2019 tables: Institutions

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

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# Institution Share 2017 Share 2018 Count 2018 Change in Adjusted Share 2017-2018*
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 1,534.81 1,729.28 5,013 6.3%
2 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 907.53 879.74 2,459 -8.5%
3 Max Planck Society, Germany 747.77 777.43 2,563 -1.9%
4 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 730.48 712.47 4,350 -7.9%
5 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 615.68 628.15 1,579 -3.7%
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 538.25 572.10 1,832 0.3%
7 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 514.09 504.77 2,253 -7.3%
8 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 472.05 448.83 1,191 -10.3%
9 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 420.80 448.39 1,378 0.6%
10 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 385.07 418.68 1,086 2.6%
11 Peking University (PKU), China 394.87 413.55 1,506 -1.2%
12 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 408.03 412.45 1,293 -4.6%
13 Tsinghua University, China 354.88 398.99 1,396 6.1%
14 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 380.31 397.35 970 -1.4%
15 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 409.64 396.08 1,264 -8.7%
16 Nanjing University (NJU), China 328.84 393.00 975 12.8%
17 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 308.65 351.04 1,038 7.3%
18 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 302.83 348.27 925 8.5%
19 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 336.06 344.48 916 -3.3%
20 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 324.04 339.13 1,064 -1.2%
21 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 330.96 334.48 1,012 -4.6%
22 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 296.63 331.93 790 5.6%
23 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 285.29 327.92 865 8.5%
24 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 261.10 326.94 1,906 18.2%
25 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 311.83 318.49 987 -3.6%
26 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 279.61 307.78 793 3.9%
27 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 310.22 293.93 919 -10.6%
28 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 271.80 293.43 937 1.9%
29 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 243.65 289.83 712 12.3%
30 Kyoto University, Japan 307.24 289.61 761 -11.0%
31 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 250.98 288.02 780 8.3%
32 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 260.96 286.31 935 3.6%
33 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 268.60 277.09 680 -2.6%
34 Fudan University, China 206.21 260.10 686 19.0%
35 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 230.46 254.12 691 4.1%
36 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 224.88 246.11 641 3.3%
37 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 203.01 239.77 694 11.5%
38 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 242.08 238.07 585 -7.2%
39 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 243.70 236.58 853 -8.4%
40 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 209.48 233.27 920 5.1%
41 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 170.93 231.55 741 27.9%
42 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 208.06 223.85 588 1.5%
43 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 185.64 215.40 596 9.5%
44 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 200.17 214.60 594 1.2%
45 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 209.17 211.61 507 -4.5%
46 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 224.81 208.35 684 -12.5%
47 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 182.07 207.79 670 7.7%
48 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 257.24 202.89 690 -25.6%
49 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 200.90 202.82 1,172 -4.7%
50 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 190.16 202.60 818 0.6%
51 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 181.21 201.51 664 5.0%
52 Leibniz Association, Germany 187.66 199.78 798 0.5%
53 Nankai University (NKU), China 156.53 198.71 556 19.8%
54 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 176.81 196.83 885 5.1%
55 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 152.26 196.35 496 21.7%
56 Wuhan University (WHU), China 161.32 195.71 413 14.5%
57 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 177.86 193.75 730 2.8%
58 Soochow University, China 161.36 193.50 366 13.2%
59 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 186.06 190.98 872 -3.1%
60 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 200.74 184.45 596 -13.3%
61 Sichuan University (SCU), China 126.91 181.77 330 35.2%
62 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 197.80 181.20 486 -13.5%
63 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 175.48 180.07 421 -3.2%
64 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 151.15 178.97 598 11.8%
65 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 170.97 175.91 544 -2.9%
66 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 187.10 175.06 736 -11.7%
67 Osaka University, Japan 188.74 171.56 497 -14.2%
68 Tohoku University, Japan 142.81 166.72 445 10.2%
69 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 164.43 166.13 495 -4.6%
70 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 152.95 162.36 334 0.2%
71 RIKEN, Japan 153.05 160.44 616 -1.1%
