Top 200 institutions in biomedical sciences
The table shows leading institutions ranked by their fractional count (FC) in biomedical sciences from 2015 to 2018. Also listed are institution's total number of biomedical science articles in the Nature Index (AC 2015–2018) and the proportion of each institution's FC in biomedical sciences relative to total FC from 2015 to 2018 (biomedical sciences %).
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| 1 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 2,312.65 | 5,619 | 71.9 % |
| 2 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | United States of America (USA) | 1,332.54 | 3,135 | 91.0 % |
| 3 | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | China | 1,034.32 | 2,534 | 17.5 % |
| 4 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 1,027.41 | 2,348 | 42.8 % |
| 5 | Max Planck Society | Germany | 991.32 | 2,654 | 35.0 % |
| 6 | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) | United States of America (USA) | 754.28 | 1,926 | 94.3 % |
| 7 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 748.50 | 1,533 | 57.3 % |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | 687.75 | 1,676 | 60.4 % |
| 9 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 680.75 | 1,792 | 53.1 % |
| 10 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 670.64 | 1,832 | 40.1 % |
| 11 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 666.86 | 1,536 | 32.9 % |
| 12 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 661.99 | 1,850 | 39.1 % |
| 13 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 622.68 | 1,515 | 50.7 % |
| 14 | University of Toronto (U of T) | Canada | 613.14 | 1,488 | 50.7 % |
| 15 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 613.00 | 1,597 | 67.0 % |
| 16 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 590.67 | 1,381 | 43.9 % |
| 17 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | 574.06 | 1,213 | 72.9 % |
| 18 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 552.66 | 1,360 | 44.0 % |
| 19 | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 545.45 | 1,214 | 35.1 % |
| 20 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 518.58 | 1,383 | 47.1 % |
| 21 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 516.28 | 1,453 | 49.6 % |
| 22 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center) | United States of America (USA) | 471.48 | 965 | 92.0 % |
| 23 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 467.96 | 1,127 | 60.8 % |
| 24 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America (USA) | 465.39 | 1,156 | 70.9 % |
| 25 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 457.23 | 1,138 | 24.8 % |
| 26 | University College London (UCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 435.72 | 1,371 | 57.5 % |
| 27 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | 415.24 | 1,046 | 58.0 % |
| 28 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | 408.67 | 885 | 34.2 % |
| 29 | Scripps Research | United States of America (USA) | 403.67 | 859 | 71.4 % |
| 30 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 401.74 | 781 | 40.8 % |
| 31 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | 366.69 | 888 | 46.4 % |
| 32 | The Rockefeller University | United States of America (USA) | 356.00 | 770 | 94.9 % |
| 33 | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) | United States of America (USA) | 346.91 | 900 | 95.1 % |
| 34 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Germany | 346.27 | 1,673 | 18.9 % |
| 35 | Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) | United States of America (USA) | 335.88 | 987 | 96.0 % |
| 36 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland | 330.67 | 781 | 22.4 % |
| 37 | Vanderbilt University (VU) | United States of America (USA) | 326.01 | 855 | 69.3 % |
| 38 | Peking University (PKU) | China | 324.04 | 776 | 25.5 % |
| 39 | University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) | United States of America (USA) | 324.01 | 821 | 60.1 % |
| 40 | McGill University | Canada | 314.91 | 840 | 50.9 % |
| 41 | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | United States of America (USA) | 314.87 | 917 | 96.6 % |
| 42 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | 296.53 | 544 | 42.5 % |
| 43 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 287.89 | 572 | 28.9 % |
| 44 | Tsinghua University | China | 275.22 | 675 | 22.4 % |
| 45 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 269.61 | 984 | 36.8 % |
