2017 tables: Institutions - academic

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

Table criteria

# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share 2015-2016*
1 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 883.36 876.17 2,294 1.7%
2 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 636.25 603.81 1,481 -2.7%
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 567.65 580.08 1,748 4.8%
4 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 438.28 466.85 1,248 9.3%
5 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 432.89 438.52 1,277 3.9%
6 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 527.00 427.14 1,096 -16.9%
7 Peking University (PKU), China 369.83 386.66 1,256 7.2%
8 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 426.81 384.78 1,179 -7.5%
9 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 377.17 355.01 910 -3.5%
10 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 338.34 349.15 872 5.8%
11 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 363.17 331.42 917 -6.4%
12 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 345.08 327.95 888 -2.5%
13 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 368.44 321.42 858 -10.5%
14 Nanjing University (NJU), China 290.48 319.47 747 12.8%
15 Tsinghua University, China 279.01 316.02 1,019 16.2%
16 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 325.91 313.30 908 -1.4%
17 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 287.13 307.03 865 9.7%
18 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 325.20 289.13 765 -8.8%
19 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 268.91 288.86 652 10.2%
20 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 302.76 284.01 670 -3.8%
21 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 261.56 275.75 732 8.1%
22 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 296.28 267.88 820 -7.3%
23 Kyoto University, Japan 311.72 264.41 674 -13.0%
24 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 312.66 260.64 653 -14.5%
25 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 281.28 259.89 683 -5.2%
26 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 269.50 257.81 758 -1.9%
27 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 266.31 251.22 634 -3.2%
28 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 263.38 244.10 777 -4.9%
29 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 254.94 234.59 509 -5.6%
30 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 228.57 234.26 570 5.1%
31 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 243.06 233.72 634 -1.4%
32 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 253.18 228.83 590 -7.3%
33 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 222.83 220.35 481 1.4%
34 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 222.99 216.15 792 -0.6%
35 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 213.22 210.23 576 1.1%
36 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 213.84 210.00 619 0.7%
37 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 211.57 208.40 659 1.0%
38 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 207.29 203.43 521 0.7%
39 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 224.31 203.03 766 -7.2%
40 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 208.12 201.29 559 -0.8%
41 Osaka University, Japan 205.96 196.71 525 -2.0%
42 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 184.49 193.70 430 7.7%
43 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 216.45 188.13 528 -10.9%
44 Fudan University, China 209.78 184.73 455 -9.7%
45 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 180.12 182.33 441 3.8%
46 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 181.05 181.42 601 2.8%
47 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 171.74 181.09 379 8.2%
48 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 191.04 176.35 661 -5.3%
49 Tohoku University, Japan 194.63 175.48 438 -7.5%
50 McGill University, Canada 190.41 174.11 547 -6.2%
51 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 196.92 169.17 627 -11.9%
52 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 176.54 167.13 483 -2.9%
53 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 166.96 165.97 424 2.0%
54 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 129.81 164.50 461 30.0%
55 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 110.38 159.16 881 47.9%
56 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 156.06 157.77 321 3.7%
57 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 135.19 156.65 452 18.8%
58 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 167.65 156.60 553 -4.2%
59 Nankai University (NKU), China 157.34 152.97 420 -0.3%
60 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 133.90 151.21 589 15.8%
61 Soochow University, China 140.28 150.07 277 9.7%
62 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 167.21 145.87 427 -10.5%
