Top 20 science cities in Biological Sciences

The top 20 science cities and metro areas (MA) in the biological sciences, ordered by fractional count (FC) in 2017. Also shown are each city’s total number of life science articles (AC) in 2017 and the city’s share of the country or region’s FC in the subject.

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#Rank	City / Metropolitan Area	Country / Region	FC 2017	AC 2017	Share of country/region FC (%)
1	New York MA	United States of America (USA)	1,129.94	2,357	13.3%
2	Boston - Cambridge - Newton	United States of America (USA)	986.99	2,026	11.6%
3	San Francisco - San Jose	United States of America (USA)	740.00	1,558	8.7%
4	Baltimore - Washington	United States of America (USA)	685.33	1,697	8.0%
5	London MA	United Kingdom (UK)	365.93	989	26.6%
6	Beijing	China	358.03	765	30.7%
7	San Diego - Carlsbad	United States of America (USA)	334.94	787	3.9%
8	Paris MA	France	325.90	801	49.4%
9	Los Angeles - Long Beach - Anaheim	United States of America (USA)	294.39	677	3.5%
10	Tokyo MA	Japan	278.48	720	40.7%
11	Philadelphia MA	United States of America (USA)	272.19	636	3.2%
12	Cambridge	United Kingdom (UK)	270.85	680	19.7%
13	Chicago - Naperville - Elgin	United States of America (USA)	252.04	583	3.0%
14	Houston MA	United States of America (USA)	232.13	567	2.7%
15	Shanghai	China	223.98	559	19.2%
16	Oxford	United Kingdom (UK)	175.68	504	12.8%
17	Seattle - Tacoma - Bellevue	United States of America (USA)	175.04	471	2.1%
18	Munich	Germany	168.47	477	14.0%
19	St. Louis	United States of America (USA)	165.24	348	1.9%
20	Dallas - Fort Worth	United States of America (USA)	160.95	313	1.9%