2020 tables: Institutions - Nature & Science

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 Max Planck Society, Germany 33.15 38.79 161 17.4%
2 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 19.23 20.77 65 8.4%
3 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 19.28 15.36 78 -20.1%
4 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 19.89 14.19 81 -28.4%
5 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 12.24 13.83 147 13.3%
6 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 9.48 13.76 38 45.5%
7 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 13.30 11.86 93 -10.6%
8 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 9.43 8.64 47 -8.1%
9 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 7.69 7.22 48 -5.8%
10 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 5.91 6.97 28 18.2%
11 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 6.49 6.39 35 -1.2%
12 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 4.96 5.98 13 20.7%
13 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria 1.17 5.54 11 375.7%
14 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 9.19 5.43 22 -40.7%
15 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 3.13 5.43 27 74.1%
16 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland 5.01 5.27 12 5.4%
17 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 6.19 5.18 42 -16.1%
18 Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 7.30 5.01 29 -31.2%
19 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 3.13 4.67 22 50.0%
20 The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 1.93 4.38 14 127.3%
21 Leibniz Association, Germany 3.92 4.24 45 8.6%
22 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 5.80 4.07 31 -29.6%
23 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 2.73 3.95 44 45.4%
24 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 2.62 3.89 13 48.9%
25 University of Göttingen, Germany 1.82 3.68 17 102.8%
26 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 4.50 3.57 20 -20.4%
27 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 2.48 3.56 45 43.9%
28 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 3.21 3.51 14 9.8%
29 Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium 2.19 3.39 19 55.6%
30 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 1.92 3.35 35 75.0%
31 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 2.42 3.28 13 36.2%
32 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 1.22 3.05 20 150.7%
33 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 5.98 2.96 24 -50.3%
34 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 0.72 2.94 36 308.1%
35 Novartis International AG, Switzerland 1.93 2.93 11 52.3%
36 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 0.79 2.84 12 259.2%
37 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 1.60 2.84 7 78.4%
38 Leiden University, Netherlands 2.87 2.83 23 -1.1%
39 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 0.68 2.70 13 295.6%
40 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 9.88 2.69 34 -72.7%
41 Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria 2.71 2.62 9 -2.7%
42 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 0.80 2.59 7 223.5%
43 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 1.21 2.51 21 107.5%
44 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 0.51 2.47 14 385.0%
45 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 5.04 2.45 22 -51.3%
46 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 1.73 2.44 26 40.8%
47 University of Helsinki, Finland 0.44 2.40 21 451.3%
48 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 5.30 2.39 20 -54.7%
49 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 2.60 2.38 20 -8.3%
50 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 0.16 2.36 12 1347.6%
51 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 1.19 2.32 12 95.3%
52 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 4.07 2.25 24 -44.5%
53 Paris Cité University, France 1.66 2.21 38 33.2%
54 University of Lyon, France 1.29 2.20 14 70.8%
55 University of Strasbourg, France 0.73 2.09 15 185.9%
56 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 0.83 2.06 15 147.9%
57 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 1.15 2.06 10 79.4%
58 Sorbonne University, France 1.59 2.01 38 26.6%
59 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 1.56 1.99 13 28.5%
60 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 1.97 1.99 27 1.1%
61 Université PSL, France 1.40 1.97 50 40.7%
62 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 1.72 1.93 10 12.6%
63 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 1.31 1.93 20 47.4%
64 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 0.00 1.92 8 66470.7%
65 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 2.43 1.85 10 -23.9%
66 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 6.37 1.84 11 -71.0%
67 University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK) 0.10 1.83 8 1831.1%
68 TU Dresden, Germany 1.28 1.83 12 43.5%
69 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 1.26 1.81 20 43.3%
70 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria 2.41 1.80 8 -25.0%
71 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 0.15 1.79 6 1105.9%
72 Lund University (LU), Sweden 0.57 1.77 14 212.8%
73 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 2.68 1.76 23 -34.1%
74 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 0.76 1.76 15 133.3%
75 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria 2.54 1.75 16 -30.7%
76 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 1.95 1.75 21 -10.0%
77 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 4.52 1.75 9 -61.3%
78 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 3.74 1.73 10 -53.6%
79 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 1.63 1.72 12 6.3%
80 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 1.58 1.67 27 6.1%
81 University of Warsaw (UW), Poland 0.25 1.65 8 567.1%
82 University of Potsdam, Germany 1.13 1.62 15 44.1%
83 University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria 0.38 1.60 7 326.4%
84 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy 1.97 1.57 17 -19.8%
85 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 3.76 1.54 6 -59.0%
86 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 0.49 1.48 16 202.5%
87 Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands 0.21 1.45 6 606.1%
88 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 1.15 1.40 17 21.2%
89 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.87 1.33 13 53.7%
90 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 3.88 1.31 18 -66.1%
91 Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal 1.04 1.30 4 25.2%
92 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 1.52 1.27 35 -16.1%
93 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 0.05 1.26 9 2672.8%
94 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 0.91 1.24 14 35.7%
95 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 1.31 1.20 14 -8.2%
96 NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK) 0.13 1.19 3 857.3%
97 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 0.82 1.19 39 44.7%
98 Ulm University, Germany 1.41 1.18 9 -16.2%
99 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland 0.16 1.17 12 625.2%
100 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 1.94 1.17 16 -39.5%

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