Top 100 institutions by Lens score (input data)
Institutions ranked by normalized Lens influence metric. This divides an institution’s normalized aggregate third-party patent citation counts by its total number of resolved scholarly articles. Further details on the methodology can be found in 'A guide to the Nature Index'. For further information on the normalised Lens influence metric, see https://www.lens.org/lens/in4m.
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| 1 | The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) | United States of America (USA) | 29,518 | 535,890 | 18.15 |
| 2 | The Rockefeller University | United States of America (USA) | 22,301 | 344,143 | 15.43 |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 118,504 | 1,123,863 | 9.48 |
| 4 | University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School) | United States of America (USA) | 24,186 | 210,435 | 8.70 |
| 5 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center) | United States of America (USA) | 47,549 | 411,839 | 8.66 |
| 6 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | 33,500 | 268,847 | 8.03 |
| 7 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | United States of America (USA) | 231,555 | 1,811,561 | 7.82 |
| 8 | University of California San Francisco (UCSF) | United States of America (USA) | 121,792 | 857,111 | 7.04 |
| 9 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 154,468 | 1,083,985 | 7.02 |
| 10 | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), MSHS | United States of America (USA) | 46,752 | 327,246 | 7.00 |
| 11 | Tufts University | United States of America (USA) | 43,175 | 300,232 | 6.95 |
| 12 | Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) | United States of America (USA) | 65,014 | 444,864 | 6.84 |
| 13 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | 91,686 | 621,476 | 6.78 |
| 14 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 125,887 | 816,711 | 6.49 |
| 15 | Yeshiva University (YU) | United States of America (USA) | 47,315 | 293,768 | 6.21 |
| 16 | University of Strasbourg | France | 38,727 | 231,101 | 5.97 |
| 17 | Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) | United States of America (USA) | 37,363 | 222,197 | 5.95 |
| 18 | Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) | United States of America (USA) | 61,311 | 355,431 | 5.80 |
| 19 | University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 68,076 | 391,232 | 5.75 |
| 20 | Dartmouth College | United States of America (USA) | 30,641 | 173,835 | 5.67 |
| 21 | University of Geneva (UNIGE) | Switzerland | 56,676 | 318,902 | 5.63 |
| 22 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | 23,239 | 130,526 | 5.62 |
| 23 | Hanyang University (HYU) | South Korea | 25,633 | 142,555 | 5.56 |
| 24 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 84,636 | 470,586 | 5.56 |
| 25 | University of Alabama System ¶ | United States of America (USA) | 77,404 | 429,054 | 5.54 |
| 26 | University of Dundee | United Kingdom (UK) | 26,464 | 146,576 | 5.54 |
| 27 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 113,012 | 620,974 | 5.49 |
| 28 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 160,090 | 875,549 | 5.47 |
| 29 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 71,184 | 384,900 | 5.41 |
| 30 | The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 165,309 | 885,941 | 5.36 |
| 31 | Osaka University | Japan | 110,335 | 589,589 | 5.34 |
| 32 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 74,900 | 399,285 | 5.33 |
| 33 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 381,050 | 2,000,905 | 5.25 |
| 34 | University of Zurich (UZH) | Switzerland | 67,855 | 355,227 | 5.24 |
| 35 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 121,012 | 631,454 | 5.22 |
| 36 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 131,074 | 681,823 | 5.20 |
| 37 | Vanderbilt University (VU) | United States of America (USA) | 72,010 | 373,080 | 5.18 |
| 38 | Karolinska Institute (KI) | Sweden | 99,996 | 517,563 | 5.18 |
| 39 | RIKEN | Japan | 42,847 | 221,158 | 5.16 |
| 40 | The University of Arizona (Arizona) | United States of America (USA) | 83,668 | 431,163 | 5.15 |
| 41 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 36,763 | 188,830 | 5.14 |
| 42 | University of California Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | 63,376 | 324,643 | 5.12 |
| 43 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | 153,072 | 782,487 | 5.11 |
| 44 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | 94,889 | 481,821 | 5.08 |
| 45 | University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 144,871 | 735,172 | 5.07 |
| 46 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | 18,921 | 95,748 | 5.06 |
| 47 | University of Rochester (UR) | United States of America (USA) | 59,716 | 301,316 | 5.05 |
| 48 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 134,582 | 677,415 | 5.03 |
| 49 | University of Massachusetts System ¶ | United States of America (USA) | 75,435 | 379,415 | 5.03 |
| 50 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 68,853 | 345,999 | 5.03 |
| 51 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 148,901 | 745,897 | 5.01 |
