Top 10 institutions in Daejeon
The Nature Index 2017 Science Cities tables show each city’s leading institutions for high-quality science, ordered by WFC, Count and CS for 2016. Also shown are WFC from 2012, the change in WFC between 2012 and 2016 and the Count for 2016. Collaboration tables rank the top intra-city institution pairs by their bilateral collaboration score in 2016.
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| 1 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | 126.0 | 102.4 | 293 | |
| 2 | Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, IBS | 0.0 | 13.0 | 39 | |
| 3 | Chungnam National University (CNU) | 13.5 | 8.7 | 49 | |
| 4 | Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) | 7.3 | 7.6 | 22 | |
| 5 | Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) | 5.0 | 7.1 | 275 | |
| 6 | Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) | 13.7 | 7.0 | 32 | |
| 7 | University of Science and Technology (UST) | 4.9 | 6.6 | 72 | |
| 8 | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) | 8.1 | 6.6 | 17 | |
| 9 | Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) | 9.3 | 5.8 | 25 | |
| 10 | Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) | 8.5 | 5.2 | 28 |