2020 tables: Institutions - academic

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The 2020 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.

2019	Institution	Share 2018	Share 2019	Count 2019	Change in adjusted Share^* 2018–2019 (%)
1	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	879.74	923.94	2,583	1.6%
2	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	628.15	647.66	1,660	-0.3%
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	572.10	561.57	1,866	-5.0%
4	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	351.04	456.35	1,233	25.7%
5	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	412.45	455.82	1,375	6.9%
6	Peking University (PKU), China	413.55	438.30	1,620	2.5%
7	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	448.83	431.41	1,191	-7.0%
8	Tsinghua University, China	398.99	429.01	1,394	4.0%
9	Nanjing University (NJU), China	393.00	426.56	1,056	5.0%
10	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	448.39	419.32	1,326	-9.5%
11	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	326.94	408.57	2,340	20.9%
12	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	418.68	403.35	1,051	-6.8%
13	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	396.08	390.15	1,266	-4.7%
14	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	344.48	343.84	941	-3.4%
15	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	334.48	342.62	1,051	-0.9%
16	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	348.27	339.38	890	-5.7%
17	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	339.13	339.11	1,094	-3.3%
18	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	289.83	330.20	817	10.2%
19	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	286.31	320.19	1,005	8.2%
20	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	331.93	317.97	764	-7.3%
21	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	327.92	314.15	889	-7.3%
22	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	318.49	304.14	989	-7.6%
23	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	293.43	303.96	984	0.2%
24	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	307.78	301.04	852	-5.4%
25	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	236.58	287.39	924	17.5%
26	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	293.93	286.98	890	-5.6%
27	Fudan University, China	260.10	271.65	741	1.0%
28	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	223.85	268.84	642	16.2%
29	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	288.02	261.02	728	-12.3%
30	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	196.35	260.16	634	28.2%
31	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	254.12	253.73	724	-3.4%
32	Kyoto University, Japan	289.61	252.11	683	-15.8%
33	Nankai University (NKU), China	198.71	244.90	600	19.2%
34	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	231.55	244.55	796	2.2%
35	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	208.35	238.09	738	10.5%
36	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	202.89	236.08	691	12.6%
37	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	238.07	231.95	625	-5.8%
38	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	246.11	230.70	608	-9.3%
39	Soochow University, China	193.50	229.36	455	14.7%
40	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	207.79	227.20	712	5.8%
41	Sichuan University (SCU), China	181.77	223.78	399	19.1%
42	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	277.09	222.32	658	-22.4%
43	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	233.27	221.28	889	-8.2%
44	Wuhan University (WHU), China	195.71	217.16	495	7.3%
45	UCL, United Kingdom (UK)	202.60	216.73	865	3.5%
46	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	215.40	215.93	634	-3.0%
47	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	239.77	214.52	664	-13.5%
48	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	184.45	200.75	642	5.3%
49	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	214.60	200.57	562	-9.6%
50	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	211.61	197.60	535	-9.7%
51	Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China	150.91	195.02	468	25.0%
52	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	175.91	192.48	598	5.8%
53	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	201.51	184.11	678	-11.6%
54	Xiamen University (XMU), China	150.49	182.90	358	17.6%
55	Osaka University, Japan	171.56	182.59	489	2.9%
56	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	193.75	170.48	693	-14.9%
57	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	181.20	168.66	506	-10.0%
58	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	166.13	168.34	490	-2.0%
59	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	178.97	164.45	552	-11.1%
60	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	175.06	163.40	710	-9.7%
61	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	148.33	162.63	467	6.1%
