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	1620.39	1590.28	3851	0.5%
2	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	890.41	883.4	2297	1.6%
3	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	787.04	766.89	4236	-0.2%
4	Max Planck Society, Germany	732.58	759.71	2402	6.2%
5	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	638.41	605.7	1469	-2.8%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	570.12	580.19	1745	4.2%
7	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	537.39	526.35	2043	0.3%
8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	445	478.55	1264	10.1%
9	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	429.18	435.18	1271	3.9%
10	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	522.78	428.2	1098	-16.1%
11	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	438.39	396.09	1190	-7.5%
12	Peking University (PKU), China	368.1	385.45	1231	7.3%
13	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	377.33	359.34	914	-2.5%
14	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	338.17	348.98	870	5.7%
15	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	392.63	342.32	851	-10.7%
16	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	364.36	335.09	933	-5.8%
17	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	346.09	327.6	881	-3.0%
18	Tsinghua University (TH), China	289.23	326.7	1021	15.7%
19	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	367.46	323.65	854	-9.8%
20	Nanjing University (NJU), China	288.71	318.83	755	13.1%
21	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	326.11	312.04	895	-2.0%
22	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	286.72	307.63	856	9.9%
23	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	331.01	295.54	787	-8.6%
24	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	269.57	289.62	641	10.0%
25	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	306.86	287.95	675	-3.9%
26	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	262.33	276.91	742	8.1%
27	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	295.96	268.11	813	-7.2%
28	Kyoto University, Japan	312.6	267.09	675	-12.5%
29	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	313.55	261.43	653	-14.6%
30	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	281.14	259.55	674	-5.4%
31	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	271.12	258.21	743	-2.5%
32	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	267.87	254.49	631	-2.7%
33	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	252.61	242.68	914	-1.6%
34	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	261.07	241.22	762	-5.4%
35	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	244.4	236.15	629	-1.0%
36	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	229.13	234.22	568	4.7%
37	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	255.16	233.66	505	-6.2%
38	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	255.11	229.49	583	-7.9%
39	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	222.67	221.54	482	1.9%
40	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	236.15	215.28	859	-6.6%
41	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	212.11	209.92	570	1.4%
42	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	211.93	209.36	652	1.2%
43	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	233.51	209.29	1067	-8.2%
44	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	215.12	209.03	615	-0.5%
45	Leibniz Association, Germany	219.87	205.7	714	-4.2%
46	University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	214.23	204.61	571	-2.2%
47	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	207.05	203.38	517	0.6%
48	Osaka University, Japan	205.83	196.13	524	-2.4%
49	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	184.88	193.57	425	7.2%
50	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	216.07	187.85	528	-11.0%
51	Fudan University, China	209.32	184.69	461	-9.6%
52	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	188.64	184.14	856	0.0%
53	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	180.39	182.54	449	3.7%
54	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	182.03	181.98	601	2.4%
55	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	171.74	180.87	378	7.9%
56	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	192.11	177.86	653	-5.2%
57	Tohoku University, Japan	194.52	175.29	436	-7.7%
58	McGill University, Canada	193.4	175.12	541	-7.3%
59	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	161.02	173.45	764	10.3%
60	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	198.97	170.62	625	-12.2%
61	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	176.13	169.68	323	-1.3%
62	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	166.88	166.47	425	2.2%
63	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	130.24	165.43	455	30.1%
64	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	173.77	164.95	472	-2.8%
65	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	136.16	158.4	446	19.2%
66	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	157.07	157.97	322	3.0%
67	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	168.4	157.1	552	-4.4%
68	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	105.65	157	871	52.2%
69	RIKEN, Japan	153.31	155.37	542	3.8%
70	Institute of Chemistry (ICCAS), CAS, China	174.83	153.58	491	-10.0%
71	Nankai University (NKU), China	157.3	152.65	419	-0.6%
72	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	136.72	152.45	586	14.2%
73	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	125.97	151.38	681	23.1%
74	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	167.71	150	426	-8.4%
75	Soochow University, China	139.53	148.24	277	8.8%
