Top 100 corporate institutions
The leading corporate institutions for high-quality science, ranked by their weighted fractional count (WFC) for the five-year period from 2012 to 2016. Also shown are the corporation’s total number of articles (AC) and average contribution to the share of authorship in collaborations with academic institutions (see A guide to the Nature Index, page S29).
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| 1 | IBM Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 266.53 | 576 | 51.8% |
| 2 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | Switzerland | 222.27 | 485 | 52.9% |
| Genentech, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 178.70 | 305 | 54.1% | |
| 3 | Novartis International AG | Switzerland | 173.46 | 533 | 49.3% |
| 4 | Samsung Group | South Korea | 133.79 | 357 | 44.2% |
| 5 | Pfizer Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 110.48 | 274 | 50.8% |
| 6 | Merck & Co., Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 108.89 | 247 | 46.8% |
| 7 | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) | Japan | 101.09 | 178 | 47.0% |
| 8 | GlaxoSmithKline plc. (GSK) | United Kingdom (UK) | 100.04 | 338 | 52.4% |
| 9 | AstraZeneca plc | United Kingdom (UK) | 91.14 | 329 | 40.4% |
| MedImmune, LLC | United States of America (USA) | 19.05 | 47 | 51.2% | |
| 10 | Amgen Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 75.32 | 195 | 63.0% |
| deCODE Genetics | Iceland | 16.52 | 98 | 67.6% | |
| 11 | Toyota Group | Japan | 63.02 | 120 | 60.5% |
| Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc. | Japan | 40.39 | 71 | 62.9% | |
| Toyota Motor Corporation | Japan | 17.45 | 41 | 57.6% | |
| 12 | BGI | China | 59.85 | 245 | 70.3% |
| 13 | Eli Lilly and Company | United States of America (USA) | 47.09 | 137 | 50.0% |
| 14 | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 41.52 | 191 | 50.7% |
| FEI Company | United States of America (USA) | 11.81 | 65 | 44.3% | |
| 15 | C. H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Co. KG (Boehringer Ingelheim) | Germany | 41.37 | 96 | 36.8% |
| 16 | GNS Science | New Zealand | 39.50 | 176 | 46.7% |
| 17 | Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) | United States of America (USA) | 39.12 | 80 | 55.9% |
| 18 | Johnson & Johnson | United States of America (USA) | 37.46 | 98 | 48.4% |
| 19 | Toshiba Corporation | Japan | 30.85 | 52 | 55.5% |
| 20 | Microsoft Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 30.67 | 141 | 54.6% |
| 21 | Formosa Plastics Group | Taiwan | 29.95 | 122 | 45.9% |
| 22 | Sanofi | France | 29.44 | 113 | 50.4% |
| 23 | Leidos Holdings, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 29.33 | 272 | 44.7% |
| 24 | Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) | United States of America (USA) | 27.19 | 148 | 43.0% |
| 25 | Bruker Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 27.15 | 154 | 42.5% |
| 26 | Hitachi, Ltd. | Japan | 26.60 | 124 | 36.0% |
| 27 | Thales S.A. | France | 26.47 | 174 | 55.2% |
| 28 | BASF SE | Germany | 25.12 | 142 | 34.9% |
| 29 | HP Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 24.35 | 59 | 72.9% |
| 30 | Merck KGaA | Germany | 21.77 | 105 | 39.1% |
| 31 | Western Digital Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 20.79 | 65 | 44.5% |
| HGST, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 15.57 | 53 | 45.6% | |
| 32 | Intel Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 19.86 | 87 | 37.0% |
| 33 | Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 19.31 | 75 | 52.6% |
| 34 | LG Corporation | South Korea | 18.38 | 49 | 48.6% |
| 35 | The Dow Chemical Company** | United States of America (USA) | 18.08 | 75 | 36.3% |
| 36 | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 17.13 | 84 | 55.7% |
| 37 | E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont)** | United States of America (USA) | 16.89 | 57 | 44.2% |
| 38 | Mitsubishi Group | Japan | 16.35 | 101 | 35.9% |
| Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) | Japan | 12.80 | 88 | 35.6% | |
| 39 | NorthWest Research Associates, Inc. (NWRA) | United States of America (USA) | 15.87 | 76 | 55.6% |
| 40 | New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) | United States of America (USA) | 15.51 | 38 | 61.5% |
| 41 | Corning Incorporated | United States of America (USA) | 15.19 | 38 | 41.6% |
| 42 | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited | Japan | 14.94 | 61 | 42.9% |
| 43 | General Electric Company (GE) | United States of America (USA) | 14.94 | 44 | 52.7% |
| 44 | Panasonic Corporation | Japan | 14.77 | 32 | 45.1% |
| 45 | Waters Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 14.68 | 47 | 47.7% |
| 46 | Novo Nordisk A/S | Denmark | 14.64 | 63 | 41.8% |
| 47 | Illumina, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 14.16 | 89 | 51.2% |
