2018 tables: Institutions - physical sciences - academic

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

2017	Institution	FC 2016	FC 2017	AC 2017	Change in Adjusted FC 2016-2017 ^*
1	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	168.61	216.26	608	27.6%
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	235.83	213.83	660	-9.8%
3	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	223.65	210.12	539	-6.5%
4	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	184.82	187.78	545	1.1%
5	Tsinghua University (TH), China	136.49	145.12	585	5.8%
6	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	162.21	143.65	490	-11.9%
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	124.59	141.73	392	13.2%
8	Peking University (PKU), China	142.08	140.78	580	-1.4%
9	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	124.79	132.46	502	5.6%
10	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	108.33	121.64	413	11.8%
11	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	126.52	115.78	431	-8.9%
12	Nanjing University (NJU), China	121.33	114.53	363	-6.1%
13	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	97.14	114.06	266	16.9%
14	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	92.58	111.43	339	19.8%
15	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	98.55	107.69	355	8.8%
16	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	109.09	104.33	333	-4.8%
17	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	90.63	102.96	400	13.1%
18	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	103.51	102.16	374	-1.8%
19	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	96.97	100.1	236	2.7%
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	100.45	90.34	273	-10.5%
21	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	90.6	88.25	189	-3.1%
22	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	95.17	86.47	307	-9.6%
23	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	98.36	83.54	277	-15.5%
24	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	91.57	79.32	289	-13.8%
25	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	64.68	79.23	232	21.9%
26	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	71.04	78.77	255	10.4%
27	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	80.24	77.68	361	-3.7%
28	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.5	76.63	268	-9.7%
29	Soochow University, China	73.43	75.65	144	2.5%
30	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	79.6	74.58	216	-6.8%
31	Kyoto University, Japan	70.38	74.11	241	4.8%
32	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	39.08	73.56	479	87.3%
33	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	71.24	71.95	254	0.5%
34	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	66.9	71.9	220	7.0%
35	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	54.63	68.67	277	25.1%
36	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	65.39	64.48	202	-1.9%
37	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	69.59	64.13	268	-8.3%
38	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	65.08	62.38	193	-4.6%
39	Fudan University, China	71.81	60.67	176	-15.9%
40	Tohoku University, Japan	77.84	59.01	186	-24.6%
41	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	70.94	58.8	222	-17.5%
42	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	65.21	58.39	229	-10.9%
43	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	60.02	57.55	221	-4.6%
44	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	59.69	57.5	216	-4.1%
45	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	48.81	55.8	274	13.8%
46	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	67.22	55.74	283	-17.5%
47	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	56.7	55.04	256	-3.4%
48	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	60.06	54.76	199	-9.3%
49	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	63.77	54.2	195	-15.4%
50	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	35.86	52.78	130	46.5%
51	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	69.16	51.82	243	-25.4%
52	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	48.24	51.19	117	5.6%
53	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	48.5	50.08	216	2.8%
54	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	47.61	49.73	253	4.0%
55	University of Würzburg, Germany	37.86	47.58	170	25.1%
56	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	47.94	47.28	94	-1.8%
57	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	55.76	46.9	221	-16.3%
58	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	35.57	46.46	222	30.0%
59	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	56.79	45.71	197	-19.9%
60	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	46.23	45.34	227	-2.4%
61	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	58.01	44.8	120	-23.1%
62	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	46.81	44.66	157	-5.0%
63	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	49.39	44.02	178	-11.3%
64	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	48.24	44	510	-9.2%
65	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	47.47	43.83	219	-8.1%
66	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	52.76	43.38	185	-18.2%
67	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	39.04	42.97	169	9.5%
68	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	31.47	42.95	88	35.8%
69	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	53.34	42.65	111	-20.4%
70	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	50.27	42.56	198	-15.7%
71	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	44.04	42.3	103	-4.4%
72	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	31.4	41.56	107	31.7%
73	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	37.19	39.6	166	6.0%
74	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.69	39.41	149	-28.3%
75	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	34.97	39.37	89	12.1%
76	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	27.17	39.26	195	43.8%
77	Wuhan University (WHU), China	32.99	39.18	119	18.2%
78	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	27.93	38.93	184	38.7%
79	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	33.45	38.18	235	13.6%
80	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	32.75	38.11	141	15.8%
81	Osaka University, Japan	56.44	37.74	180	-33.5%
82	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	43.56	37.68	259	-13.9%
83	Lund University (LU), Sweden	33.59	37.38	159	10.8%
84	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	30.31	36.85	284	21.0%
85	Jilin University (JLU), China	25.51	36.29	87	41.6%
86	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	38.39	36.13	204	-6.3%
87	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	33.41	36.01	301	7.3%
88	Beihang University (BUAA), China	38.68	35.02	177	-9.9%
89	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	40.83	34.92	176	-14.9%
90	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	41.15	34.74	377	-16.0%
91	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	32.75	34.71	91	5.5%
92	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	36.82	34.41	71	-7.0%
93	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	29.22	34.4	136	17.2%
94	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	26.1	33.99	158	29.6%
95	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	32.12	33.44	67	3.6%
96	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	37.27	33.27	172	-11.1%
97	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	24.93	32.84	108	31.1%
98	Nankai University (NKU), China	34.36	32.6	105	-5.6%
99	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	39.41	32.52	227	-17.9%
100	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	27.86	32.4	135	15.7%

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. It is important for users to understand that the data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, that they cover the natural sciences only and that outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output). We encourage users to combine the free-to-access Nature Index data with information from other sources.

The tables were last updated on 7 June 2018 with the most recent institution and article corrections.

^*The change in adjusted FC accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. FC values have been adjusted to 2017 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.

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