72 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 166.14 159.52 454 -9.4%
73 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 140.82 158.66 616 6.3%
74 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 148.92 153.03 499 -3.0%
75 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 135.60 152.12 594 5.9%
76 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 171.62 151.18 498 -16.9%
77 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 115.78 150.91 395 23.0%
78 Xiamen University (XMU), China 146.20 150.49 284 -2.8%
79 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 119.11 150.25 450 19.1%
80 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 148.58 148.33 463 -5.8%
81 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 164.94 146.95 576 -15.9%
82 McGill University, Canada 148.03 146.46 511 -6.6%
83 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 132.36 145.73 540 3.9%
84 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 154.01 143.17 507 -12.3%
85 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 156.18 141.88 616 -14.3%
86 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 121.60 141.12 344 9.5%
87 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 148.17 140.59 284 -10.4%
88 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 149.82 136.35 461 -14.1%
89 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 131.25 136.24 611 -2.0%
90 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 119.02 136.00 718 7.8%
91 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 122.83 132.64 472 1.9%
92 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 129.89 132.16 649 -4.0%
93 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 112.55 131.89 327 10.6%
94 Nagoya University, Japan 121.18 131.65 432 2.5%
95 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 127.60 128.46 579 -5.0%
96 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 129.84 127.95 498 -7.0%
97 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 130.47 126.80 368 -8.3%
98 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 137.06 126.02 333 -13.2%
99 Monash University, Australia 112.11 125.62 480 5.8%
100 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 102.76 122.10 421 12.1%
101 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 135.39 121.85 648 -15.1%
102 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 153.65 121.57 266 -25.3%
103 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 121.92 120.39 598 -6.8%
104 Hunan University (HNU), China 89.20 119.08 241 26.0%
105 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 108.77 117.08 237 1.6%
106 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 102.05 115.54 395 6.9%
107 Tianjin University (TJU), China 79.07 114.58 535 36.8%
108 Jilin University (JLU), China 101.49 114.56 268 6.5%
109 Hokkaido University, Japan 116.17 114.17 286 -7.2%
110 Shandong University (SDU), China 90.07 113.59 434 19.0%
111 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 119.48 112.92 536 -10.8%
112 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 107.99 112.77 396 -1.4%
113 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel 116.94 111.97 260 -9.6%
114 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel 85.33 111.70 281 23.6%
115 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 111.41 111.19 386 -5.8%
116 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 97.39 110.53 225 7.1%
117 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 121.74 110.44 429 -14.4%
118 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 110.48 108.75 329 -7.1%
119 Beijing Normal University (BNU), China 87.66 107.29 331 15.5%
120 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 100.37 107.00 312 0.6%
121 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 82.41 106.87 222 22.4%
122 University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA) 104.19 106.32 367 -3.7%
123 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 97.53 106.26 468 2.8%
124 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 111.62 106.05 250 -10.3%
125 Tongji University, China 75.99 105.69 335 31.3%
126 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 120.31 105.14 318 -17.5%
127 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 90.61 104.68 534 9.0%
128 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 89.28 104.31 227 10.3%
129 Sorbonne University, France 108.55 104.07 1,073 -9.5%
130 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 114.37 103.48 512 -14.6%
131 The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA) 92.34 103.40 407 5.7%
132 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 93.58 101.46 456 2.3%
133 Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China 88.60 100.89 269 7.5%
134 University of Göttingen, Germany 105.17 100.82 359 -9.5%
135 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 85.16 100.66 340 11.6%
136 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 98.05 100.62 934 -3.1%
137 Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA) 102.77 100.61 337 -7.6%
138 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 86.29 100.19 227 9.6%
139 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 101.41 99.69 359 -7.2%
140 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 78.90 98.98 401 18.4%
141 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 117.67 98.11 358 -21.3%
142 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 116.06 97.51 413 -20.7%
143 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 74.18 96.83 259 23.2%
