2018 tables: Institutions - biological sciences - academic

The 2018 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.

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# Institution Share 2016 Share 2017 Count 2017 Change in Adjusted Share* 2016–2017
1 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 607.17 636.65 1571 2.0%
2 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 235.05 279.64 665 15.7%
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 207.02 204.99 777 -3.7%
4 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 192.92 180.21 414 -9.2%
5 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 164.24 174.79 482 3.5%
6 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 158.68 174.66 446 7.0%
7 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 142.86 173.76 460 18.3%
8 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 190.84 170.34 510 -13.2%
9 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 180.88 169.08 529 -9.1%
10 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 170.98 159.93 524 -9.0%
11 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 156.39 159.66 461 -0.7%
12 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 143.24 154.72 349 5.0%
13 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 120.32 150.81 384 21.9%
14 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 144.73 147.35 393 -1.0%
15 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 114.22 142.32 276 21.2%
16 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 129.71 139.69 442 4.7%
17 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 133.58 132.28 343 -3.7%
18 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 117.74 125.08 337 3.3%
19 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 135.38 123.70 349 -11.1%
20 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 129.17 120.66 387 -9.2%
21 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 119.93 115.20 410 -6.6%
22 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 139.56 107.52 344 -25.1%
23 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 96.56 103.77 286 4.5%
24 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 88.74 102.06 256 11.8%
25 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 97.95 101.32 264 0.6%
26 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 100.45 99.77 204 -3.4%
27 The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA) 89.16 97.42 244 6.2%
28 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 98.92 94.47 259 -7.1%
29 Peking University (PKU), China 57.86 89.67 231 50.7%
30 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 88.48 87.02 280 -4.4%
31 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 82.31 85.86 238 1.4%
32 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 67.73 84.90 273 21.9%
33 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 62.14 82.82 176 29.6%
34 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 85.25 77.08 250 -12.1%
35 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 85.98 76.81 269 -13.1%
36 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 93.97 76.33 219 -21.0%
37 McGill University, Canada 89.94 75.02 247 -18.9%
38 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 56.91 74.42 157 27.2%
39 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 79.75 73.22 148 -10.7%
40 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 53.44 72.72 278 32.3%
41 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 63.75 72.10 220 10.0%
42 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 68.11 69.59 315 -0.6%
43 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 66.40 69.46 218 1.7%
44 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 66.24 63.60 238 -6.6%
45 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), MSHS, United States of America (USA) 70.48 62.72 270 -13.5%
46 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 65.33 62.53 189 -6.9%
47 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 65.41 62.34 290 -7.3%
48 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 63.79 61.09 189 -6.9%
49 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 55.20 60.03 195 5.8%
50 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 44.63 59.67 202 30.0%
51 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 49.24 58.45 232 15.4%
52 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 38.46 58.41 138 47.7%
53 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 60.88 58.14 142 -7.1%
54 Kyoto University, Japan 50.94 57.67 162 10.1%
55 Tsinghua University, China 49.31 57.66 185 13.7%
56 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 62.93 56.33 127 -13.0%
57 University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMass Chan Medical School), United States of America (USA) 60.10 54.61 206 -11.6%
58 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 59.61 53.36 145 -13.0%
59 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 43.91 52.53 154 16.3%
60 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 54.43 51.84 125 -7.4%
61 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 38.80 50.60 213 26.8%
62 Fudan University, China 33.23 49.77 154 45.6%
63 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 48.21 49.76 149 0.4%
64 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 47.45 49.59 186 1.6%
65 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 52.43 49.23 126 -8.7%
66 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 46.58 48.72 140 1.7%
67 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel 44.14 48.20 119 6.2%
68 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 58.34 47.97 162 -20.0%
69 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 50.42 47.78 145 -7.8%
70 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 42.87 46.62 147 5.7%
71 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 29.69 45.46 158 48.9%
72 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 50.48 45.03 201 -13.3%
73 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 33.46 44.83 154 30.3%
74 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 38.32 44.75 220 13.6%
75 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 43.81 44.74 121 -0.7%
76 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 50.89 43.83 120 -16.2%
77 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 38.97 43.72 158 9.1%
78 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 41.12 43.65 194 3.2%
79 Osaka University, Japan 61.87 43.40 130 -31.8%
80 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 31.28 42.06 110 30.8%
81 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 37.23 41.19 106 7.6%
82 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 53.21 40.80 123 -25.4%
83 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 32.35 39.93 102 20.0%
84 The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA) 47.44 39.67 114 -18.7%
85 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 37.86 39.56 129 1.6%
86 Monash University, Australia 34.97 39.53 152 9.9%
87 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 40.08 39.43 241 -4.3%
88 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 34.47 39.09 123 10.3%
89 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 32.40 38.81 116 16.5%
90 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 39.08 38.39 134 -4.5%
91 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 24.53 38.04 236 50.8%
92 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 37.52 38.02 147 -1.5%
93 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 39.08 37.78 147 -6.0%
94 Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA) 33.02 36.23 99 6.7%
95 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 32.26 35.67 183 7.5%
96 University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA) 30.59 35.20 86 11.9%
97 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 29.41 34.98 88 15.7%
98 Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel 25.01 34.28 106 33.3%
99 University of Helsinki, Finland 28.77 34.12 158 15.3%
100 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 38.42 33.51 173 -15.2%

Footnote

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. Users please note:

  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals through 2022, in 2023 64 health-science journals were added to the Index. The 146 journals in the Nature Index were selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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