2019 tables: Institutions - academic

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The 2019 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.

2018	Institution	FC 2017	FC 2018	AC 2018	Change in Adjusted FC 2017-2018 ^*
1	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	906.36	845.54	2290	-8.6%
2	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	613.94	604.05	1460	-3.7%
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	530.36	552.57	1659	2.0%
4	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	417.57	431.75	1258	1.2%
5	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	470.39	426.71	1085	-11.2%
6	Peking University (PKU), China	393.64	403.74	1396	0.4%
7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	382.31	396.8	990	1.6%
8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	405.45	396.58	1169	-4.2%
9	Tsinghua University, China	354.44	386.15	1278	6.7%
10	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	406.56	381.51	1171	-8.1%
11	Nanjing University (NJU), China	328.18	381.32	919	13.8%
12	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	304.73	338.94	970	8.9%
13	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	302.67	335.28	834	8.5%
14	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	334.6	326.98	815	-4.3%
15	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	295.68	325.74	712	7.9%
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	320.77	324.3	932	-1.0%
17	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	328.09	320.7	908	-4.3%
18	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	284.98	316.22	769	8.7%
19	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	256.89	315.01	1791	20.1%
20	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	307.65	302.26	893	-3.8%
21	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	278.75	293.12	717	3.0%
22	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	243.08	281.56	680	13.4%
23	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	268.7	280.76	831	2.3%
24	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	250.45	279.85	702	9.4%
25	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	260.68	278.27	858	4.5%
26	Kyoto University, Japan	306.97	278.01	694	-11.3%
27	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	306.81	276.99	808	-11.6%
28	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	267.5	271.1	630	-0.8%
29	Fudan University, China	205.49	247.11	641	17.8%
30	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	229.88	246.82	657	5.1%
31	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	223.27	239.07	586	4.8%
32	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	220.92	237.53	935	5.3%
33	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	201.28	236.56	604	15.1%
34	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	241.77	229.09	560	-7.2%
35	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	240.36	224.27	733	-8.6%
36	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	169.46	221.01	667	27.7%
37	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	217.39	220.6	419	-0.6%
38	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	207.4	214.76	529	1.4%
39	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	185.29	209.73	564	10.8%
40	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	203.31	207.04	866	-0.3%
41	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	198.53	206.07	552	1.6%
42	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	209.02	202.09	449	-5.3%
43	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	223.11	200.7	621	-11.9%
44	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	256.61	197.6	601	-24.6%
45	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	181.12	196.82	604	6.4%
46	Nankai University (NKU), China	155.64	196.36	526	23.5%
47	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	179.42	193.3	598	5.5%
48	Soochow University, China	161.11	187.76	344	14.1%
49	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	151.65	185.99	448	20.1%
50	Wuhan University (WHU), China	159.81	180.91	354	10.8%
51	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	174.97	179.88	622	0.7%
52	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	200.69	179.4	536	-12.5%
53	Sichuan University (SCU), China	126.88	178.96	310	38.1%
54	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	197.25	175.07	445	-13.1%
55	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	150.34	170.24	516	10.9%
56	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	175.41	169.56	383	-5.3%
57	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	169.73	168.25	493	-2.9%
58	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	186.92	167.79	621	-12.1%
59	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	164.35	164.1	418	-2.2%
60	Osaka University, Japan	188.53	162.12	448	-15.8%
61	Tohoku University, Japan	144.06	159.39	404	8.3%
62	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	141.91	155.7	554	7.4%
63	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	164.49	153.76	412	-8.5%
64	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	152.94	153.67	317	-1.6%
65	Xiamen University (XMU), China	146.15	149.34	282	0.1%
66	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	148.55	149.26	430	-1.6%
67	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	134.17	148.1	493	8.1%
68	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	114.29	147.16	377	26.1%
69	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	117.92	146.27	417	21.5%
70	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	171.18	144.64	427	-17.3%
