Top 10 institutions in Guangzhou
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 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | 80.1 | 90.8 | 271 | |
| 2 | South China University of Technology (SCUT) | 31.4 | 56.4 | 105 | |
| 3 | South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO), CAS | 10.4 | 15.9 | 38 | |
| 4 | Jinan University (JNU) | 10.0 | 12.3 | 44 | |
| 5 | South China Normal University (SCNU) | 12.1 | 11.8 | 25 | |
| 6 | Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG), CAS | 3.8 | 8.0 | 17 | |
| 7 | Southern Medical University (SMU) | 1.8 | 6.1 | 19 | |
| 8 | Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), CAS | 14.3 | 5.1 | 18 | |
| 9 | Guangzhou Medical University (GMU) | 1.2 | 5.0 | 24 | |
| 10 | South China Agricultural University (SCAU) | 1.7 | 3.5 | 15 |