Top 50 institutions by normalized WIPO patent families
Research institutions listed in the following table appeared in the top 200 Nature Index in 2016, by weighted fractional count. The table includes the total number of STEM articles in the Web of science and WIPO patent families from the Derwent innovation index. Institutions are ranked by normalized WIPO patent families, which divides patent families by STEM articles. Lens influence rank is included for comparison.
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| 1 | 172 | Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) | France | 63,082 | 3,958 | 0.063 |
| 2 | 82 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea | 29,823 | 1,463 | 0.049 |
| 3 | 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 77,401 | 2,411 | 0.031 |
| 4 | 46 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | 17,213 | 523 | 0.030 |
| 5 | 6 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | 16,589 | 475 | 0.029 |
| 6 | 1 | The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) | United States of America (USA) | 15,446 | 430 | 0.028 |
| 7 | NA | National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | Japan | 16,598 | 459 | 0.028 |
| 8 | 29 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 43,713 | 984 | 0.023 |
| 9 | 39 | RIKEN | Japan | 33,450 | 723 | 0.022 |
| 10 | 19 | University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 46,516 | 960 | 0.021 |
| 11 | 63 | Kyushu University | Japan | 44,695 | 865 | 0.019 |
| 12 | 22 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | 16,109 | 304 | 0.019 |
| 13 | 76 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 34,923 | 611 | 0.017 |
| 14 | 31 | Osaka University | Japan | 65,770 | 1,110 | 0.017 |
| 15 | 139 | Tohoku University | Japan | 63,420 | 1,069 | 0.017 |
| 16 | 162 | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) | India | 58,772 | 939 | 0.016 |
| 17 | 122 | Nagoya University | Japan | 43,766 | 695 | 0.016 |
| 18 | 141 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 82,540 | 1,310 | 0.016 |
| 19 | 56 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | 33,462 | 526 | 0.016 |
| 20 | 95 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 110,412 | 1,727 | 0.016 |
| 21 | 104 | Yonsei University | South Korea | 50,134 | 774 | 0.015 |
| 22 | 53 | Kyoto University | Japan | 79,023 | 1,215 | 0.015 |
| 23 | 119 | University of Florida (UF) | United States of America (USA) | 76,062 | 1,133 | 0.015 |
| 24 | 2 | The Rockefeller University | United States of America (USA) | 9,413 | 136 | 0.014 |
| 25 | 116 | Hokkaido University (Hokudai) | Japan | 41,396 | 582 | 0.014 |
| 26 | 69 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 88,777 | 1,215 | 0.014 |
| 27 | 121 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) | Israel | 28,362 | 387 | 0.014 |
| 28 | 151 | French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) | France | 372,101 | 4,718 | 0.013 |
| 29 | NA | National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) | France | 128,265 | 1,555 | 0.012 |
| 30 | NA | Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) | United States of America (USA) | 24,537 | 295 | 0.012 |
| 31 | 47 | University of Rochester (UR) | United States of America (USA) | 35,016 | 411 | 0.012 |
| 32 | 64 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 44,650 | 517 | 0.012 |
| 33 | 183 | Tsinghua University (TH) | China | 80,525 | 924 | 0.011 |
| 34 | 30 | The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 123,975 | 1,409 | 0.011 |
| 35 | 24 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 50,365 | 560 | 0.011 |
| 36 | 41 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 36,120 | 397 | 0.011 |
| 37 | 48 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 81,215 | 891 | 0.011 |
| 38 | 9 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 104,655 | 1,146 | 0.011 |
| 39 | 181 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 48,434 | 528 | 0.011 |
| 40 | 161 | Arizona State University (ASU) | United States of America (USA) | 32,238 | 348 | 0.011 |
| 41 | NA | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) | United States of America (USA) | 33,549 | 359 | 0.011 |
| 42 | 176 | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Spain | 111,022 | 1,173 | 0.011 |
| 43 | 156 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) | Israel | 46,863 | 492 | 0.010 |
| 44 | 174 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | Germany | 33,401 | 349 | 0.010 |
| 45 | 32 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 49,514 | 514 | 0.010 |
| 46 | 43 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | 103,664 | 973 | 0.009 |
| 47 | 146 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 68,509 | 636 | 0.009 |
| 48 | 113 | University of California System ¶ | United States of America (USA) | 502,862 | 4,563 | 0.009 |
| 49 | 118 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | 19,467 | 170 | 0.009 |
| 50 | 70 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 115,092 | 1,002 | 0.009 |
Footnote
STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
* Source: Clarivate analytics.
† Applied and Granted WIPO patent families. Source: Derwent innovation index by Clarivate analytics.
‡ Normalized WIPO patent families = WIPO patent families / STEM documents.
¶ For individual institutions included in university systems, see the University systems table.