62	Jilin University (JLU), China	114.56	161.88	351	36.7%
63	McGill University, Canada	146.46	161.37	569	6.6%
64	Tianjin University (TJU), China	114.58	157.12	600	32.6%
65	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	152.12	157.10	551	-0.1%
66	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	145.73	154.85	595	2.8%
67	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	180.07	153.37	423	-17.6%
68	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	162.36	151.84	349	-9.5%
69	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	158.66	151.43	609	-7.7%
70	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	141.88	150.74	666	2.8%
71	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	126.80	149.51	388	14.1%
72	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	141.12	149.30	403	2.3%
73	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	151.18	146.61	484	-6.2%
74	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	146.95	146.03	552	-3.9%
75	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	136.35	145.73	499	3.4%
76	Hunan University (HNU), China	119.08	144.25	289	17.2%
77	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	132.64	144.05	496	5.0%
78	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	159.52	142.81	470	-13.4%
79	Tohoku University, Japan	166.72	142.55	441	-17.3%
80	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	121.57	140.78	315	12.0%
81	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	153.03	139.82	417	-11.6%
82	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	128.46	138.84	568	4.5%
83	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	127.95	137.33	507	3.8%
84	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	132.16	136.44	659	-0.1%
85	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	143.17	134.57	492	-9.1%
86	University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia	122.10	133.32	466	5.6%
87	Monash University, Australia	125.62	131.79	526	1.5%
88	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China	92.35	128.09	375	34.2%
89	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	126.02	126.92	328	-2.6%
90	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	136.24	124.28	642	-11.8%
91	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	112.92	123.60	585	5.9%
92	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	110.53	122.99	279	7.6%
93	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	113.33	122.57	415	4.6%
94	Shandong University (SDU), China	113.59	122.11	520	4.0%
95	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	108.75	120.74	369	7.4%
96	Beijing Normal University (BNU), China	107.29	120.55	376	8.7%
97	Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China	100.89	119.42	325	14.5%
98	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	106.87	117.86	244	6.7%
99	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	111.97	117.61	292	1.6%
100	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	110.44	117.25	401	2.7%
101	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	100.19	116.93	299	12.9%
102	The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia	150.25	116.36	452	-25.1%
103	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	117.08	115.86	285	-4.3%
104	University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany	94.56	115.64	345	18.3%
105	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	111.19	114.79	366	-0.1%
106	Rice University, United States of America (USA)	97.51	113.33	425	12.4%
107	University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	106.32	113.20	354	3.0%
108	Nagoya University, Japan	131.65	112.83	392	-17.1%
109	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	115.54	111.89	406	-6.3%
110	Sorbonne University, France	104.07	111.40	1,129	3.5%
111	Hokkaido University, Japan	114.17	111.33	266	-5.7%
112	Tongji University, China	105.69	110.20	350	0.9%
113	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	131.89	109.32	321	-19.8%
114	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	105.14	108.96	326	0.2%
115	Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China	104.31	108.72	230	0.8%
116	Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China	79.15	108.53	217	32.6%
117	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	87.28	108.21	328	19.9%
118	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	106.05	107.66	258	-1.8%
119	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	91.94	107.02	561	12.6%
120	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	96.00	106.46	349	7.3%
121	Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China	86.70	105.83	203	18.1%
122	University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany	85.39	105.20	344	19.2%
123	Australian National University (ANU), Australia	100.66	104.58	382	0.5%
124	Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany	90.82	102.96	556	9.7%