63 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 157.55 145.71 521 -5.1%
64 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 152.11 145.62 398 -1.8%
65 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 125.38 145.31 506 18.9%
66 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 177.02 145.03 467 -16.0%
67 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 135.05 144.89 442 10.0%
68 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 118.90 144.15 548 24.3%
69 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 140.83 138.53 361 0.9%
70 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 144.36 136.19 554 -3.2%
71 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 161.19 135.74 391 -13.6%
72 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 144.91 134.66 308 -4.7%
73 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 137.25 134.44 387 0.5%
74 Nagoya University, Japan 148.32 132.62 350 -8.3%
75 Monash University, Australia 118.10 132.42 430 15.0%
76 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 154.73 130.27 399 -13.6%
77 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 107.26 128.21 449 22.6%
78 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 127.13 128.10 274 3.3%
79 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 128.60 126.00 513 0.5%
80 Xiamen University (XMU), China 119.69 124.40 228 6.6%
81 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 114.04 122.46 311 10.1%
82 Wuhan University (WHU), China 114.67 122.07 235 9.2%
83 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 123.77 121.72 577 0.9%
84 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel 123.99 121.21 274 0.3%
85 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 146.99 119.08 359 -16.9%
86 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 131.35 119.03 418 -7.1%
87 Hokkaido University, Japan 119.43 118.32 261 1.6%
88 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 125.08 117.52 308 -3.6%
89 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 116.30 116.98 377 3.2%
90 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 129.67 116.00 366 -8.2%
91 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 106.97 115.13 343 10.4%
92 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 105.09 114.69 389 11.9%
93 Kyushu University, Japan 92.77 113.98 334 26.0%
94 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 146.68 113.67 453 -20.5%
95 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 112.85 111.01 500 0.9%
96 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 120.61 109.49 256 -6.9%
97 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 91.52 107.33 235 20.3%
98 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel 105.70 106.64 264 3.5%
99 Sorbonne University, France 117.75 106.13 1,057 -7.6%
100 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 116.02 106.07 344 -6.2%
101 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 112.27 106.05 305 -3.1%
102 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 103.86 104.36 354 3.1%
103 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 105.26 102.73 308 0.1%
104 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 106.73 102.36 295 -1.6%
105 Sichuan University (SCU), China 98.82 101.98 216 5.8%
106 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 89.52 101.84 282 16.7%
107 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 96.31 101.21 180 7.8%
108 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 100.65 101.19 297 3.1%
109 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 92.71 101.10 284 11.8%
110 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 120.45 100.59 318 -14.3%
111 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 111.02 100.36 232 -7.3%
112 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 103.31 99.97 481 -0.8%
113 University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA) 106.42 99.09 279 -4.5%
114 University of Göttingen, Germany 106.02 97.99 330 -5.2%
115 Lund University (LU), Sweden 99.51 95.93 377 -1.1%
116 Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA) 108.58 95.65 282 -9.6%
117 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 71.66 95.43 496 36.6%
118 The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA) 103.87 95.40 261 -5.8%
119 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 87.15 95.10 243 11.9%
120 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 94.29 94.95 421 3.3%
121 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 78.94 94.15 340 22.3%
122 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 104.68 93.95 312 -7.9%
123 The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA) 103.94 92.91 359 -8.3%
124 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 74.98 92.63 262 26.7%
125 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 86.84 91.91 230 8.6%
