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	Share 2015	Share 2016	Count 2016	Change in adjusted Share^* 2015–2016 (%)
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	1,617.39	1,589.88	3,856	0.8%
2	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	794.03	770.09	4,293	-0.5%
3	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	391.01	342.16	850	-10.2%
4	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	235.76	211.55	1,082	-8.0%
5	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	187.12	180.12	828	-1.3%
6	RIKEN, Japan	151.88	155.91	543	5.3%
7	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA)	125.69	151.14	691	23.3%
8	National Research Council (CNR), Italy	139.34	126.30	530	-7.0%
9	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	106.91	122.85	614	17.9%
10	National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy	124.74	120.30	617	-1.1%
11	The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France	115.87	114.46	937	1.3%
12	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	116.95	112.03	183	-1.7%
13	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	127.47	111.22	366	-10.5%
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	98.16	258	13.6%
16	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA)	103.16	94.62	377	-5.9%
17	U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA)	100.81	93.83	310	-4.5%
18	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	99.23	90.82	894	-6.1%
19	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA)	69.39	84.83	345	25.4%
20	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan	95.76	77.31	237	-17.2%
21	Academia Sinica, Taiwan	77.54	76.88	344	1.7%
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	70.46	74.51	344	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	70.81	278	17.3%
27	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	82.95	67.48	186	-16.6%
28	People's Liberation Army (PLA), China	43.99	56.79	199	32.4%
29	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	57.98	55.07	215	-2.6%
30	European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland	63.25	53.80	354	-12.8%
31	The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia	59.71	52.37	203	-10.0%
32	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland	45.23	50.04	242	13.5%
33	Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland	58.40	49.00	321	-13.9%
34	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	47.65	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	44.60	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 Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France	38.75	42.26	384	11.9%
40	National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina	39.06	41.79	262	9.7%
41	Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary	42.25	38.93	253	-5.5%
42	National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy	39.77	37.99	165	-2.0%
43	Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy	48.01	35.75	133	-23.6%
44	NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands	39.31	35.02	315	-8.6%
45	National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy	33.36	33.11	76	1.8%
46	Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France	29.37	32.68	512	14.1%
47	Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea	41.51	32.52	124	-19.6%
48	Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria	26.95	32.37	240	23.2%
49	Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland	31.98	32.29	101	3.6%
50	U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA)	34.30	30.90	325	-7.6%
51	Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom (UK)	32.72	30.56	426	-4.2%
52	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA)	39.19	29.06	76	-23.9%
53	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan	44.41	28.60	161	-33.9%
54	Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India	24.49	27.96	109	17.1%
55	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan	21.56	27.45	84	30.6%
56	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA)	29.51	26.78	65	-6.9%
57	European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France	21.24	23.57	133	13.8%
58	National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia	21.97	22.84	269	6.6%
59	Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), South Korea	16.40	22.51	63	40.8%
60	China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China	15.73	22.47	86	46.5%
61	U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA)	19.58	22.43	130	17.5%
62	Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada	30.67	22.29	69	-25.4%
63	India Department of Space (DOS), India	17.82	21.38	37	23.1%
64	Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland	28.66	21.33	63	-23.6%
65	Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China	12.94	21.13	92	67.5%
66	National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS), China	13.56	20.95	57	58.5%
67	China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China	17.30	19.44	74	15.3%
68	Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy	18.68	18.98	163	4.2%
69	High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan	23.15	18.59	167	-17.6%
70	Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India	15.31	18.29	32	22.5%
71	Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC), Brazil	12.39	18.14	169	50.2%
72	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA)	17.48	17.67	108	3.7%
73	IMDEA Institutes, Spain	13.05	17.58	68	38.2%
74	Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain	19.55	16.93	154	-11.2%
75	National Research Council (NRC), Canada	21.22	16.42	93	-20.6%
76	Met Office, United Kingdom (UK)	15.79	15.46	43	0.5%
77	Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan	11.80	15.26	86	32.7%
78	China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China	14.91	14.79	47	1.8%
79	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia	12.13	14.77	77	25.0%
80	Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran	9.66	14.59	80	54.9%
81	NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK)	9.40	14.47	40	57.9%
82	Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), India	6.17	13.55	25	125.2%
83	NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK)	15.04	12.33	58	-15.9%
84	Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland	7.03	12.13	41	77.0%
85	Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan	14.48	11.88	108	-15.8%
86	The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ukraine	17.01	11.57	159	-30.2%
87	Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Spain	3.92	11.53	30	202.2%
88	Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia	21.27	11.52	128	-44.5%
89	Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK)	8.87	11.51	50	33.0%
90	National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan	7.81	11.46	27	50.6%
91	Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia	11.95	10.61	204	-8.9%
92	Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece	12.13	10.53	47	-10.9%
93	National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom (UK)	6.44	10.40	43	65.6%
94	National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France	9.29	10.10	122	11.4%
95	Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (IGAKUKEN), Japan	7.37	9.93	23	38.3%
96	European Commission (EC), Belgium	8.12	9.86	31	24.6%
97	Joint Genome Institute (JGI), United States of America (USA)	4.90	9.45	37	97.6%
98	German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Germany	4.79	9.41	23	101.7%
99	European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany	13.39	9.39	92	-28.1%
100	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India	14.74	9.22	89	-35.8%

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