2017 tables: Institutions - NPO/NGO

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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	Max Planck Society, Germany	745.18	765.91	2431	5.4%
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	537.54	524.2	2047	0.0%
3	Leibniz Association, Germany	221.26	206.11	716	-4.4%
4	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	161.41	172.13	769	9.4%
5	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	139.07	153.78	325	13.4%
6	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	98.66	119.22	403	24.0%
7	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.73	50.4	164	-3.8%
8	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	32.19	49.01	150	56.2%
9	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	44.68	45.5	197	4.5%
10	HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	51.71	44.98	92	-10.8%
11	Pasteur Institute, France	34.82	39.26	211	15.7%
12	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	42.3	37.32	103	-9.5%
13	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA)	30.41	35.72	139	20.5%
14	Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium	25.92	35.41	152	40.1%
15	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.84	33.7	103	-27.7%
16	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India	43.8	29	56	-32.1%
17	Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria	15.58	28.96	92	90.6%
18	Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	30.49	25.89	165	-12.9%
19	Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain	18.73	25.09	291	37.4%
20	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA)	21.21	22.72	94	9.9%
21	John Innes Centre (JIC), United Kingdom (UK)	16.87	22.44	50	36.4%
22	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands	20.56	21.12	128	5.4%
23	Fraunhofer Society, Germany	20.61	21.03	123	4.7%
24	Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), Netherlands	23.85	20.95	241	-9.9%
25	Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium	23.01	19.33	53	-13.8%
26	Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), United States of America (USA)	13.73	19.13	109	42.9%
27	Cluster of Excellence - Precision Physics, Fundamental Interactions and Structure of Matter (PRISMA), JGU, Germany	19.62	18.71	42	-2.2%
28	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA)	37.85	18.61	61	-49.6%
29	Cancer Research UK (CRUK), United Kingdom (UK)	18.33	17.96	162	0.5%
30	Ames Laboratory, United States of America (USA)	24.03	16.5	50	-29.6%
31	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia	13.85	14.15	68	4.7%
32	Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), France	11.36	14.12	83	27.6%
33	Cluster of Excellence - Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPS-M), LMU, Germany	20.17	14.12	72	-28.2%
34	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), United States of America (USA)	14.64	14.02	82	-1.8%
35	Curie Institute, France	21.77	13.54	102	-36.2%
36	Gladstone Institutes, United States of America (USA)	13.51	13.52	44	2.7%
37	La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), United States of America (USA)	13.69	13.32	49	-0.2%
38	The Jackson Laboratory, United States of America (USA)	14.73	13.1	44	-8.8%
39	The Wistar Institute, United States of America (USA)	7.95	12.26	33	58.1%
40	Synchrotron SOLEIL, France	15.91	12.18	79	-21.5%
41	CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain	9.15	11.92	40	33.7%
42	Babraham Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	7.27	10.87	31	53.3%
43	Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of America (USA)	19.76	10.77	25	-44.1%
44	Cluster of Excellence - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED), TU Dresden, Germany	6.33	10.62	60	72.2%
45	International Solvay Institutes, Belgium	10.12	10.25	45	4.0%
46	Ludwig Cancer Research, United States of America (USA)	8.59	9.45	89	12.8%
47	Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy	10.26	9.04	42	-9.7%
48	Gulbenkian Science Institute (IGC), Portugal	8.23	8.95	21	11.6%
49	Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia	11.32	8.89	104	-19.5%
50	Bose Institute, India	3.44	8.55	32	155.0%
51	Cluster of Excellence - Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Uni Tübingen, Germany	3.88	8.18	24	116.2%
52	Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada	7.98	7.84	78	0.8%
53	Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China	4.29	7.38	46	76.2%
54	Cluster of Excellence - Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), UoC, Germany	3.74	7.27	37	99.4%
55	Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal	8.25	7.22	20	-10.2%
56	Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Spain	7.91	7.17	24	-7.0%
57	The Aerospace Corporation, United States of America (USA)	5.17	7.06	28	40.1%
58	Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea	3.04	6.97	19	134.9%
59	American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), United States of America (USA)	9.11	6.94	37	-21.9%
60	Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States of America (USA)	12.62	6.77	18	-45.0%
61	QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia	7.3	6.74	52	-5.3%
62	Center for Scientific Studies (CECs), Chile	9.18	6.57	16	-26.6%
63	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), United States of America (USA)	7.68	6.54	20	-12.7%
64	Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Spain	6.47	6.26	30	-0.7%
65	Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC), Italy	7.93	6.18	33	-20.1%
66	Laboratory for the Synthesis and Characterisation of Organometallic Molecular Materials (CR LASCAMM), Italy	8.32	5.85	36	-27.9%
67	Universities Space Research Association (USRA), United States of America (USA)	4.56	5.84	95	31.3%
68	Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia	4.65	5.8	28	27.9%
69	Van Andel Research Institute (VAI), United States of America (USA)	5.21	5.53	28	8.8%
70	Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands	2.66	5.53	44	113.0%
71	Allen Institute, United States of America (USA)	2.64	5.37	15	108.8%
72	Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia	7.82	5.33	28	-30.1%
73	Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada	6.52	5.25	20	-17.4%
74	Wetsus Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, Netherlands	2.88	4.78	19	70.1%
75	Cluster of Excellence - Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), LMU, Germany	8.38	4.73	36	-42.1%
76	European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL), Germany	1.53	4.63	35	211.4%
77	Russian Quantum Center (RQC), Russia	3.2	4.61	23	47.9%
78	Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), International	5.03	4.61	35	-6.1%
79	Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), United States of America (USA)	6.53	4.58	16	-28.1%
80	National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Estonia	3.75	4.53	75	23.9%
81	Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), UChicago, United States of America (USA)	5.97	4.45	22	-23.4%
82	European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), Belgium	3.59	4.43	22	26.7%
83	National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan	5.53	4.41	27	-18.2%
84	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India	4.35	4.41	34	4.0%
85	Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg	2.8	4.38	16	60.2%
86	Santa Fe Institute (SFI), United States of America (USA)	5.14	4.34	31	-13.4%
87	Planetary Science Institute (PSI), United States of America (USA)	3.64	4.29	33	21.1%
88	TUM Cluster of Excellence - Origin and Structure of the Universe (Excellence Cluster Universe), Germany	3.69	4.29	48	19.3%
89	National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, Slovenia	3.96	4.23	15	9.5%
90	J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), United States of America (USA)	6.23	4.23	23	-30.3%
91	National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), Taiwan	2.07	4.22	28	108.8%
92	Cluster of Excellence - Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), UHH, Germany	2.46	4.2	29	75.2%
93	Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD), United States of America (USA)	2.5	4.19	17	72.2%
94	Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), United States of America (USA)	2.7	4.08	18	54.8%
95	The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	1.19	4.05	17	249.0%
96	Instituto de Investigeciones Bioquimicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA), CONICET, Argentina	5.51	4.05	10	-24.6%
97	Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway	2.52	3.87	23	57.2%
98	Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC), Japan	1.26	3.83	19	211.4%
99	Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Qatar	1.93	3.78	7	100.6%
100	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria	2.15	3.76	15	79.1%

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