71	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	149.19	144.6	441	-5.1%
72	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	164.5	142.95	492	-14.9%
73	McGill University, Canada	148.07	139.1	455	-8.0%
74	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	159.38	138.05	523	-15.2%
75	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	130.06	137.07	479	3.2%
76	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	153.28	136.84	416	-12.6%
77	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	117.93	136.54	310	13.4%
78	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	149.41	133.24	409	-12.7%
79	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	130.74	130.22	524	-2.5%
80	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	112.5	127.17	295	10.7%
81	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	120.49	126.97	412	3.2%
82	Nagoya University, Japan	120.41	126.3	382	2.7%
83	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	129.6	124.24	431	-6.1%
84	University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	135.03	122.94	301	-10.8%
85	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	127.78	121.81	547	-6.7%
86	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	127.59	121.61	322	-6.7%
87	Monash University, Australia	111.88	120.11	434	5.1%
88	Hunan University (HNU), China	88.6	117.73	228	30.1%
89	University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia	103.06	117.58	395	11.7%
90	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	126.67	117.06	489	-9.5%
91	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	153.56	114.95	249	-26.7%
92	Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), India	98.33	111.08	226	10.6%
93	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	107.4	110.87	218	1.1%
94	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	101.09	110.85	332	7.4%
95	Tianjin University (TJU), China	78.59	110.25	516	37.4%
96	Jilin University (JLU), China	101.36	108.88	260	5.2%
97	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	109.51	108.39	310	-3.1%
98	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	118.45	108.26	459	-10.5%
99	Shandong University (SDU), China	89.65	108.22	388	18.2%
100	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	119.3	107.67	343	-11.6%
101	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	98.17	107.35	219	7.1%
102	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	116.82	107.23	243	-10.1%
103	Hokkaido University, Japan	117.1	106.66	266	-10.8%
104	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	103.96	105.77	291	-0.4%
105	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	85.88	105.01	248	19.7%
106	University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	104.16	104.75	309	-1.5%
107	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	110.85	104.22	333	-7.9%
108	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	82.41	104.17	218	23.8%
109	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	121.48	103.95	350	-16.2%
110	Tongji University, China	75.28	103.8	323	35.0%
111	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	111.02	103.76	245	-8.5%
112	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	89.05	103.47	223	13.8%
113	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	88.77	101.17	471	11.6%
114	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	89.93	100.38	367	9.3%
115	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	119.55	100.06	289	-18.0%
116	University of Göttingen, Germany	104.92	99.53	321	-7.1%
117	Uppsala University (UU), Sweden	97.38	99.45	397	0.0%
118	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	84.59	99.13	327	14.8%
119	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	88.75	98.99	262	9.2%
120	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	86.32	98.84	220	12.1%
121	Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) - Paris 6, France	107.23	98.37	950	-10.2%
122	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	101.65	97.9	309	-5.7%
123	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	86.92	96.9	307	9.2%
124	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	110.13	96.58	309	-14.1%
125	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	72.68	94.9	248	27.9%
126	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	99.4	94.87	314	-6.5%
127	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	116.05	94.65	351	-20.1%
128	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	93.19	93.77	356	-1.5%
129	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	80.05	92.05	348	12.6%
130	University of Würzburg, Germany	118.86	92.02	283	-24.2%
131	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	88.08	91.82	243	2.1%
132	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	89.26	90.92	469	-0.3%
133	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	76.82	90.71	289	15.6%
134	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	93.06	89.8	328	-5.5%
135	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China	69.14	89.17	293	26.3%
136	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	89.62	87.66	292	-4.2%
137	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China	67.65	87.66	257	26.9%
138	Aarhus University (AU), Denmark	80.35	87.22	262	6.3%
139	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	95.45	87.02	449	-10.7%
140	Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA)	81.61	86.95	333	4.3%
141	Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU), Germany	68.35	85.79	264	22.9%
142	Kyushu University, Japan	97.01	85.75	283	-13.4%
