2021 tables: Institutions - academic

The 2021 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.

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# Institution Share 2019 Share 2020 Count 2020 Change in Adjusted Share 2019-2020*
1 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 923.94 927.26 2,569 -3.2%
2 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 647.66 638.05 1,687 -5.0%
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 561.57 526.26 1,841 -9.6%
4 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 431.41 461.85 1,308 3.2%
5 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 455.82 458.80 1,437 -2.9%
6 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 419.32 456.45 1,439 5.0%
7 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 456.35 448.50 1,270 -5.2%
8 Peking University (PKU), China 438.30 446.11 1,634 -1.9%
9 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 408.57 425.66 2,503 0.5%
10 Nanjing University (NJU), China 426.56 417.89 1,022 -5.5%
11 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 343.84 398.64 1,034 11.8%
12 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 390.15 394.96 1,302 -2.4%
13 Tsinghua University, China 429.01 394.09 1,360 -11.4%
14 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 403.35 377.72 1,055 -9.7%
15 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 339.38 356.24 1,001 1.2%
16 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 314.15 343.33 931 5.4%
17 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 330.20 342.07 850 -0.1%
18 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 339.11 339.09 1,118 -3.6%
19 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 342.62 338.45 1,005 -4.8%
20 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 304.14 331.37 1,021 5.1%
21 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 320.19 315.87 991 -4.9%
22 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 317.97 315.58 757 -4.3%
23 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 301.04 307.72 864 -1.4%
24 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 253.73 300.27 851 14.1%
25 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 244.55 295.15 839 16.4%
26 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 286.98 293.44 899 -1.4%
27 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 287.39 293.38 928 -1.6%
28 Fudan University, China 271.65 291.18 799 3.4%
29 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 261.02 275.69 763 1.8%
30 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 260.16 269.22 715 -0.2%
31 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 303.96 268.45 958 -14.8%
32 Kyoto University, Japan 252.11 267.94 696 2.5%
33 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 222.32 260.84 732 13.1%
34 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 268.84 260.31 630 -6.6%
35 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 221.28 254.49 962 10.9%
36 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 238.09 252.21 732 2.1%
37 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 215.93 235.14 697 5.0%
38 Nankai University (NKU), China 244.90 230.53 565 -9.2%
39 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 200.57 227.29 609 9.3%
40 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 197.60 221.64 572 8.2%
41 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 128.09 221.61 591 66.8%
42 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 231.95 221.41 571 -8.0%
43 Sichuan University (SCU), China 223.78 220.61 396 -4.9%
44 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 227.20 218.93 704 -7.1%
45 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 230.70 216.17 574 -9.7%
46 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 214.52 214.59 664 -3.5%
47 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 216.73 211.46 919 -5.9%
48 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 236.08 209.27 620 -14.5%
49 Wuhan University (WHU), China 217.16 208.92 496 -7.2%
50 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 192.48 202.12 639 1.3%
51 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 168.34 199.80 552 14.4%
52 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 200.75 197.29 579 -5.2%
53 Soochow University, China 229.36 197.13 424 -17.1%
54 Xiamen University (XMU), China 182.90 195.41 395 3.0%
55 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 164.45 190.52 583 11.7%
56 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 151.84 189.28 400 20.2%
57 Osaka University, Japan 182.59 185.04 520 -2.3%
58 Jilin University (JLU), China 161.88 180.65 415 7.6%
59 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 146.61 177.77 519 16.9%
60 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 168.66 175.53 522 0.4%
61 Tianjin University (TJU), China 157.12 173.64 662 6.6%
62 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 153.37 173.55 428 9.1%
63 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 195.02 171.84 461 -15.0%
64 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 170.48 167.53 646 -5.2%
65 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 184.11 162.96 649 -14.7%
66 Tohoku University, Japan 142.55 162.21 481 9.7%
67 McGill University, Canada 161.37 161.48 584 -3.5%
68 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 154.85 161.35 631 0.5%
69 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 116.36 160.78 522 33.2%
70 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 145.73 160.31 520 6.1%
