2016 tables: Institutions

The 2016 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015.

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# Institution Share 2015 Count 2015
1 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 793.80 4,291
2 Max Planck Society, Germany 745.69 2,268
3 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 541.95 1,999
4 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 438.28 1,221
5 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 432.89 1,242
6 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 377.17 902
7 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 235.68 1,138
8 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 228.57 576
9 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 224.31 767
10 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 222.99 781
11 Leibniz Association, Germany 222.02 695
12 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 181.05 581
13 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 167.65 542
14 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 161.38 726
15 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 144.36 598
16 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 138.41 578
17 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 133.90 557
18 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 131.35 423
19 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 128.60 507
20 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 125.38 448
21 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 124.74 607
22 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 123.77 551
23 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 120.45 314
24 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 118.90 528
25 Sorbonne University, France 117.75 1,108
26 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 116.30 367
27 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 114.86 894
28 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 106.97 312
29 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 106.73 252
30 University of Göttingen, Germany 106.02 354
31 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 103.86 336
32 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 103.10 461
33 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 100.32 910
34 Lund University (LU), Sweden 99.51 337
35 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 98.79 267
36 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 98.66 371
37 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 95.60 366
38 Stockholm University, Sweden 94.87 436
39 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 94.79 369
40 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 94.29 401
41 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 93.16 297
42 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 92.52 591
43 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 92.25 313
44 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 90.44 266
45 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 89.62 290
46 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 89.52 267
47 University of Paris, France 88.99 827
48 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 87.61 496
49 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 87.15 246
50 TU Dresden, Germany 86.40 375
51 Leiden University, Netherlands 86.38 310
52 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 83.95 330
53 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 81.88 268
54 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 79.11 287
55 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 78.94 349
56 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 78.83 328
57 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 78.74 197
58 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 77.55 213
59 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 76.50 700
60 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 74.98 228
61 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 74.09 160
62 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 73.20 318
63 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 72.16 202
64 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 72.05 391
65 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 71.83 336
66 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 71.66 452
67 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 70.94 259
68 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 70.46 357
69 Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain 69.79 363
70 The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK) 69.11 171
71 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 68.75 341
72 University of Lyon, France 66.45 406
73 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 65.76 139
74 University of Strasbourg, France 63.26 380
75 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 63.25 378
76 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 62.32 456
77 Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden 60.84 133
78 University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK) 60.63 232
79 University of Stuttgart, Germany 59.94 143
80 Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany 59.79 192
81 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 59.18 212
82 University of Toulouse, France 58.96 412
83 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 58.40 327
84 University of Helsinki, Finland 58.32 304
85 Université PSL, France 58.05 586
86 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 57.55 367
87 Aalto University, Finland 55.77 214
88 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 55.10 341
89 The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 54.75 139
90 University of Vienna, Austria 53.53 183
91 Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany 53.08 123
92 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 52.79 567
93 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 52.77 183
94 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 52.46 112
95 Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS), Italy 52.17 239
96 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 51.12 294
97 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria 50.47 148
98 University of York, United Kingdom (UK) 49.81 133
