Leading 200 academic institutions by patent influence metric
Academic institutions listed in the following table appeared in the table of 500 leading Nature Index institutions in 2021, by article Share (Share). The table shows the leading 200 academic institutions ranked by a normalised metric on patent influence (Patent influence metric), which is based on data from The Lens database. Also listed is each institution's article count (Count) in the Nature Index in 2021. For more information about The Lens, visit www.lens.org.
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| 1 | The Rockefeller University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 1.7577 | 88.78 | 268 |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.8108 | 533.13 | 1,869 |
| 3 | University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical School) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.6938 | 67.05 | 239 |
| 4 | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.6889 | 64.55 | 188 |
| 5 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | Western Asia | 0.6827 | 185.46 | 443 |
| 6 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.6132 | 160.33 | 312 |
| 7 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.5468 | 606.51 | 1,559 |
| 8 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.5401 | 69.19 | 272 |
| 9 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.5368 | 187.58 | 558 |
| 10 | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.5347 | 373.76 | 1,247 |
| 11 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | Europe | 0.5262 | 228.37 | 619 |
| 12 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.5130 | 272.46 | 769 |
| 13 | Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4932 | 93.83 | 310 |
| 14 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.4906 | 186.19 | 428 |
| 15 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4844 | 262.49 | 831 |
| 16 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4806 | 347.55 | 1,005 |
| 17 | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4768 | 211.43 | 618 |
| 18 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4707 | 229.25 | 639 |
| 19 | Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4679 | 50.70 | 195 |
| 20 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.4637 | 114.08 | 299 |
| 21 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4620 | 161.30 | 467 |
| 22 | Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4594 | 53.16 | 160 |
| 23 | Dartmouth College | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4588 | 48.18 | 164 |
| 24 | University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | Germany | Europe | 0.4529 | 101.79 | 333 |
| 25 | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4514 | 88.82 | 302 |
| 26 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4433 | 335.38 | 1,057 |
| 27 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4415 | 107.68 | 365 |
| 28 | University of Regensburg (UR) | Germany | Europe | 0.4386 | 73.56 | 167 |
| 29 | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.4234 | 37.32 | 86 |
| 30 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4231 | 281.72 | 1,036 |
| 31 | Tufts University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4225 | 39.34 | 262 |
| 32 | Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4145 | 54.98 | 146 |
| 33 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | Asia Pacific | 0.4139 | 120.09 | 446 |
| 34 | Ulm University | Germany | Europe | 0.4117 | 40.84 | 156 |
| 35 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4102 | 134.35 | 378 |
| 36 | University of Würzburg (JMU) | Germany | Europe | 0.4100 | 122.01 | 406 |
| 37 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.4093 | 306.51 | 938 |
| 38 | University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3990 | 34.06 | 141 |
| 39 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | Western Asia | 0.3972 | 137.02 | 303 |
| 40 | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) | Germany | Europe | 0.3964 | 37.73 | 149 |
| 41 | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3959 | 37.95 | 177 |
| 42 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland | Europe | 0.3953 | 395.67 | 1,065 |
| 43 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3942 | 910.93 | 2,649 |
| 44 | University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3919 | 68.92 | 284 |
| 45 | Karolinska Institute (KI) | Sweden | Europe | 0.3894 | 92.81 | 415 |
| 46 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3837 | 183.26 | 655 |
| 47 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) | Israel | Western Asia | 0.3833 | 115.13 | 301 |
| 48 | The University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3807 | 97.00 | 293 |
| 49 | University of California, Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3805 | 154.00 | 462 |
| 50 | University of Lausanne (UNIL) | Switzerland | Europe | 0.3783 | 70.19 | 269 |
| 51 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3758 | 196.22 | 621 |
| 52 | The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3753 | 39.50 | 154 |
| 53 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3747 | 318.91 | 861 |
| 54 | The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3732 | 33.16 | 128 |
| 55 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3697 | 231.88 | 624 |
| 56 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3690 | 255.23 | 793 |
| 57 | University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen) | Germany | Europe | 0.3689 | 98.65 | 416 |
| 58 | Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg) | Germany | Europe | 0.3681 | 49.53 | 147 |
| 59 | University of Basel (UB) | Switzerland | Europe | 0.3673 | 105.53 | 338 |
| 60 | University of Rochester (UR) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3671 | 75.04 | 236 |
| 61 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | Europe | 0.3649 | 180.01 | 703 |
| 62 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3635 | 302.14 | 715 |
| 63 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3611 | 141.03 | 394 |