126 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan 115.94 91.86 286 -18.7%
127 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 89.62 91.71 372 5.0%
128 Yonsei University, South Korea 102.75 91.10 226 -9.1%
129 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 93.16 90.76 325 -0.1%
130 Jilin University (JLU), China 103.60 89.93 211 -11.0%
131 Shandong University (SDU), China 75.60 89.14 289 20.9%
132 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 95.60 88.73 325 -4.8%
133 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 78.74 88.33 241 15.1%
134 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 103.10 86.95 460 -13.5%
135 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 98.69 86.90 181 -9.7%
136 Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India 91.76 86.77 125 -3.0%
137 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 77.59 85.86 280 13.5%
138 TU Dresden, Germany 86.40 84.68 368 0.5%
139 North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA) 93.41 84.14 221 -7.6%
140 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 83.31 82.86 220 2.0%
141 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 98.79 82.74 239 -14.1%
142 Hunan University (HNU), China 99.35 82.74 140 -14.6%
143 The University of Iowa (UI), United States of America (USA) 89.38 81.86 332 -6.1%
144 Leiden University, Netherlands 86.38 81.25 310 -3.5%
145 State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA) 108.04 81.14 335 -23.0%
146 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 78.83 81.09 317 5.5%
147 Brown University, United States of America (USA) 89.83 80.64 253 -7.9%
148 University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA) 88.75 80.19 288 -7.3%
149 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 80.04 79.34 324 1.7%
150 The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA) 73.88 79.33 197 10.1%
151 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 63.16 78.67 149 27.8%
152 University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA) 76.67 77.92 258 4.2%
153 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 59.93 77.86 150 33.2%
154 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 77.55 77.80 203 2.9%
155 Stockholm University, Sweden 94.87 77.43 410 -16.3%
156 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 62.32 76.87 499 26.5%
157 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 85.84 76.76 164 -8.3%
158 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA) 84.65 76.67 249 -7.1%
159 Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain 69.79 76.35 373 12.2%
160 Beijing Normal University (BNU), China 72.74 76.18 248 7.4%
161 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 94.79 76.15 342 -17.6%
162 Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel 92.07 75.80 268 -15.6%
163 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 74.09 75.58 159 4.6%
164 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea 83.24 75.04 248 -7.5%
165 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 92.25 74.76 297 -16.9%
166 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 83.95 73.98 348 -9.6%
167 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 73.20 73.86 323 3.5%
168 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 90.44 73.34 260 -16.8%
169 Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China 58.51 73.28 197 28.5%
170 The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China 67.43 72.87 313 10.8%
171 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), MSHS, United States of America (USA) 61.25 72.62 245 21.6%
172 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 67.70 72.03 273 9.1%
173 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 76.50 71.73 724 -3.8%
174 University of Waterloo, Canada 86.21 71.51 155 -14.9%
175 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 72.05 71.45 388 1.7%
176 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 81.88 71.43 264 -10.5%
177 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 87.61 71.35 460 -16.5%
178 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 68.75 71.16 301 6.2%
179 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA) 63.71 70.99 213 14.3%
180 Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA) 67.02 70.73 327 8.2%
181 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 59.18 70.04 237 21.4%
182 Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA) 62.64 69.72 300 14.2%
183 Tianjin University (TJU), China 91.60 69.54 343 -22.1%
184 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 55.10 69.22 347 28.8%
185 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 70.94 68.87 254 -0.4%
186 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA) 70.74 68.83 221 -0.2%
187 University of Paris, France 88.99 68.73 702 -20.8%
188 Keio University, Japan 56.86 68.69 158 23.9%
