2020 tables: Institutions - life sciences

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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)	621.35	653.96	1,736	4.6%
2	National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA)	352.79	356.11	891	0.4%
3	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	302.36	309.62	788	1.8%
4	Max Planck Society, Germany	292.77	291.25	1,067	-1.1%
5	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	253.27	244.80	857	-3.9%
6	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	172.03	212.23	663	22.7%
7	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	200.86	203.67	594	0.8%
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	212.74	203.34	867	-5.0%
9	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	193.90	199.78	454	2.4%
10	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	173.37	182.89	596	4.9%
11	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	170.59	182.63	1,331	6.4%
12	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	186.66	180.10	553	-4.1%
13	Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA)	149.98	172.82	510	14.6%
14	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	194.73	168.84	593	-13.8%
15	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	159.18	160.46	465	0.2%
16	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	158.71	155.67	508	-2.5%
17	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	160.32	155.13	407	-3.8%
18	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	139.67	151.90	483	8.1%
19	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	153.99	151.31	392	-2.3%
20	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	183.11	150.39	476	-18.3%
21	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	153.36	149.76	474	-2.9%
22	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	150.57	146.32	381	-3.4%
23	Duke University, United States of America (USA)	136.01	139.66	440	2.1%
24	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	115.54	131.79	294	13.4%
25	New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA)	120.63	127.89	375	5.4%
26	UCL, United Kingdom (UK)	121.54	126.16	464	3.2%
27	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	88.05	106.30	295	20.0%
28	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	117.47	101.82	267	-13.8%
29	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	109.63	101.75	668	-7.7%
30	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA)	92.88	100.72	320	7.8%
31	Peking University (PKU), China	84.64	97.81	300	14.9%
32	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	87.95	97.56	234	10.3%
33	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	98.07	96.37	318	-2.3%
34	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	82.80	88.91	236	6.8%
35	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	87.31	87.95	306	0.2%
36	McGill University, Canada	76.27	86.61	296	12.9%
37	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	87.21	86.29	191	-1.6%
38	University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA)	81.52	85.62	275	4.4%
39	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	81.08	82.93	249	1.7%
40	Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA)	76.06	82.85	228	8.3%
41	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	80.69	80.54	352	-0.8%
42	The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)	77.71	80.23	306	2.6%
43	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	80.11	79.12	840	-1.8%
44	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	91.38	78.55	303	-14.5%
45	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	78.23	76.40	307	-2.9%
46	Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden	69.94	74.92	373	6.5%
47	University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA)	85.84	74.63	233	-13.6%
48	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	86.98	73.81	202	-15.6%
49	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	95.32	73.58	259	-23.3%
50	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	61.98	73.17	299	17.4%
51	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	65.80	72.92	238	10.2%
52	Tsinghua University, China	68.86	71.91	238	3.8%
53	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA)	91.85	71.54	263	-22.6%
54	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	83.84	69.58	316	-17.5%
55	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	55.94	69.39	214	23.3%
56	The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada	53.32	69.14	227	28.9%
57	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA)	52.42	67.26	181	27.6%
58	Emory University, United States of America (USA)	70.94	63.37	241	-11.2%
59	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	53.02	62.27	360	16.8%
60	University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA)	73.04	60.58	196	-17.5%
61	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	51.68	60.16	401	15.7%
62	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	61.17	59.20	139	-3.8%
63	Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA)	76.33	59.18	252	-22.9%
64	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	73.80	59.02	140	-20.5%
65	Fudan University, China	56.40	58.20	232	2.6%
66	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	47.34	58.05	173	21.9%
67	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	49.76	57.10	233	14.1%
68	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	54.66	56.27	217	2.3%
69	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	72.55	55.69	151	-23.7%
70	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	57.81	55.62	157	-4.4%
71	University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA)	42.57	55.45	192	29.5%
72	Medical Research Council (MRC), United Kingdom (UK)	49.32	54.82	247	10.5%
73	Leibniz Association, Germany	54.23	54.26	321	-0.5%
74	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	54.74	53.63	145	-2.6%
75	University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland	47.47	51.79	168	8.5%
76	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA)	62.16	50.88	166	-18.6%
77	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	53.73	50.87	140	-5.9%
78	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	43.54	50.67	154	15.7%
79	The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK)	52.18	49.16	139	-6.4%
80	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	42.08	49.15	132	16.1%
81	Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA)	38.93	48.54	236	24.0%
82	Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA)	53.00	48.51	153	-9.0%
83	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	41.82	47.91	198	13.9%
84	The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA)	59.31	47.90	158	-19.7%
85	Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium	43.43	47.89	165	9.6%
86	University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA)	44.73	47.36	147	5.3%
87	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	49.87	47.31	241	-5.7%
88	Kyoto University, Japan	66.52	47.16	174	-29.5%
89	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	53.53	46.27	135	-14.1%
90	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	27.26	45.72	131	66.7%
91	People's Liberation Army (PLA), China	37.33	45.69	193	21.7%
92	Monash University, Australia	45.63	45.61	217	-0.6%
93	Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands	45.16	44.94	246	-1.1%
94	HHMI Janelia Research Campus, United States of America (USA)	36.57	44.90	101	22.1%
95	University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland	44.77	44.75	127	-0.6%
96	The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia	50.81	43.99	282	-13.9%
97	Osaka University, Japan	47.58	43.74	158	-8.6%
98	European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany	47.77	43.62	265	-9.2%
99	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	43.52	43.22	152	-1.2%
100	Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA)	40.68	42.89	158	4.8%

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