2023 tables: Institutions - biological sciences

The 2023 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

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# Institution Share 2021 Share 2022 Count 2022 Change in Adjusted Share* 2021–2022
1 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 647.90 588.89 1680 -1.1%
2 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 385.17 305.93 820 -13.6%
3 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 311.46 280.12 806 -2.2%
4 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 266.55 267.96 995 9.3%
5 Max Planck Society, Germany 314.00 248.30 984 -14.0%
6 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 200.43 203.45 515 10.4%
7 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 201.80 178.32 578 -3.9%
8 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 211.80 176.93 552 -9.1%
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 195.06 176.26 901 -1.7%
10 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 173.18 171.25 530 7.5%
11 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 186.76 166.35 510 -3.1%
12 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 213.80 161.86 623 -17.7%
13 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 179.69 160.49 591 -2.9%
14 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 175.19 159.77 1267 -0.8%
15 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 177.48 159.31 508 -2.4%
16 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 162.46 156.75 522 4.9%
17 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 174.16 148.20 505 -7.4%
18 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 144.66 136.24 368 2.4%
19 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 153.08 134.88 348 -4.2%
20 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 159.47 130.10 375 -11.3%
21 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 151.68 126.74 471 -9.1%
22 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 150.86 123.81 264 -10.7%
23 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 132.99 123.13 357 0.7%
24 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 146.65 119.61 451 -11.3%
25 Peking University (PKU), China 123.95 115.67 356 1.5%
26 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 95.96 112.80 292 27.8%
27 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 123.96 112.17 369 -1.6%
28 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 130.14 111.31 739 -7.0%
29 Fudan University, China 71.11 107.83 328 64.9%
30 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 97.25 106.13 331 18.7%
31 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 129.14 105.58 471 -11.1%
32 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 112.26 103.94 288 0.7%
33 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 79.69 97.30 311 32.8%
34 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 110.02 96.43 281 -4.7%
35 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 83.76 94.06 248 22.1%
36 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 85.76 88.50 524 12.2%
37 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 101.03 88.42 275 -4.8%
38 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 83.35 87.39 393 14.0%
39 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA) 89.74 86.19 311 4.5%
40 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 92.94 85.89 848 0.5%
41 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 84.52 84.30 226 8.5%
42 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 97.36 83.97 213 -6.2%
43 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 95.80 83.55 380 -5.1%
44 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 99.66 83.42 253 -9.0%
45 McGill University, Canada 76.45 82.43 267 17.3%
46 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 89.30 81.94 306 -0.2%
47 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 86.94 79.98 330 0.0%
48 Tsinghua University, China 79.17 79.54 276 9.3%
49 The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA) 86.31 78.65 213 -0.9%
50 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 86.96 77.84 278 -2.6%
51 Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA) 90.76 77.68 368 -6.9%
52 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 72.14 75.49 294 13.8%
53 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 92.92 75.07 313 -12.1%
54 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 85.32 72.48 275 -7.6%
55 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 89.73 66.79 202 -19.0%
56 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 91.45 63.85 264 -24.1%
57 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 88.87 63.01 146 -22.9%
58 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 67.57 62.11 243 0.0%
59 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 49.47 59.92 191 31.7%
60 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 85.05 59.85 198 -23.5%
61 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 63.59 58.76 167 0.5%
62 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 48.32 58.70 159 32.1%
63 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 57.18 58.61 175 11.5%
64 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 69.70 58.19 216 -9.2%
65 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 60.72 57.06 227 2.2%
66 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 67.95 54.07 148 -13.4%
67 University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMass Chan Medical School), United States of America (USA) 61.26 53.93 173 -4.2%
68 Monash University, Australia 63.34 53.81 223 -7.6%
69 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 64.21 53.71 126 -9.0%
70 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 56.72 53.65 133 2.9%
71 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 51.30 53.08 226 12.5%
72 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 47.41 52.95 264 21.5%
73 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 64.49 52.30 333 -11.8%
74 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel 58.21 51.91 138 -3.0%
75 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 59.77 51.66 168 -6.0%
76 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 73.71 51.11 250 -24.6%
77 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 51.76 51.07 152 7.3%
78 People's Liberation Army (PLA), China 50.51 50.81 235 9.4%
79 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 47.36 50.30 161 15.5%
80 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 42.06 49.34 152 27.6%
81 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 49.92 48.70 278 6.1%
82 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 59.97 48.60 165 -11.8%
83 Kyoto University, Japan 57.27 48.49 178 -7.9%
84 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 49.33 48.29 234 6.4%
85 Leibniz Association, Germany 53.66 47.67 353 -3.4%
86 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 52.78 47.30 147 -2.5%
87 RIKEN, Japan 53.49 46.90 211 -4.6%
88 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 56.87 46.84 185 -10.4%
89 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 45.52 46.36 220 10.8%
90 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 49.92 45.47 159 -0.9%
91 Osaka University, Japan 53.72 44.78 145 -9.3%
92 Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA) 51.29 44.57 139 -5.5%
93 Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS), Italy 46.98 44.47 219 2.9%
94 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 56.00 44.00 266 -14.5%
95 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 52.35 43.53 150 -9.6%
96 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany 46.53 43.52 273 1.7%
97 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 34.35 43.40 114 37.4%
98 The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom (UK) 56.70 43.17 140 -17.2%
99 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 59.66 42.97 189 -21.7%
100 Nanjing University (NJU), China 31.23 41.83 100 45.7%

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