143	University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany	76.01	85.55	291	10.2%
144	Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany	92.34	85.55	467	-9.3%
145	Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China	63.99	85.53	160	30.9%
146	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	86.62	85.34	217	-3.5%
147	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	111.69	84.32	260	-26.1%
148	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	78.23	84.06	270	5.2%
149	Stockholm University, Sweden	82.17	83.85	408	-0.1%
150	Yonsei University, South Korea	74.17	83.19	206	9.8%
151	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	78.06	82.75	454	3.8%
152	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany	94.77	82.39	268	-14.9%
153	University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA)	68.32	81.63	252	17.0%
154	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	87.8	81.5	249	-9.1%
155	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	81.7	81.48	338	-2.3%
156	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	90.66	81.24	259	-12.3%
157	University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA)	86.34	80.79	260	-8.4%
158	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	90.86	80.23	354	-13.5%
159	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	72.84	79.85	244	7.3%
160	Ghent University (UGent), Belgium	64.31	78.82	295	20.0%
161	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	100.45	78.68	265	-23.3%
162	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	84.53	77.53	191	-10.2%
163	Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China	50.75	77.38	177	49.3%
164	The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA)	67.21	77.2	189	12.5%
165	University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA)	78.42	77.02	309	-3.8%
166	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	75.59	76.75	258	-0.6%
167	Southeast University (SEU), China	75.78	76.06	149	-1.7%
168	The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia	69.09	75.4	321	6.9%
169	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	75.28	75.34	310	-2.0%
170	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	71.17	75.08	326	3.3%
171	Leiden University, Netherlands	85.79	75.01	289	-14.4%
172	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	80.78	74.59	213	-9.6%
173	Beihang University (BUAA), China	53.73	74.14	252	35.1%
174	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	58.13	74.13	273	24.9%
175	Lund University (LU), Sweden	83.89	73.86	292	-13.8%
176	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	82.06	73.5	280	-12.3%
177	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	76.2	73.28	331	-5.8%
178	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK)	76.97	73.17	336	-6.9%
179	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	77.16	73.12	209	-7.2%
180	Iowa State University, United States of America (USA)	66.83	73.11	218	7.1%
181	The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China	93.48	73.06	293	-23.5%
182	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), MSHS, United States of America (USA)	63.72	72.78	237	11.8%
183	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	68.38	71.88	197	2.9%
184	Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China	53.13	71.86	159	32.4%
185	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	67.34	71.05	250	3.3%
186	University of Bern, Switzerland	63.99	70.7	279	8.2%
187	Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China	52.15	70.33	166	32.1%
188	University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany	80.43	69.81	280	-15.0%
189	University of Paris Sud (UPSud), France	72.07	69.72	559	-5.3%
190	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	82.43	69.54	279	-17.4%
191	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	50.13	68.53	175	33.9%
192	University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA)	66.25	68.27	220	0.9%
193	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	78.19	68.11	159	-14.7%
194	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	61.9	67.81	222	7.3%
195	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	83.21	67.47	237	-20.6%
196	The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK)	76.47	67.29	247	-13.8%
197	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	52.39	66.43	108	24.2%
198	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	62.83	66.3	156	3.3%
199	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany	72.72	66.2	476	-10.9%
200	University of Vienna, Austria	66.68	66.07	238	-3.0%
201	Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands	77.15	65.77	385	-16.5%
202	University of Waterloo, Canada	68.48	65.22	145	-6.7%
203	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	69.46	64.96	303	-8.4%
204	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	66.42	64.49	294	-4.9%
205	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	71.39	63.68	171	-12.7%
206	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	66.96	62.72	152	-8.3%
207	Fuzhou University (FZU), China	42.97	62.62	102	42.7%
208	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany	67.14	61.8	154	-9.9%
209	University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA)	53.02	61.45	170	13.5%
210	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA)	57.02	60.9	212	4.6%
211	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	61.01	60.71	210	-2.6%
212	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK)	65.78	60.32	226	-10.2%
213	University of Helsinki, Finland	60.12	59.28	301	-3.4%