| 46 | Kyoto University | Japan | 265.10 | 696 | 22.9 % |
| 47 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | 264.33 | 701 | 29.0 % |
| 48 | Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) | United States of America (USA) | 262.58 | 867 | 97.1 % |
| 49 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 262.14 | 896 | 31.6 % |
| 50 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | 260.35 | 546 | 27.0 % |
| 51 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | 260.02 | 502 | 23.8 % |
| 52 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 259.90 | 483 | 25.0 % |
| 53 | University of California, Davis (UC Davis) | United States of America (USA) | 259.14 | 691 | 40.6 % |
| 54 | University of Zurich (UZH) | Switzerland | 258.21 | 765 | 54.1 % |
| 55 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom (UK) | 257.62 | 778 | 55.7 % |
| 56 | Emory University | United States of America (USA) | 256.02 | 691 | 67.5 % |
| 57 | Karolinska Institute (KI) | Sweden | 247.10 | 932 | 92.9 % |
| 58 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 245.22 | 629 | 42.2 % |
| 59 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 242.99 | 697 | 45.4 % |
| 60 | University of Copenhagen (UCPH) | Denmark | 242.07 | 814 | 44.3 % |
| 61 | University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School) | United States of America (USA) | 231.38 | 553 | 95.6 % |
| 62 | RIKEN | Japan | 226.97 | 778 | 40.3 % |
| 63 | Osaka University | Japan | 221.90 | 607 | 29.6 % |
| 64 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 220.47 | 540 | 40.7 % |
| 65 | Fudan University | China | 220.36 | 649 | 26.3 % |
| 66 | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | United States of America (USA) | 220.16 | 1,380 | 93.5 % |
| 67 | University of California, Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | 210.19 | 492 | 34.6 % |
| 68 | University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 207.79 | 540 | 42.7 % |
| 69 | The Francis Crick Institute | United Kingdom (UK) | 207.45 | 541 | 96.1 % |
| 70 | Indiana University (IU) | United States of America (USA) | 205.28 | 577 | 48.0 % |
| 71 | Medical Research Council (MRC) | United Kingdom (UK) | 204.63 | 469 | 94.6 % |
| 72 | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 204.30 | 590 | 39.3 % |
| 73 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 201.38 | 486 | 24.8 % |
| 74 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) | United States of America (USA) | 201.37 | 546 | 93.4 % |
| 75 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 201.01 | 727 | 23.8 % |
| 76 | Zhejiang University (ZJU) | China | 198.62 | 505 | 21.0 % |
| 77 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | 193.01 | 456 | 42.4 % |
| 78 | The University of British Columbia (UBC) | Canada | 190.49 | 526 | 37.1 % |
| 79 | Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) | United States of America (USA) | 187.40 | 477 | 62.3 % |
| 80 | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) | United States of America (USA) | 185.36 | 503 | 87.7 % |
| 81 | Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg) | Germany | 185.35 | 724 | 40.2 % |
| 82 | Leibniz Association | Germany | 185.27 | 675 | 24.1 % |
| 83 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 185.25 | 478 | 28.0 % |
| 84 | The University of Manchester (UoM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 185.03 | 505 | 29.9 % |
| 85 | Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) | United States of America (USA) | 184.61 | 443 | 91.4 % |
| 86 | Boston University (BU) | United States of America (USA) | 182.65 | 615 | 45.7 % |
| 87 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 182.04 | 465 | 21.0 % |
| 88 | Nanjing University (NJU) | China | 182.02 | 334 | 15.1 % |
| 89 | Mayo Clinic | United States of America (USA) | 179.28 | 582 | 96.9 % |
| 90 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) | China | 175.21 | 579 | 29.2 % |
| 91 | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 174.54 | 721 | 56.3 % |
| 92 | University of Cincinnati (UC) | United States of America (USA) | 173.29 | 482 | 68.7 % |
| 93 | The University of Iowa (UI) | United States of America (USA) | 168.12 | 422 | 53.0 % |
| 94 | Utrecht University (UU) | Netherlands | 166.18 | 631 | 34.5 % |
| 95 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | United States of America (USA) | 163.23 | 411 | 26.9 % |
| 96 | University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | Germany | 161.94 | 526 | 47.4 % |