76	The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), United States of America (USA)	131.33	147.71	322	15.2%
77	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	152.78	147.36	393	-1.2%
78	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	126.21	147.07	507	19.4%
79	University of California Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	177.51	146.25	461	-15.6%
80	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	158.11	145.71	512	-5.6%
81	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	135.97	145.55	441	9.6%
82	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	118.58	144.39	549	24.7%
83	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	147.13	140.78	556	-2.0%
84	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	140.82	138.41	361	0.7%
85	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	162.51	137.57	383	-13.3%
86	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	144.47	136.88	312	-3.0%
87	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	138.29	136.12	389	0.8%
88	Monash University, Australia	117.3	133.25	435	16.3%
89	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	131.71	132.88	183	3.3%
90	Nagoya University, Japan	147.08	131.76	349	-8.2%
91	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	155.31	129.74	409	-14.4%
92	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	108.91	129.09	462	21.4%
93	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	127.07	127.43	273	2.7%
94	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	128.76	126.51	514	0.6%
95	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	139.08	125.61	523	-7.5%
96	Xiamen University (XMU), China	119.59	124.37	227	6.5%
97	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	136.06	122.82	423	-7.5%
98	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	114.58	122.5	315	9.5%
99	Wuhan University (WHU), China	114.69	122.1	235	9.0%
100	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	123.79	122.07	581	1.0%
101	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	124.01	121.25	274	0.1%
102	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	146.8	120.72	359	-15.8%
103	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	123.99	120.68	618	-0.3%
104	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	104.95	119.66	615	16.8%
105	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	98.65	119.21	402	23.8%
106	Hokkaido University, Japan	119.71	118.83	262	1.7%
107	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	108.79	118.56	347	11.6%
108	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	124.23	118.55	313	-2.3%
109	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	129.96	116	364	-8.6%
110	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	104.73	114.84	389	12.3%
111	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	115.57	114.33	369	1.3%
112	Kyushu University, Japan	91.2	113.12	335	27.1%
113	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	147.05	112.97	447	-21.3%
114	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	127.92	111.24	366	-10.9%
115	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	113.26	110.99	498	0.4%
116	University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	123.24	110.18	250	-8.4%
117	Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France	109.82	110.15	867	2.7%
118	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	91.63	108.46	247	21.2%
119	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	114.18	106.85	334	-4.2%
120	Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), CAS, China	132.65	106.37	235	-17.9%
121	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	106.19	105.47	262	1.7%
122	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	116.89	105.39	336	-7.7%
123	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	102.83	103.77	349	3.4%
124	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	92.45	103.67	287	14.9%
125	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	94.23	103.49	285	12.5%
126	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	106.34	102.62	306	-1.2%
127	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	106.73	102.28	296	-1.8%
128	Sichuan University (SCU), China	97.77	101.98	216	6.8%
129	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	96.32	101.96	181	8.4%
130	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	100.67	101.43	298	3.2%
131	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	105.4	101.32	485	-1.5%
132	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	111.4	101.28	225	-6.9%
133	University of Würzburg, Germany	120.38	100.26	316	-14.7%
134	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	110.99	99.41	1021	-8.3%
135	University of California Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	106.61	99.11	279	-4.8%
136	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	88.63	98.33	260	13.6%
137	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA)	93.07	98.32	319	8.2%
138	University of Göttingen, Germany	105.12	98	329	-4.5%
139	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	108.59	97.85	276	-7.7%
140	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	102.55	97.66	309	-2.5%
141	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), India	81.88	97.63	204	22.1%
142	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	104.27	97.54	259	-4.2%
143	Aarhus University (AU), Denmark	86.98	96.48	244	13.6%
144	Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands	71.5	95.76	494	37.2%
145	Lund University (LU), Sweden	100.31	95.74	375	-2.2%
146	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	79.79	95.11	341	22.1%
147	Uppsala University (UU), Sweden	93.57	95.08	420	4.1%
