Top 50 Chinese institutions in Biological Sciences

The table shows the top 50 Chinese institutions in biological sciences in 2015-17 ranked by their fractional count (FC), a metric which accounts for the contribution of each author to articles in journals tracked by the Nature Index. Also listed are institutions' total number of life science articles in the Nature Index (AC 2015-17).

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1 Peking University (PKU) academic201.17555
2 Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), CAS government189.50585
3 Tsinghua University academic156.91478
4 Fudan University academic122.50392
5 Zhejiang University (ZJU) academic113.79381
6 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) academic100.20365
7 People's Liberation Army (PLA) government86.56429
8 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) academic83.33270
9 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) academic78.20500
10 Institute of Biophysics (IBP), CAS government70.97299
11 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), CAS government60.10268
12 Nanjing University (NJU) academic50.98134
13 The University of Hong Kong (HKU) academic50.38178
14 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) academic49.94214
15 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC) academic48.76220
16 National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS) government44.87133
17 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) academic43.80167
18 China Agricultural University (CAU) academic43.73125
19 Institute of Zoology (IOZ), CAS government43.69111
20 Wuhan University (WHU) academic43.23128
21 Shandong University (SDU) academic42.01177
22 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) academic40.68129
23 Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) academic39.4599
24 Xiamen University (XMU) academic38.51129
25 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) academic34.9574
26 Institute of Microbiology (IM), CAS government34.45133
27 Tongji University academic31.44151
28 Sichuan University (SCU) academic30.69166
29 Soochow University academic28.8296
30 Nankai University (NKU) academic27.6884
31 Beijing Normal University (BNU) academic27.5099
32 Tianjin Medical University (TMC) academic24.8588
33 BGI corporate24.08127
34 East China Normal University (ECNU) academic24.05106
35 Nanjing Medical University (NJMU) academic22.50105
36 Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM), CAS government21.0182
37 Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) academic20.8763
38 Institute of Botany (IBCAS), CAS government16.6352
39 Southern Medical University (SMU) academic15.4867
40 Central South University (CSU) academic15.42101
41 Wenzhou Medical University (WMU) academic15.1362
42 Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ), CAS government13.87112
43 Capital Medical University academic13.77102
44 Southeast University (SEU) academic12.8339
45 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), CAS government12.4931
46 ShanghaiTech University academic12.09117
47 Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), CAS government11.9943
48 Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), CAS government11.4041
49 Shenzhen University (SZU) academic11.2952
50 Northwest A&F University (NWAFU) academic11.2339

Footnote

* Output of the parent institutions, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), has been attributed to their first-level affiliated institutes.