| 97 | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (St. Jude) | United States of America (USA) | 161.87 | 391 | 95.8 % |
| 98 | Salk Institute for Biological Studies (Salk) | United States of America (USA) | 160.09 | 370 | 96.6 % |
| 99 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | China | 159.37 | 993 | 19.4 % |
| 100 | People's Liberation Army (PLA) | China | 158.30 | 573 | 72.3 % |
| 101 | European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) | Germany | 157.04 | 602 | 90.1 % |
| 102 | F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG | Switzerland | 156.84 | 358 | 78.7 % |
| 103 | The University of Georgia (UGA) | United States of America (USA) | 156.63 | 345 | 52.8 % |
| 104 | Monash University | Australia | 156.29 | 554 | 33.5 % |
| 105 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | China | 154.53 | 435 | 27.1 % |
| 106 | HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus | United States of America (USA) | 154.08 | 347 | 90.6 % |
| 107 | Wuhan University (WHU) | China | 153.94 | 290 | 27.6 % |
| 108 | Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) | Italy | 153.79 | 754 | 91.3 % |
| 109 | University of Basel (UB) | Switzerland | 152.20 | 519 | 44.2 % |
| 110 | University of Florida (UF) | United States of America (USA) | 149.32 | 431 | 32.8 % |
| 111 | University of Virginia (UVA) | United States of America (USA) | 149.01 | 410 | 50.8 % |
| 112 | Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) | Belgium | 148.61 | 519 | 34.6 % |
| 113 | University of Montreal (UdeM) | Canada | 146.69 | 466 | 53.9 % |
| 114 | University of Geneva (UNIGE) | Switzerland | 146.38 | 429 | 33.6 % |
| 115 | The University of Melbourne (UniMelb) | Australia | 142.55 | 753 | 39.5 % |
| 116 | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) | Singapore | 141.57 | 540 | 45.6 % |
| 117 | University of Lausanne (UNIL) | Switzerland | 139.30 | 467 | 69.0 % |
| 118 | University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen) | Germany | 138.08 | 460 | 46.3 % |
| 119 | University of Bristol (UoB) | United Kingdom (UK) | 135.12 | 400 | 25.3 % |
| 120 | University of Rochester (UR) | United States of America (USA) | 133.43 | 340 | 43.9 % |
| 121 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | 128.91 | 285 | 20.9 % |
| 122 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 127.40 | 473 | 40.3 % |
| 123 | Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (GU) | Germany | 127.01 | 371 | 43.7 % |
| 124 | University of Göttingen | Germany | 124.92 | 428 | 31.1 % |
| 125 | University of Groningen (RUG) | Netherlands | 124.41 | 440 | 31.0 % |
| 126 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) | Israel | 123.63 | 387 | 36.4 % |
| 127 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 123.50 | 270 | 20.9 % |
| 128 | University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) | United States of America (USA) | 122.01 | 366 | 89.8 % |
| 129 | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) | United States of America (USA) | 121.85 | 435 | 96.1 % |
| 130 | Academia Sinica | Taiwan | 121.81 | 318 | 42.0 % |
| 131 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | 121.25 | 559 | 23.4 % |
| 132 | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Spain | 119.07 | 427 | 24.8 % |
| 133 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea | 117.70 | 274 | 19.0 % |
| 134 | University of Münster (WWU) | Germany | 115.59 | 371 | 25.9 % |
| 135 | Lund University (LU) | Sweden | 115.23 | 390 | 33.0 % |
| 136 | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | United Kingdom (UK) | 114.78 | 643 | 95.9 % |
| 137 | The University of Sydney (USYD) | Australia | 114.55 | 431 | 38.7 % |
| 138 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) | United States of America (USA) | 114.18 | 297 | 45.0 % |
| 139 | University of Bonn (Uni Bonn) | Germany | 114.07 | 438 | 34.5 % |
| 140 | University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) | United States of America (USA) | 113.88 | 350 | 82.0 % |
| 141 | Kyushu University | Japan | 112.37 | 319 | 29.1 % |
| 142 | Brandeis University | United States of America (USA) | 111.63 | 182 | 64.4 % |
| 143 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 110.74 | 304 | 24.1 % |
| 144 | Nagoya University | Japan | 110.70 | 320 | 21.1 % |
| 145 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom (UK) | 110.22 | 406 | 47.7 % |
| 146 | Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) | Netherlands | 107.92 | 473 | 41.2 % |