71 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 139.82 159.44 431 10.0%
72 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 157.10 159.15 570 -2.3%
73 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 151.43 158.41 665 0.9%
74 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 142.81 156.03 479 5.4%
75 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 163.40 155.95 661 -8.0%
76 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 133.32 155.01 544 12.1%
77 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 140.78 152.36 316 4.4%
78 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 162.63 149.61 458 -11.3%
79 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 146.03 148.40 570 -2.0%
80 Nagoya University, Japan 112.83 147.44 417 26.0%
81 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 150.74 143.33 657 -8.3%
82 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 136.44 143.13 652 1.2%
83 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 109.32 140.77 362 24.2%
84 Hunan University (HNU), China 144.25 140.66 295 -6.0%
85 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 116.93 140.07 326 15.5%
86 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 138.84 138.21 625 -4.0%
87 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 134.57 137.69 471 -1.3%
88 Shandong University (SDU), China 122.11 135.80 596 7.2%
89 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 149.51 134.95 385 -13.0%
90 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 137.33 134.69 505 -5.4%
91 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 117.25 134.27 427 10.4%
92 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 149.30 132.42 414 -14.5%
93 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 122.57 132.41 430 4.2%
94 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 144.05 132.32 519 -11.4%
95 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 126.92 130.37 357 -0.9%
96 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 108.72 130.25 302 15.5%
97 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 124.28 129.29 631 0.3%
98 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 120.74 127.97 378 2.2%
99 Tongji University, China 110.20 127.16 433 11.3%
100 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel 117.61 126.65 300 3.8%
101 Monash University, Australia 131.79 125.43 540 -8.2%
102 Beijing Normal University (BNU), China 120.55 125.36 407 0.3%
103 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 115.64 125.12 364 4.3%
104 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 115.86 124.72 297 3.8%
105 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 122.99 123.26 319 -3.4%
106 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 123.60 121.55 533 -5.2%
107 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel 98.17 121.38 284 19.2%
108 Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA) 97.55 119.95 410 18.6%
109 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 93.61 118.80 369 22.4%
110 The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA) 93.00 118.40 446 22.8%
111 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 93.13 116.53 489 20.6%
112 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 114.79 115.01 386 -3.4%
113 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 107.66 114.89 278 2.9%
114 Hokkaido University, Japan 111.33 113.26 289 -1.9%
115 Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China 119.42 113.14 311 -8.6%
116 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 108.96 112.78 401 -0.2%
117 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 107.02 112.44 546 1.3%
118 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 111.89 112.25 392 -3.3%
119 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 113.33 111.61 402 -5.0%
120 Kyushu University, Japan 100.61 111.36 339 6.7%
121 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 102.52 110.75 580 4.2%
122 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 117.86 108.76 268 -11.0%
123 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 97.09 107.41 412 6.7%
124 Sorbonne University, France 111.40 104.53 1,108 -9.5%
125 University of Göttingen, Germany 101.31 103.86 376 -1.1%
126 Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China 80.58 103.38 420 23.7%
127 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 90.57 103.00 309 9.7%
128 University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA) 113.20 102.73 320 -12.5%
129 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 96.40 101.27 359 1.3%
130 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 106.46 99.54 330 -9.8%
131 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 102.96 99.51 588 -6.8%
132 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan 72.51 99.06 366 31.7%
133 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 102.31 98.84 402 -6.8%
134 Yonsei University, South Korea 88.08 96.57 317 5.7%
135 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 86.95 95.42 340 5.8%
136 The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China 90.21 94.91 419 1.5%
137 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 83.10 94.89 418 10.1%
138 Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), Germany 92.06 94.54 446 -1.0%
139 Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China 108.53 93.80 185 -16.7%
140 City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China 67.21 93.41 314 34.0%
141 Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China 105.83 92.81 202 -15.4%