148	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	102.36	94.79	378	-5.2%
149	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	105.65	94.49	346	-8.4%
150	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	77.98	94	265	23.5%
151	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	104.38	93.49	318	-8.3%
152	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	115.63	92.07	286	-18.4%
153	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	90.75	91.92	356	3.7%
154	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	94.82	91.74	329	-0.9%
155	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	87.45	91.6	230	7.3%
156	Yonsei University, South Korea	102.71	91.21	227	-9.0%
157	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	91.72	91.19	263	1.8%
158	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	101.82	91.08	894	-8.4%
159	Jilin University (JLU), China	103.5	89.93	211	-11.0%
160	Shandong University (SDU), China	76.3	89.69	298	20.4%
161	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	79.74	89.37	242	14.8%
162	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	79.9	88.49	287	13.4%
163	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	94.76	87.91	127	-5.0%
164	University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany	91	86.78	321	-2.3%
165	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	98.69	86.58	186	-10.1%
166	NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI), United States of America (USA)	84.34	86.48	249	5.0%
167	Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany	102.03	86.14	437	-13.5%
168	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	95.1	85.66	216	-7.7%
169	Institute of Physics (IOP), CAS, China	101.46	84.89	324	-14.3%
170	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	69.4	84.73	339	25.0%
171	Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), CAS, China	101.4	83.99	170	-15.2%
172	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	86.48	83.52	377	-1.1%
173	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	85.91	83.41	369	-0.5%
174	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	83.6	83.12	223	1.8%
175	Hunan University (HNU), China	99.35	82.76	141	-14.7%
176	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), CAS, China	75.79	82.68	141	11.8%
177	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	97.77	82.61	238	-13.5%
178	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	79.69	82.33	207	5.8%
179	The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK)	79.9	82.14	318	5.3%
180	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	89.36	81.85	326	-6.2%
181	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	90.97	81.26	247	-8.5%
182	The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia	82.9	81.11	324	0.2%
183	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	108.94	80.96	327	-23.9%
184	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	102.39	80.72	403	-19.3%
185	The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA)	73.3	79.93	191	11.7%
186	University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA)	88.98	79.42	280	-8.6%
187	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	60.62	79.03	149	33.5%
188	Leiden University, Netherlands	83.48	78.87	297	-3.2%
189	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	95.48	78.09	238	-16.2%
190	University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA)	76.66	77.92	258	4.1%
191	Stockholm University, Sweden	94.33	77.87	410	-15.4%
192	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	59.94	77.85	148	33.0%
193	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	84.83	77.41	249	-6.5%
194	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	77.99	76.83	339	0.9%
195	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	85.8	76.8	164	-8.3%
196	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	61.82	76.78	495	27.2%
197	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	71.14	76.38	371	10.0%
198	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	84.2	75.87	248	-7.7%
199	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	93.06	75.77	267	-16.6%
200	Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), CAS, China	63.82	75.72	123	21.5%
201	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	74.09	75.64	161	4.6%
202	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA)	79.01	75.61	340	-2.0%
203	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany	92.13	75.43	296	-16.1%
204	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany	90.36	75.26	460	-14.7%
205	Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore	88.48	74.94	287	-13.2%
206	The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China	68.16	74.66	315	12.2%
207	Ghent University (UGent), Belgium	74.43	74.33	260	2.3%
208	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), Czech Republic	69.94	74.33	344	8.9%
209	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), United States of America (USA)	63.47	74.03	370	19.5%
210	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	83.99	73.87	348	-9.9%
211	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	73.2	73.85	323	3.3%
212	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	80.25	73.84	198	-5.7%
213	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	91.41	73.64	259	-17.5%
214	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	58.84	73.28	197	27.6%
215	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	69.54	72.88	217	7.3%
216	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	61.67	72.64	245	20.7%
217	University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA)	67.51	72.55	263	10.1%
218	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	75.65	72.46	657	-1.9%