| 64 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) | Germany | Europe | 0.3611 | 95.96 | 305 |
| 65 | Boston University (BU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3605 | 88.22 | 473 |
| 66 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3577 | 335.71 | 972 |
| 67 | Saarland University (Saar-Uni) | Germany | Europe | 0.3548 | 31.59 | 105 |
| 68 | National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) | Taiwan | Asia Pacific | 0.3506 | 51.02 | 192 |
| 69 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3500 | 153.10 | 449 |
| 70 | University of Vienna | Austria | Europe | 0.3497 | 80.88 | 339 |
| 71 | University of Kiel (CAU) | Germany | Europe | 0.3495 | 42.80 | 185 |
| 72 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3486 | 202.83 | 619 |
| 73 | Brandeis University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3475 | 37.51 | 125 |
| 74 | Technical University of Denmark (DTU) | Denmark | Europe | 0.3458 | 83.02 | 281 |
| 75 | Vanderbilt University (VU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3458 | 126.91 | 386 |
| 76 | Emory University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3456 | 86.45 | 321 |
| 77 | Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) | Netherlands | Europe | 0.3443 | 56.91 | 133 |
| 78 | University of Twente (UTwente) | Netherlands | Europe | 0.3433 | 29.28 | 91 |
| 79 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.3396 | 248.73 | 963 |
| 80 | University of Zurich (UZH) | Switzerland | Europe | 0.3384 | 147.98 | 647 |
| 81 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) | Germany | Europe | 0.3383 | 79.87 | 403 |
| 82 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3377 | 337.97 | 923 |
| 83 | Hanyang University (HYU) | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.3361 | 44.81 | 185 |
| 84 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3343 | 314.47 | 978 |
| 85 | University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3338 | 142.17 | 501 |
| 86 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | Europe | 0.3322 | 173.35 | 727 |
| 87 | University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3311 | 80.19 | 283 |
| 88 | University of Virginia (UVA) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3278 | 103.24 | 329 |
| 89 | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3272 | 93.52 | 283 |
| 90 | University of Cologne (UoC) | Germany | Europe | 0.3245 | 66.39 | 274 |
| 91 | The University of Iowa (UI) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3237 | 66.49 | 304 |
| 92 | Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain) | Belgium | Europe | 0.3233 | 42.70 | 165 |
| 93 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3231 | 242.68 | 706 |
| 94 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3228 | 221.53 | 650 |
| 95 | Kyoto University | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.3214 | 263.03 | 734 |
| 96 | University of Bonn (Uni Bonn) | Germany | Europe | 0.3209 | 89.57 | 414 |
| 97 | Osaka University | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.3197 | 189.26 | 528 |
| 98 | Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) | Belgium | Europe | 0.3191 | 107.95 | 350 |
| 99 | Lund University (LU) | Sweden | Europe | 0.3186 | 84.98 | 380 |
| 100 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3174 | 253.56 | 754 |
| 101 | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) | Taiwan | Asia Pacific | 0.3170 | 36.65 | 126 |
| 102 | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | Netherlands | Europe | 0.3168 | 79.09 | 242 |
| 103 | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.3158 | 75.92 | 194 |
| 104 | Leiden University | Netherlands | Europe | 0.3158 | 69.83 | 321 |
| 105 | RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen) | Germany | Europe | 0.3158 | 112.91 | 471 |
| 106 | Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg) | Germany | Europe | 0.3141 | 129.82 | 587 |
| 107 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | Asia Pacific | 0.3131 | 272.79 | 818 |
| 108 | University of Geneva (UNIGE) | Switzerland | Europe | 0.3095 | 115.81 | 403 |
| 109 | Goethe University Frankfurt (GU) | Germany | Europe | 0.3092 | 81.21 | 327 |
| 110 | State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3091 | 88.89 | 357 |
| 111 | University of California, Davis (UC Davis) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3082 | 163.85 | 524 |
| 112 | University of Konstanz | Germany | Europe | 0.3078 | 44.21 | 130 |
| 113 | University of Münster (WWU) | Germany | Europe | 0.3071 | 150.77 | 371 |
| 114 | University of Bath | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.3059 | 36.97 | 99 |
| 115 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.3049 | 416.69 | 1,370 |
| 116 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.3046 | 447.54 | 1,256 |
| 117 | University of South Florida (USF) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3040 | 34.51 | 128 |
| 118 | Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) | Germany | Europe | 0.3026 | 98.02 | 592 |
| 119 | Utrecht University (UU) | Netherlands | Europe | 0.3013 | 131.59 | 601 |
| 120 | University of California, Riverside (UCR) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.3000 | 99.27 | 312 |
| 121 | University of Kentucky (UK) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2993 | 34.01 | 136 |
| 122 | Keio University | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.2973 | 51.97 | 163 |
| 123 | The University of British Columbia (UBC) | Canada | North America | 0.2947 | 157.07 | 552 |
| 124 | Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) | Germany | Europe | 0.2942 | 44.77 | 209 |
| 125 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2941 | 113.54 | 455 |
| 126 | Uppsala University (UU) | Sweden | Europe | 0.2940 | 104.50 | 522 |
| 127 | University of Cincinnati (UC) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2930 | 66.95 | 267 |
| 128 | Iowa State University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2924 | 66.01 | 229 |