189 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 79.11 68.35 288 -11.4%
190 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 72.16 68.12 219 -3.2%
191 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 52.46 67.20 142 31.4%
192 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 71.83 66.98 326 -4.4%
193 The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK) 69.11 66.84 184 -0.8%
194 Southeast University (SEU), China 40.35 66.07 125 67.9%
195 University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA) 77.37 65.54 218 -13.1%
196 University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA) 68.42 65.06 297 -2.5%
197 University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA) 55.95 65.01 197 19.2%
198 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China 61.64 64.95 268 8.1%
199 University of Strasbourg, France 63.26 64.72 433 4.9%
200 University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada 60.11 64.44 168 10.0%
201 University of Lyon, France 66.45 63.62 440 -1.8%
202 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 65.76 63.33 143 -1.2%
203 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 67.93 63.16 323 -4.6%
204 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea 62.38 63.00 142 3.6%
205 Korea University, South Korea 63.51 62.43 226 0.8%
206 University of Tsukuba, Japan 57.71 61.92 249 10.1%
207 University of Vienna, Austria 53.53 61.46 221 17.8%
208 University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA) 51.88 61.25 212 21.1%
209 Iowa State University, United States of America (USA) 74.14 60.92 240 -15.7%
210 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 62.16 60.79 224 0.3%
211 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 45.06 60.56 310 37.8%
212 Tongji University, China 59.72 59.76 198 2.6%
213 Colorado State University, United States of America (USA) 57.97 58.93 173 4.3%
214 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA) 66.06 58.75 180 -8.8%
215 National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan 78.88 58.62 179 -23.8%
216 Université PSL, France 58.05 58.35 626 3.1%
217 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 52.79 57.95 578 12.6%
218 Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India 50.60 57.66 169 16.9%
219 Oregon State University, United States of America (USA) 58.76 57.50 161 0.4%
220 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States of America (USA) 66.24 57.31 302 -11.3%
221 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 44.96 56.70 133 29.4%
222 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 46.77 56.65 360 24.2%
223 University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UH Mānoa), United States of America (USA) 53.04 56.56 241 9.4%
224 University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA) 59.55 56.16 188 -3.3%
225 Temple University, United States of America (USA) 40.24 56.09 136 43.0%
226 University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain 45.38 56.09 233 26.8%
227 University of Miami (UM), United States of America (USA) 50.16 55.54 170 13.6%
228 Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany 59.79 55.38 185 -5.0%
229 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 46.23 54.99 114 22.0%
230 University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK) 60.63 54.34 211 -8.1%
231 University of Calgary (U of C), Canada 61.59 54.09 142 -9.9%
232 Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China 30.21 53.84 109 82.8%
233 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 63.61 53.07 164 -14.4%
234 Hanyang University (HYU), South Korea 45.16 52.14 151 18.4%
235 University of Helsinki, Finland 58.32 51.70 307 -9.1%
236 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India 44.04 50.94 89 18.6%
237 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 57.55 50.77 392 -9.5%
238 University of Toulouse, France 58.96 50.73 417 -11.7%
239 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 47.60 50.62 141 9.1%
240 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 46.46 50.47 187 11.4%
241 University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil 48.37 50.22 270 6.5%
242 Beihang University (BUAA), China 44.88 50.01 168 14.3%
243 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 51.12 49.62 305 -0.5%
244 University of Valencia (UV), Spain 46.21 49.48 263 9.8%
245 University of Konstanz, Germany 43.99 49.45 94 15.3%
246 McMaster University, Canada 52.51 49.30 116 -3.7%
247 Tufts University, United States of America (USA) 43.95 49.23 267 14.9%
248 Wayne State University, United States of America (USA) 46.33 49.21 190 8.9%
249 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria 50.47 48.87 174 -0.7%
250 Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK) 37.54 48.44 192 32.4%
251 Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China 42.83 48.08 95 15.1%