99 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 49.45 368
100 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK) 49.16 249
101 Novartis International AG, Switzerland 48.57 136
102 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy 48.01 155
103 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 47.65 217
104 Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France 47.38 451
105 University of Montpellier, France 47.14 373
106 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 46.77 339
107 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 46.46 155
108 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 46.23 98
109 University of Valencia (UV), Spain 46.21 263
110 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland 45.66 106
111 University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain 45.38 205
112 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 45.23 217
113 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 45.06 267
114 University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) 44.99 108
115 University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy 44.71 282
116 Leipzig University, Germany 44.68 132
117 Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany 44.50 169
118 University of Konstanz, Germany 43.99 89
119 The University of Dublin, Ireland 43.95 137
120 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 42.25 252
121 University of Kiel (CAU), Germany 41.06 165
122 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 40.33 172
123 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy 39.77 167
124 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 39.31 319
125 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 38.85 351
126 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium 38.74 178
127 Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain 38.71 160
128 Ulm University, Germany 38.43 134
129 Linköping University (LiU), Sweden 38.25 110
130 Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia 38.01 312
131 University of Bordeaux, France 37.90 249
132 National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France 37.56 305
133 Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK) 37.54 136
134 University of Turin (UNITO), Italy 37.50 230
135 University of Warsaw (UW), Poland 37.18 139
136 Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK) 37.15 103
137 Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany 36.61 114
138 Umeå University (UMU), Sweden 36.50 109
139 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany 36.20 83
140 University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy 36.15 198
141 University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany 35.93 108
142 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 35.87 144
143 Pasteur Institute, France 34.61 197
144 University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden 34.34 122
145 University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy 33.98 264
146 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany 33.48 116
147 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 33.36 72
148 University of Sussex, United Kingdom (UK) 33.19 166
149 Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain 32.70 232
150 University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK) 32.09 106
151 University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal 32.02 193
152 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 31.98 92
153 Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland 31.30 157
154 University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain 31.23 137
155 University of Potsdam, Germany 30.85 117
156 Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium 30.65 134
157 Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 30.49 178
158 Bielefeld University, Germany 30.01 64
159 University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK) 29.84 113
160 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 29.67 62
161 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 29.59 82
162 Charles University (CU), Czech Republic 29.52 255
163 University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy 29.47 185
164 University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK) 29.41 101
165 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 29.37 425
166 University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium 29.29 140
167 University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy 28.79 287
168 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 28.66 78
169 University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria 28.61 169
170 Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Russia 28.01 101
171 Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany 27.95 97
172 GlaxoSmithKline plc. (GSK), United Kingdom (UK) 27.88 90
173 University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark 27.22 97
174 University of Crete (UOC), Greece 27.21 73
175 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria 26.95 176
176 Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany 26.61 75
177 University of Jyväskylä, Finland 26.49 150
178 Technical University Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig), Germany 26.43 91
179 University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy 26.30 248
180 Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium 25.81 140
181 University of Graz (Uni Graz), Austria 25.20 66
182 Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy 25.16 97
183 University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland 25.04 180
184 University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain 25.01 103
185 University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom (UK) 24.92 96
186 Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK) 24.86 172
187 University of Rostock, Germany 24.57 102
188 AstraZeneca plc, United Kingdom (UK) 24.04 86
189 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 23.90 149
190 University of Porto (UP), Portugal 23.27 111
191 Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium 23.01 53
192 TU Dortmund University, Germany 22.92 184
193 University of Zaragoza (Unizar), Spain 22.75 98
194 Giessen University (JLU), Germany 22.48 166