125	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	104.68	102.52	556	-5.3%
126	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	101.46	102.31	383	-2.5%
127	University of Göttingen, Germany	100.82	101.31	358	-2.8%
128	Kyushu University, Japan	87.70	100.61	315	11.0%
129	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	111.70	98.17	281	-15.0%
130	Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA)	100.61	97.55	347	-6.2%
131	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	89.09	97.09	390	5.4%
132	University of Alberta (U of A), Canada	99.69	96.40	346	-6.5%
133	Colorado State University, United States of America (USA)	77.02	95.46	275	19.9%
134	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	107.00	93.61	323	-15.4%
135	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	85.54	93.60	257	5.8%
136	Uppsala University (UU), Sweden	106.26	93.13	445	-15.2%
137	The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA)	103.40	93.00	411	-13.0%
138	Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany	84.08	92.06	417	5.9%
139	University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany	84.82	91.95	425	4.9%
140	Aarhus University (AU), Denmark	93.38	91.37	324	-5.4%
141	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China	91.32	90.90	362	-3.7%
142	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	96.18	90.57	253	-8.9%
143	Fuzhou University (FZU), China	64.07	90.26	164	36.3%
144	The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China	75.69	90.21	355	15.3%
145	Beihang University (BUAA), China	77.82	90.07	376	12.0%
146	University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands	89.73	88.98	571	-4.1%
147	Yonsei University, South Korea	87.93	88.08	271	-3.1%
148	North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA)	82.96	88.05	291	2.7%
149	Central South University (CSU), China	59.34	87.64	235	42.9%
150	Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China	73.38	87.23	194	15.0%
151	University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA)	79.78	86.95	339	5.4%
152	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea	81.14	86.95	286	3.7%
153	Brown University, United States of America (USA)	74.39	86.91	296	13.0%
154	University of Vienna, Austria	70.01	86.40	293	19.4%
155	Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China	71.87	86.39	205	16.3%
156	University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK)	78.56	86.06	414	6.0%
157	University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany	90.88	85.04	309	-9.5%
158	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	85.21	85.03	266	-3.5%
159	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	80.58	84.82	220	1.8%
160	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	69.31	84.80	225	18.4%
161	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany	93.74	84.51	365	-12.8%
162	Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany	89.21	83.98	298	-8.9%
163	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	77.87	83.10	416	3.2%
164	Leiden University, Netherlands	76.65	82.57	358	4.2%
165	Stockholm University, Sweden	86.67	82.46	489	-8.0%
166	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	92.08	82.42	325	-13.4%
167	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	87.55	81.99	217	-9.4%
168	Southeast University (SEU), China	75.96	81.26	189	3.5%
169	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	96.83	80.84	221	-19.2%
170	Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China	48.21	80.58	309	61.7%
171	The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia	75.99	80.45	389	2.4%
172	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	66.74	79.91	173	15.8%
173	The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK)	63.35	79.55	296	21.5%
174	University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA)	81.11	78.96	276	-5.8%
175	State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA)	83.59	78.66	329	-9.0%
176	Southwest University (SWU), China	56.50	78.21	124	33.9%
177	Shenzhen University (SZU), China	53.38	77.74	266	40.9%
178	University of Oslo (UiO), Norway	70.70	77.55	362	6.1%
179	Lund University (LU), Sweden	81.14	77.27	342	-7.9%
180	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	98.98	75.96	347	-25.8%
181	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	87.86	75.80	411	-16.6%
182	Ghent University (UGent), Belgium	84.39	75.76	321	-13.2%
183	The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA)	77.24	75.24	350	-5.8%
184	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	93.51	74.45	271	-23.0%
185	Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands	68.40	74.16	485	4.9%
186	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	80.20	73.63	289	-11.2%
187	The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK)	68.23	73.57	315	4.3%
188	Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain	58.53	73.22	402	21.0%
