	43.99	49.45	94	15.3%
284	McMaster University, Canada	52.51	49.30	116	-3.7%
285	Tufts University, United States of America (USA)	43.95	49.23	267	14.9%
286	Wayne State University, United States of America (USA)	46.33	49.21	190	9.0%
287	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	32.19	49.01	150	56.2%
288	Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland	58.40	49.00	321	-13.9%
289	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	50.47	48.87	174	-0.7%
290	University of Lyon, France	53.11	48.68	438	-6.0%
291	Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK)	37.54	48.44	192	32.4%
292	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude), United States of America (USA)	42.30	48.43	113	17.4%
293	Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China	42.83	48.08	95	15.1%
294	The University of Dublin, Ireland	43.95	47.66	141	11.2%
295	Leipzig University, Germany	44.68	47.34	166	8.7%
296	University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA)	57.04	47.22	129	-15.1%
297	University of Stuttgart, Germany	59.94	47.00	127	-19.6%
298	Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France	47.39	46.98	456	1.7%
299	Brandeis University, United States of America (USA)	40.99	46.80	141	17.1%
300	University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA)	63.81	46.24	141	-25.7%
301	Aalto University, Finland	55.77	45.73	218	-15.9%
302	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	47.65	45.66	234	-1.7%
303	Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China	71.96	45.60	98	-35.0%
304	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium	38.74	45.53	196	20.6%
305	Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany	53.08	45.41	119	-12.2%
306	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA)	41.86	45.18	191	10.7%
307	HHMI Janelia Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	51.71	44.98	92	-10.8%
308	The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA)	45.85	44.85	194	0.3%
309	The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	54.75	44.79	122	-16.1%
310	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India	48.02	44.60	167	-4.7%
311	Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK)	49.16	44.58	262	-7.0%
312	The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA)	51.30	44.42	175	-11.2%
313	Western University (UWO), Canada	34.14	44.20	109	32.8%
314	Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA)	40.82	44.17	244	11.0%
315	University of York, United Kingdom (UK)	49.81	44.13	148	-9.1%
316	F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland	45.66	43.91	99	-1.4%
317	Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA)	55.29	43.78	145	-18.8%
318	City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China	41.55	43.65	141	7.7%
319	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	52.77	43.64	159	-15.2%
320	University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA)	37.14	43.54	113	20.2%
321	Central China Normal University (CCNU), China	30.71	43.50	121	45.3%
322	Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany	44.50	43.21	173	-0.4%
323	University of Montpellier, France	47.14	43.08	374	-6.3%
324	Southwest University (SWU), China	47.91	43.01	65	-7.9%
325	IBM Corporation, United States of America (USA)	62.14	42.90	105	-29.2%
326	Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia	38.01	42.63	331	15.0%
327	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel	52.52	42.48	92	-17.0%
328	Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China	26.85	42.45	102	62.2%
329	National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France	38.75	42.26	384	11.9%
330	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	42.45	42.20	174	2.0%
331	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	39.06	41.79	262	9.7%
332	Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS), Italy	52.58	41.41	208	-19.2%
333	Novartis International AG, Switzerland	48.57	41.29	122	-12.8%
334	The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA)	47.08	41.00	216	-10.7%
335	The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA)	31.60	40.44	132	31.3%
336	The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA)	41.02	40.21	246	0.5%
337	Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany	27.95	40.16	113	47.4%
338	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	60.84	40.15	109	-32.3%
339	University of Kiel (CAU), Germany	41.06	39.91	171	-0.3%
340	University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA)	41.08	39.80	125	-0.6%
341	The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA)	43.30	39.75	203	-5.8%
342	Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA)	47.19	39.71	125	-13.7%
343	Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK)	40.33	39.64	179	0.8%
344	University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal	32.02	39.59	220	26.8%
345	Pasteur Institute, France	34.82	39.22	211	15.5%
346	Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain	38.86	39.11	176	3.2%
347	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary	42.25	38.93	253	-5.5%
348	The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA)	37.93	38.88	67	5.1%
349	National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan	38.53	38.57	91	2.7%
350	University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA)	39.23	38.45	120	0.5%
351	University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy	44.71	38.42	269	-11.8%
352	National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy	39.77	37.99	165	-2.0%
353	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), India	29.04	37.81	110	33.6%
354	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	42.30	37.75	104	-8.5%
355	Ulm University, Germany	38.43	37.68	143	0.6%
356	Chiba University, Japan	19.07	37.65	105	102.5%