219	University of Waterloo, Canada	86.71	72.35	157	-14.5%
220	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK)	73.18	71.74	389	0.4%
221	Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA)	63.56	71.66	293	15.5%
222	Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), CAS, China	63.49	71.5	211	15.3%
223	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	63.45	70.98	206	14.6%
224	Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea	61.95	70.76	277	17.0%
225	University of Barcelona (UB), Spain	67.16	70.76	284	7.9%
226	Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA)	67.4	70.68	317	7.4%
227	University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany	81.69	70.59	264	-11.5%
228	The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK)	70.11	70.4	187	2.9%
229	Tianjin University (TJU), China	92.27	70.4	344	-21.9%
230	University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK)	55.04	69.88	327	30.0%
231	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA)	71.93	68.98	222	-1.8%
232	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK)	80.69	68.95	288	-12.5%
233	Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU), Germany	72.38	68.68	229	-2.8%
234	Keio University, Japan	56.83	68.53	156	23.5%
235	University of Cologne (UoC), Germany	58.09	68.15	222	20.2%
236	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	82.77	67.48	186	-16.5%
237	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA)	56.22	67.31	199	22.6%
238	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	52.46	67.2	142	31.2%
239	University of Bern, Switzerland	71.37	66.66	321	-4.3%
240	Southeast University (SEU), China	39.35	66.07	125	72.0%
241	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China	61.65	65.61	269	9.0%
242	University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA)	78.52	65.48	217	-14.6%
243	University of Strasbourg, France	64.29	65.42	430	4.2%
244	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany	66.6	64.95	144	-0.1%
245	University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada	59.91	64.44	168	10.2%
246	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	64.15	63.01	142	0.6%
247	Korea University (KU), South Korea	63.73	62.67	225	0.7%
248	Jülich Research Centre (FZJ), Germany	64.1	62.56	258	0.0%
249	National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), CAS, China	55.88	62.5	199	14.6%
250	University of Tsukuba, Japan	57.71	61.92	249	9.9%
251	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	62.43	61.86	225	1.5%
252	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	68.5	61.18	311	-8.5%
253	University of Vienna, Austria	52.42	61.18	218	19.6%
254	Iowa State University, United States of America (USA)	74.44	60.91	231	-16.2%
255	University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA)	51.85	60.75	211	20.0%
256	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	45.03	60.44	309	37.5%
257	Tongji University, China	59.48	60.42	201	4.0%
258	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	66.56	59.67	179	-8.2%
259	University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	68	59.66	324	-10.1%
260	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	63.45	59.65	247	-3.7%
261	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	58.18	59.17	167	4.2%
262	National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan	79.15	58.86	180	-23.8%
263	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	44.96	56.7	133	29.2%
264	People's Liberation Army (PLA), China	41.19	56.51	204	40.5%
265	Temple University, United States of America (USA)	40.24	56.2	136	43.1%
266	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	52.49	56.16	230	9.6%
267	University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA)	59.38	56.16	182	-3.1%
268	Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France	52.59	56.13	554	9.3%
269	Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), Germany	48.78	55.99	117	17.6%
270	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands	46.63	55.89	348	22.8%
271	University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain	45.75	55.88	233	25.1%
272	University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA)	50.12	55.53	163	13.5%
273	University of Calgary (U of C), Canada	62.18	55.46	234	-8.6%
274	Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany	60.9	55.3	186	-7.0%
275	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK)	61.19	54.97	213	-8.0%
276	University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany	46.23	54.89	113	21.6%
277	Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA)	46.87	53.84	162	17.7%
278	Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China	30.21	53.84	109	82.5%
279	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	62.64	53.21	345	-13.0%
280	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	63.58	52.78	162	-15.0%
281	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France	66.94	52.6	542	-19.5%
282	Oregon State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	54.55	52.17	154	-2.1%
283	Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea	45.15	52.14	151	18.3%
284	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	59.6	52.05	200	-10.5%
285	University of Helsinki, Finland	57.94	51.32	304	-9.3%
286	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	59.15	51.25	392	-11.3%
287	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India	44.04	50.94	89	18.5%
288	University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil	48.97	50.88	271	6.4%
289	University of Colorado Denver \| Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	48.61	50.62	141	6.7%
290	University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK)	52.71	50.62	306	-1.6%