189	University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA)	85.13	72.67	263	-17.4%
190	National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	75.12	72.51	325	-6.6%
191	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	73.48	72.41	287	-4.7%
192	University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany	75.10	72.19	337	-7.0%
193	Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA)	89.75	71.44	354	-23.0%
194	University of Cologne (UoC), Germany	60.80	71.21	263	13.3%
195	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark	76.88	71.21	249	-10.4%
196	University of Waterloo, Canada	66.36	70.86	209	3.3%
197	University of Paris, France	72.49	70.77	761	-5.6%
198	University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France	71.41	69.86	691	-5.4%
199	University of Barcelona (UB), Spain	62.31	68.37	390	6.1%
200	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	63.37	68.24	152	4.2%
201	City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China	57.04	67.21	228	14.0%
202	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	67.43	66.98	113	-3.9%
203	Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA)	74.96	66.10	195	-14.7%
204	Jinan University (JNU), China	48.15	66.02	169	32.6%
205	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	57.38	65.56	455	10.5%
206	China University of Geosciences (CUG), China	54.93	65.43	182	15.2%
207	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA)	61.24	65.41	272	3.3%
208	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA)	66.05	65.36	209	-4.3%
209	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	70.58	65.33	271	-10.5%
210	Korea University, South Korea	52.82	65.29	282	19.6%
211	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	57.72	64.91	206	8.8%
212	Iowa State University, United States of America (USA)	75.74	64.25	242	-17.9%
213	University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA)	67.90	64.18	291	-8.6%
214	University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China	46.57	63.92	135	32.8%
215	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	75.32	63.57	240	-18.4%
216	University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA)	57.61	63.55	209	6.7%
217	University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK)	56.41	63.54	342	9.0%
218	University of Helsinki, Finland	61.54	63.18	393	-0.7%
219	Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA)	53.02	63.15	360	15.2%
220	University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland	74.08	62.85	313	-17.9%
221	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), MSHS, United States of America (USA)	77.63	62.24	269	-22.4%
222	University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK)	56.55	62.19	370	6.4%
223	University of Calgary (U of C), Canada	55.13	61.63	264	8.1%
224	University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK)	59.80	61.04	215	-1.3%
225	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel	48.70	60.92	162	21.0%
226	University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA)	53.74	60.51	214	8.9%
227	Shanghai University (SHU), China	41.08	60.39	153	42.2%
228	Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany	67.18	59.37	513	-14.5%
229	Chongqing University (CQU), China	55.82	59.18	145	2.6%
230	University of Strasbourg, France	52.76	58.89	432	8.0%
231	Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany	56.75	58.63	192	-0.1%
232	Central China Normal University (CCNU), China	33.90	58.03	181	65.6%
233	University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA)	62.95	57.90	209	-11.0%
234	University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada	61.48	57.70	162	-9.2%
235	Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany	45.68	57.49	152	21.7%
236	University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada	61.79	57.11	342	-10.6%
237	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India	46.21	56.83	199	19.0%
238	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany	63.68	56.42	152	-14.3%
239	Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK)	54.31	55.96	276	-0.3%
240	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK)	58.49	55.87	221	-7.6%
241	University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA)	53.18	55.54	169	1.0%
242	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	66.06	55.45	185	-18.8%
243	Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China	40.42	55.08	151	31.8%
244	Northwest University (NWU), China	52.42	54.93	122	1.4%
245	University of Tsukuba, Japan	39.56	54.92	257	34.3%
246	Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), China	47.78	54.46	117	10.3%
247	University of Valencia (UV), Spain	51.76	54.31	302	1.5%
248	Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA)	57.92	53.86	154	-10.0%
249	Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK)	50.96	53.67	193	1.9%
