Top 50 government institutions in biomedical sciences

The table shows leading government 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 National Institutes of Health (NIH) United States of America (USA)1,332.543,13591.0 %
2 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) China1,033.642,53417.5 %
3 RIKEN Japan226.9777840.3 %
4 Medical Research Council (MRC) United Kingdom (UK)204.6346994.6 %
5 People's Liberation Army (PLA) China158.3057372.3 %
6 European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Germany157.0460290.1 %
7 Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore141.5754045.6 %
8 Academia Sinica Taiwan121.8131842.0 %
9 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Spain119.0742724.8 %
10 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs United States of America (USA)107.151,07896.6 %
11 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India87.4314018.6 %
12 National Research Council (CNR) Italy72.0842816.0 %
13 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) Czech Republic62.5521320.7 %
14 National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing (NIBS) China60.3617192.7 %
15 Institute for Basic Science (IBS) South Korea55.3924219.2 %
16 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) India51.7411527.0 %
17 Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII) Spain48.5149063.9 %
18 Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) Italy46.0713233.6 %
19 National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) Japan40.7118330.5 %
20 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) Hungary35.0011728.7 %
21 Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) Spain32.6211298.8 %
22 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Japan31.7012411.6 %
23 Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) South Korea31.0011623.7 %
24 Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (IGAKUKEN) Japan29.977899.0 %
25 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) United States of America (USA)28.61747.8 %
26 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) Poland25.9510512.2 %
27 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia25.7010414.1 %
28 Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission (CEA) France23.9714615.7 %
29 CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules China23.159893.4 %
30 India Ministry of Science and Technology India22.163888.8 %
31 Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) South Korea21.319976.4 %
32 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) United States of America (USA)21.086462.9 %
33 Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) Austria21.068221.7 %
34 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) United States of America (USA)20.731295.8 %
35 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) Argentina19.707839.2 %
36 Joint Genome Institute (JGI) United States of America (USA)19.6210368.6 %
37 BC Cancer Research Centre (BCCRC) Canada18.819597.1 %
38 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) United States of America (USA)18.348448.2 %
39 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) United States of America (USA)14.95713.8 %
40 Smithsonian Institution United States of America (USA)14.407716.4 %
41 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) France14.366924.9 %
42 New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) United States of America (USA)13.604465.8 %
43 National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP) Japan13.544698.5 %
44 MRC National Institute for Medical Research (MRC NIMR) United Kingdom (UK)13.1148100.0 %
45 Academy of Athens Greece12.064567.9 %
46 State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology (SKLMMB), CAMS & PUMC China11.9757100.0 %
47 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) United States of America (USA)11.87424.2 %
48 CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology China11.306099.7 %
49 Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPS-CAS) China11.074497.1 %
50 RIKEN SPring-8 Center (RSC) Japan10.874827.7 %