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	168.52	217.58	612	27.8%
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	235.99	213.15	661	-10.6%
3	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	223.28	210.26	543	-6.8%
4	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	184.24	189.43	556	1.7%
5	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	162.3	145.61	499	-11.2%
6	Tsinghua University, China	136.19	145.28	587	5.6%
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	124.99	144.75	392	14.6%
8	Peking University (PKU), China	141.49	141.37	580	-1.1%
9	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	123.35	131.25	502	5.3%
10	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	108.33	122.5	413	11.9%
11	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	126.58	116.3	435	-9.1%
12	Nanjing University (NJU), China	121.33	114.75	364	-6.4%
13	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	97.52	113.97	268	15.6%
14	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	92.52	112.43	341	20.2%
15	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	98.56	108.65	357	9.1%
16	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	109.1	104.33	334	-5.4%
17	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	90.76	103.61	405	13.0%
18	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	103.78	102.98	382	-1.8%
19	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	96.84	99.9	236	2.1%
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	100.45	91.09	272	-10.3%
21	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	90.4	89.25	190	-2.3%
22	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	95.26	87.56	309	-9.1%
23	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	98.44	83.69	280	-15.9%
24	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	91.56	80.75	298	-12.7%
25	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	63.75	79.28	234	23.1%
26	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	71.04	79.09	257	10.2%
27	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	80.18	77.81	361	-4.0%
28	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	84.79	77.7	271	-9.3%
29	Soochow University, China	74.22	75.72	144	1.0%
30	Kyoto University, Japan	70.38	74.61	241	4.9%
31	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	79.67	74.6	220	-7.3%
32	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	39.69	73.54	482	83.4%
33	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	48.42	72.36	237	47.9%
34	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	67.12	72.11	221	6.3%
35	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	70.74	71.18	254	-0.4%
36	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	54.64	70.29	281	27.3%
37	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	66.39	64.77	202	-3.5%
38	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	69.59	64.39	270	-8.5%
39	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	65.11	63.23	196	-3.9%
40	Fudan University, China	71.81	61.26	178	-15.6%
41	Tohoku University, Japan	78.56	59.94	188	-24.5%
42	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	71	59.25	222	-17.4%
43	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	60.18	58.79	224	-3.3%
44	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	63.83	58.36	227	-9.5%
45	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	59.69	58.12	216	-3.6%
46	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	67.23	56.71	283	-16.5%
47	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	58.1	55.8	201	-5.0%
48	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	56.62	55.18	257	-3.6%
49	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	48.81	54.77	269	11.0%
50	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	62.86	54.16	195	-14.7%
51	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	35.86	52.87	132	45.9%
52	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	69.46	51.92	244	-26.0%
53	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	48.24	51.19	117	5.0%
54	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	53.26	50.64	545	-5.9%
55	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	47.72	50.41	257	4.5%
56	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	48.5	49.95	214	1.9%
57	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	44.39	48.51	172	8.1%
58	University of Würzburg, Germany	38.2	47.58	169	23.3%
59	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	55.84	47.25	222	-16.3%
60	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	47.94	47.23	94	-2.5%
61	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	57.12	46.71	199	-19.1%
62	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	36.44	46.14	219	25.3%
63	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	46.5	45.56	232	-3.0%
64	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	57.64	44.8	120	-23.1%
65	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	46.81	44.67	157	-5.6%
66	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	48.56	44.26	176	-9.8%
67	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	47.68	44.07	222	-8.5%
68	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	39.53	43.8	170	9.6%
69	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	52.24	43.32	112	-18.0%
70	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	50.25	43.01	198	-15.3%
71	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	31.47	42.95	88	35.0%
72	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	52.76	42.82	185	-19.7%
73	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	44.04	42.3	103	-5.0%
74	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	37.19	41.69	171	10.9%
75	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	31.4	41.56	108	31.0%
76	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	43.5	40.6	188	-7.6%
77	Lund University (LU), Sweden	33.64	39.7	162	16.8%
78	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	34.97	39.61	91	12.1%
79	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	33.94	39.54	239	15.3%
80	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	27.34	39.5	198	42.9%
81	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	54.69	39.41	148	-28.7%
82	Wuhan University (WHU), China	32.98	39.37	120	18.1%
83	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	28.6	38.93	186	34.7%
84	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	32.75	38.69	140	16.9%
85	Osaka University, Japan	56.44	38.2	178	-33.0%
86	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	43.55	37.7	260	-14.3%
87	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	33.71	37.31	304	9.5%
88	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	30.3	36.75	282	20.0%
89	Beihang University (BUAA), China	39.26	36.27	177	-8.6%
90	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	38.32	36.22	206	-6.5%
91	Jilin University (JLU), China	25.51	36.01	88	39.7%
92	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	39.59	35.46	238	-11.4%
93	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	41.43	35.07	382	-16.2%
94	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	32.75	34.71	90	4.9%
95	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	37.68	34.66	73	-9.0%
96	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	29.34	34.42	139	16.1%
97	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	37.27	34.01	171	-9.7%
98	Leiden University, Netherlands	30.92	33.37	116	6.8%
99	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	32.12	33.28	66	2.5%
100	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	31.33	32.9	143	3.9%

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