214	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	55.96	59.01	173	3.3%
215	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	52.89	58.41	202	8.1%
216	University of Barcelona (UB), Spain	69.59	57.88	268	-18.6%
217	University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada	63.74	57.76	138	-11.3%
218	University of Cologne (UoC), Germany	54.7	57.56	207	3.0%
219	Central South University (CSU), China	45.86	56.83	169	21.3%
220	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	56.25	56.44	328	-1.7%
221	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	38.61	56.38	142	43.0%
222	Southwest University (SWU), China	62.75	56.33	87	-12.1%
223	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK)	57.23	55.94	190	-4.3%
224	University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA)	53.08	55.67	167	2.7%
225	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	54.93	55.49	206	-1.1%
226	Chongqing University (CQU), China	38.38	54.81	122	39.8%
227	Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany	55.93	54.45	154	-4.7%
228	Western University (UWO), Canada	46.24	54.41	117	15.2%
229	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	47.1	54.19	145	12.7%
230	The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK)	60.68	54.09	169	-12.7%
231	Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA)	57.92	53.99	151	-8.7%
232	Keio University, Japan	62.34	53.57	121	-15.9%
233	The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA)	48.81	53.51	180	7.4%
234	University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA)	48.81	53.46	157	7.3%
235	City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China	43.68	53.34	195	19.6%
236	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	55.26	53.32	372	-5.5%
237	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA)	46.16	53.11	138	12.7%
238	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	32.85	52.78	170	57.3%
239	University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK)	53.51	52.73	286	-3.5%
240	University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA)	71.87	52.68	169	-28.2%
241	Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK)	44.24	52.49	254	16.2%
242	University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK)	51.84	52.42	259	-1.0%
243	Northwest University (NWU), China	34.63	52.42	115	48.2%
244	University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA)	46.55	52.18	147	9.8%
245	Shenzhen University (SZU), China	33.4	51.83	175	52.0%
246	University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain	54.58	51.75	215	-7.1%
247	University of Strasbourg, France	57.42	51.7	354	-11.8%
248	Korea University (KU), South Korea	55.92	51.66	210	-9.5%
249	The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA)	49.97	51.63	207	1.2%
250	University of Calgary (U of C), Canada	53.12	51.07	202	-5.9%
251	Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK)	39.25	50.72	187	26.5%
252	Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA)	60.55	50.67	281	-18.1%
253	The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA)	46.7	50.39	186	5.7%
254	University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal	39.47	50.14	240	24.4%
255	Tufts University, United States of America (USA)	47.46	49.56	242	2.3%
256	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France	55.19	49.07	505	-12.9%
257	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	54.03	48.86	186	-11.5%
258	The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA)	41.61	48.86	245	15.0%
259	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands	41.05	48.8	295	16.4%
260	University of York, United Kingdom (UK)	42.78	48.73	152	11.5%
261	National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan	61.45	48.63	182	-22.5%
262	University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil	56.86	48.48	234	-16.5%
263	Jinan University (JNU), China	30.89	48.32	136	53.2%
264	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	52.35	48.19	148	-9.8%
265	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	45.59	47.73	222	2.5%
266	University of Warsaw (UW), Poland	34.56	47.69	175	35.1%
267	University of Toulouse, France	50.16	47.64	380	-7.0%
268	University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA)	36.37	47.45	140	27.8%
269	University of Valencia (UV), Spain	44.86	47.44	223	3.5%
270	Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia	47.6	47.06	296	-3.2%
271	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel	47.15	46.65	116	-3.1%
272	Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China	25.22	46.57	122	80.8%
273	China Agricultural University (CAU), China	31.43	46.32	106	44.3%
274	Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), China	31.25	45.94	86	44.0%
275	Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA)	43.19	45.6	150	3.4%
276	Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	40.04	45.48	127	11.2%
277	University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China	41.38	45.48	104	7.6%
278	Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France	47.88	45.39	403	-7.2%
279	Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany	46.04	44.96	125	-4.4%
280	Oregon State University, United States of America (USA)	56.51	44.8	147	-22.4%
281	Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands	51.68	44.14	154	-16.4%
282	Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France	60.67	43.69	473	-29.5%
283	University of Missouri (Mizzou), United States of America (USA)	34.29	43.21	127	23.4%
