2017 tables: Institutions - life sciences

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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	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	640.34	607.82	1536	-2.3%
2	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	363.03	313.66	787	-11.1%
3	Max Planck Society, Germany	257.45	280.54	928	12.1%
4	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	280.17	234.89	600	-13.7%
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	195.53	210.46	562	10.7%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	200.52	206.89	789	6.2%
7	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	205.43	192.92	421	-3.4%
8	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	199.11	190.47	529	-1.6%
9	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	175.86	180.78	516	5.8%
10	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	159.13	170.94	535	10.5%
11	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	170.07	169.55	1171	2.6%
12	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	183.69	165.81	504	-7.1%
13	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	165.41	156.45	425	-2.7%
14	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	155.05	156.43	386	3.8%
15	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	164.25	146.34	400	-8.3%
16	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	143.22	143.42	323	3.0%
17	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	176.93	142.96	389	-16.9%
18	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	144.68	138.84	374	-1.3%
19	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	143.81	135.51	343	-3.1%
20	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	143.86	133.58	338	-4.5%
21	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	140.12	129.77	410	-4.7%
22	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	144.08	129.23	374	-7.7%
23	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	153.99	120.32	328	-19.6%
24	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	130.15	119.99	383	-5.1%
25	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	117.88	117.07	285	2.2%
26	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	118.84	113.71	252	-1.6%
27	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	106.78	111.72	614	7.6%
28	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	117.42	100.45	205	-12.0%
29	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	120.43	98.92	285	-15.5%
30	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	109.66	97.95	246	-8.1%
31	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	98.86	96.56	267	0.5%
32	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	80.63	94.38	226	20.4%
33	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	100.28	91.3	229	-6.3%
34	McGill University, Canada	98.41	89.95	258	-6.0%
35	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	81.2	88.74	223	12.4%
36	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	100.51	88.23	293	-9.7%
37	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	76.22	85.88	219	15.9%
38	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	66.17	85.5	282	32.9%
39	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	74.77	85.38	274	17.5%
40	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	83.74	83.91	249	3.1%
41	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	88.36	82.31	223	-4.2%
42	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	76.92	79.75	140	6.7%
43	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	85.36	77.67	753	-6.4%
44	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	60.83	70.51	236	19.3%
45	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	72.7	69.64	218	-1.4%
46	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	64.73	68.1	298	8.2%
47	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	57.73	67.17	261	19.7%
48	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	62.7	66.36	215	8.9%
49	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	58.86	65.45	287	14.4%
50	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	68.61	65.33	201	-2.0%
51	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	71.03	63.79	211	-7.6%
52	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	85.4	63.73	196	-23.2%
53	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	51.14	62.93	138	26.6%
54	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	78.76	62.31	142	-18.6%
55	Osaka University, Japan	50.53	61.87	166	26.0%
56	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	49.55	60.84	155	26.3%
57	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	64.93	59.98	251	-5.0%
58	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	63.41	59.61	165	-3.3%
59	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	67.23	58.06	155	-11.1%
60	Peking University (PKU), China	53.77	57.86	157	10.7%
61	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	64.55	56.9	123	-9.3%
62	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	65.95	55.2	166	-13.9%
63	RIKEN, Japan	60.14	54.97	193	-6.0%
64	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	44.2	54.43	136	26.7%
65	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.49	53.51	254	1.0%
66	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	51.71	53.21	149	5.9%
67	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	42.07	52.43	138	28.2%
68	Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA)	44.53	52.42	155	21.1%
69	Kyoto University, Japan	57.94	50.94	152	-9.6%
70	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	40.53	50.89	118	29.2%
71	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	74.7	50.85	260	-30.0%
72	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	50.4	50.61	198	3.3%
73	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	49.08	50.42	158	5.7%
74	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	50.11	49.77	175	2.2%
75	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	55.98	49.74	208	-8.6%
76	Tsinghua University, China	50.73	49.31	140	0.0%
77	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	48.19	48.67	150	3.9%
78	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.05	48.62	152	-5.7%
79	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	60.15	48.21	153	-17.5%
80	Leibniz Association, Germany	51.17	47.94	278	-3.6%
81	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	46.57	47.44	116	4.8%
82	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude), United States of America (USA)	41.59	46.85	111	15.9%
83	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	42.67	46.58	128	12.3%
84	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	52.98	44.61	170	-13.4%
85	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	48.74	44.13	121	-6.9%
86	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	39.7	43.81	121	13.5%
87	HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	50.6	43.73	90	-11.1%
88	The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	54.47	43.51	119	-17.8%
89	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	49.26	42.91	126	-10.4%
90	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	25.32	42.87	126	74.2%
91	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	44.34	42.31	216	-1.8%
92	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	43.14	41.12	194	-1.9%
93	Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands	29.3	40.91	196	43.6%
94	Lund University (LU), Sweden	28.32	40.38	144	46.7%
95	Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS), Italy	47.55	40.17	199	-13.1%
96	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	39.11	40.08	235	5.4%
97	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	55.32	39.58	148	-26.4%
98	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	37.51	39.08	113	7.2%
99	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	33.5	38.97	146	19.7%
100	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	37.13	38.83	148	7.6%

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