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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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| Rank | Institution | Country / Region | FC 2015- 2018 |
AC 2015- 2018 |
Biomedical sciences (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 % |
