Top 200 institutions with high affiliation articles in physics and astronomy

The table shows top institutions in physics and astronomy by their fractional count (FC) from high affiliation Nature Index articles* in the field from 2015 to 2018. Under the top institutions are their key contributors that have a FC greater than or equal to 1. Also shown is each institution's high affiliation article count (AC) in the field over the same period.

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1 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) Italy44.59567
2 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres Germany24.95486
3 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Switzerland24.61446
4 Max Planck Society Germany18.31433
5 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) China11.28379
6 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI) Russia10.25460
7 Stanford University United States of America (USA)9.87260
8 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) Japan9.45325
9 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) United States of America (USA)9.16178
10 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Russia8.77501
11 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Russia7.91419
12 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) Italy7.5285
13 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States of America (USA)7.51216
14 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) France7.41415
15 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States of America (USA)7.14325
16 University of Oxford United Kingdom (UK)6.89303
17 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) Germany6.49247
18 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) United States of America (USA)6.48297
19 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) United States of America (USA)6.42250
20 Imperial College London (ICL) United Kingdom (UK)6.26222
21 National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef) Netherlands6.01315
22 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg) Germany5.94297
23 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen) Germany5.68204
24 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) United States of America (USA)5.64101
25 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) United States of America (USA)5.58223
26 University of Cambridge United Kingdom (UK)5.57285
27 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) Switzerland5.57163
28 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) United States of America (USA)5.33350
29 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) Switzerland5.15182
30 The University of Manchester (UoM) United Kingdom (UK)4.99276
31 University of Michigan (U-M) United States of America (USA)4.73243
32 Osaka University Japan4.67215
33 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) United States of America (USA)4.50179
34 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn) Germany4.42238
35 Princeton University United States of America (USA)4.42179
36 University of Geneva (UNIGE) Switzerland4.32246
37 University of Glasgow United Kingdom (UK)4.32264
38 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) Poland4.28350
39 University of Zurich (UZH) Switzerland4.23211
40 Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) United Kingdom (UK)4.14430
41 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) United States of America (USA)4.12261
42 Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics (TRIUMF) Canada4.05207
43 Michigan State University (MSU) United States of America (USA)4.01235
44 RIKEN Japan3.9846
45 Laboratory of the Linear Accelerator (LAL) France3.95263
46 Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) United States of America (USA)3.9557
47 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) United States of America (USA)3.93274
48 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Japan3.84222
49 AlbaNova University Center - Stockholm Center for Physics, Astronomy and Biotechnology (AlbaNova) Sweden3.80228
50 University of Liverpool United Kingdom (UK)3.79300
51 The University of Arizona (Arizona) United States of America (USA)3.76220
52 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) United States of America (USA)3.74229
53 Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN HH) Romania3.68294
54 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) United States of America (USA)3.6474
55 University College London (UCL) United Kingdom (UK)3.62217
56 Center for Particle Physics of Marseilles (CPPM) France3.60246
57 Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. Italy3.5613
58 The Ohio State University (OSU) United States of America (USA)3.48399
59 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States of America (USA)3.46183
60 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) United States of America (USA)3.4540
61 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) Germany3.43191
62 University of Birmingham (UB) United Kingdom (UK)3.42285
63 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) Czech Republic3.40275
64 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland3.3886
65 University of Florida (UF) United States of America (USA)3.37175
66 The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom (UK)3.33269
67 Institute for Corpuscular Physics (IFIC) Spain3.32251
68 Uppsala University (UU) Sweden3.26228
69 University of Rochester (UR) United States of America (USA)3.23172
70 Tohoku University Japan3.2346
71 The University of Chicago (UChicago) United States of America (USA)3.18239
72 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) Israel3.15202
73 Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) India3.09186
74 University of Hamburg (UHH) Germany3.08165
75 University of Oslo (UiO) Norway3.06231
76 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa) United States of America (USA)3.0360
77 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) United States of America (USA)2.98224
78 Laboratory Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (LPNHE) France2.96260
79 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) United States of America (USA)2.95206
80 European Southern Observatory (ESO) Germany2.9441
81 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) United States of America (USA)2.91159
82 Johns Hopkins University (JHU) United States of America (USA)2.91164
83 Yale University United States of America (USA)2.85269
84 National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) Russia2.80375
85 Technical University of Munich (TUM) Germany2.74107
86 University of Bristol (UoB) United Kingdom (UK)2.73179
87 University of Copenhagen (UCPH) Denmark2.67252
88 Kyoto University Japan2.67213
89 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) Germany2.67211
90 Darmstadt University of Technology (TU Darmstadt) Germany2.6630
91 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Austria2.66185
92 Rice University United States of America (USA)2.62160
93 The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) United States of America (USA)2.61196