250	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China	36.13	53.51	186	43.3%
251	Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea	36.40	53.23	225	41.4%
252	Western University (UWO), Canada	57.50	53.02	128	-10.8%
253	ShanghaiTech University, China	36.63	53.00	216	39.9%
254	The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK)	57.25	52.77	185	-10.8%
255	University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA)	69.58	52.69	220	-26.7%
256	University of Konstanz, Germany	33.24	52.51	106	52.8%
257	University of Toulouse, France	49.62	52.14	419	1.6%
258	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	55.61	51.98	156	-9.6%
259	University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA)	56.87	51.87	154	-11.8%
260	The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA)	53.96	51.76	211	-7.2%
261	The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia	43.67	51.50	273	14.1%
262	University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil	51.02	51.25	265	-2.8%
263	University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA)	44.12	51.00	117	11.8%
264	University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain	53.25	50.81	240	-7.7%
265	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India	44.82	50.41	109	8.8%
266	Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	39.17	50.31	382	24.3%
267	Oregon State University, United States of America (USA)	47.55	50.01	176	1.7%
268	South China Normal University (SCNU), China	29.40	49.82	155	63.9%
269	Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA)	44.73	49.76	214	7.6%
270	National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan	51.09	49.71	194	-5.9%
271	Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China	26.51	49.36	114	80.1%
272	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA)	53.13	49.33	163	-10.2%
273	Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK)	40.36	49.24	208	18.0%
274	Northeast Normal University (NENU), China	38.22	48.85	84	23.6%
275	Henan Normal University, China	26.30	48.80	115	79.5%
276	University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA)	50.94	48.53	294	-7.9%
277	The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA)	49.89	48.08	295	-6.8%
278	University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA)	61.86	47.29	212	-26.1%
279	National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	55.19	47.24	179	-17.2%
280	University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy	42.64	46.37	320	5.2%
281	Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria	49.11	46.19	196	-9.0%
282	Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France	43.84	46.00	546	1.5%
283	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China	39.72	45.96	143	11.9%
284	Henan University (HENU), China	28.30	45.77	113	56.4%
285	Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA)	46.81	45.74	179	-5.5%
286	University of Lyon, France	44.04	45.72	421	0.4%
287	China Pharmaceutical University (CPU), China	38.22	45.65	79	15.5%
288	Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden	55.91	45.50	158	-21.3%
289	Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France	46.39	45.41	441	-5.3%
290	University of Jinan (UJN), China	23.19	44.96	92	87.5%
291	McMaster University, Canada	41.48	44.57	115	4.0%
292	Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands	46.60	44.56	180	-7.5%
293	The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA)	79.06	44.04	180	-46.1%
294	The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA)	40.80	43.92	218	4.1%
295	VU Amsterdam, Netherlands	52.25	43.88	406	-18.8%
296	Tufts University, United States of America (USA)	50.08	43.80	243	-15.4%
297	Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia	49.04	43.78	333	-13.6%
298	University of Montpellier, France	43.78	43.69	381	-3.5%
299	University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA)	29.23	43.65	141	44.4%
300	Keio University, Japan	55.97	43.65	119	-24.6%
301	Temple University, United States of America (USA)	35.46	43.62	120	19.0%
302	University of Warsaw (UW), Poland	49.30	43.02	202	-15.6%
303	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	47.92	42.91	150	-13.4%
304	China Agricultural University (CAU), China	47.10	42.88	120	-11.9%
305	Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST), China	19.86	42.74	105	108.2%
306	Donghua University (DHU), China	24.71	42.70	95	67.1%
307	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India	40.87	42.62	172	0.9%
308	University of Kiel (CAU), Germany	43.66	42.32	175	-6.2%
309	Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA)	31.35	42.07	91	29.8%
310	The University of Dublin, Ireland	32.51	41.97	151	24.9%
311	University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia	26.48	41.85	147	52.9%
312	Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), China	37.14	41.84	90	9.0%
