2017 tables: Institutions - healthcare

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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	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	127.13	127.43	273	2.8%
2	Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), CU, United States of America (USA)	96.92	109.91	305	16.3%
3	UC San Diego Health Sciences, United States of America (USA)	91.29	95.35	366	7.1%
4	Duke University Health System, United States of America (USA)	99.36	94.81	253	-2.1%
5	UW Medicine, United States of America (USA)	78.82	90.96	280	18.4%
6	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	90.5	90.62	263	2.7%
7	Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), United States of America (USA)	92.34	89.56	557	-0.5%
8	UCLA Health, United States of America (USA)	87.6	86.43	294	1.2%
9	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	77.22	85.88	280	14.1%
10	Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), United States of America (USA)	67.85	76.92	224	16.3%
11	Michigan Medicine, U-M, United States of America (USA)	91.82	76.39	268	-14.7%
12	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	61.33	72.64	245	21.5%
13	NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC), United States of America (USA)	65.29	66.41	186	4.3%
14	Feinberg School of Medicine, NU, United States of America (USA)	47.16	59.48	178	29.4%
15	Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), United States of America (USA)	69.05	57.55	465	-14.5%
16	Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA)	46.9	54.01	162	18.1%
17	Boston Children's Hospital (BCH), United States of America (USA)	54.47	51.01	371	-3.9%
18	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude), United States of America (USA)	42.3	48.43	113	17.4%
19	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), United States of America (USA)	45.69	41.33	374	-7.2%
20	Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Italy	52.43	41.21	207	-19.4%
21	UCSF Health, United States of America (USA)	30.87	35.17	162	16.8%
22	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), United States of America (USA)	28.89	34.61	289	22.9%
23	Health Sciences Center (HSC), Utah, United States of America (USA)	29.66	28.41	83	-1.7%
24	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), United States of America (USA)	23.83	28.29	85	21.8%
25	Cleveland Clinic, United States of America (USA)	32.15	24.91	80	-20.5%
26	Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Netherlands	26.77	24.29	156	-6.9%
27	Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), Netherlands	23.77	23.85	166	2.9%
28	Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands	19.55	23	96	20.7%
29	Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), United States of America (USA)	24.25	22.14	72	-6.3%
30	University Health Network (UHN), U of T, Canada	23.18	21.67	105	-4.1%
31	University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), UHH, Germany	20.6	20.4	95	1.6%
32	University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), UR, United States of America (USA)	17.82	20.08	65	15.5%
33	College of Medicine, MUSC, United States of America (USA)	4.98	19.86	53	309.0%
34	McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Canada	26.01	19.11	86	-24.6%
35	University Hospital Bonn (UKB), Uni Bonn, Germany	18.57	18.98	98	4.8%
36	Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc), RU, Netherlands	17.3	18.94	136	12.3%
37	City of Hope, United States of America (USA)	11.56	18.76	47	66.5%
38	The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), U of T, Canada	24.57	18.34	100	-23.5%
39	University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany	16.46	18.13	83	13.0%
40	Academic Medical Center (AMC), UvA, Netherlands	10.45	18.05	142	77.2%
41	University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), United States of America (USA)	15.69	17.94	33	17.3%
42	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), United States of America (USA)	16.98	17.69	44	6.9%
43	VU University Medical Center (VUmc), Netherlands	11.34	17.39	82	57.3%
44	University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht), Netherlands	22.42	17.11	135	-21.7%
45	Heidelberg University Hospital, Uni Heidelberg, Germany	9.29	16.97	109	87.3%
46	Stanford Department of Medicine, United States of America (USA)	7.44	16.64	98	129.4%
47	Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany	15.41	16.52	74	10.0%
48	University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), RUG, Netherlands	11.14	16.14	94	48.6%
49	John T. Milliken Department of Medicine, WUSTL, United States of America (USA)	8.64	15.96	57	89.4%
50	UC Davis Health, United States of America (USA)	16.33	15.63	62	-1.8%
