2023 tables: Institutions - health sciences

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

Table criteria

# Institution Share 2022 Count 2022
1 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 487.47 1636
2 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 188.44 664
3 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 131.71 512
4 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 128.89 565
5 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 128.60 575
6 Mayo Clinic, United States of America (USA) 116.41 384
7 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 109.39 429
8 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 107.83 386
9 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 104.56 521
10 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 95.08 441
11 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America (USA) 91.37 626
12 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 89.55 452
13 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 87.86 243
14 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 85.24 367
15 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 84.31 354
16 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 83.16 495
17 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 80.63 444
18 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 76.78 479
19 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 75.73 415
20 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), United States of America (USA) 74.11 208
21 Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare (IRCCS), Italy 71.84 440
22 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 70.06 409
23 Fudan University, China 68.58 222
24 University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz), United States of America (USA) 67.97 349
25 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 66.65 181
26 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 66.27 356
27 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 64.58 341
28 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), United States of America (USA) 62.53 252
29 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 61.75 309
30 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 61.54 168
31 Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), France 61.50 432
32 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 60.82 275
33 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 59.38 326
34 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 58.60 401
35 Cleveland Clinic, United States of America (USA) 58.49 229
36 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 58.36 340
37 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 58.19 290
38 Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS), United States of America (USA) 57.49 346
39 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America (USA) 56.82 241
40 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 55.85 319
41 The University of Hong Kong (HKU), China 55.25 152
42 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 54.50 265
43 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 54.29 271
44 National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France 53.64 715
45 Peking University (PKU), China 52.03 177
46 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 49.04 318
47 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 48.93 226
48 McGill University, Canada 48.13 207
49 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 48.12 256
50 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 47.79 308
51 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 47.44 218
52 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), China 47.04 213
53 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 46.77 239
54 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 46.61 125
55 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 45.85 107
56 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 45.67 228
57 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 45.40 252
58 People's Liberation Army (PLA), China 44.55 155
59 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 43.88 446
60 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 43.18 269
61 Kaiser Permanente, United States of America (USA) 42.62 166
62 Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA) 42.55 251
63 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 39.54 253
64 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 38.97 142
65 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 38.93 302
66 University of Cincinnati (UC), United States of America (USA) 37.97 194
67 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 37.73 206
68 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 36.96 298
69 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 36.80 305
70 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China 35.82 109
71 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 35.10 140
72 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom (UK) 35.09 229
73 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 34.33 176
74 Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Austria 34.31 157
75 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 34.20 196
76 The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), United States of America (USA) 33.99 207
77 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 33.37 525
78 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 33.36 205
79 University of Virginia (UVA), United States of America (USA) 33.28 128
80 McMaster University, Canada 32.69 155
81 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 32.35 172
82 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 32.20 224
83 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 32.18 188
84 Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain 31.73 311
85 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 31.64 135
86 Sichuan University (SCU), China 31.61 107
87 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 31.53 177
88 Monash University, Australia 31.31 238
89 Leiden University, Netherlands 31.10 176
90 University of Calgary (U of C), Canada 31.05 159
91 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 30.90 197
92 Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA) 30.89 149
93 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 30.47 198
94 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 29.17 180
95 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 28.69 161
96 Southern Medical University (SMU), China 28.67 78
97 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), United States of America (USA) 28.37 196
98 Central South University (CSU), China 28.31 93
99 Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), United States of America (USA) 28.19 182
100 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 28.16 142

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