252 The University of Dublin, Ireland 43.95 47.66 141 11.2%
253 Leipzig University, Germany 44.68 47.34 166 8.7%
254 University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA) 57.04 47.22 129 -15.1%
255 University of Stuttgart, Germany 59.94 47.00 127 -19.6%
256 Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France 47.38 46.97 456 1.7%
257 Brandeis University, United States of America (USA) 40.99 46.80 141 17.1%
258 University of Connecticut (UConn), United States of America (USA) 63.81 46.24 141 -25.7%
259 Aalto University, Finland 55.77 45.73 218 -15.9%
260 Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China 71.96 45.60 98 -35.0%
261 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium 38.74 45.53 196 20.6%
262 Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany 53.08 45.41 119 -12.2%
263 The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA) 45.85 44.85 194 0.3%
264 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK) 49.16 44.58 262 -7.0%
265 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan 46.06 44.44 119 -1.0%
266 The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA) 51.30 44.42 175 -11.2%
267 Western University (UWO), Canada 34.14 44.20 109 32.8%
268 University of York, United Kingdom (UK) 49.81 44.13 148 -9.1%
269 City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China 41.55 43.65 141 7.7%
270 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 52.77 43.64 159 -15.2%
271 University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA) 37.14 43.54 113 20.2%
272 Central China Normal University (CCNU), China 30.71 43.50 121 45.3%
273 Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany 44.50 43.21 173 -0.4%
274 University of Montpellier, France 47.14 43.08 374 -6.3%
275 Southwest University (SWU), China 47.91 43.01 65 -7.9%
276 Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia 38.01 42.63 331 15.0%
277 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel 52.52 42.48 92 -17.0%
278 Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China 26.85 42.45 102 62.2%
279 The University of New Mexico (UNM), United States of America (USA) 47.08 41.00 216 -10.7%
280 The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA) 31.60 40.44 132 31.2%
281 The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA) 41.02 40.21 246 0.5%
282 Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany 27.95 40.16 113 47.3%
283 Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers), Sweden 60.84 40.15 109 -32.3%
284 University of Kiel (CAU), Germany 41.06 39.91 171 -0.3%
285 University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), United States of America (USA) 41.08 39.80 125 -0.6%
286 The University of Oklahoma (OU), United States of America (USA) 43.30 39.75 203 -5.9%
287 Dartmouth College, United States of America (USA) 47.19 39.71 125 -13.7%
288 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 40.33 39.64 179 0.8%
289 University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Portugal 32.02 39.59 220 26.8%
290 Northeastern University (NEU), United States of America (USA) 42.76 39.33 188 -5.7%
291 Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain 38.71 39.02 176 3.4%
292 The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA) 37.93 38.88 67 5.1%
293 University of Kentucky (UK), United States of America (USA) 39.23 38.45 120 0.5%
294 University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy 44.71 38.40 268 -11.9%
295 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune), India 29.04 37.81 110 33.5%
296 Ulm University, Germany 38.43 37.68 143 0.6%
297 Chiba University, Japan 19.07 37.65 105 102.5%
298 University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria 28.61 37.62 195 34.9%
299 Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 49.45 37.41 333 -22.4%
300 Curtin University, Australia 29.16 37.35 138 31.4%
301 China University of Geosciences (CUG), China 22.79 37.19 80 67.3%
302 University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA) 44.29 36.91 122 -14.5%
303 Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA) 32.44 36.87 79 16.6%
304 National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico 41.87 36.69 145 -10.1%
305 Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium 30.65 36.33 150 21.5%
306 University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) 44.99 35.94 100 -18.1%
307 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), China 28.77 35.42 95 26.3%
308 University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany 35.93 35.15 121 0.3%
309 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA) 27.09 34.99 83 32.5%
310 University of Potsdam, Germany 30.85 34.96 126 16.2%
311 Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China 26.33 34.39 43 33.9%
312 University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China 29.89 34.36 79 17.9%