357	University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria	28.61	37.62	195	34.9%
358	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	49.45	37.41	333	-22.4%
359	Curtin University, Australia	29.16	37.35	138	31.4%
360	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	22.79	37.19	80	67.4%
361	University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA)	44.29	36.91	122	-14.5%
362	Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA)	32.44	36.87	79	16.6%
363	Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA)	41.94	36.83	164	-9.9%
364	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	41.87	36.69	145	-10.1%
365	Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium	30.65	36.33	150	21.6%
366	Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium	25.81	36.02	153	43.2%
367	University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK)	44.99	35.94	100	-18.1%
368	Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy	48.01	35.75	133	-23.6%
369	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA)	30.41	35.72	139	20.5%
370	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China	28.77	35.42	95	26.3%
371	University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany	35.93	35.15	121	0.4%
372	NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands	39.31	35.02	315	-8.6%
373	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA)	27.09	34.99	83	32.5%
374	University of Potsdam, Germany	30.85	34.96	126	16.3%
375	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	26.33	34.39	43	34.0%
376	University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China	29.89	34.36	79	17.9%
377	Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA)	48.39	34.26	154	-27.4%
378	University of Missouri (Mizzou), United States of America (USA)	29.82	34.23	86	17.7%
379	The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia	38.20	34.21	214	-8.1%
380	University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden	34.34	34.17	128	2.1%
381	Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	32.24	34.17	105	8.7%
382	The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia	48.68	34.09	221	-28.2%
383	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.84	33.70	103	-27.7%
384	University of Warsaw (UW), Poland	37.18	33.61	172	-7.3%
385	University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain	31.23	33.43	144	9.8%
386	Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada	28.08	33.41	172	22.1%
387	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.36	33.11	76	1.8%
388	Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands	35.87	32.89	142	-6.0%
389	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany	37.77	32.84	136	-10.8%
390	Ewha Womans University (Ewha), South Korea	33.91	32.82	98	-0.7%
391	Shanghai University (SHU), China	35.24	32.68	92	-4.9%
392	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	29.37	32.68	512	14.1%
393	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea	41.51	32.52	124	-19.6%
394	Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria	26.95	32.37	240	23.2%
395	University of Bordeaux, France	38.39	32.37	232	-13.5%
396	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	31.98	32.29	101	3.6%
397	University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy	29.04	32.21	286	13.8%
398	Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel	32.63	32.11	84	0.9%
399	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA)	34.49	31.79	163	-5.4%
400	University of Otago, New Zealand	33.75	31.78	118	-3.4%
401	University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada	36.69	31.42	78	-12.2%
402	University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK)	22.00	31.38	95	46.3%
403	AstraZeneca plc, United Kingdom (UK)	24.04	31.19	112	33.1%
404	University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands	29.67	31.17	65	7.8%
405	Hiroshima University (HU), Japan	39.97	31.10	125	-20.2%
406	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA)	34.30	30.90	325	-7.6%
407	Chongqing University (CQU), China	35.22	30.66	88	-10.7%
408	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China	16.45	30.64	95	91.1%
409	University of Sussex, United Kingdom (UK)	33.19	30.58	171	-5.5%
410	Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom (UK)	32.72	30.56	426	-4.2%
411	Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA)	25.57	30.51	56	22.4%
412	National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France	37.42	30.49	289	-16.4%
413	Kobe University, Japan	27.67	30.21	149	12.0%
414	Linköping University (LiU), Sweden	38.25	30.10	106	-19.3%
415	University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia	25.14	29.91	101	22.0%
416	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China	27.28	29.76	106	11.9%
417	Merck & Co., Inc., United States of America (USA)	26.32	29.74	71	15.9%
418	Queen's University, Canada	40.13	29.58	163	-24.4%
419	Clemson University, United States of America (USA)	24.63	29.46	59	22.7%
420	TU Dortmund University, Germany	22.92	29.45	174	31.8%
421	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India	28.97	29.44	47	4.2%
422	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA)	39.19	29.06	76	-23.9%
423	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India	43.80	29.00	56	-32.1%
424	Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria	15.58	28.96	92	90.6%
425	Kanazawa University (KU), Japan	19.12	28.96	78	55.3%
426	Charles University (CU), Czech Republic	29.52	28.81	254	0.1%
427	Fuzhou University (FZU), China	34.04	28.62	49	-13.7%
428	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan	44.41	28.60	161	-33.9%
429	Drexel University, United States of America (USA)	29.19	28.60	95	0.5%
430	University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium	29.29	28.48	145	-0.3%