291	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	46.46	50.45	186	11.2%
292	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.72	50.4	166	-3.9%
293	University of Toulouse, France	57.47	50.23	408	-10.5%
294	Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland	57.81	50.17	318	-11.1%
295	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland	45.23	50.16	243	13.6%
296	Tufts University, United States of America (USA)	43.77	50.16	269	17.4%
297	Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK)	38.18	50.13	192	34.5%
298	Beihang University (BUAA), China	45.75	49.93	168	11.8%
299	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	32.7	49.9	155	56.3%
300	University of Konstanz, Germany	44.15	49.74	93	15.4%
301	University of Valencia (UV), Spain	46.26	49.71	262	10.1%
302	Wayne State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	46.32	49.37	191	9.2%
303	McMaster University, Canada	52.47	49.3	116	-3.8%
304	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	50.53	49.02	174	-0.6%
305	The University of Dublin, Ireland	44.37	48.48	139	11.9%
306	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude), United States of America (USA)	42.3	48.43	113	17.3%
307	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA)	43.5	48.33	227	13.8%
308	University of Lyon, France	51.76	48.26	439	-4.5%
309	Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China	42.38	48.08	95	16.2%
310	Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France	46.87	47.63	449	4.1%
311	University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA)	63.81	47.56	134	-23.7%
312	Leipzig University, Germany	44.68	47.31	165	8.5%
313	University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA)	58.03	47.21	122	-16.7%
314	University of Stuttgart, Germany	59.91	46.91	126	-19.8%
315	Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), CAS, China	44.18	46.83	106	8.6%
316	Brandeis University, United States of America (USA)	41.98	46.8	141	14.2%
317	Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK)	49.16	46.77	264	-2.5%
318	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	53.02	46.56	162	-10.1%
319	Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China	71.96	45.94	99	-34.6%
320	Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), CAS, China	42.58	45.91	142	10.4%
321	German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), Germany	54.54	45.89	344	-13.8%
322	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	47.64	45.74	235	-1.7%
323	Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany	53.05	45.65	121	-11.9%
324	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium	38.68	45.53	196	20.6%
325	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	27.48	45.51	97	69.6%
326	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	44.68	45.5	195	4.3%
327	University of York, United Kingdom (UK)	49.85	45.39	149	-6.7%
328	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom (UK)	50.39	45	95	-8.5%
329	University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal	34.69	44.98	222	32.8%
330	HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	51.66	44.98	91	-10.8%
331	Aalto University, Finland	55.49	44.92	217	-17.1%
332	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India	48.51	44.85	168	-5.3%
333	The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA)	45.84	44.84	187	0.2%
334	The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA)	51.22	44.42	175	-11.2%
335	Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany	45.13	44.36	172	0.7%
336	Western University (UWO), Canada	34.14	44.16	108	32.5%
337	NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), United States of America (USA)	34.46	44.12	171	31.1%
338	F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland	45.66	44	101	-1.3%
339	City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China	42.61	43.97	142	5.7%
340	Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA)	40.25	43.95	234	11.8%
341	Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA)	56.29	43.78	145	-20.3%
342	University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA)	37.14	43.54	113	20.1%
343	Central China Normal University (CCNU), China	30.71	43.5	121	45.1%
344	Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF), Germany	44.88	43.38	133	-1.0%
345	Southwest University (SWU), China	48.16	43.01	65	-8.5%
346	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel	53.85	42.98	93	-18.3%
347	IBM Corporation, United States of America (USA)	62.14	42.89	105	-29.3%
348	Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Italy	54.84	42.79	214	-20.1%
349	Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia	37.91	42.63	331	15.2%
350	Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HIPS), CAS, China	44.66	42.51	199	-2.5%
351	Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (MPIBC), Germany	37.7	42.43	121	15.3%
352	Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China	26.75	42.38	102	62.3%
353	University of Montpellier, France	45.97	41.86	303	-6.7%
354	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	38.72	41.33	258	9.3%
355	Novartis International AG, Switzerland	48.8	41.29	122	-13.3%
356	The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA)	46.07	41	216	-8.9%
357	University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA)	31.6	40.44	125	31.1%
358	Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt), Germany	29.45	40.16	113	39.6%
359	RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Japan	42.14	40.15	135	-2.4%
360	University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA)	41.08	39.87	126	-0.6%
361	Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA)	47.16	39.8	119	-13.6%