195 University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK) 22.00 85
196 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia 21.97 297
197 Curie Institute, France 21.76 131
198 University of Lille Nord de France, France 21.61 146
199 Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain 21.51 93
200 Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (UK) 21.47 56
201 Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia 21.27 151
202 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France 21.24 124
203 University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (UK) 21.15 84
204 University of Seville (US), Spain 21.12 100
205 Fraunhofer Society, Germany 21.07 104
206 University of Siegen, Germany 20.96 117
207 University of Bergen (UIB), Norway 20.79 208
208 University of Turku (UTU), Finland 20.60 84
209 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands 20.46 101
210 Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), France 19.84 316
211 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden 19.74 84
212 École Polytechnique, France 19.61 202
213 Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands 19.55 77
214 Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain 19.55 160
215 Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Austria 19.52 96
216 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany 19.50 80
217 University of Wrocław (UWr), Poland 19.22 49
218 University of Liège (ULg), Belgium 19.10 69
219 University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy 18.91 195
220 Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain 18.73 270
221 Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy 18.68 146
222 University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland 18.65 68
223 University of Girona (UdG), Spain 18.43 48
224 University of Rennes 1, France 18.10 131
225 Swansea University, United Kingdom (UK) 17.43 56
226 University of Granada (UGR), Spain 17.34 146
227 The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Ukraine 17.01 123
228 Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium 17.01 122
229 University of Kaiserslautern (TU Kaiserslautern), Germany 16.89 50
230 John Innes Centre (JIC), United Kingdom (UK) 16.87 42
231 Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy 16.63 84
232 University of Pisa (UNIPI), Italy 16.57 234
233 University of Lorraine (UL), France 16.31 98
234 University of Oldenburg, Germany 16.05 56
235 Met Office, United Kingdom (UK) 15.79 46
236 University of La Laguna (ULL), Spain 15.66 83
237 The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), United Kingdom (UK) 15.65 47
238 Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria 15.58 73
239 University of Augsburg, Germany 15.46 44
240 Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic 15.42 70
241 Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany 15.42 95
242 University of London - Royal Holloway (RHUL), United Kingdom (UK) 15.24 143
243 University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Spain 15.20 40
244 Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain 15.17 48
245 NERC National Oceanography Centre (NOC), United Kingdom (UK) 15.04 69
246 University of Surrey, United Kingdom (UK) 14.91 54
247 University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal 14.90 48
248 University of Trieste (UNITS), Italy 14.49 160
249 Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain 14.44 59
250 University of Pavia (UNIPV), Italy 14.38 181
251 University of Murcia (UMU), Spain 14.25 29
252 University of Iceland, Iceland 14.17 69
253 New University of Lisbon (UNL), Portugal 14.12 92
254 University of Greifswald, Germany 14.09 55
255 University of Genova, Italy 14.07 218
256 University of Belgrade, Serbia 14.00 158
257 Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Spain 13.95 46
258 University of Wuppertal, Germany 13.71 116
259 University of Salerno (UNISA), Italy 13.68 58
260 Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria 13.64 52
261 European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany 13.39 91
262 University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 13.29 133
263 University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal 13.24 121
264 Palacky University (PU), Czech Republic 13.23 115
265 Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Russia 13.19 103
266 Johannes Kepler University of Linz (JKU), Austria 13.10 35
267 IMDEA Institutes, Spain 13.05 58
268 ITMO National Research University (ITMO University), Russia 13.03 41
269 Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Spain 12.99 38
270 University of Trento (UNITN), Italy 12.98 93
271 Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany 12.77 29
272 Jaume I University (UJI), Spain 12.77 47
273 Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany 12.53 30
274 Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Hungary 12.49 70
275 Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece 12.13 52
276 University College Cork (UCC), Ireland 12.08 54
277 Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), France 12.03 176
278 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia 11.95 197
279 University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), France 11.94 164
280 Tampere University, Finland 11.83 135
281 University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Norway 11.82 52
282 University of Oulu, Finland 11.51 55
283 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria 11.48 30
284 Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), France 11.36 68
285 Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia 11.32 94
286 Birkbeck, University of London (BBK), United Kingdom (UK) 11.28 53
287 Jacobs University Bremen, Germany 11.27 30
288 Ilmenau University of Technology (TU Ilmenau), Germany 11.25 24
289 University of Tartu (UT), Estonia 11.09 59
290 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - State University (MIPT), Russia 11.08 104
291 National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway), Ireland 11.00 41
292 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria 10.94 28
293 Sanofi, France 10.91 33
294 Collège de France, France 10.84 111
295 University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague (UCT), Czech Republic 10.78 26
