Top 50 young universities in life sciences

The table shows the top 50 young universities* in life sciences ranked by their fractional count in 2018 (FC 2018). Also listed are each university's article count of the year (AC 2018) in the subject.

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Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Year established	FC 2018	AC 2018
1	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)	United States of America (USA)	1981	53.40	140
2	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)	China	1978	51.03	331
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	1969	42.46	132
4	The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)	United States of America (USA)	1969	31.71	109
5	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea	1971	25.99	60
6	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	1991	21.55	90
7	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)	United States of America (USA)	1972	18.72	115
8	Medical University of Vienna (MUW)	Austria	2004	16.60	99
9	Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)	Austria	2007	16.50	40
10	Paris Descartes University (Paris 5)	France	1971	16.46	194
11	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	China	1991	15.57	38
12	Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)	Spain	1990	14.86	91
13	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)	Norway	1996	13.96	54
14	Paris Diderot University (Paris 7)	France	1970	13.89	159
15	University of Paris-Sud (UPSud)	France	1970	13.08	156
16	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)	Israel	1969	12.16	32
17	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)	Japan	2011	11.56	30
18	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)	Sweden	1977	11.01	61
19	ShanghaiTech University	China	2013	10.79	70
20	James Cook University (JCU)	Australia	1970	10.21	42
21	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas)	United States of America (USA)	1969	9.23	23
22	The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai)	Japan	1988	8.62	48
23	University of Osnabrück (Uni Osnabrück)	Germany	1974	7.74	19
24	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	1986	7.31	25
25	University of Haifa (HU)	Israel	1972	7.07	28
26	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	Saudi Arabia	2009	6.97	32
27	Linköping University (LiU)	Sweden	1975	6.95	34
28	Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI)	Austria	2004	6.91	32
29	Maastricht University (UM)	Netherlands	1976	6.89	46
30	Shenzhen University (SZU)	China	1983	6.74	35
31	City University of Hong Kong (CityU)	China	1994	6.65	27
32	Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU)	Germany	1993	6.48	34
33	University of Macau (UM)	China	1981	6.01	18
34	University of Kaiserslautern (TU Kaiserslautern)	Germany	1970	5.79	16
35	Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)	Japan	1991	5.64	20
36	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea	2009	5.41	19
37	Bielefeld University	Germany	1969	5.37	15
38	The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)	United States of America (USA)	1969	5.01	11
39	New University of Lisbon (UNL)	Portugal	1973	4.96	24
40	USI Università della Svizzera Italiana	Switzerland	1996	4.92	19
41	Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)	South Korea	2004	4.88	17
42	University of Potsdam	Germany	1991	4.78	42
43	University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)	Norway	1972	4.70	22
44	University of Plymouth	United Kingdom (UK)	1992	4.64	16
45	National Yang-Ming University (NYMU)	Taiwan	1975	4.60	25
46	Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH)	Spain	1996	4.54	15
47	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)	China	2012	4.52	34
48	University of Oldenburg	Germany	1973	4.51	16
49	University of Wollongong (UOW)	Australia	1975	4.44	14
50	Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)	United States of America (USA)	1972	4.44	12

* Universities, including graduate universities, were selected as being young and under 50 if they were founded as an independent university in 1969 or later and were not formed by the merger or re-merger and/or re-naming of a university or universities older than 50.