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	Share 2015	Share 2016	Count 2016	Change in adjusted Share^* 2015–2016 (%)
1	Max Planck Society, Germany	745.30	766.40	2,432	5.5%
2	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	541.52	528.91	2,067	0.2%
3	Leibniz Association, Germany	222.03	208.50	717	-3.7%
4	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	161.38	172.05	769	9.4%
5	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	139.12	153.80	325	13.4%
6	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	98.66	119.22	403	23.9%
7	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	53.73	50.40	164	-3.8%
8	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA)	32.19	49.01	150	56.2%
9	HHMI Janelia Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	51.71	44.98	92	-10.8%
10	The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	54.75	44.79	122	-16.1%
11	Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA)	42.45	42.20	174	2.0%
12	Pasteur Institute, France	34.82	39.22	211	15.5%
13	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA)	42.30	37.75	104	-8.5%
14	Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium	25.81	36.02	153	43.2%
15	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA)	30.41	35.72	139	20.5%
16	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada	47.84	33.70	103	-27.7%
17	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India	43.80	29.00	56	-32.1%
18	Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria	15.58	28.96	92	90.6%
19	Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	30.49	25.89	165	-12.9%
20	Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain	18.73	25.09	291	37.4%
21	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA)	21.17	22.79	95	10.5%
22	John Innes Centre (JIC), United Kingdom (UK)	16.87	22.44	50	36.4%
23	Fraunhofer Society, Germany	20.84	21.93	126	7.9%
24	Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands	20.46	20.80	128	4.3%
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	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA)	37.85	18.61	61	-49.6%
28	Ames Laboratory, United States of America (USA)	24.03	16.50	50	-29.6%
29	Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), France	11.36	14.12	83	27.6%
30	Cluster of Excellence - Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPS-M), LMU, Germany	20.17	14.12	72	-28.2%
31	Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia	13.85	14.09	67	4.3%
32	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), United States of America (USA)	14.64	14.02	82	-1.8%
33	Gladstone Institutes, United States of America (USA)	13.51	13.52	44	2.7%
34	Curie Institute, France	21.83	13.46	103	-36.7%
35	La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), United States of America (USA)	13.69	13.32	49	-0.2%
36	The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), United States of America (USA)	14.73	13.10	44	-8.8%
37	The Wistar Institute, United States of America (USA)	7.95	12.34	33	59.2%
38	CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain	9.15	11.92	40	33.7%
39	Babraham Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	7.27	10.87	31	53.3%
40	Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of America (USA)	19.76	10.77	25	-44.1%
41	Cluster of Excellence - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED), TU Dresden, Germany	6.33	10.62	60	72.2%
42	International Solvay Institutes, Belgium	10.12	10.25	45	4.0%
43	Cancer Research UK (CRUK), United Kingdom (UK)	8.13	9.98	94	25.8%
44	Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy	10.26	9.31	43	-7.0%
45	Ludwig Cancer Research, United States of America (USA)	7.96	9.10	89	17.2%
46	Gulbenkian Science Institute (IGC), Portugal	8.18	8.95	21	12.2%
47	Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia	11.32	8.89	104	-19.5%
48	Bose Institute, India	3.44	8.55	32	155.0%
49	Cluster of Excellence - Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Uni Tübingen, Germany	3.88	8.18	24	116.2%
50	Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada	7.98	7.84	78	0.8%
51	Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China	4.29	7.38	46	76.2%
52	Cluster of Excellence - Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), UoC, Germany	3.74	7.27	37	99.4%
53	Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal	8.25	7.22	20	-10.3%
54	Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Spain	7.91	7.17	24	-7.0%
55	The Aerospace Corporation, United States of America (USA)	5.17	7.06	28	40.1%
56	Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea	3.04	6.97	19	134.9%
57	American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), United States of America (USA)	9.11	6.94	37	-21.9%
58	QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia	7.30	6.91	53	-2.9%
59	Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States of America (USA)	12.62	6.77	18	-45.0%
60	Center for Scientific Studies (CECs), Chile	9.18	6.57	16	-26.6%
61	Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Spain	6.47	6.26	30	-0.7%
62	Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC), Italy	7.93	6.18	33	-20.1%
63	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), United States of America (USA)	7.56	6.04	19	-18.0%
64	National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM), Italy	8.32	5.87	37	-27.7%
65	Universities Space Research Association (USRA), United States of America (USA)	4.60	5.85	95	30.4%
66	Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia	4.65	5.80	28	27.9%
67	Van Andel Research Institute (VAI), United States of America (USA)	5.21	5.53	28	8.8%
68	Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands	2.66	5.53	44	112.9%
69	Allen Institute, United States of America (USA)	2.64	5.37	15	108.8%
70	Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia	7.82	5.33	28	-30.1%
71	Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada	6.52	5.26	20	-17.2%
72	High Pressure Collaborative Access Team (HPCAT), United States of America (USA)	3.12	5.13	21	68.6%
73	Wetsus Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, Netherlands	2.88	4.78	19	70.1%
74	Cluster of Excellence - Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM), LMU, Germany	8.38	4.73	36	-42.1%
75	European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL), Germany	1.53	4.63	35	211.4%
76	Russian Quantum Center (RQC), Russia	3.20	4.61	23	47.8%
77	Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC), International	5.03	4.61	35	-6.1%
78	Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), United States of America (USA)	6.53	4.58	16	-28.1%
79	National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Estonia	3.77	4.53	75	23.3%
80	Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), UChicago, United States of America (USA)	5.97	4.45	22	-23.4%
81	European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), Belgium	3.63	4.43	22	25.2%
82	National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan	5.53	4.41	27	-18.2%
83	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India	4.35	4.41	34	4.0%
84	Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg	2.80	4.38	16	60.2%
85	Santa Fe Institute (SFI), United States of America (USA)	5.14	4.34	31	-13.4%
86	Planetary Science Institute (PSI), United States of America (USA)	4.14	4.29	33	6.5%
87	TUM Cluster of Excellence - Origin and Structure of the Universe (Excellence Cluster Universe), Germany	3.69	4.29	48	19.3%
88	National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, Slovenia	3.96	4.23	15	9.5%
89	J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), United States of America (USA)	6.23	4.23	23	-30.3%
90	National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), MOST, Taiwan	2.07	4.22	28	108.8%
91	Cluster of Excellence - Hamburg Center for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), UHH, Germany	2.46	4.20	29	75.2%
92	Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD), United States of America (USA)	2.50	4.19	17	72.2%
93	Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Portugal	3.17	4.12	24	33.2%
94	Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI), United States of America (USA)	2.70	4.08	18	54.8%
95	The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	1.19	4.05	17	249.1%
96	Leloir Institute, CONICET, Argentina	5.51	4.05	10	-24.6%
97	Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC), Japan	1.26	3.83	19	211.3%
98	Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway	2.50	3.78	23	55.2%
99	Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), HBKU, 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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