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	1620.68	1592.44	3864	0.8%
2	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	790.39	768.29	4260	-0.3%
3	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	390.9	341.52	849	-10.4%
4	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	236.59	211.51	1077	-8.3%
5	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	187.01	180.59	828	-0.9%
6	RIKEN, Japan	151.88	155.91	543	5.3%
7	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	125.81	151.17	691	23.3%
8	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	131.37	132.88	183	3.8%
9	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	139.21	125.96	529	-7.2%
10	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	124.74	120.3	617	-1.1%
11	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	104.98	119.55	614	16.8%
12	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	127.47	111.22	366	-10.5%
13	Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA), France	110.98	110.69	873	2.3%
14	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA)	93.07	98.32	319	8.4%
15	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	88.63	98.15	258	13.6%
16	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	103.16	94.58	376	-6.0%
17	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	100.81	93.8	309	-4.6%
18	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	99.67	90.33	888	-7.0%
19	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	69.39	84.73	344	25.3%
20	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	95.48	77.31	237	-16.9%
21	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	77.54	77.13	345	2.0%
22	Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA)	79.56	75.95	348	-2.1%
23	Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore	88.48	75.69	288	-12.3%
24	Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic	70.38	74.47	345	8.5%
25	U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA)	80.26	73.84	198	-5.6%
26	Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea	61.95	70.8	278	17.2%
27	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	82.82	67.33	184	-16.6%
28	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	71.97	65.06	338	-7.3%
29	People's Liberation Army (PLA), China	43.97	56.85	199	32.6%
30	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	63.25	53.8	354	-12.8%
31	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	59.68	52.16	201	-10.3%
32	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland	45.23	50.04	242	13.5%
33	Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland	58.9	49	321	-14.7%
34	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	47.64	45.66	234	-1.7%
35	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA)	41.86	45.18	191	10.7%
36	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India	48.02	44.6	167	-4.7%
37	Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA)	40.82	44.17	244	11.0%
38	Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA)	55.29	43.78	145	-18.8%
39	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	39.06	41.77	261	9.7%
40	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary	42.08	38.85	253	-5.3%
41	National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy	39.77	37.99	165	-2.0%
42	French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France	33.87	36.8	367	11.5%
43	Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy	47.88	35.64	133	-23.6%
44	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.36	33.11	76	1.8%
45	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	29.17	32.49	509	14.3%
46	Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria	26.95	32.37	240	23.2%
47	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	31.98	32.29	101	3.6%
48	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea	41.48	31.83	123	-21.3%
49	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA)	34.35	30.86	325	-7.8%
50	Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom (UK)	32.72	30.58	428	-4.1%
51	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA)	39.19	29.06	76	-23.9%
52	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan	44.41	28.6	161	-33.9%
53	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	21.56	27.45	84	30.6%
54	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	29.51	26.78	65	-6.9%
55	European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France	21.24	23.57	133	13.8%
56	Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India	18.09	23.08	90	30.9%
57	National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia	21.97	22.84	269	6.7%
58	Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), South Korea	16.4	22.51	63	40.8%
59	China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China	15.78	22.5	86	46.2%
60	U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA)	19.16	22.34	130	19.6%
61	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	30.67	22.29	69	-25.4%
62	India Department of Space (DOS), India	17.82	21.38	37	23.1%
63	Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland	28.66	21.3	62	-23.8%
64	Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China	12.94	21.13	92	67.5%
65	National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS), China	13.56	20.95	57	58.5%
66	China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China	17.32	19.44	74	15.1%
67	Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy	18.68	18.98	163	4.2%
68	High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan	23.15	18.59	167	-17.6%
69	Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India	15.31	18.29	32	22.5%
70	Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC), Brazil	12.03	18.09	168	54.3%
71	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA)	17.48	17.67	108	3.7%
72	Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies (IMDEA), Spain	12.42	17.66	68	45.9%
73	Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain	19.55	16.93	154	-11.1%
74	National Research Council (NRC), Canada	21.22	16.42	93	-20.6%
75	Met Office, United Kingdom (UK)	15.79	15.46	43	0.5%
76	Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan	11.8	15.26	86	32.7%
77	China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China	14.91	14.79	47	1.8%
78	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia	12.13	14.77	77	25.0%
79	Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran	9.66	14.59	80	54.9%
80	NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK)	9.4	14.47	40	57.9%
81	Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), India	6.17	13.55	25	125.2%
82	NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK)	15.04	12.33	58	-15.9%
83	Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland	7.03	12.13	41	77.0%
84	Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan	14.48	11.88	108	-15.8%
85	The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ukraine	17.01	11.57	159	-30.2%
86	Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Spain	3.92	11.53	30	202.2%
87	Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia	21.27	11.52	128	-44.5%
88	Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK)	8.87	11.51	50	33.0%
89	National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan	7.81	11.46	27	50.6%
90	Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia	11.95	10.61	204	-8.9%
91	Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece	12.13	10.53	47	-10.9%
92	National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom (UK)	6.44	10.4	43	65.6%
93	National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France	9.13	10.04	125	12.9%
94	Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (IGAKUKEN), Japan	7.37	9.93	23	38.3%
95	European Commission (EC), Belgium	8.12	9.86	31	24.6%
96	Joint Genome Institute (JGI), United States of America (USA)	4.9	9.45	37	97.6%
97	German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Germany	4.79	9.41	23	101.7%
98	European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany	13.39	9.39	92	-28.1%
99	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India	14.74	9.22	89	-35.8%
100	Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea	11.17	9.2	29	-15.6%

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