| 147 | University of Miami (UM) | United States of America (USA) | 107.75 | 305 | 52.9 % |
| 148 | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs | United States of America (USA) | 107.15 | 1,078 | 96.6 % |
| 149 | State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) | United States of America (USA) | 106.85 | 305 | 30.9 % |
| 150 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | China | 106.45 | 286 | 9.5 % |
| 151 | Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) | Spain | 105.77 | 414 | 24.7 % |
| 152 | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) | United States of America (USA) | 105.65 | 272 | 94.4 % |
| 153 | Novartis International AG | Switzerland | 104.69 | 268 | 80.5 % |
| 154 | University of Cologne (UoC) | Germany | 104.51 | 399 | 43.8 % |
| 155 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 104.51 | 251 | 11.5 % |
| 156 | Cleveland Clinic | United States of America (USA) | 103.87 | 317 | 96.7 % |
| 157 | Dartmouth College | United States of America (USA) | 103.30 | 277 | 52.0 % |
| 158 | Soochow University | China | 102.66 | 220 | 16.2 % |
| 159 | Uppsala University (UU) | Sweden | 102.41 | 383 | 28.8 % |
| 160 | University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | United States of America (USA) | 101.26 | 258 | 16.4 % |
| 161 | Tufts University | United States of America (USA) | 101.02 | 263 | 55.2 % |
| 162 | University of California, Riverside (UCR) | United States of America (USA) | 100.89 | 222 | 24.4 % |
| 163 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 100.26 | 411 | 48.7 % |
| 164 | Hunan University (HNU) | China | 100.14 | 154 | 25.9 % |
| 165 | Xiamen University (XMU) | China | 99.46 | 213 | 18.6 % |
| 166 | University of Alberta (U of A) | Canada | 98.05 | 271 | 24.7 % |
| 167 | Tohoku University | Japan | 97.82 | 282 | 14.5 % |
| 168 | University of Hamburg (UHH) | Germany | 97.51 | 359 | 32.3 % |
| 169 | Aarhus University (AU) | Denmark | 97.33 | 326 | 29.0 % |
| 170 | University of Würzburg | Germany | 95.62 | 333 | 22.4 % |
| 171 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) | Israel | 94.41 | 228 | 24.4 % |
| 172 | University of Dundee | United Kingdom (UK) | 93.95 | 253 | 89.1 % |
| 173 | Sichuan University (SCU) | China | 93.03 | 290 | 18.5 % |
| 174 | Charité - University Medicine Berlin | Germany | 93.00 | 481 | 92.1 % |
| 175 | University of Oslo (UiO) | Norway | 92.79 | 360 | 41.0 % |
| 176 | Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) | Belgium | 92.24 | 450 | 87.9 % |
| 177 | Michigan State University (MSU) | United States of America (USA) | 91.73 | 258 | 31.2 % |
| 178 | Brown University | United States of America (USA) | 90.70 | 256 | 28.4 % |
| 179 | University of Connecticut (UConn) | United States of America (USA) | 90.22 | 241 | 38.5 % |
| 180 | Stanford Medicine | United States of America (USA) | 88.95 | 416 | 94.7 % |
| 181 | University of New South Wales (UNSW) | Australia | 88.87 | 383 | 20.0 % |
| 182 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) | China | 88.75 | 289 | 21.6 % |
| 183 | University of Calgary (U of C) | Canada | 87.87 | 221 | 42.9 % |
| 184 | Yonsei University | South Korea | 87.78 | 238 | 25.1 % |
| 185 | The University of Arizona (Arizona) | United States of America (USA) | 87.53 | 257 | 22.9 % |
| 186 | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) | India | 87.43 | 140 | 18.6 % |
| 187 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom (UK) | 86.67 | 348 | 56.0 % |
| 188 | University of Ottawa (uOttawa) | Canada | 85.06 | 224 | 37.2 % |
| 189 | Nankai University (NKU) | China | 84.90 | 205 | 14.9 % |
| 190 | Keio University | Japan | 84.68 | 261 | 35.1 % |
| 191 | Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) | Netherlands | 84.41 | 440 | 94.3 % |
| 192 | University of Birmingham (UB) | United Kingdom (UK) | 84.02 | 315 | 41.2 % |
| 193 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | 82.10 | 192 | 11.4 % |
| 194 | Shandong University (SDU) | China | 80.97 | 186 | 22.7 % |
| 195 | University of Bern | Switzerland | 80.94 | 301 | 29.9 % |
| 196 | Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC) | China | 80.57 | 291 | 65.7 % |
| 197 | Shandong Normal University (SDNU) | China | 80.10 | 101 | 44.6 % |
| 198 | The University of Hong Kong (HKU) | China | 79.90 | 239 | 31.3 % |
| 199 | University of Gothenburg (GU) | Sweden | 79.68 | 264 | 57.6 % |
| 200 | Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 78.66 | 335 | 41.9 % |