362	The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA)	41.13	39.75	245	-1.0%
363	The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA)	43.29	39.74	196	-6.0%
364	University of Kiel (CAU), Germany	40.39	39.71	170	0.7%
365	Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain	38.93	39.69	172	4.4%
366	Pasteur Institute, France	34.8	39.58	213	16.5%
367	National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan	38.53	39.53	91	5.1%
368	National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), CSIR, India	31.65	39.48	64	27.8%
369	University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA)	40.23	39.36	120	0.2%
370	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	49.76	39.16	336	-19.4%
371	Division III: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, PAS, Poland	46.98	39.02	276	-14.9%
372	The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA)	38.34	38.88	67	3.8%
373	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary	40.51	38.83	251	-1.8%
374	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	59.19	38.82	102	-32.8%
375	Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK)	39.54	38.52	159	-0.2%
376	Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA)	42.83	37.85	166	-9.5%
377	University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK)	46.76	37.83	102	-17.1%
378	Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), BIST, Spain	31.12	37.74	62	24.2%
379	Chiba University, Japan	19.07	37.65	105	102.2%
380	University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria	28.44	37.64	196	35.6%
381	University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy	44.61	37.56	263	-13.8%
382	Max Planck Institute for Coal Research (MPIKOFO), Germany	28.65	37.47	64	34.0%
383	Curtin University, Australia	29.12	37.35	131	31.4%
384	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	42.29	37.31	96	-9.6%
385	Ulm University, Germany	37.99	37.11	142	0.1%
386	Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium	31.15	37.07	151	21.9%
387	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), India	25.3	36.95	105	49.6%
388	Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA)	32.44	36.87	79	16.4%
389	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	41.75	36.54	145	-10.4%
390	Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy	47.15	36.22	131	-21.3%
391	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China	28.8	36.08	96	28.3%
392	The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia	38.99	35.89	218	-5.7%
393	University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA)	44.29	35.75	117	-17.3%
394	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA)	30.41	35.72	139	20.3%
395	University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany	35.93	35.7	123	1.8%
396	University of Potsdam, Germany	30.64	35.23	126	17.8%
397	University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou), United States of America (USA)	29.81	35.22	80	21.0%
398	French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France	33	35.17	335	9.2%
399	Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	31.57	35.16	99	14.1%
400	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA)	27.09	34.98	84	32.3%
401	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	30.92	34.96	136	15.8%
402	University of Bordeaux, France	39.94	34.77	229	-10.8%
403	University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China	29.89	34.36	79	17.8%
404	Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA)	51.39	34.33	147	-31.6%
405	Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), CAS, China	28.72	34.3	74	22.3%
406	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.84	34.2	104	-26.8%
407	University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden	34.34	34.16	127	1.9%
408	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	26.33	33.97	43	32.1%
409	University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain	31.23	33.94	144	11.3%
410	The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia	48.62	33.92	216	-28.6%
411	Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), CAS, China	39.44	33.91	249	-11.9%
412	University of Warsaw (UW), Poland	37.17	33.61	172	-7.4%
413	National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy	31.9	33.46	141	7.4%
414	Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada	28.42	33.45	175	20.5%
415	University of Otago, New Zealand	33.74	33.23	118	0.9%
416	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.36	33.11	76	1.6%
417	German Cancer Research Center in the Helmholtz Association (DKFZ), Germany	34.05	32.96	197	-0.8%
418	Ewha Womans University (Ewha), South Korea	33.91	32.82	98	-0.9%
419	NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), United States of America (USA)	35.36	32.74	86	-5.2%
420	Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre), Netherlands	35.7	32.7	139	-6.2%
421	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany	37.73	32.66	125	-11.3%
422	NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), United States of America (USA)	51.8	32.47	116	-35.8%
423	Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria	27.11	32.35	240	22.2%
424	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	31.98	32.29	101	3.4%
425	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	28.7	32.23	495	15.0%
426	University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy	29.14	32.16	282	13.0%
427	Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel	32.63	32.11	84	0.8%
428	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA)	34.48	31.92	164	-5.2%
429	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea	41.48	31.83	123	-21.4%