313	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China	34.94	41.77	138	15.6%
314	Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), China	41.34	41.52	97	-2.8%
315	Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany	37.33	41.27	193	6.9%
316	Okayama University, Japan	30.71	41.25	159	29.9%
317	University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal	46.06	41.02	226	-13.9%
318	University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA)	48.47	40.91	153	-18.4%
319	University of York, United Kingdom (UK)	49.59	40.86	154	-20.3%
320	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway	39.56	40.77	145	-0.3%
321	Nanchang University (NCU), China	25.22	40.74	108	56.2%
322	University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany	37.03	39.92	105	4.3%
323	The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia	35.81	39.90	233	7.8%
324	Linköping University (LiU), Sweden	31.67	39.69	140	21.2%
325	Aalto University, Finland	43.69	39.47	244	-12.6%
326	University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden	40.90	39.30	161	-7.1%
327	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA)	42.31	39.24	160	-10.3%
328	Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel	35.80	38.66	102	4.5%
329	Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU), China	23.66	38.15	85	56.0%
330	Ulm University, Germany	38.87	37.67	151	-6.3%
331	Yangzhou University (YZU), China	21.70	37.60	89	67.6%
332	University of Stuttgart, Germany	42.60	37.45	118	-14.9%
333	Brandeis University, United States of America (USA)	42.78	37.24	134	-15.8%
334	University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria	37.06	37.23	159	-2.8%
335	University of Bordeaux, France	43.15	36.94	259	-17.2%
336	University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain	37.57	36.52	161	-6.0%
337	The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA)	52.68	36.29	223	-33.4%
338	Jiangnan University, China	23.32	36.18	84	50.1%
339	Curtin University, Australia	38.00	35.93	154	-8.5%
340	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata), India	20.54	35.88	65	69.0%
341	Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA)	46.49	35.78	126	-25.6%
342	Charles University (CU), Czech Republic	31.19	35.26	307	9.4%
343	TU Dortmund University, Germany	31.72	35.12	177	7.1%
344	The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA)	35.29	34.97	142	-4.2%
345	Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium	29.80	34.84	175	13.1%
346	University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy	25.57	34.74	219	31.4%
347	Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China	33.01	34.69	70	1.6%
348	Changzhou University (CZU), China	23.46	34.60	58	42.6%
349	Hiroshima University (HU), Japan	29.73	34.52	147	12.3%
350	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), India	21.00	34.48	73	58.8%
351	University of Bergen (UIB), Norway	25.57	33.84	249	28.0%
352	Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany	31.05	33.59	113	4.7%
353	Laval University (UL), Canada	31.40	33.57	143	3.4%
354	Leipzig University, Germany	39.74	33.22	140	-19.1%
355	University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy	33.51	33.12	311	-4.4%
356	University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany	37.26	33.10	124	-14.1%
357	Drexel University, United States of America (USA)	31.94	33.07	117	0.2%
358	University of Otago, New Zealand	25.79	32.88	143	23.3%
359	Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China	23.68	32.83	120	34.1%
360	Kanazawa University (KU), Japan	33.55	32.75	90	-5.6%
361	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium	38.34	32.39	201	-18.3%
362	Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain	44.09	32.35	173	-29.0%
363	University of Missouri (Mizzou), United States of America (USA)	43.94	32.03	130	-29.5%
364	Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China	24.82	32.00	151	24.7%
365	University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium	29.29	31.88	200	5.3%
366	The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA)	53.69	31.39	164	-43.4%
367	University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK)	34.32	31.13	112	-12.3%
368	University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland	28.67	31.07	100	4.8%
369	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India	33.26	30.44	51	-11.5%
370	University of Central Florida (UCF), United States of America (USA)	29.86	30.36	90	-1.7%
371	Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany	28.87	30.30	114	1.5%
372	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany	38.88	30.18	135	-24.9%
373	Qingdao University (QU), China	16.91	30.16	84	72.5%
374	National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan	25.73	30.02	87	12.9%
375	China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB), China	18.41	29.87	77	57.0%
376	University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK)	20.06	29.83	110	43.9%