94 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) United States of America (USA)2.5823
95 Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) Russia2.58408
96 Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP) Portugal2.57313
97 Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU) Germany2.5755
98 Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) Czech Republic2.56254
99 Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP) France2.56258
100 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) Japan2.5640
101 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) United States of America (USA)2.55177
102 The University of Warwick (Warwick) United Kingdom (UK)2.55245
103 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) Hungary2.51289
104 State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) United States of America (USA)2.51226
105 TU Dortmund University Germany2.46251
106 The University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada2.42216
107 Peking University (PKU) China2.42190
108 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) United States of America (USA)2.4014
109 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) United States of America (USA)2.40143
110 University of Wuppertal Germany2.35202
111 University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) Spain2.3198
112 Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT) Spain2.30177
113 University of California, Davis (UC Davis) United States of America (USA)2.27156
114 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) Germany2.2747
115 University of Virginia (UVA) United States of America (USA)2.27153
116 Charles University (CU) Czech Republic2.27350
117 Cornell University United States of America (USA)2.26150
118 National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Mexico2.2675
119 University of Minnesota (UMN) United States of America (USA)2.25172
120 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) United States of America (USA)2.2450
121 University of Warsaw (UW) Poland2.23175
122 Indiana University (IU) United States of America (USA)2.22227
123 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) China2.22168
124 Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC) Brazil2.21218
125 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) Spain2.20191
126 Leiden University Netherlands2.2037
127 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Spain2.19101
128 Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) Germany2.18184
129 University of Bologna (UNIBO) Italy2.16396
130 Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC) France2.16262
131 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb) Australia2.13217
132 University of Toronto (U of T) Canada2.12222
133 RIKEN SPring-8 Center (RSC) Japan2.1111
134 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) United States of America (USA)2.1170
135 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Brazil2.09238
136 Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lyon (IPNL) France2.08186
137 Sapienza University of Rome Italy2.08423
138 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) United States of America (USA)2.08147
139 Texas A&M University (TAMU) United States of America (USA)2.07157
140 University of Göttingen Germany2.05189
141 Purdue University United States of America (USA)2.02190
142 National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) Poland2.01251
143 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) Belgium1.9618
144 University of Zaragoza (Unizar) Spain1.9510
145 Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) Belgium1.95128
146 Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC) France1.93240
147 National Science Foundation (NSF) United States of America (USA)1.9227
148 European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH (XFEL) Germany1.9018
149 The University of Sheffield United Kingdom (UK)1.90198
150 Tsinghua University China1.89277
151 Lund University (LU) Sweden1.89228
152 Syracuse University United States of America (USA)1.8977
153 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) India1.88164
154 University of Notre Dame (ND) United States of America (USA)1.88149
155 Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR) France1.88172
156 Academia Sinica Taiwan1.88203
157 Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS) United States of America (USA)1.8818
158 University of Würzburg (JMU) Germany1.85190
159 Boston University (BU) United States of America (USA)1.85305
160 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) United States of America (USA)1.8217
161 Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) United States of America (USA)1.8038
162 The University of Iowa (UI) United States of America (USA)1.80310
163 Tel Aviv University (TAU) Israel1.76202
164 University of Victoria (UVic) Canada1.73196
165 University of Alberta (U of A) Canada1.71200
166 Institute of Nuclear Physics of Orsay (IPNO) France1.7177
167 University of California, Irvine (UCI) United States of America (USA)1.70220
168 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) Germany1.68207
169 National Research Council (CNR) Italy1.6835
170 AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH UST) Poland1.67239
171 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) United States of America (USA)1.65213
172 Lancaster University United Kingdom (UK)1.65196
173 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium1.65151
174 Stockholm University Sweden1.64190
175 McGill University Canada1.62191
176 Nagoya University Japan1.58207
177 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) United Kingdom (UK)1.57198
178 Institut Laue Langevin (ILL) France1.5717
179 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore1.5711
180 Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) France1.57185
181 Leibniz Association Germany1.5617
182 University of Washington (UW) United States of America (USA)1.56216
183 Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG) France1.5521
184 University of Padova (UNIPD) Italy1.54251
185 Korea University (KU) South Korea1.53154
186 Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS) Slovenia1.52203
187 Harvard University United States of America (USA)1.52190
188 Aarhus University (AU) Denmark1.5218
189 University of Pennsylvania (Penn) United States of America (USA)1.50182
190 University of Sussex (US) United Kingdom (UK)1.50186
191 University of Turin (UNITO) Italy1.49209
192 The College of William & Mary (W&M) United States of America (USA)1.4945
193 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) India1.49164
194 Ghent University (UGent) Belgium1.46148
195 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) United States of America (USA)1.46146
196 Northwestern University (NU) United States of America (USA)1.45167
197 Jagiellonian University (UJ) Poland1.43199
198 University of Cologne (UoC) Germany1.4223
199 University of Bern Switzerland1.42240
200 Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) Spain1.41136

Footnote

* articles with 10 or more principal institutions.