2019 tables: Institutions - life sciences

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 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 629.21 621.45 1,702 -8.2%
2 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 350.11 352.79 872 -6.3%
3 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 277.06 302.33 761 1.4%
4 Max Planck Society, Germany 276.90 293.08 1,040 -1.6%
5 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 211.05 253.27 795 11.6%
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 203.63 212.74 847 -2.9%
7 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 169.75 200.77 562 10.0%
8 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 159.48 194.73 622 13.5%
9 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 178.56 193.90 459 1.0%
10 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 170.86 186.57 506 1.5%
11 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 174.19 183.11 512 -2.3%
12 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 173.38 172.61 534 -7.4%
13 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 167.88 172.03 574 -4.7%
14 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 176.20 170.31 1,246 -10.1%
15 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 153.35 160.41 405 -2.8%
16 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 138.92 158.67 526 6.2%
17 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 150.31 153.99 383 -4.8%
18 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 146.26 153.59 438 -2.4%
19 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 123.36 153.27 455 15.5%
20 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 132.24 150.57 387 5.9%
21 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 157.62 149.98 464 -11.5%
22 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 120.44 139.67 449 7.8%
23 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 105.90 136.01 399 19.4%
24 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 114.22 121.13 453 -1.4%
25 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 124.89 120.63 345 -10.2%
26 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 102.04 117.47 260 7.0%
27 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 141.55 115.54 249 -24.1%
28 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 108.53 110.28 727 -5.5%
29 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 102.86 98.07 295 -11.4%
30 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 94.07 95.32 278 -5.8%
31 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA) 105.46 92.75 313 -18.2%
32 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 74.57 91.76 316 14.4%
33 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 85.98 91.57 315 -1.0%
34 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 100.65 88.05 252 -18.7%
35 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 99.77 87.95 223 -18.1%
36 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 69.27 87.31 263 17.2%
37 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 82.82 87.21 193 -2.1%
38 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 78.08 86.98 204 3.6%
39 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 72.04 85.84 252 10.8%
40 Peking University (PKU), China 89.67 84.64 251 -12.3%
41 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 60.91 83.84 347 28.0%
42 The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA) 97.33 82.88 240 -20.8%
43 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 75.62 81.52 248 0.2%
44 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 59.99 81.08 249 25.6%
45 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 76.74 80.69 314 -2.3%
46 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 79.58 80.65 781 -5.8%
47 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 63.40 78.23 302 14.7%
48 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 84.87 77.71 273 -14.9%
49 Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA) 63.97 76.42 292 11.1%
50 McGill University, Canada 74.88 76.27 242 -5.3%
51 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 85.28 76.06 233 -17.1%
52 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 73.22 73.80 146 -6.3%
53 University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School), United States of America (USA) 54.48 73.04 234 24.6%
54 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 55.53 72.55 158 21.5%
55 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 62.45 70.94 235 5.6%
56 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 59.67 70.22 236 9.4%
57 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 69.58 70.21 330 -6.2%
58 Tsinghua University, China 57.66 68.86 226 11.0%
59 Kyoto University, Japan 57.24 66.52 199 8.0%
60 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 58.22 65.80 203 5.1%
61 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 47.70 62.16 178 21.1%
62 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 72.03 61.88 266 -20.1%
63 RIKEN, Japan 60.53 61.50 216 -5.5%
64 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 74.42 61.17 145 -23.6%
65 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 52.21 59.31 185 5.6%
66 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 51.84 57.81 173 3.7%
67 Fudan University, China 49.64 56.43 214 5.7%
68 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 46.59 55.94 159 11.6%
69 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 58.41 54.74 153 -12.9%
70 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 45.53 54.66 190 11.6%
71 Leibniz Association, Germany 44.95 54.26 335 12.2%
72 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 47.90 54.05 182 4.9%
73 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 31.45 53.73 139 58.8%
74 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 43.55 53.53 145 14.3%
75 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 47.78 53.00 169 3.1%
76 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 55.42 52.68 301 -11.6%
77 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 58.10 52.42 161 -16.1%
78 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 58.43 52.30 247 -16.8%
79 The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 61.36 52.18 154 -20.9%
80 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 38.04 51.72 338 26.4%
81 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 38.61 50.81 267 22.3%
82 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 33.47 49.94 201 38.7%
83 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 50.41 49.80 220 -8.2%
84 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 58.26 49.74 234 -20.6%
85 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 43.32 49.17 226 5.5%
86 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 42.00 47.77 233 5.7%
87 Osaka University, Japan 43.40 47.58 156 1.9%
88 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 42.29 47.47 176 4.3%
89 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 52.53 47.36 161 -16.2%
90 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 40.80 45.90 149 4.6%
91 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 48.66 45.79 157 -12.5%
92 Monash University, Australia 38.68 45.63 185 9.7%
93 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 43.60 45.16 203 -3.7%
94 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 37.91 44.77 136 9.8%
95 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 43.69 44.73 137 -4.8%
96 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland 37.39 44.10 110 9.7%
97 Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA) 39.92 44.09 184 2.7%
98 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 37.60 43.54 135 7.7%
99 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 48.26 43.52 120 -16.2%
100 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 37.99 43.43 161 6.3%

Footnote

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  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals, selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2021 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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