2022 tables: Institutions - government

The 2022 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021.

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# Institution Share 2020 Share 2021 Count 2021 Change in Adjusted Share* 2020–2021
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 1888.73 1962.82 6325 1.2%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 712.21 675.22 4414 -7.6%
3 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 399.22 406.71 1011 -0.8%
4 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 219.46 211.81 1202 -6.0%
5 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 172.11 173.31 859 -1.9%
6 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 152.63 168.97 812 7.8%
7 RIKEN, Japan 164.41 155.46 660 -7.9%
8 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 104.17 110.20 548 3.1%
9 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 93.04 105.03 1211 10.0%
10 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States of America (USA) 117.25 101.72 541 -15.5%
11 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 91.91 99.87 396 5.8%
12 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 101.62 97.17 431 -6.8%
13 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 108.87 96.50 559 -13.7%
14 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 100.74 93.13 320 -9.9%
15 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 100.92 92.39 730 -10.8%
16 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 100.26 92.16 362 -10.5%
17 Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea 85.82 91.96 345 4.4%
18 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 95.10 91.45 471 -6.3%
19 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 88.56 80.92 973 -11.0%
20 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 91.30 80.75 312 -13.8%
21 People's Liberation Army (PLA), China 81.31 79.61 442 -4.6%
22 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 76.47 76.13 370 -3.0%
23 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 74.99 73.23 390 -4.9%
24 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA) 78.00 68.56 281 -14.4%
25 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 75.93 68.05 214 -12.7%
26 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA) 73.76 67.44 367 -10.9%
27 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 66.82 66.60 298 -2.9%
28 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 53.31 62.95 141 15.0%
29 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America (USA) 75.03 58.30 281 -24.3%
30 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 59.66 57.80 200 -5.6%
31 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America (USA) 74.10 56.14 178 -26.2%
32 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 58.31 53.41 261 -10.8%
33 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 52.86 51.09 323 -5.8%
34 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 51.66 48.81 356 -8.0%
35 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), United States of America (USA) 51.95 47.62 188 -10.7%
36 China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), China 34.48 46.56 161 31.5%
37 Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), South Korea 42.86 46.03 193 4.6%
38 China Meteorological Administration (CMA), China 46.82 44.97 167 -6.5%
39 Sandia National Laboratories, United States of America (USA) 31.81 43.54 144 33.3%
40 Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), China 39.55 42.27 312 4.1%
41 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina 48.63 41.85 296 -16.2%
42 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Austria 34.24 41.25 270 17.3%
43 Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China 35.91 39.68 176 7.6%
44 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy 42.60 39.01 181 -10.8%
45 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Hungary 50.76 38.87 285 -25.4%
46 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 32.71 38.76 311 15.4%
47 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 38.71 36.20 663 -8.9%
48 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 42.96 32.66 193 -25.9%
49 Smithsonian Institution, United States of America (USA) 32.04 32.46 249 -1.3%
50 Institute of Research for Development (IRD), France 29.87 30.32 568 -1.1%
51 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG), Switzerland 28.32 30.24 88 4.0%
52 National Research Center Kurchatov Institute (NRCKI), Russia 23.37 30.07 291 25.3%
53 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan 35.74 29.86 165 -18.6%
54 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA) 32.93 28.87 371 -14.6%
55 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 30.05 28.81 80 -6.6%
56 Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain 36.39 27.60 246 -26.1%
57 National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy 39.60 26.02 149 -36.0%
58 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA) 23.03 23.57 76 -0.3%
59 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), United States of America (USA) 22.36 23.52 60 2.5%
60 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 25.29 22.99 87 -11.4%
61 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 22.98 22.51 74 -4.6%
62 High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan 29.65 22.05 212 -27.5%
63 Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy 21.17 21.90 185 0.8%
64 Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communication (MCTIC), Brazil 21.37 21.29 152 -3.0%
65 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), United States of America (USA) 19.28 21.23 152 7.2%
66 National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy 20.91 21.13 51 -1.5%
67 India Department of Space (DOS), India 15.57 20.44 53 27.9%
68 Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India 10.76 19.51 35 76.6%
69 National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), India 18.85 18.00 113 -7.0%
70 Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), South Korea 12.91 17.66 56 33.3%
71 China Earthquake Administration (CEA), China 18.67 17.61 55 -8.1%
72 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Russia 16.35 17.37 209 3.4%
73 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States of America (USA) 15.08 17.00 130 9.8%
74 IMDEA Institutes, Spain 11.46 15.83 61 34.5%
75 Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran 18.40 15.77 82 -16.5%
76 Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan 16.86 15.40 88 -11.0%
77 Natural Resources Canada, Canada 12.05 15.01 48 21.4%
78 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), France 22.98 14.83 97 -37.1%
79 National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS), China 18.02 14.66 51 -20.7%
80 National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan 12.54 14.45 42 12.3%
81 Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), India 7.10 14.18 88 94.6%
82 Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS), Slovenia 17.81 13.55 124 -25.9%
83 Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea 10.51 13.55 51 25.5%
84 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), United States of America (USA) 11.27 13.40 37 15.9%
85 National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Taiwan 10.52 13.32 78 23.3%
86 National Research Council (NRC), Canada 14.96 13.29 62 -13.4%
87 Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), China 14.62 13.07 61 -12.9%
88 Natural History Museum, United Kingdom (UK) 9.01 12.56 67 35.8%
89 NERC British Antarctic Survey (BAS), United Kingdom (UK) 11.60 12.06 53 1.2%
90 India Ministry of Science and Technology, India 7.97 11.78 34 44.0%
91 Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan 13.86 11.55 112 -18.8%
92 French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France 9.48 11.49 92 18.1%
93 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia 12.69 11.44 85 -12.2%
94 Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), United States of America (USA) 7.60 10.98 58 40.8%
95 Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), India 8.54 10.69 93 22.0%
96 Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Japan 10.19 10.56 80 1.0%
97 Met Office, United Kingdom (UK) 15.06 10.54 51 -31.8%
98 National Centre for Scientific Research 'Demokritos' (NCSR), Greece 9.32 10.42 124 8.8%
99 Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece 11.13 10.37 56 -9.2%
100 Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), India 6.54 10.05 22 49.8%

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