2017 tables: Institutions - government

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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	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	787.04	766.89	4236	-0.2%
3	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	392.63	342.32	851	-10.7%
4	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	233.51	209.29	1067	-8.2%
5	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	188.64	184.14	856	0.0%
6	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	176.13	169.68	323	-1.3%
7	RIKEN, Japan	153.31	155.37	542	3.8%
8	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	125.97	151.38	681	23.1%
9	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	131.71	132.88	183	3.3%
10	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	139.08	125.61	523	-7.5%
11	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	123.99	120.68	618	-0.3%
12	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	104.95	119.66	615	16.8%
13	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	127.92	111.24	366	-10.9%
14	Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France	109.82	110.15	867	2.7%
15	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	88.63	98.33	260	13.6%
16	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA)	93.07	98.32	319	8.2%
17	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	102.55	97.66	309	-2.5%
18	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	102.36	94.79	378	-5.2%
19	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	101.82	91.08	894	-8.4%
20	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	69.4	84.73	339	25.0%
21	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	95.48	78.09	238	-16.2%
22	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	77.99	76.83	339	0.9%
23	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA)	79.01	75.61	340	-2.0%
24	Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore	88.48	74.94	287	-13.2%
25	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), Czech Republic	69.94	74.33	344	8.9%
26	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	80.25	73.84	198	-5.7%
27	Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea	61.95	70.76	277	17.0%
28	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	82.77	67.48	186	-16.5%
29	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	68.5	61.18	311	-8.5%
30	People's Liberation Army (PLA), China	41.19	56.51	204	40.5%
31	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	62.64	53.21	345	-13.0%
32	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	59.6	52.05	200	-10.5%
33	Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland	57.81	50.17	318	-11.1%
34	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland	45.23	50.16	243	13.6%
35	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	32.7	49.9	155	56.3%
36	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA)	43.5	48.33	227	13.8%
37	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	47.64	45.74	235	-1.7%
38	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India	48.51	44.85	168	-5.3%
39	Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA)	40.25	43.95	234	11.8%
40	Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA)	56.29	43.78	145	-20.3%
41	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	38.72	41.33	258	9.3%
42	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary	40.51	38.83	251	-1.8%
43	Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy	47.15	36.22	131	-21.3%
44	French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France	33	35.17	335	9.2%
45	National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy	31.9	33.46	141	7.4%
46	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.36	33.11	76	1.6%
47	Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria	27.11	32.35	240	22.2%
48	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	31.98	32.29	101	3.4%
49	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	28.7	32.23	495	15.0%
50	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea	41.48	31.83	123	-21.4%
51	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA)	34.33	30.86	325	-7.9%
52	Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom (UK)	32.59	30.42	425	-4.4%
53	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA)	39.19	29.06	76	-24.0%
54	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan	44.31	28.44	154	-34.2%
55	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	21.56	27.45	84	30.4%
56	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	29.51	26.78	65	-7.1%
57	European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France	21.24	23.57	133	13.6%
58	China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China	15.94	23.01	94	47.8%
59	National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia	21.93	22.95	270	7.2%
60	Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), South Korea	16.73	22.71	64	39.0%
61	U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA)	19.16	22.31	130	19.2%
62	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	30.67	22.29	69	-25.5%
63	Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland	28.66	21.3	62	-23.9%
64	Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China	13.35	20.99	92	61.1%
65	National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS), China	13.56	20.95	57	58.3%
66	Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India	15.11	20.31	87	37.7%
67	Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy	18.65	19.05	164	4.6%
68	China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China	17.14	18.56	68	10.9%
69	Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC), Brazil	12.47	18.4	167	51.1%
70	Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India	15.31	18.29	32	22.3%
71	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA)	17.45	17.67	108	3.7%
72	Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies (IMDEA), Spain	12.42	17.66	68	45.7%
73	Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain	19.55	16.91	152	-11.4%
74	National Research Council (NRC), Canada	21.17	15.93	86	-22.9%
75	Met Office, United Kingdom (UK)	15.79	15.86	44	2.9%
76	NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK)	9.4	14.8	41	61.3%
77	China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China	14.71	14.79	47	3.0%
78	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia	12.13	14.78	78	24.8%
79	Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), India	6.17	13.55	25	124.9%
80	NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK)	15.04	12.33	58	-16.0%
81	India Department of Space (DOS), India	5.57	12.17	21	123.7%
82	Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland	6.92	12.13	41	79.6%
83	Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan	14.48	11.88	108	-15.9%
84	The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ukraine	17.1	11.73	159	-29.7%
85	Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Spain	3.92	11.53	30	201.7%
86	Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia	21.26	11.52	128	-44.5%
87	Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK)	8.87	11.51	50	32.8%
88	National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan	7.81	11.46	27	50.3%
89	National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom (UK)	6.44	11.4	44	81.3%
90	National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France	10.41	11.08	127	9.0%
91	Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia	11.92	10.62	205	-8.7%
92	Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece	12.13	10.53	47	-11.1%
93	Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), India	12.24	10.21	19	-14.6%
94	Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (IGAKUKEN), Japan	7.37	9.93	23	38.1%
95	European Commission (EC), Belgium	8.12	9.86	31	24.4%
96	German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Germany	4.79	9.41	23	101.4%
97	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India	14.73	9.22	89	-35.9%
98	Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea	11.17	9.2	29	-15.7%
99	Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Japan	6.6	9.12	19	41.6%
100	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan	4.26	9.03	64	117.2%

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.

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