431	State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), United States of America (USA)	17.67	28.24	145	63.9%
432	Pfizer Inc., United States of America (USA)	20.58	28.05	61	39.8%
433	Northwest University (NWU), China	19.92	28.02	53	44.3%
434	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India	29.73	28.02	47	-3.3%
435	Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India	24.49	27.96	109	17.1%
436	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	21.56	27.45	84	30.6%
437	University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK)	32.09	27.44	107	-12.3%
438	University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain	25.01	27.40	126	12.4%
439	Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany	36.20	27.32	84	-22.6%
440	University of Liège (ULg), Belgium	19.10	27.20	88	46.1%
441	University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy	36.15	27.12	177	-23.0%
442	University of Turin (UNITO), Italy	37.50	27.08	213	-25.9%
443	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea	29.30	26.78	64	-6.2%
444	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	29.51	26.78	65	-6.9%
445	Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany	26.61	26.71	73	3.0%
446	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany	33.48	26.67	109	-18.3%
447	China Agricultural University (CAU), China	20.67	26.53	65	31.7%
448	Waseda University, Japan	31.25	26.51	139	-13.0%
449	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India	19.70	26.22	52	36.5%
450	Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	30.49	25.89	165	-12.9%
451	Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA)	23.98	25.86	71	10.6%
452	University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada	33.29	25.82	114	-20.4%
453	Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland	31.30	25.76	147	-15.6%
454	Okayama University, Japan	35.13	25.76	147	-24.8%
455	Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK)	37.15	25.70	84	-29.0%
456	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), United States of America (USA)	29.21	25.67	133	-9.8%
457	Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea	18.87	25.62	93	39.2%
458	Central South University (CSU), China	28.15	25.56	79	-6.9%
459	Technical University Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig), Germany	26.43	25.55	68	-0.8%
460	Umeå University (UMU), Sweden	36.50	25.52	98	-28.3%
461	University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy	33.98	25.51	238	-23.0%
462	Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), China	20.13	25.51	58	30.0%
463	Northeast Normal University (NENU), China	36.22	25.50	44	-27.8%
464	University of Central Florida (UCF), United States of America (USA)	22.53	25.44	69	15.8%
465	Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain	18.73	25.09	291	37.4%
466	The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), United States of America (USA)	15.58	25.07	62	65.1%
467	University of Victoria (UVic), Canada	24.71	25.03	170	3.9%
468	Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), United States of America (USA)	13.75	25.00	69	86.5%
469	Cleveland Clinic, United States of America (USA)	32.15	24.91	80	-20.5%
470	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia	21.62	24.87	71	18.0%
471	University of Pisa (UNIPI), Italy	16.57	24.75	250	53.1%
472	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany	19.50	24.63	101	29.6%
473	University of Granada (UGR), Spain	17.45	24.52	145	44.1%
474	University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy	26.30	24.46	230	-4.6%
475	University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK)	29.84	24.40	99	-16.1%
476	Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea	27.77	24.23	63	-10.5%
477	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan	23.71	24.20	66	4.7%
478	University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), United States of America (USA)	23.49	24.14	63	5.4%
479	University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy	29.47	24.08	166	-16.2%
480	École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), France	25.23	24.01	294	-2.4%
481	Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China	26.62	23.99	58	-7.6%
482	Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands	23.90	23.98	166	2.9%
483	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway	29.59	23.95	86	-17.0%
484	Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain	32.70	23.93	205	-24.9%
485	University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK)	29.41	23.86	95	-16.8%
486	Dalhousie University, Canada	26.49	23.84	69	-7.7%
487	Laval University (UL), Canada	31.06	23.65	127	-21.9%
488	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy	25.16	23.58	105	-3.9%
489	European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France	21.24	23.57	133	13.8%
490	University of Arkansas (UARK), United States of America (USA)	22.65	23.44	68	6.1%
491	Texas Tech University (TTU), United States of America (USA)	15.09	23.42	127	59.2%
492	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal), India	26.44	23.39	46	-9.3%
493	Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), China	15.72	23.26	48	51.8%
494	Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands	19.55	23.00	96	20.7%
495	National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia	21.97	22.84	269	6.6%
496	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA)	21.17	22.79	95	10.5%
497	Georgetown University, United States of America (USA)	12.26	22.67	64	89.7%
498	Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China	8.19	22.49	47	181.8%
499	China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China	15.73	22.47	86	46.5%
500	Syracuse University, United States of America (USA)	23.09	22.46	99	-0.2%

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