313 The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia 48.80 34.26 221 -28.0%
314 Louisiana State University (LSU), United States of America (USA) 48.39 34.26 154 -27.4%
315 University of Missouri (Mizzou), United States of America (USA) 29.82 34.23 86 17.7%
316 University of Gothenburg (GU), Sweden 34.34 34.17 128 2.1%
317 Washington State University (WSU), United States of America (USA) 32.24 34.17 105 8.7%
318 The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia 38.20 34.12 213 -8.4%
319 University of Warsaw (UW), Poland 37.18 33.61 172 -7.3%
320 University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain 31.23 33.43 144 9.8%
321 Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada 27.49 33.05 150 23.3%
322 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 35.87 32.89 142 -6.0%
323 Ewha Womans University (Ewha), South Korea 33.91 32.82 98 -0.7%
324 Shanghai University (SHU), China 35.24 32.68 92 -4.9%
325 Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel 32.63 32.11 84 0.9%
326 University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy 28.79 32.08 285 14.3%
327 University of Bordeaux, France 37.90 31.99 232 -13.4%
328 The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA) 34.49 31.79 163 -5.4%
329 University of Otago, New Zealand 33.75 31.78 118 -3.4%
330 Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany 36.61 31.58 136 -11.5%
331 University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada 36.69 31.42 78 -12.2%
332 University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK) 22.00 31.38 95 46.3%
333 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 29.67 31.17 65 7.8%
334 Hiroshima University (HU), Japan 39.97 31.10 125 -20.2%
335 Chongqing University (CQU), China 35.22 30.66 88 -10.7%
336 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 16.45 30.64 95 91.1%
337 University of Sussex, United Kingdom (UK) 33.19 30.58 171 -5.5%
338 National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), France 37.56 30.54 288 -16.6%
339 Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA) 25.57 30.51 56 22.4%
340 Kobe University, Japan 27.67 30.21 149 12.0%
341 Linköping University (LiU), Sweden 38.25 30.10 106 -19.3%
342 University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 25.26 30.08 101 22.1%
343 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China 27.28 29.76 106 11.9%
344 Clemson University, United States of America (USA) 24.63 29.46 59 22.7%
345 TU Dortmund University, Germany 22.92 29.45 174 31.8%
346 Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India 28.97 29.44 47 4.2%
347 Queen's University, Canada 39.53 29.22 71 -24.2%
348 Kanazawa University (KU), Japan 19.12 28.96 78 55.3%
349 Charles University (CU), Czech Republic 29.52 28.81 254 0.1%
350 Fuzhou University (FZU), China 34.04 28.62 49 -13.8%
351 Drexel University, United States of America (USA) 29.19 28.60 95 0.5%
352 University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium 29.29 28.48 145 -0.3%
353 State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), United States of America (USA) 17.67 28.24 145 63.9%
354 Northwest University (NWU), China 19.92 28.02 53 44.2%
355 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India 29.73 28.02 47 -3.3%
356 University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK) 32.09 27.44 107 -12.3%
357 University of Oviedo (UniOvi), Spain 25.01 27.40 126 12.4%
358 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany 36.20 27.32 84 -22.6%
359 University of Liège (ULg), Belgium 19.10 27.20 88 46.1%
360 University of Florence (UNIFI), Italy 36.15 27.12 177 -23.0%
361 University of Turin (UNITO), Italy 37.50 27.08 213 -25.9%
362 Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea 29.30 26.78 64 -6.2%
363 Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany 26.61 26.71 73 3.0%
364 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany 33.48 26.67 109 -18.3%
365 China Agricultural University (CAU), China 20.67 26.53 65 31.7%
366 Waseda University, Japan 31.25 26.51 139 -13.0%
367 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), India 19.70 26.22 52 36.5%
368 Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA) 23.98 25.86 71 10.6%
369 University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada 33.29 25.82 114 -20.4%
370 Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland 31.30 25.76 147 -15.6%
371 Okayama University, Japan 35.13 25.76 147 -24.8%
372 Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK) 37.15 25.70 84 -29.0%
373 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), United States of America (USA) 29.31 25.67 133 -10.2%
374 Pusan National University (PNU), South Korea 18.87 25.62 93 39.2%
375 Central South University (CSU), China 28.15 25.56 79 -6.9%
376 Technical University Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig), Germany 26.43 25.55 68 -0.8%