| 48 | Lockheed Martin Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 14.15 | 180 | 56.2% |
| 49 | Alphabet Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 13.87 | 49 | 57.0% |
| Google Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 13.48 | 46 | 58.9% | |
| 50 | China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) | China | 13.62 | 49 | 48.4% |
| 51 | SRI International | United States of America (USA) | 13.48 | 46 | 48.7% |
| 52 | Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips) | Netherlands | 13.20 | 70 | 28.2% |
| 53 | Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) | United States of America (USA) | 13.14 | 62 | 24.0% |
| 54 | Xerox Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 13.08 | 45 | 41.4% |
| 55 | Bayer AG | Germany | 13.04 | 88 | 40.5% |
| 56 | OSRAM Licht AG | Germany | 12.52 | 27 | 65.5% |
| 57 | Shimadzu Corporation | Japan | 12.32 | 52 | 28.4% |
| 58 | General Atomics | United States of America (USA) | 12.24 | 79 | 43.6% |
| 59 | China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) | China | 11.64 | 38 | 43.7% |
| 60 | Anglo American plc | United Kingdom (UK) | 11.39 | 53 | 52.3% |
| De Beers Group of Companies | South Africa | 11.14 | 51 | 53.4% | |
| 61 | Nokia Corporation | Finland | 11.36 | 59 | 44.5% |
| 62 | D. E. Shaw Research | United States of America (USA) | 11.36 | 26 | 67.0% |
| 63 | China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) | China | 11.27 | 128 | 25.9% |
| 64 | Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) | Netherlands | 11.26 | 49 | 50.0% |
| 65 | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 11.20 | 32 | 39.4% |
| 66 | HRL Laboratories LLC | United States of America (USA) | 10.84 | 20 | 51.9% |
| 67 | Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. | Japan | 10.67 | 66 | 25.5% |
| 68 | Center for Nanotechnology GmbH (CeNTech GmbH) | Germany | 10.61 | 43 | 46.0% |
| 69 | FiberHome Technologies Group | China | 10.59 | 93 | 32.2% |
| 70 | General Motors (GM) | United States of America (USA) | 10.28 | 37 | 45.0% |
| 71 | Seattle Genetics, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 10.23 | 12 | 20.2% |
| 72 | Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (AER) | United States of America (USA) | 10.19 | 47 | 53.5% |
| 73 | Polyera Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 10.10 | 46 | 73.4% |
| 74 | UCB S.A. | Belgium | 10.00 | 50 | 41.4% |
| 75 | Carlsberg Foundation | Denmark | 9.65 | 20 | 56.1% |
| 76 | Nestlé S.A. | Switzerland | 9.64 | 30 | 54.4% |
| 77 | AB Sciex LLC | United States of America (USA) | 9.54 | 25 | 61.9% |
| 78 | Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 9.48 | 34 | 59.8% |
| 79 | Applied Materials, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 9.28 | 51 | 40.2% |
| 80 | Raytheon Company | United States of America (USA) | 9.24 | 117 | 55.6% |
| 81 | JEOL Ltd. | Japan | 9.16 | 67 | 38.2% |
| 82 | GATS Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 8.89 | 31 | 61.2% |
| 83 | Rigaku Corporation | Japan | 8.74 | 43 | 35.7% |
| 84 | NEC Corporation | Japan | 8.66 | 55 | 42.4% |
| 85 | STMicroelectronics | Switzerland | 8.63 | 42 | 48.5% |
| 86 | Gilead Sciences, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 8.49 | 28 | 49.2% |
| 87 | Uni Research Ltd. | Norway | 8.46 | 90 | 37.1% |
| 88 | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 8.46 | 28 | 62.9% |
| 89 | Johnson Matthey (JM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 8.31 | 22 | 55.2% |
| 90 | Chevron Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 8.30 | 40 | 41.1% |
| 91 | Schlumberger Limited | United States of America (USA) | 8.18 | 29 | 52.1% |
| 92 | Biogen Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 8.06 | 45 | 41.5% |
| 93 | Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. | Japan | 8.04 | 18 | 55.5% |
| 94 | Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. | Japan | 7.96 | 35 | 38.7% |
| 95 | Micron Technology, Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 7.87 | 13 | 47.0% |
| 96 | Aerodyne Research, Inc. (ARI) | United States of America (USA) | 7.54 | 56 | 52.6% |
| 97 | Sangamo BioSciences Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 7.29 | 17 | 67.8% |
| 98 | AbbVie Inc. | United States of America (USA) | 7.13 | 19 | 48.3% |
| 99 | Koninklijke DSM N.V. (DSM) | Netherlands | 7.09 | 35 | 49.1% |
| 100 | Unilever | United Kingdom (UK) | 6.86 | 30 | 44.7% |
Footnote
Subsidiaries with a WFC greater than the 100th ranked corporate institution are also included in the tables, listed below their parent institution. Output for subsidiaries is included in the parent institution’s output.
*Based on the average percentage contribution to collaborations with academic institutions 2012–2016
**The Dow Chemical Company and DuPont merged to become DowDuPont Inc. in August 2017