2022 tables: Institutions - NPO/NGO

The 2022 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.

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# Institution Share 2020 Share 2021 Count 2021 Change in Adjusted Share* 2020–2021
1 Max Planck Society, Germany 794.12 781.96 2776 -4.1%
2 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 582.72 565.16 2585 -5.5%
3 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 236.27 242.03 914 -0.2%
4 Leibniz Association, Germany 199.16 200.12 1001 -2.1%
5 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 119.37 104.25 251 -14.9%
6 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 100.43 99.95 353 -3.0%
7 The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 58.84 58.26 187 -3.5%
8 Pasteur Institute, France 47.50 46.73 293 -4.2%
9 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA) 46.41 44.54 164 -6.5%
10 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA) 46.46 43.33 222 -9.1%
11 Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India 45.43 40.99 111 -12.1%
12 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada 44.44 39.58 115 -13.2%
13 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA) 37.59 33.24 138 -13.9%
14 Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA) 28.79 32.77 93 10.9%
15 Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA) 29.12 32.19 131 7.7%
16 Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 28.20 31.95 170 10.4%
17 John Innes Centre (JIC), United Kingdom (UK) 20.22 29.22 78 40.8%
18 HHMI Janelia Research Campus, United States of America (USA) 34.10 28.01 82 -20.0%
19 Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China 17.51 23.69 64 31.8%
20 Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria 23.62 23.39 102 -3.5%
21 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA) 26.34 22.88 70 -15.4%
22 Fraunhofer Society, Germany 18.75 22.79 176 18.4%
23 Simons Foundation, United States of America (USA) 26.92 20.77 153 -24.9%
24 Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium 25.87 19.13 145 -28.0%
25 Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain 20.62 17.89 295 -15.5%
26 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands 17.04 17.07 114 -2.5%
27 Cancer Research UK (CRUK), United Kingdom (UK) 10.89 16.04 129 43.4%
28 Allen Institute, United States of America (USA) 12.18 15.87 37 27.0%
29 The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), United States of America (USA) 21.60 15.86 71 -28.5%
30 The Wistar Institute, United States of America (USA) 10.20 15.12 53 44.4%
31 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub), United States of America (USA) 14.68 15.05 166 -0.1%
32 Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA) 18.09 14.97 76 -19.4%
33 Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia 12.29 14.75 81 17.0%
34 Ames Laboratory, United States of America (USA) 14.51 14.67 53 -1.5%
35 Gladstone Institutes, United States of America (USA) 10.29 14.42 75 36.6%
36 Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of America (USA) 16.54 13.62 23 -19.8%
37 National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Estonia 3.41 13.44 83 283.9%
38 Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium 10.66 13.04 42 19.1%
39 Curie Institute, France 14.09 12.90 113 -10.8%
40 Oncode Institute, Netherlands 13.43 12.45 92 -9.7%
41 Van Andel Research Institute (VAI), United States of America (USA) 12.51 12.14 31 -5.5%
42 Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), France 11.30 11.93 75 2.9%
43 La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), United States of America (USA) 11.27 11.80 56 2.0%
44 Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia 15.04 11.52 106 -25.4%
45 International Solvay Institutes, Belgium 7.81 11.23 46 40.2%
46 Ludwig Cancer Research, United States of America (USA) 7.48 11.20 123 45.8%
47 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), United States of America (USA) 15.80 9.73 56 -40.0%
48 Santa Fe Institute (SFI), United States of America (USA) 6.87 9.25 62 31.1%
49 Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy 9.09 9.10 49 -2.5%
50 Gulbenkian Science Institute (IGC), Portugal 10.13 8.35 25 -19.7%
51 American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), United States of America (USA) 5.08 8.10 53 55.2%
52 California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), United States of America (USA) 10.48 8.10 70 -24.7%
53 Ligue Contre Le Cancer, France 5.65 8.09 63 39.4%
54 National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM), Italy 7.73 7.96 51 0.3%
55 QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia 12.29 7.93 60 -37.1%
56 Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Germany 6.26 7.63 83 18.7%
57 Cluster of Excellence - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED), TU Dresden, Germany 10.03 7.55 29 -26.7%
58 Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands 6.59 7.52 41 11.1%
59 Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal 11.21 7.47 18 -35.1%
60 Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC), Italy 10.21 7.46 33 -28.9%
61 Babraham Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 8.35 7.28 28 -15.1%
62 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland 5.55 7.04 92 23.6%
63 Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Italy 4.20 6.98 102 61.7%
64 Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia 7.72 6.92 60 -12.7%
65 National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, Slovenia 3.24 6.89 32 107.2%
66 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria 6.95 6.28 51 -11.9%
67 Cluster of Excellence - Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), UoC, Germany 8.44 6.06 43 -30.1%
68 Center for Scientific Studies (CECs), Chile 5.65 6.01 12 3.6%
69 World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland 6.26 5.95 66 -7.5%
70 Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI), China 3.58 5.90 26 60.6%
71 Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India 4.11 5.66 64 34.3%
72 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany 3.00 5.65 76 83.7%
73 Canadian Light Source Inc., Canada 5.82 5.54 43 -7.3%
74 Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR), Germany 4.50 5.47 39 18.5%
75 New York Genome Center (NYGC), United States of America (USA) 3.75 5.41 49 40.4%
76 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg 3.90 5.37 17 34.2%
77 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), UChicago, United States of America (USA) 6.91 5.27 35 -25.7%
78 CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain 8.74 4.99 22 -44.4%
79 International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal 6.12 4.93 22 -21.6%
80 Spintronics Research Network of Japan (Spin-RnJ), Japan 3.98 4.86 63 18.8%
81 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada 3.51 4.69 64 29.9%
82 Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain 3.85 4.67 24 18.2%
83 Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Germany 6.50 4.61 20 -30.9%
84 Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Spain 5.76 4.60 28 -22.2%
85 Universities Space Research Association (USRA), United States of America (USA) 10.16 4.55 86 -56.4%
86 Institute of Microbial Chemistry (IMC), Japan 6.71 4.54 7 -34.1%
87 Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), United States of America (USA) 9.20 4.47 62 -52.7%
88 Field Museum of Natural History, United States of America (USA) 3.86 4.28 27 8.1%
89 Planetary Science Institute (PSI), United States of America (USA) 3.81 4.28 32 9.4%
90 UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, India 4.13 4.22 10 -0.6%
91 Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States of America (USA) 6.08 4.20 20 -32.8%
92 Telethon Foundation, Italy 6.03 4.12 31 -33.4%
93 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), United States of America (USA) 5.77 4.08 16 -31.1%
94 Cluster of Excellence - Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPS-M), LMU, Germany 8.56 4.02 19 -54.3%
95 Wetsus Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, Netherlands 4.02 4.01 13 -2.9%
96 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), United States of America (USA) 3.21 3.85 11 16.7%
97 Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada 4.36 3.67 16 -18.0%
98 Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH), United States of America (USA) 2.51 3.55 13 38.0%
99 Photonik-Zentrum Kaiserslautern e.V. (PZKL), Germany 1.78 3.54 26 93.2%
99 Institute for Composite Materials (IVW), Germany 1.78 3.54 26 93.2%
100 Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), JAEA, Japan – 3.52 38 N/A

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