Top 25 institutions / Western Europe

Regional tables are ordered by change in WFC from 2012 to 2015. Also shown are WFCs for 2015, the total number of articles (AC), and the percentage change in WFC from 2012 to 2015.

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2015	Institution	WFC 2015	AC 2015	Change in WFC 2012–2015	Change in WFC 2012–2015 (%)
1	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	398.38	1373	52.25	15.10
2	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	149.09	665	32.13	27.47
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	215.28	689	28.50	15.26
4	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	199.52	838	28.49	16.66
5	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	413.71	1663	25.10	6.46
6	Stockholm University, Sweden	81.22	529	24.29	42.67
7	University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK)	90.47	409	20.66	29.59
8	University College London (UCL), United Kingdom (UK)	214.83	972	20.27	10.42
9	King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK)	92.43	397	19.08	26.01
10	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	323.06	948	19.04	6.26
11	Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy	41.39	129	18.97	84.64
12	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	72.58	156	15.72	27.65
13	University of Sussex (US), United Kingdom (UK)	33.26	251	15.17	83.90
14	University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland	108.92	510	15.08	16.07
15	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	101.27	229	13.49	15.36
16	Lund University (LU), Sweden	85.83	338	13.08	17.98
17	University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK)	40.15	98	13.01	47.96
18	National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France	85.55	739	12.70	17.43
19	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	89.64	290	12.69	16.49
20	University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark	125.32	679	12.69	11.27
21	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	92.77	258	12.26	15.23
22	University of Würzburg, Germany	114.81	328	12.21	11.89
23	University of Girona (UdG), Spain	16.15	38	12.18	306.61
24	Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany	121.53	690	12.09	11.04
25	University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK)	68.52	236	11.93	21.08

Weighted fractional count (WFC) for each institution is shown to two decimal places only. When two or more institutions have the same WFC, their positions are determined by the thousandth place (or beyond).

These results are based on the most recent data available. Owing to continual refinements of the data, the figures in the database are liable to change and might differ to those printed in the supplements.