284	University of Bordeaux, France	40.6	43.08	238	3.9%
285	University of Kiel (CAU), Germany	30.66	42.86	159	36.9%
286	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	64.8	42.3	156	-36.1%
287	Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA)	37.83	42.2	169	9.2%
288	The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia	42.56	42.13	213	-3.1%
289	Aalto University, Finland	40.53	42.11	195	1.8%
290	University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA)	41.18	42.09	95	0.1%
291	University of Stuttgart, Germany	40.75	41.74	138	0.3%
292	Brandeis University, United States of America (USA)	43.83	41.64	116	-7.0%
293	University of Lyon, France	44.56	41.57	380	-8.7%
294	University of Montpellier, France	41.66	41.5	314	-2.5%
295	Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), China	31.99	41.34	92	26.5%
296	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA)	39.45	40.71	143	1.0%
297	University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden	31.76	40.17	130	23.9%
298	University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy	40.83	40.1	248	-3.8%
299	Shanghai University (SHU), China	40.64	40.04	122	-3.5%
300	McMaster University, Canada	46.82	39.48	97	-17.4%
301	China Pharmaceutical University (CPU), China	34.38	39.22	65	11.7%
302	Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain	38.35	38.95	174	-0.5%
303	Northeast Normal University (NENU), China	39.95	38.77	72	-5.0%
304	Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China	27.03	38.57	91	39.7%
305	The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA)	37.59	38.16	185	-0.6%
306	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China	25.44	37.86	146	45.7%
307	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	40.16	37.85	303	-7.7%
308	Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK)	40.18	37.75	174	-8.0%
309	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA)	37.48	37.65	78	-1.6%
310	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany	24.09	37.51	122	52.5%
311	Ulm University, Germany	33.26	37.51	145	10.4%
312	Leipzig University, Germany	49.93	37.49	151	-26.5%
313	University of Tsukuba, Japan	39.94	37.38	181	-8.3%
314	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway	24.5	37.22	113	48.8%
315	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany	32.84	37.19	125	10.9%
316	Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), China	34.05	37.12	81	6.7%
317	Queen's University, Canada	25.12	36.83	148	43.6%
318	University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria	33.35	36.46	152	7.1%
319	Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea	45.56	36.26	152	-22.1%
320	ShanghaiTech University, China	23.73	35.95	162	48.4%
321	Curtin University, Australia	30.16	35.92	137	16.6%
322	Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany	39.18	35.86	165	-10.4%
323	University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands	25.04	35.69	82	39.6%
324	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China	32.67	35.64	135	6.8%
325	University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany	43.02	35.54	121	-19.1%
326	University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany	43.81	35.34	92	-21.0%
327	The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia	37.97	35.12	189	-9.4%
328	Temple University, United States of America (USA)	43.5	34.8	98	-21.7%
329	Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel	29.42	34.57	78	15.0%
330	University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK)	32.52	33.99	103	2.3%
331	University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA)	30.18	33.78	131	9.6%
332	Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), China	22.78	33.68	74	44.8%
333	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China	37.33	33.48	113	-12.2%
334	University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy	33.39	33.32	173	-2.3%
335	Kanazawa University (KU), Japan	27.62	33.21	92	17.7%
336	Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada	33.38	32.99	151	-3.2%
337	Central China Normal University (CCNU), China	45.46	32.89	94	-29.2%
338	University of Victoria (UVic), Canada	32.92	32.83	155	-2.4%
339	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium	41.64	32.82	167	-22.8%
340	University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain	31.79	32.67	114	0.6%
341	Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China	16.09	32.31	63	96.6%
342	University of Konstanz, Germany	41.2	31.99	83	-24.0%
343	The University of Dublin, Ireland	48.69	31.69	114	-36.3%
344	Giessen University (JLU), Germany	23.45	31.62	137	32.0%
345	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA)	24.49	31.24	78	24.9%
346	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea	17.6	31	67	72.5%
347	University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy	28.25	30.88	261	7.0%
348	University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA)	36.19	30.81	116	-16.6%
349	Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland	31.4	30.76	127	-4.1%
350	Laval University (UL), Canada	26.96	30.66	101	11.4%
351	Drexel University, United States of America (USA)	26.67	30.63	99	12.4%
352	Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA)	29.5	30.25	63	0.4%
353	University of Hannover (LUH), Germany	30.6	30.11	98	-3.6%
354	The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA)	36.43	30.07	47	-19.2%
355	Linköping University (LiU), Sweden	37.08	30.03	103	-20.7%
356	University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK)	25.53	29.61	83	13.6%