51	School of Medicine, WSU, United States of America (USA)	9.57	15.49	48	66.0%
52	Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), France	12.19	15.35	189	29.1%
53	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), United States of America (USA)	20.44	15.34	96	-23.0%
54	West China School of Medicine/West China Hospital of Sichuan University (WCSM/WCH), SCU, China	9.01	15.19	68	72.9%
55	Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC), United States of America (USA)	17.74	14.56	66	-15.8%
56	Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain	13.95	14.28	38	5.0%
57	University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), United States of America (USA)	11.1	13.03	44	20.4%
58	University Hospital Tübingen (UKT), Uni Tübingen, Germany	10.42	12.79	70	25.9%
59	University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), United States of America (USA)	13.3	12.45	63	-4.0%
60	Yale Department of Internal Medicine, United States of America (USA)	7.11	12.16	39	75.4%
61	University Hospital of Munich (KUM), LMU, Germany	8.61	11.97	95	42.5%
62	Houston Methodist, United States of America (USA)	11.24	11.89	49	8.5%
63	University Hospital Zurich (UHZ), Switzerland	6.97	11.5	43	69.2%
64	UCSF Department of Medicine (DOM), United States of America (USA)	11.2	11.31	72	3.6%
65	TUM University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar (MRI), Germany	7.7	11.01	118	46.8%
66	University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC), United States of America (USA)	12.71	10.93	38	-11.8%
67	University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany	9.85	10.78	66	12.3%
68	Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation (JHHS), United States of America (USA)	9.2	10.69	103	19.2%
69	University Hospital of Münster (UKM), WWU, Germany	5.72	10.63	47	90.7%
70	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), United States of America (USA)	21.78	10.61	97	-50.0%
71	Texas Children's Hospital, BCM, United States of America (USA)	9.58	10.61	103	13.5%
72	University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), UNIL, Switzerland	8.88	10.54	71	21.7%
73	UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	15.03	10.51	69	-28.3%
74	Department of Medicine, UChicago, United States of America (USA)	8.26	10.44	42	29.6%
75	Department of Neurology, WUSTL, United States of America (USA)	3.68	9.91	29	176.4%
76	OU Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), United States of America (USA)	16.76	9.8	36	-40.0%
77	University Medical Center Mainz, JGU, Germany	10.09	9.72	51	-1.2%
78	Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC), Temple University, United States of America (USA)	4.61	9.46	28	110.8%
79	UTMB Health, United States of America (USA)	8.24	9.31	38	15.9%
80	Stanford Department of Pathology, United States of America (USA)	6.62	8.8	52	36.3%
81	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, United States of America (USA)	8.86	8.48	28	-1.8%
82	Oslo University Hospital (OUS), Norway	8.54	8.25	63	-1.0%
83	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Cedars-Sinai), United States of America (USA)	12.91	8.2	39	-34.9%
84	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH), United Kingdom (UK)	5.79	8.07	84	42.9%
85	Stanford Health Care, United States of America (USA)	8.18	7.96	105	-0.2%
86	Stanford Children's Health, United States of America (USA)	8.41	7.9	106	-3.6%
87	UNM Health Sciences Center (HSC), United States of America (USA)	8.69	7.77	25	-8.2%
88	Department of Biochemistry, BU, United States of America (USA)	2.63	7.73	16	202.1%
89	Department of Medicine, UMass Medical School, United States of America (USA)	1.98	7.73	34	299.3%
90	Catalan Health Institute (ICS), Spain	6.38	7.69	68	23.7%
91	Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, United States of America (USA)	2.85	7.63	35	174.5%
92	Health Sciences Center (HSC), UofL, United States of America (USA)	9.65	7.55	21	-19.7%
93	Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI), Austria	8.37	7.52	41	-7.8%
94	University Hospital of Erlangen, FAU, Germany	6.49	7.43	47	17.4%
95	University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), United States of America (USA)	11.09	7.39	30	-31.7%
96	Sinai Health System, U of T, Canada	15.24	7.22	52	-51.4%
97	Department of Medicine, JHU, United States of America (USA)	7.84	7.14	42	-6.6%
98	Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), United States of America (USA)	3.41	7.08	16	113.1%
99	Saarland University Medical Center (UKS) / Faculty of Medicine, Saar-Uni, Germany	4.93	6.98	26	45.1%
100	Yale Department of Psychiatry, United States of America (USA)	1.06	6.68	23	543.6%

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