142 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China 90.90 92.57 381 -1.8%
143 Stockholm University, Sweden 82.46 91.35 494 6.8%
144 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 91.37 91.17 304 -3.8%
145 Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel 108.21 90.79 317 -19.1%
146 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 81.99 90.72 254 6.7%
147 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea 84.80 90.69 221 3.1%
148 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 80.84 90.48 267 7.9%
149 Brown University, United States of America (USA) 86.91 90.04 303 -0.1%
150 State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA) 78.66 89.87 377 10.2%
151 Central South University (CSU), China 87.64 88.77 275 -2.3%
152 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 82.42 87.75 359 2.7%
153 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 104.58 87.71 328 -19.1%
154 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 85.04 87.61 365 -0.7%
155 Leiden University, Netherlands 82.57 86.37 360 0.9%
156 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 75.80 86.20 417 9.7%
157 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 105.20 85.87 292 -21.3%
158 Lund University (LU), Sweden 77.27 85.66 372 6.9%
159 Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA) 71.44 85.43 394 15.3%
160 Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China 86.39 84.94 210 -5.2%
161 North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA) 88.05 84.28 278 -7.7%
162 The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA) 93.60 84.17 244 -13.3%
163 Shenzhen University (SZU), China 77.74 84.13 269 4.3%
164 Southeast University (SEU), China 81.26 83.88 210 -0.5%
165 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA) 65.41 82.54 300 21.7%
166 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), MSHS, United States of America (USA) 62.24 82.51 329 27.8%
167 University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA) 78.96 82.36 292 0.6%
168 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA) 65.36 82.03 230 21.0%
169 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 72.41 81.43 293 8.4%
170 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 75.76 80.69 321 2.7%
171 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 71.21 79.97 283 8.3%
172 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 85.03 79.94 265 -9.3%
173 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 91.95 79.51 436 -16.6%
174 University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA) 72.67 79.49 269 5.5%
175 University of Paris, France 70.77 79.22 856 7.9%
176 Colorado State University, United States of America (USA) 95.46 79.17 263 -20.0%
177 Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China 87.23 78.79 192 -12.9%
178 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 68.37 77.31 415 9.0%
179 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 84.51 77.07 364 -12.1%
180 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India 84.82 76.97 193 -12.5%
181 Southwest University (SWU), China 78.21 76.68 121 -5.5%
182 Beihang University (BUAA), China 90.07 76.54 352 -18.1%
183 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 74.45 76.52 329 -0.9%
184 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 88.98 76.13 584 -17.5%
185 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 75.96 76.08 332 -3.4%
186 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 77.55 75.99 351 -5.5%
187 Jinan University (JNU), China 66.02 75.97 200 11.0%
188 China University of Geosciences (CUG), China 65.43 75.31 213 11.0%
189 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 74.16 75.29 497 -2.1%
190 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 62.85 75.28 340 15.5%
191 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 83.98 75.26 291 -13.6%
192 Chongqing University (CQU), China 59.18 74.92 171 22.1%
193 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 80.45 74.72 376 -10.4%
194 Korea University, South Korea 65.29 74.56 316 10.1%
195 University of Vienna, Austria 86.40 74.22 299 -17.2%
196 Iowa State University, United States of America (USA) 64.25 74.04 230 11.1%
197 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 73.57 74.00 333 -3.0%
198 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 86.06 73.87 412 -17.2%
199 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea 86.95 73.37 280 -18.6%
200 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA) 64.18 72.62 340 9.1%
201 Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China 66.98 72.58 141 4.5%
202 Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA) 63.15 71.47 394 9.1%
203 University of Waterloo, Canada 70.86 71.36 184 -2.9%
204 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 65.33 71.20 250 5.1%
205 ShanghaiTech University, China 53.00 70.41 280 28.1%
206 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 64.91 70.08 241 4.1%
207 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 79.91 69.98 174 -15.6%
208 Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain 73.22 69.83 387 -8.0%
209 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA) 73.63 68.89 267 -9.8%
210 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 59.37 68.47 569 11.2%
211 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK) 55.96 68.32 302 17.7%
212 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 72.19 68.24 331 -8.8%
213 University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA) 63.55 66.57 194 1.0%