144 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA) 113.69 96.36 327 -20.0%
145 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 88.20 96.18 262 2.9%
146 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 108.56 96.00 327 -16.5%
147 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 118.88 94.56 311 -24.9%
148 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 89.25 93.99 426 -0.6%
149 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 93.56 93.74 387 -5.4%
150 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 78.19 93.51 322 12.9%
151 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 80.98 93.38 292 8.8%
152 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 68.07 92.35 279 28.1%
153 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 90.67 92.08 322 -4.1%
154 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 95.73 91.94 547 -9.3%
155 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China 69.12 91.32 325 24.7%
156 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 91.39 91.25 921 -5.8%
157 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 94.77 90.90 337 -9.5%
158 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 75.92 90.88 329 13.0%
159 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 93.85 90.82 525 -8.7%
160 Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA) 81.92 89.75 384 3.4%
161 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 101.15 89.73 254 -16.3%
162 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 78.24 89.73 545 8.2%
163 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 67.98 89.21 282 23.9%
164 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 112.12 89.09 321 -25.0%
165 Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea 71.57 88.05 325 16.1%
166 Yonsei University, South Korea 74.24 87.93 230 11.8%
167 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 80.21 87.86 418 3.4%
168 Kyushu University, Japan 97.34 87.70 313 -15.0%
169 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 87.04 87.55 225 -5.1%
170 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 88.90 87.45 393 -7.2%
171 Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel 90.77 87.28 299 -9.3%
172 Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China 65.58 86.70 162 24.8%
173 Stockholm University, Sweden 82.16 86.67 460 -0.4%
174 The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA) 100.66 85.54 314 -19.8%
175 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 95.47 85.39 304 -15.6%
176 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 81.78 85.21 242 -1.7%
177 University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA) 68.65 85.13 315 17.0%
178 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 81.75 84.82 418 -2.1%
179 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 64.51 84.39 360 23.5%
180 Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany 90.97 84.08 395 -12.8%
181 State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA) 82.19 83.59 333 -4.0%
182 North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA) 88.04 82.96 269 -11.1%
183 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA) 86.78 82.75 317 -10.0%
184 Lund University (LU), Sweden 83.96 81.14 348 -8.8%
185 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea 76.42 81.14 324 0.2%
186 University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA) 86.52 81.11 288 -11.5%
187 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India 84.53 80.58 241 -10.0%
188 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA) 73.01 80.20 305 3.7%
189 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 78.71 79.78 374 -4.3%
190 Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China 50.75 79.15 180 47.2%
191 The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA) 67.78 79.06 199 10.1%
192 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 77.05 78.56 414 -3.8%
193 Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA) 65.36 78.04 277 12.7%
194 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 76.44 77.87 377 -3.8%
195 Beihang University (BUAA), China 53.84 77.82 328 36.4%
196 The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA) 71.68 77.24 409 1.7%
197 Colorado State University, United States of America (USA) 76.22 77.02 235 -4.6%
198 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 74.70 76.88 267 -2.9%
199 Leiden University, Netherlands 85.96 76.65 327 -15.8%
200 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 68.63 75.99 364 4.5%
201 Southeast University (SEU), China 75.87 75.96 161 -5.5%
202 Iowa State University, United States of America (USA) 67.40 75.74 254 6.1%
203 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 70.50 75.72 362 1.4%
204 The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China 93.55 75.69 318 -23.6%
205 University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA) 59.47 75.32 283 19.5%
206 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan 82.55 75.12 349 -14.1%
207 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 80.46 75.10 331 -11.9%
208 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 68.42 74.96 223 3.4%
209 Brown University, United States of America (USA) 84.43 74.39 305 -16.8%
210 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 64.11 74.08 324 9.1%
211 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 68.04 73.48 268 1.9%
212 Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China 53.13 73.38 163 30.3%
213 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 73.52 73.25 284 -6.0%
214 University of Paris, France 73.49 72.49 761 -6.9%
