2020 tables: Institutions - life sciences - academic

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

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# Institution Share 2018 Share 2019 Count 2019 Change in Adjusted Share 2018-2019*
1 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 621.35 653.96 1,736 4.6%
2 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 302.36 309.62 788 1.8%
3 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 172.03 212.23 663 22.7%
4 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 200.86 203.67 594 0.8%
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 212.74 203.34 867 -5.0%
6 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 193.90 199.78 454 2.4%
7 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 173.37 182.89 596 4.9%
8 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 186.66 180.10 553 -4.1%
9 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 149.98 172.82 510 14.6%
10 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 194.73 168.84 593 -13.8%
11 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 159.18 160.46 465 0.2%
12 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 158.71 155.67 508 -2.5%
13 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 160.32 155.13 407 -3.8%
14 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 139.67 151.90 483 8.1%
15 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 153.99 151.31 392 -2.3%
16 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 183.11 150.39 476 -18.3%
17 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 153.36 149.76 474 -2.9%
18 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 150.57 146.32 381 -3.4%
19 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 136.01 139.66 440 2.1%
20 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 115.54 131.79 294 13.4%
21 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 120.63 127.89 375 5.4%
22 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 121.54 126.16 464 3.2%
23 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 88.05 106.30 295 20.0%
24 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 117.47 101.82 267 -13.8%
25 Peking University (PKU), China 84.64 97.81 300 14.9%
26 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 87.95 97.56 234 10.3%
27 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 98.07 96.37 318 -2.3%
28 The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA) 82.80 88.91 236 6.8%
29 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 87.31 87.95 306 0.2%
30 McGill University, Canada 76.27 86.61 296 12.9%
31 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 87.21 86.29 191 -1.6%
32 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 81.52 85.62 275 4.4%
33 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 81.08 82.93 249 1.7%
34 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 76.06 82.85 228 8.3%
35 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 80.69 80.54 352 -0.8%
36 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 77.71 80.23 306 2.6%
37 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 91.38 78.55 303 -14.5%
38 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 78.23 76.40 307 -2.9%
39 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 69.94 74.92 373 6.5%
40 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 85.84 74.63 233 -13.6%
41 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 95.32 73.58 259 -23.3%
42 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 61.98 73.17 299 17.4%
43 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 65.80 72.92 238 10.2%
44 Tsinghua University, China 68.86 71.91 238 3.8%
45 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 91.85 71.54 263 -22.6%
46 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 83.84 69.58 316 -17.5%
47 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 55.94 69.39 214 23.3%
48 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 53.32 69.14 227 28.9%
49 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 52.42 67.26 181 27.6%
50 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 70.94 63.37 241 -11.2%
51 University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA) 73.04 60.58 196 -17.5%
52 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 51.68 60.16 401 15.7%
53 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 61.17 59.20 139 -3.8%
54 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), MSHS, United States of America (USA) 75.92 59.15 252 -22.5%
55 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 73.80 59.02 140 -20.5%
56 Fudan University, China 56.40 58.20 232 2.6%
57 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 47.34 58.05 173 21.9%
58 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 49.76 57.10 233 14.1%
59 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 54.66 56.27 217 2.3%
60 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 72.55 55.69 151 -23.7%
61 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 57.81 55.62 157 -4.4%
62 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 42.57 55.45 192 29.5%
63 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 54.74 53.63 145 -2.6%
64 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 47.47 51.79 168 8.5%
65 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 62.16 50.88 166 -18.6%
66 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 53.73 50.87 140 -5.9%
67 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 43.54 50.67 154 15.7%
68 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel 42.08 49.15 132 16.1%
69 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 38.93 48.54 236 24.0%
70 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 53.00 48.51 153 -9.0%
71 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 41.82 47.91 198 13.9%
72 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 59.31 47.90 158 -19.7%
73 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 43.43 47.89 165 9.6%
74 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 44.73 47.36 147 5.3%
75 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 49.87 47.31 241 -5.7%
76 Kyoto University, Japan 66.52 47.16 174 -29.5%
77 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 53.53 46.27 135 -14.1%
78 Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel 27.26 45.72 131 66.7%
79 Monash University, Australia 45.63 45.61 217 -0.6%
80 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 45.16 44.94 246 -1.1%
81 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 44.77 44.75 127 -0.6%
82 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 50.81 43.99 282 -13.9%
83 Osaka University, Japan 47.58 43.74 158 -8.6%
84 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 43.52 43.22 152 -1.2%
85 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 40.63 42.65 125 4.4%
86 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 37.39 42.61 178 13.3%
87 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 49.17 42.49 229 -14.1%
88 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 45.95 42.47 128 -8.1%
89 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 45.79 41.44 142 -10.0%
90 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 70.22 41.37 223 -41.4%
91 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 39.65 41.09 165 3.0%
92 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 35.88 40.81 150 13.1%
93 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 35.68 39.67 122 10.5%
94 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 34.42 38.03 170 9.8%
95 The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA) 37.34 37.73 114 0.5%
96 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 31.56 37.72 158 18.8%
97 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 41.43 37.08 158 -11.0%
98 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 49.95 36.41 167 -27.5%
99 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 31.90 34.80 151 8.4%
100 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 29.43 34.44 163 16.3%

Footnote

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. Users please note:

  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals, selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2020 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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