296 École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM), France 10.74 88
297 University Clermont Auvergne, France 10.71 192
298 Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Italy 10.55 139
299 University of Nantes, France 10.49 116
300 University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium 10.39 85
301 Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary 10.38 47
302 National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos' (NCSR), Greece 10.37 65
303 Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy 10.26 43
304 Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain 10.23 33
305 University of Savoy (USMB), France 10.20 225
306 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU), Poland 10.18 43
307 Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux (Bordeaux INP), France 10.17 68
308 University of Aalborg (AAU), Denmark 10.14 45
309 BASF SE, Germany 10.12 59
310 International Solvay Institutes, Belgium 10.12 42
311 Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), Spain 10.08 27
312 Maastricht University (UM), Netherlands 10.03 49
313 University of Bari Aldo Moro (UniBA), Italy 9.88 144
314 Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France 9.86 198
315 University of Perugia, Italy 9.70 121
316 University of Alicante (UA), Spain 9.63 35
317 Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland 9.52 65
318 Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), Germany 9.44 40
319 NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK) 9.40 34
320 AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH UST), Poland 9.21 144
321 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UOA), Greece 9.20 171
322 National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), France 9.18 113
323 CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain 9.15 28
324 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom (UK) 9.13 47
325 Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Sweden 9.12 27
326 University of Parma (UNIPR), Italy 9.10 49
327 University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain 9.08 41
328 University of Osnabrück (Uni Osnabrück), Germany 9.04 30
329 Loughborough University, United Kingdom (UK) 9.03 42
330 University of Limerick (UL), Ireland 8.97 18
331 University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy 8.93 103
332 Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK) 8.87 39
333 University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain 8.58 40
334 University of Kassel, Germany 8.56 22
335 The Open University (OU), United Kingdom (UK) 8.52 40
336 Gustave Eiffel University, France 8.46 79
337 University of Cyprus, Cyprus 8.45 58
338 Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI), Austria 8.44 38
339 University of Minho (UM), Portugal 8.38 101
340 École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR), France 8.35 69
341 British Geological Survey (BGS), United Kingdom (UK) 8.34 32
342 National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM), Italy 8.32 50
343 Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal 8.25 16
344 University of Ferrara (UNIFE), Italy 8.21 88
345 Gulbenkian Science Institute (IGC), Portugal 8.18 24
346 France Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, France 8.18 131
347 Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy 8.14 47
348 Cancer Research UK (CRUK), United Kingdom (UK) 8.13 75
349 European Commission (EC), Belgium 8.12 37
350 C. H. Boehringer Sohn AG & Co. KG (Boehringer Ingelheim), Germany 8.06 18
351 National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Poland 8.01 121
352 University of Plymouth, United Kingdom (UK) 7.98 35
353 Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germany 7.97 19
354 Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC), Italy 7.93 40
355 Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Spain 7.91 22
356 University of Ioannina (UOI), Greece 7.83 67
357 European Space Agency (ESA), France 7.78 48
358 Bangor University, United Kingdom (UK) 7.78 22
359 University of Cagliari (UNICA), Italy 7.71 66
360 University of Debrecen, Hungary 7.70 65
361 University of Namur (UNamur), Belgium 7.64 19
362 Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland 7.59 19
363 French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France 7.48 54
364 University of Alcalá (UAH), Spain 7.47 30
365 Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), France 7.40 64
366 University of Vigo (UVIGO), Spain 7.35 25
367 University of Salzburg, Austria 7.34 23
368 International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy 7.28 16
369 Babraham Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 7.27 28
370 Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland 7.25 22
371 University of Roma Tre, Italy 7.19 111
372 Vilnius University (VU), Lithuania 7.18 59
373 University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (VUM), Austria 7.11 20
374 Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Finland 7.03 26
375 University of Patras, Greece 7.00 27
376 NERC National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), United Kingdom (UK) 6.95 46
377 University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (UK) 6.83 32
378 University of Málaga (UMA), Spain 6.81 26
379 University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Finland 6.81 53
380 University of Verona (UNIVR), Italy 6.79 41
381 Paderborn University, Germany 6.73 20
382 University of Lübeck, Germany 6.71 80
383 National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece 6.63 103
384 University of Hull, United Kingdom (UK) 6.59 30
385 National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Russia 6.52 151
386 Hasselt University (UHasselt), Belgium 6.50 19
387 Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Spain 6.47 23
388 National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom (UK) 6.44 22
389 Catalan Health Institute (ICS), Spain 6.38 54
390 University of Orléans, France 6.36 62
391 National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), France 6.27 181
392 University of Salento, Italy 6.25 109
393 Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WRUT), Poland 6.25 14
394 Pablo de Olavide University (UPO), Spain 6.25 29
395 Ural Federal University (UrFU), Russia 6.25 27
396 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece 6.19 94