215 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 97.38 72.01 148 -30.2%
216 Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China 52.15 71.87 170 30.1%
217 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 71.69 71.41 713 -6.0%
218 People's Liberation Army (PLA), China 59.19 71.18 257 13.5%
219 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 67.96 70.70 348 -1.8%
220 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 62.11 70.58 270 7.3%
221 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 63.06 70.14 233 5.0%
222 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 79.84 70.08 286 -17.2%
223 University of Vienna, Austria 67.04 70.01 258 -1.4%
224 University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA) 66.30 69.58 281 -1.0%
225 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 55.89 69.50 438 17.4%
226 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea 77.62 69.31 165 -15.7%
227 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 77.50 68.40 465 -16.7%
228 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 76.64 68.23 297 -16.0%
229 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA) 70.28 67.90 337 -8.8%
230 Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China 52.39 67.43 109 21.5%
231 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 69.50 67.18 530 -8.8%
232 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 62.91 66.74 165 0.1%
233 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA) 67.91 66.39 333 -7.7%
234 University of Waterloo, Canada 68.53 66.36 153 -8.6%
235 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 56.39 66.06 196 10.6%
236 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA) 72.51 66.05 197 -14.0%
237 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 71.46 64.87 192 -14.3%
238 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 79.88 64.24 295 -24.1%
239 Fuzhou University (FZU), China 42.97 64.07 106 40.7%
240 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 67.17 63.68 167 -10.5%
241 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 66.96 63.37 154 -10.7%
242 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 66.08 63.35 268 -9.5%
243 University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA) 53.05 62.95 194 12.0%
244 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 71.19 62.31 354 -17.4%
245 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA) 61.73 61.86 260 -5.4%
246 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 62.36 61.79 329 -6.5%
247 University of Helsinki, Finland 60.82 61.54 387 -4.5%
248 University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada 63.75 61.48 151 -9.0%
249 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA) 58.04 61.24 271 -0.4%
250 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 54.57 60.80 227 5.1%
251 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 52.94 59.80 216 6.6%
252 Central South University (CSU), China 45.86 59.34 180 22.1%
253 Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain 56.14 58.53 397 -1.6%
254 University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK) 58.15 58.49 203 -5.1%
255 Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA) 57.83 57.92 168 -5.5%
256 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 55.34 57.72 222 -1.6%
257 University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA) 53.54 57.61 192 1.6%
258 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland 54.75 57.50 136 -0.9%
259 Western University (UWO), Canada 47.27 57.50 126 14.8%
260 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 54.97 57.38 431 -1.5%
261 The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK) 60.74 57.25 179 -11.0%
262 City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China 43.85 57.04 202 22.8%
263 University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA) 49.99 56.87 173 7.4%
264 Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany 56.11 56.75 176 -4.5%
265 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 53.66 56.55 350 -0.5%
266 Southwest University (SWU), China 62.75 56.50 90 -15.0%
267 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 53.88 56.41 349 -1.2%
268 Keio University, Japan 62.11 55.97 128 -15.0%
269 Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden 38.33 55.91 150 37.7%
270 Chongqing University (CQU), China 38.38 55.82 126 37.3%
271 The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 62.19 55.64 163 -15.6%
272 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 47.83 55.61 156 9.7%
273 National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico 34.57 55.19 187 50.7%
274 University of Calgary (U of C), Canada 53.39 55.13 241 -2.5%
275 China University of Geosciences (CUG), China 38.92 54.93 145 33.2%
276 Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK) 63.01 54.70 250 -18.1%
277 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK) 44.42 54.31 297 15.4%
278 The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA) 48.81 53.96 196 4.3%
279 University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA) 71.88 53.74 181 -29.4%
280 The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA) 47.21 53.69 221 7.3%
281 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 56.26 53.53 328 -10.2%
282 Shenzhen University (SZU), China 33.50 53.38 183 50.4%
283 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 49.53 53.26 249 1.5%
284 University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain 54.73 53.25 230 -8.2%
285 University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA) 47.45 53.18 159 5.8%
