2018 tables: Institutions - life sciences

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) 607.04 629.13 1,536 1.5%
2 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 314.32 350.11 858 9.1%
3 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 235.09 277.08 658 15.5%
4 Max Planck Society, Germany 280.57 276.51 885 -3.5%
5 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 210.47 211.05 676 -1.8%
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 207.02 203.64 764 -3.6%
7 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 192.92 178.56 410 -9.3%
8 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 170.27 176.78 1,174 1.7%
9 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 165.25 174.26 495 3.3%
10 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 158.68 174.19 439 7.5%
11 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 142.96 170.92 452 17.1%
12 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 190.97 169.81 503 -12.9%
13 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 180.79 167.88 524 -9.0%
14 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 170.98 159.48 522 -8.6%
15 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 156.39 157.62 451 -1.3%
16 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 143.42 153.29 334 4.7%
17 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 120.32 150.31 381 22.4%
18 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 146.34 147.66 388 -1.1%
19 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 114.38 141.55 275 21.2%
20 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 129.71 139.03 436 5.0%
21 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 133.58 132.24 342 -3.0%
22 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 117.74 124.89 335 3.9%
23 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 135.51 123.42 347 -10.8%
24 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 129.17 120.46 384 -8.6%
25 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 119.98 114.51 402 -6.5%
26 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 111.89 107.87 622 -5.6%
27 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 139.56 105.90 338 -25.7%
28 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA) 83.85 105.62 272 23.4%
29 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 96.56 102.86 283 4.4%
30 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 88.74 102.04 255 12.6%
31 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 97.95 100.65 262 0.7%
32 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 100.45 99.77 204 -2.7%
33 The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA) 89.16 97.11 241 6.7%
34 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 98.92 94.07 257 -6.8%
35 Peking University (PKU), China 57.86 89.67 231 51.8%
36 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 88.23 85.76 274 -4.8%
37 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 82.31 85.28 235 1.5%
38 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 67.73 84.87 272 22.8%
39 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 62.14 82.82 176 30.6%
40 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 79.51 79.41 755 -2.2%
41 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 85.88 78.08 209 -10.9%
42 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 85.98 76.74 267 -12.6%
43 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 93.97 75.62 213 -21.2%
44 McGill University, Canada 89.94 74.88 245 -18.4%
45 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 85.38 74.62 246 -14.4%
46 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 56.91 74.42 157 28.1%
47 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 79.75 73.22 148 -10.1%
48 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 53.50 72.10 274 32.0%
49 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 63.75 72.04 219 10.7%
50 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 68.10 69.58 313 0.1%
51 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 66.40 69.27 215 2.2%
52 Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA) 70.51 63.91 263 -11.2%
53 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 66.24 63.40 236 -6.2%
54 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 65.33 62.45 186 -6.4%
55 The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 43.76 61.36 144 37.4%
56 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 65.45 60.91 283 -8.8%
57 RIKEN, Japan 54.97 60.53 207 7.9%
58 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 63.79 59.99 186 -7.9%
59 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 44.63 59.67 202 31.0%
60 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 49.73 58.41 230 15.1%
61 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 38.46 58.41 138 48.8%
62 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 55.20 58.22 193 3.3%
63 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 60.88 58.13 142 -6.5%
64 Tsinghua University, China 49.31 57.66 185 14.6%
65 Kyoto University, Japan 50.94 57.24 161 10.1%
66 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 51.20 55.56 284 6.3%
67 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 62.93 55.53 126 -13.6%
68 Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK) 49.77 55.39 180 9.0%
69 University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA) 60.10 54.48 203 -11.2%
70 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 43.91 52.53 154 17.2%
71 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 59.61 52.21 142 -14.2%
72 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 54.43 51.84 125 -6.7%
73 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 38.53 50.32 211 27.9%
74 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 47.60 50.01 184 2.9%
75 Fudan University, China 33.05 49.55 151 46.9%
76 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 48.21 48.66 146 -1.1%
77 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 52.43 48.26 125 -9.8%
78 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel 44.14 48.04 118 6.6%
79 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 50.42 47.78 145 -7.2%
80 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 46.58 47.70 135 0.3%
81 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 58.06 47.65 160 -19.6%
82 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 42.87 46.59 146 6.5%
83 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 30.16 45.53 160 47.9%
84 Leibniz Association, Germany 48.12 45.00 283 -8.4%
85 Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS), Italy 40.25 44.99 209 9.5%
86 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 33.46 44.83 154 31.3%
87 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 50.48 43.93 195 -14.8%
88 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 43.81 43.69 119 -2.3%
89 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 41.12 43.60 192 3.9%
90 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 50.89 43.55 117 -16.2%
91 Osaka University, Japan 61.87 43.40 130 -31.3%
92 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 38.32 43.32 217 10.7%
93 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 38.97 42.29 153 6.3%
94 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 31.28 42.06 110 31.8%
95 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 42.31 42.00 220 -2.7%
96 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 37.23 41.19 106 8.4%
97 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 53.21 40.80 123 -24.9%
98 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 32.35 39.93 102 20.9%
99 Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA) 52.42 39.92 139 -25.4%
100 The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA) 47.44 39.67 114 -18.1%

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, selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2020 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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