| 52 | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 174,586 | 867,631 | 4.97 |
| 53 | Kyoto University | Japan | 129,152 | 641,082 | 4.96 |
| 54 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Germany | 87,839 | 435,934 | 4.96 |
| 55 | University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | Germany | 52,362 | 259,240 | 4.95 |
| 56 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | 73,661 | 364,399 | 4.95 |
| 57 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland | 75,282 | 371,991 | 4.94 |
| 58 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 91,664 | 451,649 | 4.93 |
| 59 | Emory University | United States of America (USA) | 69,123 | 339,108 | 4.91 |
| 60 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America (USA) | 83,830 | 411,165 | 4.90 |
| 61 | University of Basel (UB) | Switzerland | 44,589 | 218,588 | 4.90 |
| 62 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMTC) | United States of America (USA) | 140,137 | 682,399 | 4.87 |
| 63 | Kyushu University | Japan | 71,856 | 349,592 | 4.87 |
| 64 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 46,221 | 224,710 | 4.86 |
| 65 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 104,164 | 504,350 | 4.84 |
| 66 | University of Virginia (UVA) | United States of America (USA) | 65,608 | 313,838 | 4.78 |
| 67 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | 99,965 | 477,464 | 4.78 |
| 68 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | United States of America (USA) | 49,394 | 235,181 | 4.76 |
| 69 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 131,210 | 624,219 | 4.76 |
| 70 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 167,942 | 798,249 | 4.75 |
| 71 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | United States of America (USA) | 33,287 | 157,995 | 4.75 |
| 72 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 59,181 | 280,791 | 4.74 |
| 73 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | 107,643 | 508,035 | 4.72 |
| 74 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | 61,979 | 288,455 | 4.65 |
| 75 | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 91,500 | 423,079 | 4.62 |
| 76 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 56,199 | 259,453 | 4.62 |
| 77 | Uppsala University (UU) | Sweden | 73,610 | 339,530 | 4.61 |
| 78 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 149,351 | 688,461 | 4.61 |
| 79 | University of Texas System ¶ | United States of America (USA) | 297,124 | 1,367,944 | 4.60 |
| 80 | Boston University (BU) | United States of America (USA) | 69,657 | 320,590 | 4.60 |
| 81 | University of Würzburg | Germany | 43,555 | 199,418 | 4.58 |
| 82 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea | 35,257 | 160,796 | 4.56 |
| 83 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) | Germany | 51,368 | 233,803 | 4.55 |
| 84 | Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) | Germany | 89,052 | 403,270 | 4.53 |
| 85 | Keio University | Japan | 33,152 | 149,898 | 4.52 |
| 86 | University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) | United States of America (USA) | 112,785 | 507,586 | 4.50 |
| 87 | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) | South Korea | 7,849 | 34,926 | 4.45 |
| 88 | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | Netherlands | 36,062 | 159,495 | 4.42 |
| 89 | Utrecht University (UU) | Netherlands | 92,237 | 406,623 | 4.41 |
| 90 | University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | 48,404 | 213,034 | 4.40 |
| 91 | Wake Forest University (WFU) | United States of America (USA) | 32,466 | 142,577 | 4.39 |
| 92 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) | United States of America (USA) | 28,267 | 124,056 | 4.39 |
| 93 | Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 45,375 | 197,976 | 4.36 |
| 94 | Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) | Belgium | 90,570 | 393,788 | 4.35 |
| 95 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 175,779 | 761,403 | 4.33 |
| 96 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 154,726 | 665,316 | 4.30 |
| 97 | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 87,466 | 375,705 | 4.30 |
| 98 | Technical University of Denmark (DTU) | Denmark | 32,041 | 137,126 | 4.28 |
| 99 | University of York | United Kingdom (UK) | 25,135 | 105,539 | 4.20 |
| 100 | University College London (UCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 99,427 | 414,749 | 4.17 |
Footnote
• Correction: A version of these tables that appeared in print incorrectly stated that the normalized Lens influence metric included total resolved articles from 1985 to 2015. The correct date range for those articles is 1980 to 2015.
• Institutions listed appeared at least once in the top 100 research institutions according to either the 2015 Nature Index, Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Thomson Innovation or the 2015/16 Leiden ranking systems. A few outliers were also included.
* Source: Clarivate analytics / InCites.
† Normalized Lens influence metric = normalized aggregate citation counts / total resolved articles.
¶ For individual institutions included in university systems, see the University systems table.