286 University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA) 45.93 53.13 184 9.2%
287 Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA) 60.22 53.02 350 -16.9%
288 Korea University, South Korea 56.42 52.82 271 -11.6%
289 University of Strasbourg, France 57.49 52.76 419 -13.4%
290 The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA) 51.92 52.68 265 -4.2%
291 Northwest University (NWU), China 34.63 52.42 115 42.9%
292 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 41.57 52.25 384 18.6%
293 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 45.05 51.87 258 8.7%
294 University of Valencia (UV), Spain 44.92 51.76 288 8.8%
295 National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan 61.45 51.09 205 -21.5%
296 University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil 56.92 51.02 271 -15.4%
297 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 39.34 50.96 199 22.3%
298 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA) 45.81 50.94 277 5.0%
299 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA) 40.43 50.84 244 18.7%
300 Tufts University, United States of America (USA) 47.75 50.08 266 -1.0%
301 The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA) 41.70 49.89 308 12.9%
302 University of Toulouse, France 50.42 49.62 405 -7.1%
303 University of York, United Kingdom (UK) 42.70 49.59 168 9.6%
304 University of Warsaw (UW), Poland 34.58 49.30 228 34.6%
305 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria 54.04 49.11 215 -14.2%
306 Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia 48.19 49.04 400 -4.0%
307 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel 47.15 48.70 126 -2.5%
308 University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA) 36.39 48.47 152 25.7%
309 Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China 25.79 48.21 143 76.4%
310 Jinan University (JNU), China 30.81 48.15 141 47.5%
311 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 53.49 47.92 161 -15.5%
312 Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), China 31.25 47.78 102 44.3%
313 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA) 46.80 47.59 149 -4.0%
314 Oregon State University, United States of America (USA) 57.10 47.55 162 -21.4%
315 China Agricultural University (CAU), China 31.35 47.10 108 41.8%
316 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 51.70 46.91 280 -14.4%
317 Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA) 42.67 46.89 192 3.7%
318 Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA) 43.22 46.81 165 2.2%
319 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 51.88 46.60 163 -15.2%
320 University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China 41.38 46.57 108 6.2%
321 Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA) 40.05 46.49 138 9.6%
322 Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France 47.66 46.39 464 -8.1%
323 Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India 64.82 46.21 216 -32.7%
324 University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal 34.35 46.06 255 26.6%
325 Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany 46.06 45.68 133 -6.4%
326 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India 47.24 44.82 99 -10.4%
327 Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA) 37.78 44.73 215 11.8%
328 University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA) 41.19 44.12 112 1.1%
329 Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain 38.63 44.09 191 7.7%
330 University of Lyon, France 45.77 44.04 450 -9.2%
331 University of Missouri (Mizzou), United States of America (USA) 34.30 43.94 134 20.9%
332 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 58.71 43.84 521 -29.5%
333 University of Montpellier, France 42.54 43.78 375 -2.9%
334 Aalto University, Finland 41.05 43.69 254 0.5%
335 The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia 42.65 43.67 232 -3.4%
336 University of Kiel (CAU), Germany 30.70 43.66 173 34.2%
337 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada 50.72 43.18 131 -19.7%
338 University of Bordeaux, France 38.11 43.15 265 6.9%
339 Brandeis University, United States of America (USA) 43.84 42.78 135 -7.9%
340 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude), United States of America (USA) 35.90 42.71 103 12.3%
341 University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy 40.87 42.64 337 -1.5%
342 University of Stuttgart, Germany 40.76 42.60 141 -1.4%
343 Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS), Italy 49.65 42.57 219 -19.1%
344 Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA) 46.81 42.49 182 -14.3%
345 The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA) 39.75 42.31 167 0.5%
346 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina 38.30 42.25 270 4.1%
347 Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA) 39.66 41.86 134 -0.4%
348 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA) 29.90 41.71 149 31.7%
349 McMaster University, Canada 47.24 41.48 109 -17.1%
350 Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), China 31.99 41.34 92 21.9%
351 Shanghai University (SHU), China 41.50 41.08 124 -6.6%
352 University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden 31.81 40.90 145 21.3%
353 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India 36.29 40.87 168 6.3%
354 The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA) 37.98 40.80 219 1.4%
355 IBM Corporation, United States of America (USA) 47.71 40.65 112 -19.6%
356 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy 37.00 40.51 144 3.4%