357	University of Turin (UNITO), Italy	24.56	29.51	189	17.7%
358	TU Dortmund University, Germany	41.81	29.41	142	-31.1%
359	Henan University (HENU), China	17.65	29.3	56	62.6%
360	Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain	34.54	29.22	212	-17.2%
361	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan	21.17	29.08	62	34.5%
362	Charles University (CU), Czech Republic	29.75	29.03	247	-4.4%
363	University of Central Florida (UCF), United States of America (USA)	26.27	28.81	71	7.4%
364	Wayne State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	35.31	28.76	158	-20.2%
365	Okayama University, Japan	28.95	28.59	117	-3.3%
366	University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium	26.18	28.49	182	6.6%
367	University of Sussex (US), United Kingdom (UK)	36.5	28.38	131	-23.8%
368	Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium	25.65	28.38	151	8.4%
369	National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France	29.36	28.32	278	-5.5%
370	Hiroshima University (HU), Japan	28.91	28.27	103	-4.3%
371	Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany	17.39	28.03	82	57.8%
372	Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia	12.8	27.85	117	113.1%
373	University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland	23.95	27.63	91	13.0%
374	Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA)	26.62	27.62	72	1.6%
375	South China Normal University (SCNU), China	23.59	27.52	70	14.2%
376	University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK)	35.5	27.51	93	-24.1%
377	Third Military Medical University (TMMU), China	16.33	27.34	110	64.0%
378	University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy	35.03	27.13	190	-24.2%
379	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia	18.64	26.56	95	39.5%
380	University of Granada (UGR), Spain	22.02	26.54	135	18.1%
381	Shanxi University (SXU), China	26.99	26.5	85	-3.9%
382	Henan Normal University (HTU), China	18.45	26.19	53	39.0%
383	Waseda University, Japan	32.46	26.14	116	-21.1%
384	Umeå University (UMU), Sweden	28.73	26.14	101	-10.9%
385	Donghua University (DHU), China	14.38	25.99	62	77.0%
386	Chiba University, Japan	19.78	25.96	80	28.5%
387	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan	26.42	25.86	72	-4.1%
388	The University of Auckland, New Zealand	27.49	25.73	160	-8.4%
389	The University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia	32.84	25.71	108	-23.3%
390	Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China	20.63	25.7	71	22.0%
391	University of Otago, New Zealand	30.77	25.6	129	-18.5%
392	Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt), Germany	30.45	25.58	99	-17.7%
393	Anhui University (AHU), China	14.71	25.38	69	68.9%
394	International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS), Italy	27.08	25.28	87	-8.6%
395	University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA)	42.88	25.27	105	-42.3%
396	National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan	33.77	25.08	74	-27.3%
397	The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), United States of America (USA)	22.64	24.57	64	6.3%
398	Nanchang University (NCU), China	17.22	24.56	84	39.7%
399	Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China	20.24	24.29	111	17.5%
400	University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), United States of America (USA)	28.07	24.24	67	-15.4%
401	Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria	22.87	24.17	81	3.5%
402	Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea	25.02	23.96	90	-6.2%
403	University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy	25.66	23.94	165	-8.6%
404	Northeastern University (NEU), China	6.49	23.93	45	261.0%
405	Ocean University of China (OUC), China	28.25	23.91	131	-17.1%
406	Ewha Womans University (Ewha), South Korea	29.65	23.8	67	-21.4%
407	Georgia State University (GSU), United States of America (USA)	25.45	23.68	76	-8.9%
408	Huaqiao University (HQU), China	13.41	23.67	32	72.9%
409	University of Pisa (UNIPI), Italy	12.27	23.61	217	88.5%
410	Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria	24.87	23.57	54	-7.2%
411	Jiangsu Normal University (JSNU), China	18.17	23.54	34	26.9%
412	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany	29.19	23.28	91	-21.9%
413	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India	25.53	23.26	33	-10.8%
414	University of Bergen (UIB), Norway	23.1	23.23	175	-1.5%
415	Nanjing Medical University (NJMU), China	16.88	23.2	70	34.6%
416	University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada	25.06	23.14	77	-9.6%
417	University of Potsdam, Germany	21.59	23.13	138	4.9%
418	State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil	14.32	23.13	123	58.2%
419	Changzhou University (CZU), China	27.14	23.13	37	-16.5%
420	Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China	26.56	23.13	84	-14.7%
421	University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia	14.18	23.07	76	59.3%
422	Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA)	20.86	23.03	70	8.1%
423	Jiangnan University, China	13.72	22.95	63	63.8%
424	École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), France	25.93	22.92	303	-13.4%
425	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden	19.84	22.88	93	12.9%
426	Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK)	25.67	22.78	153	-13.1%
427	University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy	22.4	22.78	217	-0.4%
428	State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), United States of America (USA)	20.37	22.77	112	9.5%
