2021 tables: Institutions - NPO/NGO

The 2021 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.

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# Institution Share 2019 Share 2020 Count 2020 Change in Adjusted Share* 2019–2020
1 Max Planck Society, Germany 768.01 794.12 2747 -0.3%
2 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 489.97 582.72 2521 14.7%
3 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 197.50 236.27 935 15.4%
4 Leibniz Association, Germany 200.88 199.16 945 -4.4%
5 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 119.60 119.37 268 -3.8%
6 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 104.17 100.43 384 -7.0%
7 The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 51.50 58.84 179 10.2%
8 Pasteur Institute, France 33.92 47.50 274 35.0%
9 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA) 42.68 46.46 224 5.0%
10 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), United States of America (USA) 42.95 46.41 175 4.2%
11 Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), India 40.64 45.43 88 7.8%
12 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada 41.72 44.44 125 2.7%
13 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States of America (USA) 39.77 37.59 151 -8.9%
14 HHMI Janelia Research Campus, United States of America (USA) 46.31 34.10 92 -29.0%
15 Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), United States of America (USA) 36.93 29.12 137 -24.0%
16 Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk), United States of America (USA) 43.09 28.79 111 -35.6%
17 Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 36.66 28.20 207 -25.8%
18 Simons Foundation, United States of America (USA) 18.97 26.92 156 36.8%
19 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA) 20.74 26.34 82 22.5%
20 Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Belgium 24.12 25.87 159 3.4%
21 Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Austria 19.04 23.62 88 19.6%
22 The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), United States of America (USA) 15.20 21.60 81 37.0%
23 Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain 20.56 20.62 331 -3.3%
24 John Innes Centre (JIC), United Kingdom (UK) 18.77 20.22 58 3.8%
25 Fraunhofer Society, Germany 22.73 18.75 142 -20.5%
26 Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), United States of America (USA) 19.51 18.09 72 -10.6%
27 Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China 11.98 17.51 55 40.9%
28 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands 17.79 17.04 125 -7.6%
29 Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of America (USA) 14.83 16.54 31 7.5%
30 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), United States of America (USA) 12.20 15.80 90 24.9%
31 Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), Croatia 12.01 15.04 123 20.7%
32 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub), United States of America (USA) 8.59 14.68 159 64.7%
33 Ames Laboratory, United States of America (USA) 12.81 14.51 41 9.2%
34 Curie Institute, France 19.32 14.09 136 -29.7%
35 Oncode Institute, Netherlands 14.82 13.43 98 -12.6%
36 Van Andel Research Institute (VAI), United States of America (USA) 11.13 12.51 48 8.4%
37 QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia 9.87 12.29 86 20.0%
38 Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia 8.52 12.29 80 39.0%
39 Allen Institute, United States of America (USA) 10.40 12.18 30 12.9%
40 Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), France 12.69 11.30 75 -14.2%
41 La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), United States of America (USA) 13.35 11.27 50 -18.6%
42 Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal 10.89 11.21 25 -0.8%
43 Cancer Research UK (CRUK), United Kingdom (UK) 9.69 10.89 116 8.4%
44 Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium 7.03 10.66 39 46.3%
45 California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), United States of America (USA) 11.92 10.48 76 -15.3%
46 Gladstone Institutes, United States of America (USA) 11.94 10.29 65 -16.9%
47 Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC), Italy 4.99 10.21 33 97.2%
48 The Wistar Institute, United States of America (USA) 12.00 10.20 47 -18.1%
49 Universities Space Research Association (USRA), United States of America (USA) 5.11 10.16 115 91.9%
50 Gulbenkian Science Institute (IGC), Portugal 6.88 10.13 31 42.0%
51 Cluster of Excellence - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (CFAED), TU Dresden, Germany 9.71 10.03 50 -0.4%
52 Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), United States of America (USA) 3.57 9.20 82 148.6%
53 Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., Italy 7.71 9.09 44 13.6%
54 CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain 8.87 8.74 34 -5.0%
55 Cluster of Excellence - Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPS-M), LMU, Germany 14.13 8.56 48 -41.6%
56 Cluster of Excellence - Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), UoC, Germany 6.36 8.44 57 27.9%
57 Babraham Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 9.82 8.35 32 -18.0%
58 International Solvay Institutes, Belgium 9.04 7.81 37 -16.7%
59 National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM), Italy 5.40 7.73 51 38.2%
60 Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia 7.44 7.72 58 0.0%
61 Ludwig Cancer Research, United States of America (USA) 12.79 7.48 115 -43.6%
62 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria 7.54 6.95 46 -11.1%
63 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), UChicago, United States of America (USA) 6.94 6.91 31 -4.1%
64 Santa Fe Institute (SFI), United States of America (USA) 4.53 6.87 54 46.2%
65 Institute of Microbial Chemistry (IMC), Japan 9.88 6.71 10 -34.5%
66 Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands 10.44 6.59 40 -39.1%
67 Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Germany 8.34 6.50 14 -24.9%
68 Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, United States of America (USA) 4.59 6.37 23 33.6%
69 Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Germany 4.38 6.26 77 37.9%
70 World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland 4.76 6.26 62 26.9%
71 International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Portugal 3.89 6.12 30 51.8%
72 Buck Institute for Research on Aging, United States of America (USA) 3.22 6.08 25 82.2%
73 Telethon Foundation, Italy 6.22 6.03 27 -6.5%
74 Canadian Light Source Inc., Canada 3.65 5.82 40 53.9%
75 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), United States of America (USA) 4.80 5.77 32 15.8%
76 Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), Spain 5.96 5.76 30 -6.7%
77 Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), India 3.61 5.72 20 52.7%
78 Center for Scientific Studies (CECs), Chile 5.36 5.65 12 1.7%
79 Ligue Contre Le Cancer, France 2.90 5.65 42 87.9%
80 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Finland 6.14 5.55 91 -12.9%
81 Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Spain 4.45 5.34 37 15.7%
82 Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), United States of America (USA) 4.25 5.24 23 18.7%
83 American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), United States of America (USA) 6.58 5.08 43 -25.5%
84 The Aerospace Corporation, United States of America (USA) 2.74 5.03 21 77.0%
85 European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH (XFEL), Germany 2.77 4.90 38 70.8%
86 Cluster of Excellence - Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Uni Tübingen, Germany 3.92 4.75 18 16.6%
87 Chang Gung Medical Foundation, Taiwan 2.21 4.73 27 106.5%
88 European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL), Germany 3.40 4.60 42 30.5%
89 Raman Research Institute (RRI), India 0.77 4.60 10 475.2%
90 Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (CAESAR), Germany 3.64 4.50 24 19.1%
91 Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada 7.05 4.36 17 -40.4%
92 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Canada 4.49 4.34 53 -6.8%
93 National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan 3.55 4.23 14 14.9%
94 Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Italy 2.64 4.20 75 53.5%
95 UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, India 2.96 4.13 11 34.7%
96 Kawasaki Institute of Industry Promotion, Japan 1.87 4.11 9 112.0%
97 Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India 2.19 4.11 64 80.8%
98 Wetsus Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, Netherlands 3.38 4.02 11 14.7%
99 Spintronics Research Network of Japan (Spin-RnJ), Japan 3.50 3.98 62 9.6%
100 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg 5.42 3.90 12 -30.6%

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