357 Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China 27.11 40.42 108 40.7%
358 Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK) 41.27 40.36 191 -7.7%
359 Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India 31.83 40.17 80 19.1%
360 Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA) 45.28 40.12 157 -16.4%
361 Leipzig University, Germany 49.93 39.74 163 -24.9%
362 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China 25.44 39.72 150 47.4%
363 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany 32.90 39.62 130 13.7%
364 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 24.51 39.56 125 52.4%
365 University of Tsukuba, Japan 40.09 39.56 215 -6.9%
366 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 39.43 39.47 222 -5.5%
367 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 40.21 39.17 401 -8.1%
368 Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany 24.49 38.88 140 49.8%
369 Ulm University, Germany 33.59 38.87 160 9.2%
370 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium 41.70 38.34 232 -13.2%
371 Pasteur Institute, France 38.34 38.25 226 -5.8%
372 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA) 37.48 38.23 84 -3.7%
373 Northeast Normal University (NENU), China 40.12 38.22 72 -10.1%
374 China Pharmaceutical University (CPU), China 34.38 38.22 64 4.9%
375 Curtin University, Australia 30.17 38.00 147 18.9%
376 University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain 32.19 37.57 157 10.1%
377 Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 32.31 37.51 203 9.6%
378 HHMI Janelia Research Campus, United States of America (USA) 36.95 37.43 106 -4.4%
379 Queen's University, Canada 25.13 37.40 183 40.5%
380 Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany 38.47 37.33 177 -8.4%
381 University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany 43.02 37.26 137 -18.3%
382 Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), China 34.05 37.14 82 3.0%
383 University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria 33.29 37.06 173 5.1%
384 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 43.81 37.03 96 -20.2%
385 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), India 34.85 36.92 155 0.0%
386 China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China 24.66 36.80 134 40.8%
387 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 36.55 36.68 389 -5.3%
388 ShanghaiTech University, China 23.40 36.63 169 47.8%
389 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 24.91 36.44 85 38.1%
390 Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea 45.65 36.40 208 -24.7%
391 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria 38.23 36.22 296 -10.6%
392 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China 32.72 36.13 141 4.2%
393 The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia 38.09 35.81 223 -11.3%
394 Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel 29.43 35.80 83 14.8%
395 Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA) 33.77 35.52 238 -0.7%
396 Temple University, United States of America (USA) 44.79 35.46 120 -25.3%
397 The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA) 30.30 35.29 151 9.9%
398 Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea 40.39 34.99 130 -18.2%
399 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China 37.36 34.94 119 -11.7%
400 Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom (UK) 33.28 34.74 505 -1.5%
401 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 34.48 34.59 308 -5.3%
402 University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) 32.82 34.32 103 -1.3%
403 University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy 33.25 34.25 233 -2.8%
404 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan 28.00 34.24 172 15.4%
405 Central China Normal University (CCNU), China 45.58 33.90 136 -29.8%
406 University of Victoria (UVic), Canada 33.08 33.71 189 -3.8%
407 Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), China 22.79 33.68 74 39.5%
408 Kanazawa University (KU), Japan 27.42 33.55 97 15.5%
409 University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy 28.31 33.51 353 11.7%
410 Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada 33.64 33.51 186 -6.0%
411 University of Turin (UNITO), Italy 25.31 33.48 277 24.9%
412 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India 33.07 33.26 64 -5.1%
413 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy 34.86 33.26 136 -10.0%
414 University of Konstanz, Germany 41.20 33.24 87 -23.9%
415 Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China 15.53 33.01 65 100.6%
416 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA) 31.02 32.99 143 0.4%
417 University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA) 35.35 32.95 126 -12.0%
418 Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland 31.44 32.93 160 -1.1%
419 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal), India 20.40 32.71 46 51.3%
420 The University of Dublin, Ireland 47.78 32.51 131 -35.8%
421 Giessen University (JLU), Germany 23.72 32.19 181 28.1%
422 Drexel University, United States of America (USA) 26.67 31.94 110 13.0%
423 Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea 18.43 31.87 70 63.2%
424 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA) 24.49 31.74 80 22.3%
425 TU Dortmund University, Germany 41.96 31.72 186 -28.6%
426 Linköping University (LiU), Sweden 37.72 31.67 114 -20.7%
427 Novartis International AG, Switzerland 41.58 31.42 109 -28.7%
428 Laval University (UL), Canada 26.97 31.40 113 9.9%