214 University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA) 60.51 65.83 216 4.9%
215 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 71.21 65.52 262 -11.3%
216 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 68.24 65.48 158 -7.5%
217 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 79.55 65.23 269 -20.9%
218 University of Calgary (U of C), Canada 61.63 64.79 259 1.4%
219 Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden 45.50 64.72 201 37.2%
220 University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA) 51.87 64.15 177 19.2%
221 University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China 63.92 64.11 167 -3.3%
222 The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA) 44.04 63.80 189 39.7%
223 The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK) 52.77 63.62 233 16.2%
224 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 56.42 63.47 210 8.5%
225 University of Helsinki, Finland 63.18 63.27 386 -3.4%
226 The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA) 75.24 63.21 315 -19.0%
227 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 66.10 62.70 211 -8.5%
228 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 61.04 62.04 243 -2.0%
229 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 62.19 61.53 363 -4.6%
230 University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA) 52.69 60.75 224 11.2%
231 University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA) 57.90 60.60 219 0.9%
232 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 69.86 60.58 665 -16.4%
233 Fuzhou University (FZU), China 90.26 60.23 122 -35.7%
234 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 65.56 60.04 408 -11.7%
235 University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain 50.81 60.00 301 13.9%
236 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 63.54 59.82 340 -9.2%
237 Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), China 54.46 59.74 119 5.8%
238 Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany 58.63 59.36 213 -2.4%
239 The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA) 51.76 59.09 204 10.1%
240 Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China 49.36 58.24 134 13.8%
241 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China 41.77 58.02 220 33.9%
242 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 57.11 57.08 363 -3.6%
243 University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil 51.25 56.51 293 6.3%
244 University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada 57.70 56.21 181 -6.1%
245 Northwest University (NWU), China 54.93 55.76 117 -2.1%
246 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China 53.51 55.58 198 0.1%
247 The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA) 48.08 55.12 302 10.5%
248 University of Valencia (UV), Spain 54.31 55.05 323 -2.3%
249 University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA) 49.33 54.78 153 7.1%
250 Shanghai University (SHU), China 60.39 54.63 139 -12.8%
251 Tufts University, United States of America (USA) 43.80 54.46 249 19.9%
252 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA) 48.53 54.23 312 7.7%
253 University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA) 63.57 54.17 227 -17.8%
254 University of Strasbourg, France 58.89 54.14 407 -11.4%
255 Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India 56.83 53.48 202 -9.3%
256 Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA) 35.78 52.35 175 41.1%
257 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China 45.96 52.35 154 9.8%
258 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India 50.41 52.05 124 -0.4%
259 University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA) 55.54 51.12 180 -11.3%
260 Oregon State University, United States of America (USA) 50.01 51.11 190 -1.5%
261 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 44.56 50.79 200 9.9%
262 Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany 57.49 50.64 143 -15.1%
263 University of Tsukuba, Japan 54.92 50.62 239 -11.1%
264 Keio University, Japan 43.65 49.69 142 9.8%
265 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 51.98 49.60 173 -8.0%
266 National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico 47.24 49.59 206 1.2%
267 University of Toulouse, France 52.14 49.43 392 -8.6%
268 University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK) 55.87 49.22 199 -15.1%
269 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 43.88 49.21 456 8.1%
270 Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China 32.00 48.84 181 47.2%
271 The University of Dublin, Ireland 41.97 48.79 173 12.1%
272 Northeast Normal University (NENU), China 48.85 48.71 91 -3.9%
273 University of Kiel (CAU), Germany 42.32 48.43 195 10.3%
274 University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden 39.30 48.33 208 18.6%
275 Central China Normal University (CCNU), China 58.03 48.31 158 -19.7%
276 Henan University (HENU), China 45.77 48.27 117 1.7%
277 Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia 43.78 48.06 338 5.8%
278 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria 46.19 47.10 206 -1.7%
279 University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy 46.37 47.02 355 -2.2%
280 Donghua University (DHU), China 42.70 46.96 106 6.1%
281 Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany 41.27 46.87 234 9.5%
282 National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan 49.71 46.83 193 -9.2%
283 University of Lyon, France 45.72 46.74 456 -1.4%
