2018 tables: Institutions - life sciences

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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	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	609.29	626.27	1513	1.5%
2	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	313.68	346.47	842	9.0%
3	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	234.89	275.79	647	15.9%
4	Max Planck Society, Germany	280.79	275.34	873	-3.2%
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	210.46	209.46	669	-1.7%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	205.01	200.19	749	-3.6%
7	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	192.92	178.51	408	-8.6%
8	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	170.81	174.9	1140	1.1%
9	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	165.6	173.67	485	3.5%
10	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	157.43	172.54	423	8.2%
11	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	142.96	170.58	444	17.8%
12	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	189.65	169.39	491	-11.8%
13	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	180.87	167.55	512	-8.5%
14	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	169.87	156.43	500	-9.1%
15	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	156.45	156.36	438	-1.3%
16	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	143.42	153.14	328	5.4%
17	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	120.32	149.13	370	22.4%
18	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	146.34	147.53	380	-0.5%
19	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	113.71	141.46	271	22.8%
20	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	130.34	138.75	432	5.1%
21	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	132.59	131.81	336	-1.9%
22	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	128.8	126.8	509	-2.8%
23	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	117.07	124.02	330	4.6%
24	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	135.51	122.82	339	-10.5%
25	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	129.23	120.17	375	-8.2%
26	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	111.72	106.43	609	-5.9%
27	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	138.9	104.44	329	-25.8%
28	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	83.91	103.1	264	21.3%
29	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	96.56	102.34	276	4.6%
30	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	89.49	101.83	250	12.3%
31	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	97.95	100.04	258	0.8%
32	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	100.45	99.76	203	-1.9%
33	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	91.3	96.71	234	4.6%
34	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	98.92	93.98	254	-6.2%
35	Peking University (PKU), China	57.88	89.51	231	52.7%
36	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	69.58	88.23	265	25.2%
37	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	82.31	85.02	231	2.0%
38	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	88.23	84.72	267	-5.2%
39	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	62.31	82.49	174	30.7%
40	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	85.88	78.05	208	-10.3%
41	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	78.88	76.62	727	-4.1%
42	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	94.38	75.31	207	-21.2%
43	McGill University, Canada	89.95	74.94	240	-17.7%
44	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	85.5	74.91	260	-13.5%
45	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	56.9	74.42	157	29.1%
46	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	85.27	73.27	237	-15.2%
47	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	74.25	73.2	407	-2.7%
48	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	79.75	73.18	147	-9.4%
49	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	53.51	72.09	269	33.0%
50	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	64.73	71.37	214	8.9%
51	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	59.56	69.46	316	15.1%
52	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	68.1	69.33	306	0.5%
53	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	66.36	69.13	212	2.8%
54	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	66.81	65.14	182	-3.8%
55	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	67.17	64.21	227	-5.6%
56	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	70.51	63.48	253	-11.1%
57	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	44.67	59.56	198	31.6%
58	RIKEN, Japan	54.97	59.43	200	6.7%
59	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	63.79	59.31	185	-8.2%
60	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	60.84	57.93	140	-6.0%
61	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	38.41	57.85	136	48.7%
62	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	49.74	57.8	221	14.7%
63	Tsinghua University, China	49.31	57.65	185	15.4%
64	Kyoto University, Japan	50.94	57.17	160	10.8%
65	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	56.2	55.74	183	-2.1%
66	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	62.93	55.52	125	-12.9%
67	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	51.48	55.45	277	6.3%
68	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	46.31	54.89	327	17.0%
69	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	59.83	53.3	197	-12.1%
70	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	42.91	52.5	152	20.8%
71	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	54.43	51.68	123	-6.3%
72	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	48.67	51.42	178	4.3%
73	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	59.61	51.31	140	-15.0%
74	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	38.62	49.74	204	27.2%
75	Fudan University, China	33.05	49.47	150	47.8%
76	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	52.43	48.11	123	-9.4%
77	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	44.18	47.96	115	7.2%
78	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	47.93	47.51	143	-2.1%
79	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	46.58	47.26	130	0.2%
80	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	50.56	47.13	139	-8.0%
81	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	58.06	46.48	157	-21.0%
82	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	42.87	45.68	144	5.2%
83	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	30.16	44.84	156	46.8%
84	Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Italy	40.06	44.4	203	9.4%
85	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany	33.44	44.18	151	30.4%
86	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	50.61	43.78	191	-14.6%
87	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	43.88	43.65	118	-1.8%
88	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	41.12	43.19	185	3.7%
89	Leibniz Association, Germany	46.47	43.16	279	-8.3%
90	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	50.89	42.81	113	-16.9%
91	Osaka University, Japan	61.87	42.64	128	-31.9%
92	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	31.22	41.96	109	32.7%
93	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	38.97	41.88	146	6.1%
94	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	42.31	41.68	213	-2.7%
95	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	37.23	41.18	105	9.2%
96	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	53.21	40.8	122	-24.3%
97	University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA)	32.32	39.99	102	22.1%
98	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	47.44	39.45	109	-17.9%
99	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	34.47	39.05	120	11.8%
100	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	32.36	38.64	110	17.9%

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