377	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy	28.13	29.44	95	1.3%
378	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), United States of America (USA)	23.35	29.22	155	21.0%
379	The University of Auckland, New Zealand	25.82	29.12	212	9.1%
380	Macquarie University, Australia	17.00	29.09	142	65.5%
381	École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), France	26.57	28.96	326	5.4%
382	Ocean University of China (OUC), China	25.58	28.90	160	9.3%
383	University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA)	32.95	28.86	118	-15.3%
384	Shanxi University (SXU), China	26.57	28.72	131	4.5%
385	University of Potsdam, Germany	24.17	28.35	156	13.5%
386	Giessen University (JLU), Germany	32.19	28.17	194	-15.4%
387	Dalhousie University, Canada	23.32	28.10	100	16.6%
388	Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany	28.47	27.95	80	-5.0%
389	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea	31.87	27.81	73	-15.6%
390	University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands	36.44	27.78	82	-26.3%
391	Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK)	24.14	27.69	193	11.0%
392	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany	39.62	27.59	110	-32.7%
393	National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France	28.71	27.37	278	-7.8%
394	Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK)	21.71	27.31	96	21.7%
395	Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland	32.93	27.28	133	-19.9%
396	Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Russia	23.40	27.26	115	12.7%
397	Ewha Womans University (Ewha), South Korea	23.96	27.15	94	9.6%
398	Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), China	33.68	27.14	67	-22.1%
399	Anhui University (AHU), China	27.21	27.04	90	-3.9%
400	Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada	33.51	26.99	164	-22.1%
401	Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China	21.50	26.73	128	20.3%
402	Auburn University, United States of America (USA)	18.48	26.49	92	38.7%
403	University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy	25.15	26.35	301	1.3%
404	Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain	30.00	26.21	250	-15.5%
405	Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (UK)	17.73	26.11	89	42.5%
406	University of Victoria (UVic), Canada	33.71	25.92	184	-25.6%
407	Capital Normal University (CNU), China	14.57	25.80	58	71.2%
408	Jiangsu Normal University (JSNU), China	24.47	25.70	48	1.6%
409	Northeastern University (NEU), China	24.63	25.67	44	0.8%
410	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan	31.09	25.66	68	-20.2%
411	Waseda University, Japan	26.56	25.63	117	-6.7%
412	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), India	36.92	25.53	116	-33.1%
413	Hunan Normal University (HUNNU), China	24.66	25.40	81	-0.4%
414	University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK)	30.24	25.30	91	-19.1%
415	Qufu Normal University (QFNU), China	19.56	25.21	48	24.7%
416	Hangzhou Normal University (HZNU), China	12.68	25.20	72	92.2%
417	Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia	27.97	25.10	129	-13.2%
418	Huaqiao University (HQU), China	23.67	25.08	42	2.5%
419	Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), China	10.82	25.03	76	123.8%
420	University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy	34.25	24.94	188	-29.6%
421	Wayne State University, United States of America (USA)	31.02	24.76	182	-22.8%
422	State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), United States of America (USA)	23.94	24.71	132	-0.1%
423	University of Wyoming, United States of America (USA)	18.16	24.59	81	31.0%
424	University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom (UK)	21.78	24.58	97	9.2%
425	Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Austria	21.12	24.51	149	12.3%
426	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia	27.75	24.49	85	-14.6%
427	Northwest A&F University (NWAFU), China	18.89	24.40	61	25.0%
428	Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan	23.11	24.32	56	1.8%
429	Yunnan University (YNU), China	15.63	24.19	63	49.6%
430	Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea	23.96	24.17	129	-2.4%
431	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany	23.49	24.15	114	-0.5%
432	Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA)	23.76	24.14	73	-1.7%
433	University of Sussex, United Kingdom (UK)	30.89	23.99	138	-24.9%
434	Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), United States of America (USA)	17.52	23.94	71	32.2%
435	Queen's University, Canada	37.40	23.77	163	-38.5%
436	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India	26.28	23.76	40	-12.5%
437	Griffith University, Australia	20.76	23.70	88	10.4%
438	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA)	38.23	23.30	72	-41.0%
439	Clemson University, United States of America (USA)	24.59	23.24	64	-8.6%