284 Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France 45.41 46.70 421 -0.8%
285 University of Konstanz, Germany 52.51 46.70 108 -14.3%
286 Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK) 49.24 46.53 192 -8.9%
287 Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA) 53.86 46.48 166 -16.8%
288 University of Montpellier, France 43.69 46.41 394 2.4%
289 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 55.45 46.24 166 -19.6%
290 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 39.92 46.05 118 11.2%
291 Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), China 41.84 45.98 107 6.0%
292 Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT), China 25.03 45.77 127 76.4%
293 The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA) 36.29 45.77 218 21.6%
294 China Agricultural University (CAU), China 42.88 44.96 114 1.1%
295 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel 60.92 44.48 144 -29.6%
296 The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA) 39.24 44.21 159 8.6%
297 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 53.67 43.91 196 -21.1%
298 Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China 55.08 43.88 150 -23.2%
299 Western University (UWO), Canada 53.02 43.79 122 -20.4%
300 Anhui University (AHU), China 27.04 43.59 116 55.5%
301 Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), China 41.52 43.59 101 1.2%
302 The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia 51.50 43.56 244 -18.4%
303 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 40.77 43.23 171 2.2%
304 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany 33.59 43.17 118 23.9%
305 Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea 53.23 43.08 187 -22.0%
306 University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA) 40.91 42.96 156 1.3%
307 Charles University (CU), Czech Republic 35.26 42.87 301 17.2%
308 Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium 34.84 42.63 193 18.0%
309 Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain 32.35 42.12 223 25.5%
310 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata), India 35.88 42.05 63 13.0%
311 McMaster University, Canada 44.57 41.81 113 -9.6%
312 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan 25.66 41.79 107 57.1%
313 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA) 47.29 41.75 195 -14.9%
314 University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal 41.02 41.72 240 -1.9%
315 The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA) 43.92 41.66 233 -8.5%
316 The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia 39.90 41.21 236 -0.4%
317 South China Normal University (SCNU), China 49.82 40.92 158 -20.8%
318 Nanchang University (NCU), China 40.74 40.58 94 -3.9%
319 Shanxi University (SXU), China 28.72 40.48 155 35.9%
320 China Pharmaceutical University (CPU), China 45.65 40.31 72 -14.9%
321 University of Warsaw (UW), Poland 43.02 39.94 202 -10.5%
322 Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA) 49.76 39.90 185 -22.7%
323 Yangzhou University (YZU), China 37.60 39.78 96 2.0%
324 Jiangnan University, China 36.18 39.67 78 5.7%
325 Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany 30.18 39.60 152 26.5%
326 University of Missouri (Mizzou), United States of America (USA) 32.03 38.66 144 16.4%
327 University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany 33.10 38.65 140 12.6%
328 Aalto University, Finland 39.47 38.49 232 -6.0%
329 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 42.91 38.17 141 -14.2%
330 University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy 24.94 38.16 233 47.5%
331 Brandeis University, United States of America (USA) 37.24 38.14 126 -1.2%
332 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 46.00 38.03 532 -20.3%
333 University of Bordeaux, France 36.94 37.52 273 -2.1%
334 University of Stuttgart, Germany 37.45 37.49 129 -3.5%
335 Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA) 45.74 37.45 158 -21.1%
336 Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland 27.28 37.39 167 32.2%
337 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China 26.73 37.32 165 34.6%
338 Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India 21.14 37.30 60 70.1%
339 Linköping University (LiU), Sweden 39.69 36.78 113 -10.6%
340 University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 41.85 36.72 145 -15.4%
341 University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) 31.13 36.68 126 13.6%
342 The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA) 31.39 36.68 186 12.7%
343 Kanazawa University (KU), Japan 32.75 36.63 102 7.9%
344 University of York, United Kingdom (UK) 40.86 36.61 176 -13.6%
345 University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain 36.52 36.61 180 -3.3%
346 Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST), China 42.74 36.56 79 -17.5%
347 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium 32.39 35.98 213 7.1%
348 Ocean University of China (OUC), China 28.90 35.85 203 19.6%
349 Northwest A&F University (NWAFU), China 24.40 35.67 70 40.9%
350 Northeastern University (NEU), China 25.67 35.64 69 33.8%
351 National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan 30.02 35.52 112 14.1%
352 University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA) 43.65 35.50 134 -21.6%
353 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 50.31 35.19 331 -32.6%
354 Okayama University, Japan 41.25 35.01 120 -18.2%
355 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria 22.70 34.76 82 47.7%
