2017 tables: Institutions - government

The 2017 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

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# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share* 2015–2016
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 1616.91 1589.50 3857 0.8%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 792.56 767.78 4305 -0.6%
3 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 391.01 341.12 848 -10.5%
4 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 237.06 214.40 1094 -7.2%
5 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 187.08 180.10 828 -1.3%
6 RIKEN, Japan 151.81 155.91 543 5.3%
7 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 125.69 151.14 691 23.3%
8 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 138.41 126.18 530 -6.5%
9 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 106.87 122.79 614 17.8%
10 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 124.74 120.30 617 -1.1%
11 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 114.92 113.73 933 1.5%
12 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 116.95 112.03 183 -1.7%
13 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 127.47 111.22 366 -10.5%
14 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 93.07 98.32 319 8.4%
15 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 88.59 98.14 258 13.6%
16 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 103.16 94.62 377 -5.9%
17 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA) 100.81 93.83 310 -4.5%
18 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 99.95 91.98 909 -5.6%
19 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 92.52 89.86 624 -0.4%
20 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 69.39 84.83 345 25.4%
21 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 95.76 77.31 237 -17.2%
22 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 77.49 76.86 344 1.7%
23 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA) 79.41 75.69 345 -2.2%
24 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 88.47 75.69 288 -12.3%
25 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 70.46 74.51 344 8.5%
26 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 80.26 73.84 198 -5.6%
27 Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea 61.95 70.81 278 17.2%
28 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 82.95 67.48 186 -16.6%
29 People's Liberation Army (PLA), China 44.17 56.83 200 32.0%
30 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 63.25 53.80 354 -12.8%
31 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 59.58 52.17 200 -10.2%
32 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 45.23 50.04 242 13.5%
33 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 58.40 49.00 321 -13.9%
34 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 47.65 45.66 234 -1.7%
35 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA) 41.86 45.18 191 10.7%
36 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 48.02 44.60 167 -4.7%
37 Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA) 40.82 44.17 244 11.0%
38 Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA) 55.25 43.76 145 -18.8%
39 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 39.33 42.42 395 10.6%
40 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina 39.06 41.65 261 9.4%
41 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 42.14 38.93 253 -5.3%
42 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy 39.77 37.99 165 -2.0%
43 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy 48.01 35.75 133 -23.6%
44 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 39.31 35.02 315 -8.6%
45 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 33.36 33.11 76 1.8%
46 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 29.37 32.63 512 13.9%
47 Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea 41.51 32.48 124 -19.7%
48 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria 26.95 32.37 240 23.2%
49 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 31.98 32.29 101 3.6%
50 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA) 34.30 30.90 325 -7.6%
51 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA) 39.19 29.06 76 -23.9%
52 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan 44.32 28.60 161 -33.8%
53 Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain 23.46 28.47 177 24.4%
54 Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India 24.49 27.96 109 17.1%
55 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 21.56 27.45 84 30.6%
56 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 29.51 26.78 65 -6.9%
57 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France 21.24 23.57 133 13.8%
58 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia 21.97 22.84 269 6.6%
59 Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), South Korea 16.40 22.51 63 40.8%
60 China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China 15.73 22.47 86 46.5%
61 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA) 19.58 22.43 130 17.5%
62 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 30.67 22.29 69 -25.4%
63 India Department of Space (DOS), India 17.82 21.38 37 23.1%
64 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 28.66 21.33 63 -23.7%
65 Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China 12.96 21.14 92 67.3%
66 National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS), China 13.56 20.95 57 58.5%
67 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 17.30 19.44 74 15.3%
68 Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy 18.68 18.98 163 4.2%
69 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan 23.14 18.58 167 -17.7%
70 Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India 15.31 18.29 32 22.5%
71 Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC), Brazil 12.72 18.17 170 46.5%
72 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA) 17.48 17.67 108 3.7%
73 IMDEA Institutes, Spain 13.05 17.58 68 38.2%
74 National Research Council (NRC), Canada 21.20 16.42 93 -20.6%
75 Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), China 14.66 15.86 75 10.9%
76 Met Office, United Kingdom (UK) 15.79 15.46 43 0.5%
77 Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan 11.80 15.26 86 32.7%
78 China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China 14.91 14.79 47 1.8%
79 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia 12.13 14.77 77 24.9%
80 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran 9.66 14.59 80 54.9%
81 NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK) 9.40 14.47 40 57.9%
82 Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), India 6.17 13.55 25 125.2%
83 NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK) 15.04 12.33 58 -15.9%
84 Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland 7.03 12.13 41 77.0%
85 Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan 14.48 11.88 108 -15.8%
86 The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ukraine 17.01 11.57 159 -30.2%
87 Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia 21.27 11.52 128 -44.5%
88 Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK) 8.87 11.51 50 33.0%
89 National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan 7.81 11.46 27 50.5%
90 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia 11.95 10.61 204 -8.9%
91 Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece 12.13 10.53 47 -10.9%
92 National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom (UK) 6.44 10.40 43 65.6%
93 National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France 9.28 9.96 123 10.1%
94 Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (IGAKUKEN), Japan 7.37 9.93 23 38.3%
95 European Commission (EC), Belgium 8.12 9.86 31 24.6%
96 NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), United Kingdom (UK) 6.11 9.57 31 60.5%
97 Joint Genome Institute (JGI), United States of America (USA) 4.90 9.45 37 97.6%
98 German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Germany 4.79 9.41 23 101.7%
99 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India 14.74 9.22 89 -35.8%
100 Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea 11.20 9.20 29 -15.8%

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