440	University of Liège (ULg), Belgium	22.21	23.22	103	1.1%
441	Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India	20.51	23.08	75	8.8%
442	University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), United States of America (USA)	24.68	23.00	69	-9.9%
443	The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), United States of America (USA)	24.68	22.95	60	-10.1%
444	Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands	25.73	22.94	165	-13.8%
445	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal), India	32.71	22.85	28	-32.4%
446	Umeå University (UMU), Sweden	27.37	22.80	110	-19.4%
447	University of Granada (UGR), Spain	26.73	22.73	140	-17.7%
448	Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria	23.61	22.70	58	-7.0%
449	West Virginia University (WVU), United States of America (USA)	20.26	22.64	75	8.1%
450	The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA)	30.43	22.52	42	-28.4%
451	University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK)	29.25	22.48	94	-25.6%
452	Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria	24.76	22.11	82	-13.6%
453	University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy	29.07	22.02	215	-26.7%
454	Nanjing Medical University (NJMU), China	23.44	21.99	100	-9.2%
455	University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia	24.08	21.93	77	-11.9%
456	University of Turin (UNITO), Italy	33.48	21.92	246	-36.7%
457	Renmin University of China (RUC), China	16.26	21.89	69	30.2%
458	Technical University Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig), Germany	19.78	21.87	70	6.9%
459	University of Vermont (UVM), United States of America (USA)	18.80	21.74	75	11.9%
460	Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea	22.42	21.74	104	-6.2%
461	University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada	23.10	21.71	109	-9.1%
462	Southern Medical University (SMU), China	9.98	21.66	63	109.8%
463	Army Medical University, China	29.17	21.64	109	-28.2%
464	Kobe University, Japan	24.31	21.63	134	-13.9%
465	Georgetown University, United States of America (USA)	12.58	21.41	62	64.7%
466	Tulane University, United States of America (USA)	23.47	21.34	72	-12.1%
467	Chiba University, Japan	27.39	21.27	63	-24.9%
468	Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium	16.95	21.18	166	20.8%
469	University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK)	21.94	21.17	88	-6.7%
470	Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), China	21.94	21.15	62	-6.8%
471	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India	23.42	21.14	37	-12.7%
472	Xiangtan University (XTU), China	19.12	21.07	45	6.6%
473	Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA)	29.83	21.00	67	-31.9%
474	University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark	22.82	20.97	122	-11.1%
475	Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), China	21.00	20.94	92	-3.5%
476	Chung-Ang University (CAU), South Korea	19.37	20.88	50	4.3%
477	Tianjin University of Technology (TJUT), China	20.95	20.87	59	-3.6%
478	University of Siegen, Germany	20.44	20.83	87	-1.5%
479	University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain	17.89	20.53	158	11.0%
480	Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy	15.32	20.41	83	28.9%
481	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden	23.76	20.38	94	-17.0%
482	University of Ljubljana, Slovenia	13.83	20.27	143	41.7%
483	University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal	13.02	20.22	74	50.2%
484	University of Pisa (UNIPI), Italy	24.20	20.21	254	-19.2%
485	University of Turku (UTU), Finland	18.04	20.14	123	8.0%
486	University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada	23.19	20.13	83	-16.0%
487	Shaanxi University of Science and Technology (SUST), China	4.30	20.12	36	352.8%
488	Florida International University (FIU), United States of America (USA)	15.83	20.10	143	22.8%
489	Bielefeld University, Germany	22.30	20.06	57	-13.0%
490	University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT), Czech Republic	10.99	19.76	38	73.9%
491	Kansas State University (K-State), United States of America (USA)	16.87	19.74	131	13.2%
492	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan	27.20	19.45	66	-30.9%
493	University of Jyväskylä, Finland	21.46	19.30	178	-13.0%
494	Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic	21.83	19.26	86	-14.7%
495	Jiangsu University (JSU), China	14.68	19.25	52	26.9%
496	Kent State University, United States of America (USA)	16.76	19.22	50	10.9%
497	Guangxi Normal University (GXNU), China	15.49	19.13	61	19.4%
498	North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), China	15.68	19.12	46	18.0%
499	University of Rennes 1, France	17.32	18.84	167	5.3%
500	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan	18.83	18.71	44	-3.9%

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