429	Tulane University, United States of America (USA)	15.47	22.75	73	44.0%
430	Hunan Normal University (HUNNU), China	12.06	22.51	69	82.7%
431	University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada	39.37	22.51	83	-44.0%
432	University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark	21.65	22.49	117	1.7%
433	Dalhousie University, Canada	31.72	22.45	75	-30.7%
434	Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU), China	17.76	22.44	63	23.8%
435	Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan	18.96	22.36	67	15.5%
436	Kobe University, Japan	27.1	22.36	108	-19.2%
437	Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Russia	16.91	22.33	87	29.3%
438	Syracuse University, United States of America (USA)	16.1	22.28	87	35.5%
439	University of Jinan (UJN), China	19.35	22.16	45	12.2%
440	Clemson University, United States of America (USA)	25.36	22.12	61	-14.6%
441	Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands	22.75	22.05	126	-5.1%
442	Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), China	16.18	21.92	83	32.7%
443	University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK)	17.8	21.84	88	20.1%
444	University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom (UK)	33.62	21.53	99	-37.3%
445	Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic	22.02	21.34	80	-5.1%
446	Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK)	25.34	21.27	84	-17.8%
447	The University of Oldenburg, Germany	14.5	21.25	63	43.5%
448	University of Liège (ULg), Belgium	26.32	21.17	85	-21.3%
449	Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Austria	17.13	20.92	114	19.5%
450	Zhejiang Normal University (ZJNU), China	16	20.88	58	27.8%
451	Bielefeld University, Germany	18.9	20.82	48	7.9%
452	Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), China	16.89	20.78	86	20.4%
453	China University of Petroleum (CUP), China	21.22	20.59	61	-5.0%
454	Paris Descartes University (Paris 5), France	19.61	20.58	216	2.8%
455	Texas Tech University (TTU), United States of America (USA)	19.26	20.38	127	3.6%
456	Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea	17.89	20.36	77	11.4%
457	University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), United States of America (USA)	15.03	20.34	67	32.5%
458	Griffith University, Australia	24.49	20.24	86	-19.0%
459	University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia	22.08	19.89	101	-11.8%
460	Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST), China	9.1	19.86	49	113.7%
461	Yangzhou University (YZU), China	10.65	19.83	57	82.3%
462	University of Siegen, Germany	19.71	19.69	94	-2.2%
463	Braunschweig University of Technology (TU Braunschweig), Germany	27.95	19.67	62	-31.1%
464	Chung-Ang University (CAU), South Korea	20.58	19.62	45	-6.7%
465	West Virginia University (WVU), United States of America (USA)	24.51	19.45	59	-22.3%
466	Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea	14.38	19.17	50	30.6%
467	Xiangtan University (XTU), China	14.2	19.08	44	31.5%
468	University of Jyväskylä, Finland	19.82	18.91	137	-6.6%
469	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan	20.17	18.83	39	-8.6%
470	Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China	17.65	18.74	82	3.9%
471	University of Porto (UP), Portugal	17.85	18.69	122	2.6%
472	Colorado School of Mines, United States of America (USA)	13.68	18.61	62	33.2%
473	University of Graz (Uni Graz), Austria	20.26	18.47	61	-10.7%
474	Auburn University, United States of America (USA)	14.98	18.34	56	19.9%
475	Tianjin University of Technology (TUT), China	11.16	18.25	54	60.1%
476	Ajou University (AJOU), South Korea	17.17	18.11	46	3.3%
477	Northwest A&F University (NWAFU), China	12.4	18.09	43	42.9%
478	University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK)	18.92	18.01	69	-6.8%
479	University of Wyoming, United States of America (USA)	19.49	17.98	62	-9.6%
480	University of Kaiserslautern (TU Kaiserslautern), Germany	14.6	17.95	51	20.4%
481	The George Washington University (GW), United States of America (USA)	16.86	17.94	62	4.2%
482	Tampere University, Finland	11.41	17.79	144	52.7%
483	Wake Forest University (WFU), United States of America (USA)	8.83	17.77	53	97.1%
484	Montana State University, United States of America (USA)	19.12	17.72	73	-9.2%
485	Qufu Normal University (QFNU), China	12.66	17.72	33	37.1%
486	University of Macau (UM), China	6.98	17.71	66	148.4%
487	University of Vermont (UVM), United States of America (USA)	21.51	17.66	54	-19.6%
488	University of Turku (UTU), Finland	12.96	17.61	94	33.1%
489	University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland	20.62	17.43	153	-17.2%
490	Hebei University (HBU), China	14	17.42	39	21.8%
491	University of Rostock, Germany	12.85	17.37	70	32.4%
492	Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), United States of America (USA)	22.23	17.3	41	-23.8%
493	University of Zaragoza (Unizar), Spain	15.47	17.27	101	9.3%
494	Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), United States of America (USA)	7.61	17.23	44	121.6%
495	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - State University (MIPT), Russia	11.3	17.2	169	49.0%
496	Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (UK)	16.05	17.19	62	4.9%
497	Victoria University of Wellington (Victoria), New Zealand	17.84	17.19	84	-5.7%
498	University of Louisville (UofL), United States of America (USA)	16.14	17.18	58	4.2%
499	University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain	22.63	17.12	128	-25.9%
500	University of Rennes 1, France	17.21	16.99	147	-3.3%

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