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)	610.22	612.01	1488	2.2%
2	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	314.47	341.92	828	10.8%
3	Max Planck Society, Germany	281.15	272.31	859	-1.3%
4	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	236.22	271.97	631	17.3%
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	212.66	206.77	667	-0.9%
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	208.5	200.16	740	-2.2%
7	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	193.05	175.03	402	-7.6%
8	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	165.91	172.73	480	6.1%
9	University of California San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	193.93	172.07	491	-9.6%
10	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	143.62	169.26	436	20.1%
11	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	157.43	168.36	412	9.0%
12	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	176.06	167.09	1096	-3.3%
13	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	193.18	165.79	503	-12.6%
14	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	152.71	152.75	420	1.9%
15	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	143.41	151.06	325	7.3%
16	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	168.34	149.93	482	-9.3%
17	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	122.44	147.51	365	22.7%
18	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	147.06	144.92	371	0.4%
19	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	113.71	139.62	267	25.1%
20	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	130.34	138.22	426	8.0%
21	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	144.57	136.21	349	-4.0%
22	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	130.03	124.85	498	-2.2%
23	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	115.75	121.28	321	6.8%
24	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	135.97	120.37	322	-9.8%
25	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	129.23	116.03	365	-8.5%
26	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	112.9	103.01	586	-7.0%
27	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	91.71	102.14	251	13.5%
28	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	84.47	102.05	258	23.1%
29	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	139.64	101.24	317	-26.1%
30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	96.62	100.68	273	6.2%
31	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	98.78	99.8	253	2.9%
32	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	100.45	99.57	202	1.0%
33	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	91.3	96.37	232	7.5%
34	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	100.12	93.17	251	-5.2%
35	Peking University (PKU), China	58.95	88.11	225	52.3%
36	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	72.1	85.2	253	20.4%
37	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	88.28	82.63	264	-4.6%
38	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	82.31	82.17	220	1.7%
39	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	62.81	81.97	172	33.0%
40	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	79.64	77.15	707	-1.3%
41	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	57.74	74.72	155	31.8%
42	The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), United States of America (USA)	81.47	74.67	208	-6.6%
43	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	87.8	74.55	241	-13.5%
44	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	94.63	74.4	205	-19.9%
45	McGill University, Canada	90.95	73.4	230	-17.8%
46	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	86.37	73.1	251	-13.8%
47	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	79.75	72.86	145	-6.9%
48	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	90.68	72.71	397	-18.3%
49	University of California Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	64.98	71.11	212	11.5%
50	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	54.86	70.58	264	31.1%
51	NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI), United States of America (USA)	79.24	68.37	210	-12.1%
52	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	67.92	67.98	295	2.0%
53	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	55.68	67.21	290	23.0%
54	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	70.21	66.61	205	-3.3%
55	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	67.5	65.35	182	-1.4%
56	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	67.1	63.27	217	-3.9%
57	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	70.51	63.02	248	-8.9%
58	RIKEN, Japan	54.36	60.04	198	12.5%
59	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	64.71	58.71	187	-7.6%
60	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	45.48	58.49	189	31.0%
61	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	62.64	57.83	141	-5.9%
62	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	41.89	57.61	135	40.1%
63	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	49.97	57.54	214	17.3%
64	Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), CAS, China	68.06	57	228	-14.7%
65	Tsinghua University (TH), China	50.93	56.68	182	13.4%
66	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	65.1	55.87	127	-12.6%
67	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	56.54	55.8	178	0.5%
68	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	46.37	55.56	323	22.1%
69	Kyoto University, Japan	53.68	55.33	157	5.0%
70	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	51.77	54.41	269	7.1%
71	University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	44.57	52.26	147	19.4%
72	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	54.45	51.31	125	-4.0%
73	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	54.84	50.83	159	-5.6%
74	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	59.61	50.35	137	-13.9%
75	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	48.67	50.25	172	5.2%
76	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	39	49.55	197	29.4%
77	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom (UK)	40.7	48.39	90	21.1%
78	Fudan University, China	32.84	47.52	145	47.4%
79	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	44.18	47.18	111	8.8%
80	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	47.93	47.14	143	0.2%
81	University of Colorado Denver \| Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	46.58	46.99	127	2.8%
82	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	52.43	46.77	117	-9.1%
83	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	58.18	46.54	157	-18.5%
84	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	50.58	45.98	137	-7.4%
85	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	42.89	45.46	145	8.0%
86	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany	34.19	43.88	148	30.8%
87	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	50.61	43.83	191	-11.8%
88	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	43.88	43.67	118	1.4%
89	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	30.74	43.14	155	43.0%
90	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	44.08	43.05	139	-0.5%
91	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	50.89	42.72	113	-14.5%
92	Leibniz Association, Germany	46.75	42.69	272	-7.0%
93	Osaka University, Japan	61.16	42.3	125	-29.5%
94	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	41.3	42.25	179	4.2%
95	Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Italy	41.63	42.07	201	3.0%
96	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	32.12	41.67	107	32.2%
97	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	42.39	41.29	208	-0.7%
98	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	37.23	40.88	101	11.9%
99	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	53.21	40.04	117	-23.3%
100	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	42.49	39.95	141	-4.2%

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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