430	Shanghai University (SHU), China	34.57	31.77	92	-5.9%
431	University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK)	22.72	31.55	96	42.3%
432	University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada	37.45	31.41	71	-14.1%
433	Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany	30.61	31.21	88	4.4%
434	University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands	29.67	31.17	65	7.6%
435	AstraZeneca plc, United Kingdom (UK)	23.98	31.14	111	33.0%
436	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA)	34.33	30.86	325	-7.9%
437	University of Sussex (US), United Kingdom (UK)	34.76	30.74	170	-9.4%
438	National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France	37.67	30.72	291	-16.5%
439	Chongqing University (CQU), China	35.97	30.52	87	-13.1%
440	Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA)	25.57	30.51	56	22.2%
441	Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom (UK)	32.59	30.42	425	-4.4%
442	Hiroshima University (HU), Japan	39.97	30.3	124	-22.3%
443	Linköping University (LiU), Sweden	38.01	30.26	106	-18.5%
444	Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), Germany	32.3	30.25	99	-4.1%
445	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China	16.27	30.24	87	90.4%
446	Kobe University, Japan	27.67	30.21	149	11.9%
447	Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China	25.64	30.02	74	19.9%
448	Clemson University, United States of America (USA)	24.63	29.8	60	23.9%
449	Dortmund University of Technology (TU Dortmund), Germany	24.25	29.78	175	25.8%
450	EMBL - Heidelberg, Germany, Germany	31.43	29.74	89	-3.1%
451	Merck & Co., Inc., United States of America (USA)	26.03	29.74	71	17.0%
452	The University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia	25.14	29.71	100	21.0%
453	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China	26.66	29.64	106	13.9%
454	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India	28.97	29.44	47	4.1%
455	Queen's University, Canada	40.13	29.42	163	-24.9%
456	Nanoscale Materials Division (MANA), NIMS, Japan	44.8	29.38	80	-32.8%
457	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India	31.73	29.27	49	-5.5%
458	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA)	39.19	29.06	76	-24.0%
459	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India	43.8	29	56	-32.2%
460	Kanazawa University (KU), Japan	19.12	28.96	78	55.1%
461	Charles University (CU), Czech Republic	29.45	28.92	254	0.6%
462	Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria	15.58	28.81	91	89.3%
463	Fuzhou University (FZU), China	33.32	28.66	48	-11.9%
464	Drexel University, United States of America (USA)	29.18	28.59	88	0.3%
465	State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), United States of America (USA)	17.66	28.54	140	65.5%
466	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan	44.31	28.44	154	-34.2%
467	Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology (CNITECH), CAS, China	22.91	28.42	51	27.0%
468	University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK)	33.09	28.4	110	-12.1%
469	Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU), Germany	26.44	28.32	184	9.7%
470	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), United States of America (USA)	31.67	28.18	170	-8.9%
471	University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium	29.42	28.13	146	-2.1%
472	Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany	24.96	27.93	101	14.6%
473	Pfizer Inc., United States of America (USA)	20.39	27.78	61	39.5%
474	Institute of Biophysics (IBP), CAS, China	31.19	27.7	115	-9.1%
475	University of Liège (ULg), Belgium	20.61	27.53	86	36.8%
476	University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy	36.43	27.46	176	-22.8%
477	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	21.56	27.45	84	30.4%
478	Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW Dresden), Germany	36.97	27.45	81	-24.0%
479	University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain	25.5	27.42	127	10.1%
480	University of Hannover (LUH), Germany	37.19	27.32	84	-24.8%
481	Northwest University (NWU), China	19.92	27.25	52	40.1%
482	University of Turin (UNITO), Italy	37.2	27.16	204	-25.2%
483	Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), BIST, Spain	27.77	27.09	62	-0.1%
484	Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), CAS, China	19.88	26.88	108	38.5%
485	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea	29.3	26.78	64	-6.4%
486	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	29.51	26.78	65	-7.1%
487	Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany	26.61	26.76	75	3.0%
488	Waseda University, Japan	31.25	26.71	140	-12.5%
489	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany	33.49	26.67	109	-18.4%
490	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India	20.7	26.55	53	31.4%
491	Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland	31.29	26.48	147	-13.3%
492	China Agricultural University (CAU), China	20.67	26.38	65	30.7%
493	University of Pisa (UNIPI), Italy	16.56	26.25	252	62.3%
494	Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), United States of America (USA)	13.75	26.16	69	94.8%
495	University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy	34.69	25.93	237	-23.4%
496	Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany	24.81	25.9	86	6.9%
497	Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS), Russia	29.83	25.88	260	-11.1%
498	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	30.19	25.88	164	-12.2%
499	Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA)	23.98	25.86	71	10.5%
500	Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP), Germany	24.25	25.86	149	9.2%

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