356 University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA) 28.86 34.21 118 14.3%
357 Ulm University, Germany 37.67 34.17 152 -12.5%
358 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany 27.59 34.16 128 19.4%
359 Leipzig University, Germany 33.22 34.10 182 -1.0%
360 Anhui Normal University (AHNU), China 17.54 33.56 60 84.5%
361 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India 30.44 33.36 68 5.7%
362 Henan Normal University, China 48.80 33.30 91 -34.2%
363 Kobe University, Japan 21.63 33.23 145 48.1%
364 Clemson University, United States of America (USA) 23.24 33.01 78 37.0%
365 Hiroshima University (HU), Japan 34.52 32.61 120 -8.9%
366 University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy 33.12 32.57 307 -5.2%
367 University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy 22.02 32.49 265 42.2%
368 Ningbo University (NBU), China 17.06 32.49 82 83.6%
369 Curtin University, Australia 35.93 32.48 152 -12.8%
370 University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria 37.23 32.41 147 -16.0%
371 University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia 21.93 32.15 105 41.4%
372 Hunan Normal University (HUNNU), China 25.40 31.87 87 21.0%
373 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), United States of America (USA) 29.22 31.87 174 5.2%
374 The University of Auckland, New Zealand 29.12 31.76 189 5.2%
375 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 27.78 31.53 92 9.4%
376 Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea 27.81 31.41 72 8.9%
377 Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK) 27.69 31.12 177 8.4%
378 University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium 31.88 31.08 182 -6.0%
379 Waseda University, Japan 25.63 31.07 104 16.9%
380 University of Victoria (UVic), Canada 25.92 30.86 191 14.8%
381 Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel 38.66 30.78 94 -23.2%
382 Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany 30.30 30.64 131 -2.5%
383 Tianjin University of Technology (TJUT), China 20.87 30.57 62 41.2%
384 TU Dortmund University, Germany 35.12 30.50 157 -16.2%
385 Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea 24.17 30.48 158 21.6%
386 The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA) 34.97 30.43 147 -16.1%
387 Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China 32.83 30.41 114 -10.7%
388 Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China 34.69 30.10 67 -16.3%
389 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), India 25.53 30.04 101 13.5%
390 University of Central Florida (UCF), United States of America (USA) 30.36 30.00 74 -4.7%
391 Yunnan University (YNU), China 24.19 29.94 76 19.4%
392 Wayne State University, United States of America (USA) 24.76 29.66 159 15.5%
393 Queen's University, Canada 23.77 29.50 171 19.6%
394 Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), China 27.14 29.47 79 4.7%
395 University of Sussex, United Kingdom (UK) 23.99 29.22 129 17.4%
396 Chiba University, Japan 21.27 29.10 106 31.9%
397 Laval University (UL), Canada 33.57 29.09 141 -16.5%
398 University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy 34.74 29.07 218 -19.3%
399 Macquarie University, Australia 29.09 29.01 142 -3.8%
400 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia 24.49 28.55 113 12.4%
401 Temple University, United States of America (USA) 43.62 28.46 110 -37.1%
402 Wenzhou University (WZU), China 14.29 28.38 65 91.6%
403 University of Bergen (UIB), Norway 33.84 28.35 246 -19.2%
404 West Virginia University (WVU), United States of America (USA) 22.64 28.32 87 20.6%
405 Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA) 42.07 28.23 76 -35.3%
406 University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy 26.35 28.18 276 3.1%
407 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), India 34.48 28.11 48 -21.4%
408 Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 25.10 28.10 125 7.9%
409 Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA) 24.14 28.08 80 12.2%
410 Tulane University, United States of America (USA) 21.34 28.00 85 26.5%
411 Hebei University (HBU), China 16.82 27.97 62 60.4%
412 Bielefeld University, Germany 20.06 27.89 66 34.1%
413 University of Otago, New Zealand 32.88 27.59 138 -19.1%
414 Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada 26.99 27.26 170 -2.6%
415 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India 42.62 27.06 133 -38.8%
416 Southern Medical University (SMU), China 21.66 26.93 90 19.9%
417 Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany 27.95 26.86 93 -7.4%
418 University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA) 51.00 26.74 82 -49.4%
419 National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France 27.37 26.65 265 -6.1%
420 Qingdao University (QU), China 30.16 26.39 78 -15.6%
421 Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK) 27.31 26.30 104 -7.1%
422 Hubei University (HUBU), China 15.99 26.24 61 58.2%
423 University of Jinan (UJN), China 44.96 26.20 62 -43.8%
424 Giessen University (JLU), Germany 28.17 26.08 178 -10.7%
425 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 22.94 26.00 162 9.3%
426 Umeå University (UMU), Sweden 22.80 25.78 127 9.0%
427 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany 24.15 25.74 134 2.7%
428 Jiangsu Normal University (JSNU), China 25.70 25.67 51 -3.7%
429 University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), United States of America (USA) 23.00 25.66 76 7.6%
430 University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK) 22.48 25.61 102 9.9%
