2019 tables: Institutions - government

The 2019 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.

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# Institution Share 2017 Share 2018 Count 2018 Change in Adjusted Share* 2017–2018
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 1534.47 1729.50 5014 6.4%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 729.14 711.98 4371 -7.8%
3 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 380.31 397.35 970 -1.4%
4 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 201.52 203.11 1175 -4.9%
5 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 186.02 190.62 871 -3.3%
6 RIKEN, Japan 153.05 160.44 616 -1.1%
7 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 119.02 136.00 718 7.9%
8 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 135.39 121.85 648 -15.0%
9 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 121.88 120.31 598 -6.8%
10 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 114.37 103.48 512 -14.6%
11 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 97.04 100.27 934 -2.5%
12 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 117.67 98.11 358 -21.3%
13 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 89.25 93.99 426 -0.6%
14 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 91.94 91.92 948 -5.6%
15 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 99.95 91.90 751 -13.2%
16 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 94.77 90.87 336 -9.5%
17 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 101.11 89.70 254 -16.3%
18 Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea 71.57 88.05 325 16.1%
19 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 88.90 87.45 393 -7.1%
20 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA) 86.78 82.75 317 -10.0%
21 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 70.44 75.61 360 1.3%
22 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 73.52 73.25 284 -6.0%
23 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 96.96 72.01 148 -29.9%
24 People's Liberation Army (PLA), China 59.33 71.60 261 13.9%
25 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 63.06 70.14 233 5.0%
26 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 79.84 70.08 286 -17.1%
27 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 55.89 69.50 438 17.4%
28 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA) 67.80 66.20 329 -7.8%
29 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 71.46 64.87 192 -14.3%
30 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 79.88 64.24 295 -24.1%
31 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 56.26 53.53 328 -10.2%
32 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 49.53 53.26 249 1.5%
33 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 45.05 51.87 258 8.7%
34 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA) 40.43 50.84 244 18.7%
35 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 51.70 46.91 280 -14.4%
36 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina 38.29 42.18 269 4.0%
37 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy 37.00 40.51 144 3.4%
38 Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA) 45.24 40.09 157 -16.4%
39 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 39.30 39.24 213 -5.7%
40 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 37.83 37.78 414 -5.7%
41 China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China 24.66 36.80 134 40.8%
42 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria 38.23 36.22 296 -10.6%
43 Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA) 33.77 35.52 238 -0.7%
44 Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea 40.41 34.99 130 -18.2%
45 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 34.33 34.59 308 -4.9%
46 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan 27.79 34.17 171 16.1%
47 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy 34.86 33.26 136 -9.9%
48 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 24.41 30.92 95 19.6%
49 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 30.40 30.22 533 -6.2%
50 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 23.29 29.98 109 21.5%
51 Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain 31.76 29.83 230 -11.4%
52 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA) 26.69 29.79 155 5.4%
53 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 31.37 29.58 312 -11.0%
54 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA) 25.85 29.41 362 7.4%
55 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia 20.84 29.12 344 31.9%
56 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 24.55 27.78 62 6.8%
57 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 22.01 25.59 88 9.8%
58 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 21.78 25.59 98 10.9%
59 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA) 25.67 25.16 76 -7.5%
60 Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), China 14.89 25.10 169 59.2%
61 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 30.02 24.71 62 -22.3%
62 Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China 26.85 23.91 104 -15.9%
63 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan 19.02 23.66 198 17.4%
64 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 23.84 23.15 73 -8.3%
65 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France 23.27 22.64 130 -8.2%
66 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA) 19.10 20.81 162 2.9%
67 Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), South Korea 26.73 20.34 58 -28.2%
68 Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India 17.11 19.25 152 6.2%
69 China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China 15.89 18.20 49 8.1%
70 National Research Council (NRC), Canada 19.92 18.01 82 -14.7%
71 Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC), Brazil 17.93 17.30 215 -8.9%
72 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia 16.24 16.70 262 -2.9%
73 National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS), China 15.93 16.49 71 -2.3%
74 Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy 14.61 16.17 155 4.5%
75 IMDEA Institutes, Spain 12.44 15.90 66 20.7%
76 Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan 13.13 14.99 84 7.8%
77 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran 10.12 14.63 137 36.4%
78 Met Office, United Kingdom (UK) 10.30 14.36 59 31.7%
79 European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany 10.23 14.04 102 29.5%
80 The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ukraine 10.87 13.13 210 14.1%
81 Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India 16.19 12.92 27 -24.7%
82 European Commission (EC), Belgium 7.71 12.70 45 55.5%
83 Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Japan 8.40 11.86 77 33.3%
84 National Science Foundation (NSF), United States of America (USA) 8.61 11.80 91 29.3%
85 Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan 13.90 11.79 111 -19.9%
86 NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK) 17.50 11.78 45 -36.5%
87 Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia 14.02 11.77 125 -20.8%
88 NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK) 11.53 11.29 72 -7.6%
89 Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France 8.77 11.07 204 19.2%
90 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia 14.06 10.72 63 -28.0%
91 French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France 3.73 10.47 77 164.7%
92 New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), United States of America (USA) 4.26 10.33 43 129.0%
93 Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK) 10.08 9.99 52 -6.5%
94 India Department of Space (DOS), India 13.59 9.97 22 -30.7%
95 National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan 5.44 9.92 43 72.1%
96 Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland 3.85 9.77 36 139.7%
97 Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Sweden 6.08 9.33 41 44.9%
98 National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom (UK) 9.17 9.30 54 -4.3%
99 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), United States of America (USA) 9.22 9.08 29 -7.1%
100 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India 15.19 8.80 128 -45.3%

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