377 Umeå University (UMU), Sweden 36.50 25.52 98 -28.3%
378 University of Naples Federico II (UNINA), Italy 33.98 25.51 238 -23.0%
379 Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), China 20.13 25.51 58 30.0%
380 Northeast Normal University (NENU), China 36.22 25.50 44 -27.8%
381 University of Central Florida (UCF), United States of America (USA) 22.53 25.44 69 15.8%
382 The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), United States of America (USA) 15.58 25.07 62 65.1%
383 Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), United States of America (USA) 13.75 25.00 69 86.4%
384 University of Pisa (UNIPI), Italy 16.57 24.75 250 53.1%
385 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia 21.49 24.68 64 17.8%
386 University of Victoria (UVic), Canada 24.12 24.66 148 4.9%
387 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany 19.50 24.63 101 29.6%
388 University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy 26.30 24.46 230 -4.6%
389 University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK) 29.84 24.40 99 -16.1%
390 University of Granada (UGR), Spain 17.34 24.37 145 44.1%
391 Kyung Hee University (KHU), South Korea 27.77 24.23 63 -10.5%
392 National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan 23.67 24.19 66 4.8%
393 University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), United States of America (USA) 23.49 24.14 63 5.4%
394 University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy 29.47 24.08 166 -16.2%
395 Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China 26.62 23.99 58 -7.6%
396 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 23.90 23.98 166 2.9%
397 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 29.59 23.95 86 -17.0%
398 Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain 32.70 23.93 205 -25.0%
399 University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK) 29.41 23.86 95 -16.8%
400 Dalhousie University, Canada 26.49 23.84 69 -7.7%
401 Laval University (UL), Canada 31.06 23.65 127 -21.9%
402 Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy 25.16 23.58 105 -3.9%
403 University of Arkansas (UARK), United States of America (USA) 22.65 23.44 68 6.1%
404 Texas Tech University (TTU), United States of America (USA) 15.09 23.42 127 59.2%
405 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal), India 26.44 23.39 46 -9.3%
406 Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), China 15.72 23.26 48 51.8%
407 Georgetown University, United States of America (USA) 12.26 22.67 64 89.7%
408 Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China 8.19 22.49 47 181.8%
409 Syracuse University, United States of America (USA) 23.09 22.46 99 -0.2%
410 University of Zaragoza (Unizar), Spain 22.75 22.35 115 0.8%
411 Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (UK) 21.47 22.15 67 5.8%
412 University of Wrocław (UWr), Poland 19.22 22.03 59 17.6%
413 University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland 25.04 21.85 170 -10.5%
414 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China 18.26 21.77 70 22.3%
415 Griffith University, Australia 13.27 21.72 63 67.9%
416 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), China 12.24 21.69 95 81.7%
417 Beijing University of Technology (BJUT), China 12.01 21.27 62 81.7%
418 Georgia State University (GSU), United States of America (USA) 24.29 21.25 72 -10.3%
419 Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy 16.63 21.10 83 30.2%
420 Macquarie University, Australia 22.80 21.08 104 -5.1%
421 Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), China 12.64 21.06 55 71.0%
422 Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), China 22.36 21.05 37 -3.4%
423 University of Siegen, Germany 20.96 21.05 110 3.0%
424 Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China 22.03 20.96 57 -2.4%
425 Tulane University, United States of America (USA) 21.08 20.95 70 1.9%
426 Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK) 24.86 20.93 170 -13.6%
427 Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Russia 28.01 20.92 103 -23.4%
428 Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), India 13.49 20.85 67 58.5%
429 The University of Auckland, New Zealand 25.46 20.73 160 -16.5%
430 China Pharmaceutical University (CPU), China 14.07 20.72 29 51.1%
431 Ocean University of China (OUC), China 17.70 20.41 55 18.2%
432 University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark 27.22 20.40 103 -23.1%
433 West Virginia University (WVU), United States of America (USA) 23.83 20.37 82 -12.3%
434 The University of Toledo (UT), United States of America (USA) 17.22 20.32 49 21.1%
435 Henan Normal University, China 16.41 20.18 41 26.1%
436 Giessen University (JLU), Germany 22.48 20.17 152 -8.0%
437 University of Guelph, Canada 20.05 20.14 62 3.0%
438 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil 16.13 20.09 169 27.8%