431 University of Potsdam, Germany 28.35 25.51 154 -13.2%
432 Drexel University, United States of America (USA) 33.07 25.46 106 -25.8%
433 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), China 20.94 25.37 101 16.8%
434 Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea 21.74 25.30 101 12.2%
435 Syracuse University, United States of America (USA) 17.33 25.14 103 39.9%
436 Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain 26.21 25.01 259 -8.0%
437 Nanjing Medical University (NJMU), China 21.99 25.01 103 9.7%
438 Changzhou University (CZU), China 34.60 24.97 45 -30.4%
439 University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain 20.53 24.87 164 16.8%
440 École Normale Supérieure (ENS Paris), France 28.96 24.65 329 -17.9%
441 Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU), China 38.15 24.59 72 -37.8%
442 University of Jyväskylä, Finland 19.30 24.56 188 22.7%
443 University of Oldenburg, Germany 11.71 24.55 64 102.1%
444 China University of Petroleum (CUP), China 17.11 24.45 51 37.8%
445 National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan 19.45 24.01 83 19.1%
446 Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy 29.44 23.77 96 -22.1%
447 University of Pisa (UNIPI), Italy 20.21 23.73 250 13.2%
448 Army Medical University, China 21.64 23.42 133 4.4%
449 University of Turin (UNITO), Italy 21.92 23.33 251 2.6%
450 University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina 16.10 23.24 142 39.1%
451 University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK) 21.17 23.22 111 5.8%
452 Guangzhou University (GU), China 14.02 23.22 68 59.7%
453 Ewha Womans University (Ewha), South Korea 27.15 23.13 80 -17.8%
454 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA) 23.30 23.12 70 -4.3%
455 University of Liège (ULg), Belgium 23.22 23.03 104 -4.4%
456 Dalhousie University, Canada 28.10 23.02 100 -21.0%
457 Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Russia 27.26 23.01 101 -18.6%
458 Texas Tech University (TTU), United States of America (USA) 16.91 23.01 148 31.2%
459 Griffith University, Australia 23.70 23.00 85 -6.4%
460 University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada 20.13 22.85 105 9.4%
461 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India 23.76 22.80 36 -7.5%
462 Hohai University (HHU), China 9.97 22.71 56 119.6%
463 University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark 20.97 22.47 123 3.3%
464 Swansea University, United Kingdom (UK) 18.16 22.46 84 19.2%
465 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - State University (MIPT), Russia 15.51 22.19 196 37.9%
466 China University of Geosciences, Beijing (CUGB), China 29.87 22.16 63 -28.5%
467 Chung-Ang University (CAU), South Korea 20.88 22.13 56 2.2%
468 Guangzhou Medical University (GMU), China 16.06 22.09 106 32.6%
469 Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Japan 10.63 22.04 68 99.9%
470 University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom (UK) 24.58 22.04 109 -13.5%
471 Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Russia 13.73 22.00 97 54.5%
472 University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), United States of America (USA) 17.48 21.95 66 21.0%
473 The George Washington University (GW), United States of America (USA) 18.10 21.87 97 16.5%
474 University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland 14.42 21.84 176 46.0%
475 Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan 24.32 21.79 68 -13.6%
476 Auburn University, United States of America (USA) 26.49 21.72 88 -20.9%
477 Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic 19.26 21.64 118 8.3%
478 Hangzhou Normal University (HZNU), China 25.20 21.54 73 -17.6%
479 University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland 31.07 21.54 95 -33.2%
480 University of Iceland, Iceland 15.84 21.50 88 30.8%
481 Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU), China 15.50 21.40 46 33.1%
482 University of Granada (UGR), Spain 22.73 21.34 137 -9.5%
483 University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK) 25.30 21.31 103 -18.8%
484 Colorado School of Mines, United States of America (USA) 13.79 21.20 80 48.2%
485 Jiangxi Normal University (JXNU), China 18.64 21.12 53 9.2%
486 ITMO National Research University (ITMO University), Russia 15.51 21.10 63 31.2%
487 The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), United States of America (USA) 22.95 21.01 65 -11.7%
488 University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia 18.08 20.96 123 11.8%
489 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), United States of America (USA) 16.66 20.95 68 21.2%
490 Huaqiao University (HQU), China 25.08 20.91 35 -19.6%
491 University of Lorraine (UL), France 16.31 20.79 126 22.9%
492 University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 20.27 20.78 134 -1.1%
493 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal), India 22.85 20.55 29 -13.3%
494 University of Macau (UM), China 15.33 20.29 83 27.6%
495 University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK) 29.83 20.23 95 -34.6%
496 University of Turku (UTU), Finland 20.14 20.13 98 -3.6%
497 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden 20.38 20.08 103 -5.0%
498 Utah State University (USU), United States of America (USA) 17.36 20.04 92 11.3%
499 Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy 20.41 19.95 97 -5.8%
500 Renmin University of China (RUC), China 21.89 19.91 63 -12.3%

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