2017 tables: Institutions - life sciences

Table criteria

Region/country

Sector

Subject/journals

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	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	645.13	610.22	1552	-2.8%
2	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	363.89	314.47	789	-11.2%
3	Max Planck Society, Germany	257.95	281.15	930	12.0%
4	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	282.66	236.22	599	-14.1%
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	198.64	212.66	572	10.0%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	203.57	208.5	796	5.2%
7	University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	205.1	193.93	539	-2.8%
8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	182.48	193.18	535	8.8%
9	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	205.47	193.05	428	-3.5%
10	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	175.07	176.06	1187	3.3%
11	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	156.86	168.34	534	10.3%
12	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	184.2	165.91	503	-7.5%
13	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	155.07	157.43	387	4.3%
14	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	163.11	152.71	417	-3.8%
15	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	167.01	147.06	401	-9.5%
16	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	154.63	144.57	360	-3.9%
17	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	177.83	143.62	389	-17.0%
18	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	143.61	143.41	322	2.6%
19	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	145.95	139.64	377	-1.7%
20	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	144.55	135.97	342	-3.3%
21	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	142.18	130.34	411	-5.8%
22	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	141.13	130.03	480	-5.3%
23	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	144.77	129.23	376	-8.3%
24	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	153.15	122.44	331	-17.9%
25	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	118.19	115.75	284	0.6%
26	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	118.78	113.71	252	-1.6%
27	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	107.62	112.9	611	7.8%
28	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	117.31	100.45	205	-12.0%
29	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	119.77	100.12	287	-14.1%
30	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	110.03	98.78	248	-7.8%
31	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	98.85	96.62	268	0.4%
32	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	81.59	94.63	226	19.2%
33	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	84.79	91.71	228	11.1%
34	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	99.94	91.3	229	-6.1%
35	McGill University, Canada	101.41	90.95	259	-7.9%
36	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	86.93	90.68	408	7.2%
37	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	100.38	88.28	299	-9.6%
38	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	77.35	87.8	280	16.6%
39	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	66.18	86.37	284	34.1%
40	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	84.96	84.47	249	2.2%
41	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	88.36	82.31	223	-4.3%
42	The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), United States of America (USA)	74.87	81.47	217	11.8%
43	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	76.92	79.75	140	6.5%
44	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	88.68	79.64	761	-7.7%
45	NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI), United States of America (USA)	75.58	79.24	236	7.7%
46	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	73.72	72.1	221	0.5%
47	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	61.17	70.51	236	18.4%
48	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	64.16	70.21	222	12.4%
49	Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), CAS, China	62.57	68.06	190	11.8%
50	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	64.81	67.92	297	7.7%
51	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	70.04	67.5	202	-1.0%
52	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	59.22	67.1	260	16.4%
53	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	51.31	65.1	141	30.4%
54	University of California Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	85.9	64.98	198	-22.3%
55	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	73.04	64.71	213	-9.0%
56	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	80.72	62.81	143	-20.1%
57	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	50.59	62.64	159	27.2%
58	Osaka University, Japan	50.07	61.16	165	25.5%
59	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	64.74	59.61	165	-5.4%
60	Peking University (PKU), China	55.93	58.95	156	8.3%
61	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	67.39	58.18	154	-11.3%
62	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	64.55	57.74	127	-8.1%
63	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	65.51	56.54	169	-11.3%
64	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	60.57	55.68	269	-5.6%
65	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	55.48	54.86	255	1.6%
66	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	60.2	54.84	201	-6.4%
67	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	44.19	54.45	142	26.6%
68	RIKEN, Japan	61.43	54.36	191	-9.1%
69	Kyoto University, Japan	58.15	53.68	154	-5.2%
70	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	51.87	53.21	149	5.4%
71	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	42.11	52.43	138	28.0%
72	Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA)	43.54	52.25	155	23.3%
73	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	76.03	51.77	262	-30.0%
74	Tsinghua University (TH), China	51.86	50.93	143	0.9%
75	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	40.53	50.89	118	29.0%
76	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	50.3	50.61	198	3.4%
77	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	49.07	50.58	160	5.9%
78	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	56.01	49.97	209	-8.3%
79	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	48.5	48.67	150	3.1%
80	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.04	48.62	154	-5.8%
81	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	60.12	47.93	151	-18.1%
82	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	46.57	47.44	116	4.7%
83	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude), United States of America (USA)	41.59	46.85	111	15.7%
84	Leibniz Association, Germany	51.02	46.75	280	-5.9%
85	University of Colorado Denver \| Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	42.67	46.58	128	12.2%
86	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	54.41	46.37	287	-12.4%
87	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	52.98	45.48	171	-11.8%
88	University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	51.9	44.57	128	-11.7%
89	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	48.76	44.18	122	-6.9%
90	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	43.55	44.08	154	4.0%
91	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	39.83	43.88	121	13.2%
92	HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	50.55	43.73	89	-11.1%
93	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	25.26	42.89	126	74.4%
94	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	37.68	42.49	165	15.9%
95	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	44.34	42.39	217	-1.8%
96	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	54.9	41.89	123	-21.6%
97	Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands	29.3	41.74	196	46.4%
98	Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Italy	49.8	41.63	206	-14.1%
99	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	43.18	41.3	194	-1.7%
100	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	41.1	40.96	236	2.4%

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. It is important for users to understand that the data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, that they cover the natural sciences only and that outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output). We encourage users to combine the free-to-access Nature Index data with information from other sources.

The tables were last updated on 7 June 2018 with the most recent institution and article corrections.

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

Looking for more data? Create your own profile to see time trend graphs of institutions and countries. Registrants can also download data from tables and create website widgets.

Numerical information only is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.