397 University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Italy 6.12 68
398 NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), United Kingdom (UK) 6.11 28
399 University of Valladolid (UVa), Spain 6.09 21
400 University of Siena (UNISI), Italy 6.03 64
401 Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU), Cyprus 6.00 6
402 University of Silesia (US), Poland 5.98 20
403 Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), Netherlands 5.89 21
404 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark 5.85 16
405 AgroParisTech, France 5.80 59
406 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH), United Kingdom (UK) 5.79 81
407 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine 5.71 38
408 Linnaeus University (LNU), Sweden 5.70 12
409 University of Insubria, Italy 5.65 30
410 Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (NCU), Poland 5.64 32
411 Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Spain 5.63 19
412 University of Burgundy, France 5.63 52
413 Rigshospitalet, Denmark 5.62 44
414 Tomsk State University (TSU), Russia 5.61 56
415 University of L'Aquila (UNIVAQ), Italy 5.49 34
416 Institute Gustave-Roussy (IGR), France 5.48 48
417 University of Catania, Italy 5.46 105
418 University of Navarra (UNAV), Spain 5.45 18
419 Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN), Russia 5.40 30
420 Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz), Germany 5.38 27
421 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Bulgaria 5.34 72
422 Merck KGaA, Germany 5.29 24
423 Paris-Est Créteil University (UPEC), France 5.29 53
424 École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon or (CPE Lyon), France 5.25 27
425 University of Messina (UNIME), Italy 5.22 41
426 Keele University, United Kingdom (UK) 5.17 21
427 Telethon Foundation, Italy 5.16 25
428 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Ireland 5.13 32
429 University of Chieti (Ud'A), Italy 5.10 16
430 University of Gdańsk (UG), Poland 5.05 19
431 University of Kent, United Kingdom (UK) 5.02 39
432 Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS), Slovakia 5.01 110
433 Le Mans University, France 5.00 29
434 University of Hohenheim, Germany 4.98 15
435 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland 4.97 61
436 University of Rouen, France 4.97 43
437 University of Cantabria (UC), Spain 4.94 77
438 University of Cádiz (UCA), Spain 4.92 19
439 University of Neuchâtel (UniNE), Switzerland 4.88 15
440 University of Zagreb, Croatia 4.81 46
441 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia 4.81 62
442 Saratov State University (SGU), Russia 4.79 11
443 German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG), Germany 4.79 8
444 Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS), France 4.78 34
445 Caen University (UNICAEN), France 4.76 41
446 Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom (UK) 4.74 18
447 CY Cergy Paris University, France 4.72 40
448 Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), United Kingdom (UK) 4.72 32
449 KWH Water B.V., Netherlands 4.70 11
450 International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal 4.69 9
451 University of Brescia (UNIBS), Italy 4.66 26
452 University of Angers, France 4.65 46
453 Comenius University in Bratislava (UK), Slovakia 4.65 108
454 University Institute of France (IUF), France 4.61 49
455 University of Poitiers, France 4.57 18
456 University of La Rioja (UR), Spain 4.54 9
457 University of Eastern Piedmont "Amedeo Avogadro" (UNIPMN), Italy 4.51 89
458 Kazan Federal University (KFU), Russia 4.47 28
459 Superior National School of Advanced Techniques (ENSTA ParisTech), France 4.45 28
460 University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany 4.42 9
461 University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 4.41 21
462 Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria 4.40 50
463 Thales S.A., France 4.40 34
464 Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Germany 4.39 14
465 University of Tours (UFR), France 4.39 30
466 University of A Coruña (UDC), Spain 4.38 14
467 Åbo Akademi University, Finland 4.38 30
468 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland 4.37 45
469 Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden 4.36 34
470 Centrale Lille, France 4.36 55
471 National Interuniversity Consortium for the Physical Sciences of Matter (CNISM), Italy 4.35 33
472 Cranfield University, United Kingdom (UK) 4.28 22
473 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Switzerland 4.25 14
474 Northumbria University, United Kingdom (UK) 4.23 16
475 Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy 4.20 95
476 Semmelweis University (SE), Hungary 4.20 31
477 European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), United Kingdom (UK) 4.16 13
478 Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN HH), Romania 4.14 156
479 University of Évry-Val d'Essonne (UEVE), France 4.12 85
480 University of Haute-Alsace (UHA), France 4.06 42
481 Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden 4.00 28
482 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland 4.00 26
483 University of Palermo (UNIPA), Italy 3.98 49
484 University of Western Brittany (UBO), France 3.98 56
485 University of Essex, United Kingdom (UK) 3.97 16
486 National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia, Slovenia 3.96 16
487 University of Jaén (UJU), Spain 3.96 10
488 Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Spain 3.92 17
489 Aston University, United Kingdom (UK) 3.91 16
490 University of Burgos (UBU), Spain 3.91 9
491 Koninklijke DSM N.V. (DSM), Netherlands 3.89 22
492 National Graduate School of Engineering and Research Center (ENSICAEN), France 3.89 35
493 Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Czech Republic 3.85 122
494 Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR), Germany 3.83 13
495 National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Estonia 3.77 67
496 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany 3.73 10
497 Norway Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Norway 3.72 28
498 University of Huelva (UHU), Spain 3.68 11
499 National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece 3.67 11
500 University of Cordoba (UCO), Spain 3.67 17

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