439 Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech), Japan 22.12 20.02 33 -7.2%
440 Bielefeld University, Germany 30.01 20.00 45 -31.6%
441 Lehigh University, United States of America (USA) 17.57 19.93 41 16.3%
442 Kent State University, United States of America (USA) 15.19 19.88 49 34.2%
443 University of New Hampshire (UNH), United States of America (USA) 15.72 19.80 118 29.2%
444 Swansea University, United Kingdom (UK) 17.43 19.68 52 15.8%
445 Wake Forest University (WFU), United States of America (USA) 18.35 19.62 76 9.7%
446 University of Lille Nord de France, France 21.61 19.53 156 -7.3%
447 University of Jyväskylä, Finland 26.49 19.03 153 -26.3%
448 Thomas Jefferson University (TJU), United States of America (USA) 22.35 18.92 46 -13.2%
449 University of Vermont (UVM), United States of America (USA) 19.53 18.87 51 -0.9%
450 Rovira i Virgili University (URV), Spain 12.99 18.83 52 48.7%
451 Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain 21.51 18.81 92 -10.3%
452 Shanxi University (SXU), China 17.62 18.59 59 8.2%
453 Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), France 19.84 18.56 299 -4.0%
454 Jinan University (JNU), China 13.35 18.47 56 41.9%
455 Renmin University of China (RUC), China 14.55 18.46 53 30.1%
456 Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria 13.64 18.36 65 38.0%
457 University of Bergen (UIB), Norway 20.79 18.21 205 -10.2%
458 University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom (UK) 24.92 18.20 82 -25.1%
459 National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taiwan 15.95 18.15 32 16.7%
460 The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), United States of America (USA) 17.40 18.10 111 6.7%
461 University of La Laguna (ULL), Spain 15.66 18.08 102 18.4%
462 University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland 18.65 18.01 77 -1.0%
463 Colorado School of Mines, United States of America (USA) 18.89 17.88 59 -2.9%
464 Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic 15.42 17.82 77 18.6%
465 The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio), United States of America (USA) 16.98 17.69 44 6.9%
466 Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), China 17.04 17.69 48 6.5%
467 Northwest A&F University (NWAFU), China 14.59 17.58 38 23.6%
468 University of Turku (UTU), Finland 20.60 17.53 93 -12.7%
469 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan 12.96 17.47 45 38.2%
470 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan 24.87 17.44 38 -28.1%
471 University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina 18.48 17.40 139 -3.4%
472 Osaka Prefecture University (OPU), Japan 21.55 17.40 33 -17.2%
473 Army Medical University, China 12.26 17.26 68 44.4%
474 University of Hyderabad (UoH), India 21.32 17.18 27 -17.4%
475 University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), United States of America (USA) 15.69 17.16 32 12.2%
476 Shenzhen University (SZU), China 10.14 17.12 72 73.2%
477 Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan 17.12 17.01 45 1.9%
478 The George Washington University (GW), United States of America (USA) 17.98 16.97 72 -3.2%
479 University of Manitoba, Canada 19.62 16.96 52 -11.3%
480 University of Jinan (UJN), China 9.01 16.89 27 92.1%
481 University of Rostock, Germany 24.57 16.82 80 -29.8%
482 Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Japan 15.36 16.82 53 12.3%
483 Augusta University, United States of America (USA) 13.74 16.79 41 25.3%
484 Bilkent University, Turkey 14.13 16.76 36 21.7%
485 University of Lorraine (UL), France 16.31 16.73 104 5.2%
486 Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany 15.42 16.60 75 10.4%
487 National Central University (NCU), Taiwan 13.38 16.49 106 26.4%
488 Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU), Japan 16.32 16.44 125 3.4%
489 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria 10.94 16.43 41 54.0%
490 University of Wyoming, United States of America (USA) 23.02 16.43 51 -26.8%
491 Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Japan 19.44 16.39 61 -13.6%
492 Utah State University (USU), United States of America (USA) 14.14 16.36 55 18.7%
493 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), China 16.87 16.29 63 -1.0%
494 University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), United States of America (USA) 9.47 16.22 57 75.7%
495 University of Porto (UP), Portugal 23.27 16.11 102 -29.0%
496 University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy 18.91 16.10 180 -12.7%
497 University College Cork (UCC), Ireland 12.08 16.07 71 36.5%
498 University of Crete (UOC), Greece 27.21 16.06 54 -39.4%
499 University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (UK) 21.15 15.99 82 -22.4%
500 São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil 23.00 15.95 110 -28.8%

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