429 Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA) 29.50 31.35 65 0.3%
430 Charles University (CU), Czech Republic 30.19 31.19 336 -2.5%
431 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan 21.17 31.09 67 38.6%
432 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany 30.54 31.05 110 -4.0%
433 Wayne State University, United States of America (USA) 35.96 31.02 225 -18.6%
434 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 24.41 30.92 95 19.6%
435 University of Sussex, United Kingdom (UK) 36.17 30.89 156 -19.4%
436 Okayama University, Japan 28.97 30.71 140 0.0%
437 The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA) 36.73 30.43 48 -21.8%
438 University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK) 26.24 30.24 94 8.8%
439 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 30.39 30.23 532 -6.1%
440 Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain 34.78 30.00 246 -18.6%
441 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 23.29 29.98 109 21.5%
442 University of Central Florida (UCF), United States of America (USA) 26.27 29.86 71 7.3%
443 Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA) 26.69 29.83 81 5.5%
444 Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium 25.97 29.80 199 8.3%
445 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA) 26.69 29.79 155 5.4%
446 Hiroshima University (HU), Japan 28.91 29.73 119 -3.0%
447 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 31.37 29.58 312 -11.0%
448 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA) 25.85 29.41 362 7.4%
449 South China Normal University (SCNU), China 23.59 29.40 75 17.6%
450 University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium 26.22 29.29 230 5.4%
451 University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK) 35.50 29.25 100 -22.3%
452 University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA) 42.90 29.23 122 -35.7%
453 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia 20.31 29.12 344 35.3%
454 University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy 35.23 29.07 240 -22.1%
455 AstraZeneca plc, United Kingdom (UK) 29.83 29.02 134 -8.2%
456 Merck & Co., Inc., United States of America (USA) 35.51 28.91 69 -23.2%
457 Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany 30.45 28.87 117 -10.5%
458 National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France 29.36 28.71 285 -7.7%
459 University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland 23.96 28.67 100 12.9%
460 Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany 17.39 28.47 88 54.5%
461 Henan University (HENU), China 17.65 28.30 55 51.4%
462 Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy 27.08 28.13 94 -2.0%
463 Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 12.83 27.97 129 105.8%
464 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 24.55 27.78 62 6.8%
465 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia 18.59 27.75 99 40.9%
466 Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium 22.91 27.45 155 13.1%
467 Chiba University, Japan 20.38 27.39 89 26.8%
468 Umeå University (UMU), Sweden 29.12 27.37 116 -11.3%
469 Anhui University (AHU), China 14.71 27.21 72 74.5%
470 National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan 26.44 27.20 85 -2.9%
471 University of Granada (UGR), Spain 22.38 26.73 162 12.7%
472 Shanxi University (SXU), China 27.00 26.57 97 -7.1%
473 École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), France 26.23 26.57 333 -4.4%
474 Waseda University, Japan 32.47 26.56 138 -22.8%
475 Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China 20.60 26.51 73 21.5%
476 University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 32.84 26.48 110 -23.9%
477 Cleveland Clinic, United States of America (USA) 28.17 26.43 98 -11.4%
478 Henan Normal University, China 18.51 26.30 64 34.1%
479 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India 24.85 26.28 40 -0.2%
480 The University of Auckland, New Zealand 27.49 25.82 206 -11.4%
481 University of Otago, New Zealand 31.54 25.79 134 -22.8%
482 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 23.04 25.73 161 5.4%
483 National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan 33.77 25.73 78 -28.1%
484 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 22.01 25.59 88 9.8%
485 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 21.78 25.59 98 10.9%
486 Ocean University of China (OUC), China 29.37 25.58 135 -17.8%
487 University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy 25.73 25.57 232 -6.2%
488 University of Bergen (UIB), Norway 24.05 25.57 225 0.3%
489 Nanchang University (NCU), China 17.22 25.22 87 38.3%
490 City of Hope, United States of America (USA) 19.65 25.20 68 21.1%
491 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA) 25.67 25.16 76 -7.5%
492 University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy 22.72 25.15 306 4.5%
493 Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China 20.24 24.82 116 15.7%
494 Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria 22.87 24.76 84 2.2%
495 Donghua University (DHU), China 14.38 24.71 61 62.2%
496 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 30.02 24.71 62 -22.3%
497 University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), United States of America (USA) 28.21 24.68 70 -17.4%
498 The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), United States of America (USA) 22.76 24.68 66 2.4%
499 Hunan Normal University (HUNNU), China 12.35 24.66 75 88.5%
500 Northeastern University (NEU), China 6.49 24.63 46 258.1%

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