2017 tables: Institutions - biological sciences - corporate

The 2017 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

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# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share* 2015–2016
1 BGI, China 12.97 5.60 31 -55.6%
2 Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan 5.09 3.95 18 -20.2%
3 Samsung Group, South Korea 3.29 2.98 25 -6.7%
4 Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Japan 0.83 2.47 9 204.7%
5 Eisai Co., Ltd., Japan 0.33 2.06 10 541.7%
6 Sosei Co., Ltd., Japan – 2.00 2 N/A
7 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, Japan 2.44 1.07 6 -54.8%
8 Astellas Pharma Inc., Japan 1.15 1.02 2 -9.0%
9 Bio Matrix Research, Inc., Japan – 1.00 1 N/A
10 Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd., Japan 1.20 0.86 7 -26.6%
11 Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Japan 2.05 0.83 8 -58.6%
12 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan 2.83 0.82 4 -70.2%
13 Kowa Company, Ltd., Japan – 0.75 3 N/A
14 Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Japan 0.27 0.74 3 178.5%
15 CSL Limited, Australia 0.31 0.57 6 93.8%
16 Bioneer Corporation, South Korea – 0.55 1 N/A
17 The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd., New Zealand 1.25 0.54 20 -55.5%
18 GNS Science, New Zealand 0.52 0.53 3 5.6%
19 Carna Biosciences, Inc., Japan – 0.52 2 N/A
20 Macrogen Inc., South Korea 0.06 0.50 3 775.1%
21 Biomarker Technologies Corporation, China – 0.47 2 N/A
22 Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC), New Zealand – 0.43 2 N/A
22 Tokyo Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (TCI), Japan – 0.43 1 N/A
23 Shionogi & Co., Ltd., Japan – 0.40 1 N/A
24 Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Japan – 0.39 2 N/A
25 Ribomic Inc., Japan – 0.39 1 N/A
26 Human Metabolome Technologies, Inc., Japan 0.11 0.39 2 279.9%
27 Canon Inc., Japan – 0.38 1 N/A
28 KAN Research Institute, Inc., Japan 0.07 0.33 1 405.6%
29 Nippi. Inc., Japan – 0.31 2 N/A
30 Topchoice Group, China – 0.30 9 N/A
31 Yikon Genomics Co. Ltd., China 0.07 0.29 1 353.7%
32 GlyTech, Inc., Japan – 0.29 1 N/A
33 China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited (CSSC), China 0.16 0.27 8 80.9%
34 Araya Inc., Japan 0.04 0.25 3 519.5%
35 Shimadzu Corporation, Japan 0.25 0.25 2 4.7%
35 Kao Corporation, Japan 1.16 0.25 1 -77.9%
35 Gerchi Biotech Research Laboratories, China – 0.25 1 N/A
36 WuXi AppTec, China 1.17 0.25 4 -78.1%
37 Novogene Co., Ltd., China 0.22 0.24 1 13.0%
38 FiberHome Technologies Group, China 0.15 0.24 6 61.1%
39 Progen Pharmaceuticals Limited, Australia 0.13 0.23 2 92.3%
40 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan – 0.23 1 N/A
40 ChunLab, Inc., South Korea – 0.23 1 N/A
41 Mitsubishi Group, Japan 0.32 0.23 3 -25.5%
42 Diatech Korea Co. Ltd., South Korea – 0.22 1 N/A
42 Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre (MGRC), Malaysia – 0.22 1 N/A
43 Teijin Ltd., Japan 0.06 0.22 2 302.1%
44 Kyodo Milk Industry Co., Ltd., Japan – 0.20 1 N/A
45 Oriental Yeast Company, Japan – 0.19 2 N/A
46 Japan BCG Laboratory, Japan – 0.19 1 N/A
47 Miraca Holdings Inc., Japan 0.18 0.18 5 4.4%
48 Sekisui Medical Company Ltd., Japan 0.27 0.18 1 -31.2%
48 Tokuyama Corporation, Japan – 0.18 1 N/A
48 Chugai Technos Corporation, Japan – 0.18 1 N/A
49 Cellex Life Sciences Inc., South Korea – 0.18 1 N/A
50 BioDynamics Laboratory Inc., Japan – 0.17 1 N/A
50 Astron Environmental Services Pty Ltd., Australia – 0.17 1 N/A
50 Sinochem Group, China – 0.17 1 N/A
50 JT Group, Japan – 0.17 1 N/A

Footnote

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  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
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*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2022 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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