2018 tables: Institutions - government

The 2018 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.

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# Institution Share 2016 Share 2017 Count 2017 Change in Adjusted Share* 2016–2017
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 1589.50 1534.47 4161 -4.9%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 767.78 729.14 4210 -6.4%
3 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 341.12 380.31 934 9.9%
4 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 214.40 201.52 1120 -7.4%
5 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 180.10 186.02 876 1.8%
6 RIKEN, Japan 155.91 153.05 570 -3.2%
7 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 151.14 135.39 696 -11.7%
8 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 122.79 121.88 621 -2.2%
9 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 120.30 119.02 661 -2.5%
10 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 111.22 117.67 389 4.3%
11 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 126.18 114.37 533 -10.7%
12 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 98.14 101.11 245 1.5%
13 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 89.86 99.95 675 9.6%
14 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 113.73 97.04 899 -15.9%
15 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 112.03 96.96 169 -14.7%
16 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 98.32 94.77 317 -5.0%
17 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 91.98 91.94 925 -1.5%
18 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 94.62 89.25 376 -7.0%
19 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 74.51 88.90 382 17.6%
20 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA) 93.83 86.78 315 -8.8%
21 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 84.83 79.88 313 -7.2%
22 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 75.69 79.84 287 4.0%
23 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 77.31 73.52 238 -6.3%
24 Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea 70.81 71.57 289 -0.4%
25 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 73.84 71.46 200 -4.6%
26 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 76.86 70.44 318 -9.7%
27 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA) 75.69 67.80 317 -11.7%
28 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 67.48 63.06 212 -7.9%
29 People's Liberation Army (PLA), China 56.83 59.33 233 2.9%
30 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 49.00 56.26 353 13.2%
31 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 53.80 55.89 399 2.4%
32 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 50.04 51.70 254 1.8%
33 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 44.60 49.53 218 9.4%
34 Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA) 43.76 45.24 158 1.9%
35 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 45.66 45.05 240 -2.7%
36 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA) 45.18 40.43 192 -11.8%
37 Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea 32.48 40.41 131 22.6%
38 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 52.17 39.30 178 -25.8%
39 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina 41.65 38.29 267 -9.4%
40 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria 32.37 38.23 258 16.4%
41 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 42.42 37.83 369 -12.1%
42 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy 35.75 37.00 130 2.0%
43 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy 37.99 34.86 164 -9.6%
44 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 38.93 34.33 270 -13.1%
45 Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA) 44.17 33.77 232 -24.6%
46 Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain 28.47 31.76 198 10.0%
47 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 35.02 31.37 334 -11.7%
48 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 32.63 30.40 511 -8.2%
49 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 33.11 30.02 65 -10.6%
50 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan 28.60 27.79 151 -4.2%
51 Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China 21.14 26.85 91 25.2%
52 Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), South Korea 22.51 26.73 68 17.0%
53 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA) 22.43 26.69 139 17.3%
54 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA) 30.90 25.85 324 -17.6%
55 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA) 29.06 25.67 76 -12.9%
56 China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China 22.47 24.66 98 8.2%
57 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 26.78 24.55 61 -9.6%
58 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 32.29 24.41 82 -25.5%
59 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 22.29 23.84 64 5.4%
60 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 19.44 23.29 82 18.1%
61 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France 23.57 23.27 138 -2.7%
62 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 21.33 22.01 74 1.7%
63 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 27.45 21.78 85 -21.8%
64 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia 22.84 20.84 301 -10.1%
65 National Research Council (NRC), Canada 16.42 19.92 94 19.6%
66 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA) 17.67 19.10 141 6.5%
67 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan 18.58 19.02 168 0.9%
68 Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC), Brazil 18.17 17.93 213 -2.8%
69 NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK) 14.47 17.50 47 19.3%
70 Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India 27.96 17.11 122 -39.7%
71 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia 10.61 16.24 224 50.8%
72 Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India 18.29 16.19 32 -12.7%
73 National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS), China 20.95 15.93 57 -25.1%
74 China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China 14.79 15.89 34 5.9%
75 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India 9.22 15.19 114 62.3%
76 Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), China 15.86 14.89 120 -7.5%
77 Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy 18.98 14.61 139 -24.1%
78 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia 14.77 14.06 69 -6.2%
79 Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia 11.52 14.02 128 20.0%
80 Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan 11.88 13.90 111 15.3%
81 India Department of Space (DOS), India 21.38 13.59 30 -37.4%
82 Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan 15.26 13.13 62 -15.2%
83 IMDEA Institutes, Spain 17.58 12.44 56 -30.3%
84 India Ministry of Science and Technology, India 6.05 12.00 33 95.4%
85 NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK) 12.33 11.53 58 -7.8%
86 National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France 9.96 11.43 146 13.1%
87 Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece 10.53 11.05 55 3.5%
88 The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ukraine 11.57 10.87 191 -7.4%
89 Met Office, United Kingdom (UK) 15.46 10.30 33 -34.4%
90 European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany 9.10 10.23 84 10.8%
91 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran 14.59 10.12 97 -31.6%
92 Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK) 11.51 10.08 56 -13.6%
93 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), United States of America (USA) 8.65 9.22 36 5.0%
94 National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom (UK) 10.40 9.17 47 -13.0%
95 National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India 7.45 9.03 110 19.5%
96 National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan 11.46 8.80 28 -24.3%
97 Joint Genome Institute (JGI), United States of America (USA) 9.45 8.80 39 -8.2%
98 National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Taiwan 6.65 8.77 42 29.9%
99 Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France 8.33 8.77 167 3.8%
100 Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea 9.20 8.68 25 -6.9%

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