| 129 | Wageningen University & Research (WUR) | Netherlands | Europe | 0.2922 | 43.09 | 200 |
| 130 | Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) | Germany | Europe | 0.2921 | 66.40 | 556 |
| 131 | University of Toronto (U of T) | Canada | North America | 0.2906 | 294.66 | 792 |
| 132 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2898 | 64.81 | 239 |
| 133 | The University of Dublin | Ireland | Europe | 0.2894 | 35.87 | 149 |
| 134 | University of Montreal (UdeM) | Canada | North America | 0.2881 | 59.97 | 301 |
| 135 | Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) | Netherlands | Europe | 0.2879 | 34.43 | 171 |
| 136 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | Europe | 0.2867 | 59.98 | 421 |
| 137 | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) | India | Asia Pacific | 0.2854 | 35.01 | 55 |
| 138 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2836 | 165.50 | 610 |
| 139 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.2818 | 198.68 | 524 |
| 140 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.2808 | 132.51 | 371 |
| 141 | University of Florida (UF) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2789 | 114.08 | 517 |
| 142 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) | Israel | Western Asia | 0.2787 | 97.40 | 360 |
| 143 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | Asia Pacific | 0.2778 | 89.58 | 338 |
| 144 | The University of Oklahoma (OU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2768 | 40.76 | 210 |
| 145 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.2766 | 452.28 | 1,485 |
| 146 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2744 | 140.86 | 495 |
| 147 | Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers) | Sweden | Europe | 0.2740 | 51.60 | 173 |
| 148 | Kyushu University | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.2725 | 93.06 | 291 |
| 149 | Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.2723 | 68.18 | 313 |
| 150 | Ghent University (UGent) | Belgium | Europe | 0.2689 | 84.21 | 311 |
| 151 | University of Stuttgart | Germany | Europe | 0.2686 | 34.20 | 122 |
| 152 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | Asia Pacific | 0.2673 | 232.43 | 659 |
| 153 | Brown University | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2672 | 89.95 | 312 |
| 154 | Aalto University | Finland | Europe | 0.2665 | 49.83 | 231 |
| 155 | McGill University | Canada | North America | 0.2665 | 157.30 | 556 |
| 156 | University of Delaware (UD) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2654 | 60.89 | 180 |
| 157 | The University of New Mexico (UNM) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2634 | 40.16 | 196 |
| 158 | University of Connecticut (UConn) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2632 | 57.41 | 193 |
| 159 | University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2628 | 166.93 | 628 |
| 160 | University of Groningen (RUG) | Netherlands | Europe | 0.2627 | 102.18 | 376 |
| 161 | Chiba University | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.2625 | 29.52 | 91 |
| 162 | University of Miami (UM) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2618 | 43.64 | 151 |
| 163 | University of Paris-Sud (UPSud) | France | Europe | 0.2609 | 53.15 | 700 |
| 164 | The University of Arizona (Arizona) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2604 | 103.82 | 430 |
| 165 | TU Dresden | Germany | Europe | 0.2597 | 95.41 | 477 |
| 166 | Linköping University (LiU) | Sweden | Europe | 0.2595 | 42.08 | 152 |
| 167 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.2595 | 44.03 | 169 |
| 168 | University of Montpellier | France | Europe | 0.2594 | 49.44 | 408 |
| 169 | University of Göttingen | Germany | Europe | 0.2588 | 106.68 | 409 |
| 170 | University of Helsinki | Finland | Europe | 0.2580 | 63.68 | 412 |
| 171 | Bar-Ilan University (BIU) | Israel | Western Asia | 0.2566 | 32.20 | 93 |
| 172 | UCL | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.2558 | 222.60 | 981 |
| 173 | University of Southampton (Soton) | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.2547 | 88.13 | 348 |
| 174 | Yonsei University | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.2547 | 100.41 | 373 |
| 175 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | 0.2537 | 78.96 | 409 |
| 176 | Leipzig University | Germany | Europe | 0.2528 | 42.65 | 196 |
| 177 | Laval University (UL) | Canada | North America | 0.2527 | 28.84 | 123 |
| 178 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | Saudi Arabia | Western Asia | 0.2523 | 99.59 | 246 |
| 179 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.2485 | 89.19 | 298 |
| 180 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | China | Asia Pacific | 0.2478 | 118.18 | 457 |
| 181 | University of Copenhagen (UCPH) | Denmark | Europe | 0.2475 | 171.20 | 708 |
| 182 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2473 | 188.55 | 574 |
| 183 | Kanazawa University (KU) | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.2469 | 37.39 | 109 |
| 184 | Korea University | South Korea | Asia Pacific | 0.2467 | 77.28 | 316 |
| 185 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2466 | 44.08 | 187 |
| 186 | University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2463 | 53.47 | 167 |
| 187 | University of Hamburg (UHH) | Germany | Europe | 0.2463 | 80.00 | 465 |
| 188 | The University of Georgia (UGA) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2456 | 58.73 | 180 |
| 189 | University of Bern (UniBE) | Switzerland | Europe | 0.2446 | 83.85 | 332 |
| 190 | Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) | Austria | Europe | 0.2438 | 48.64 | 218 |
| 191 | The University of Kansas (KU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2436 | 37.29 | 178 |
| 192 | Indiana University (IU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2431 | 126.52 | 439 |
| 193 | University of Lyon | France | Europe | 0.2414 | 61.71 | 450 |
| 194 | Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) | Belgium | Europe | 0.2406 | 37.44 | 196 |
| 195 | Kobe University | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.2383 | 30.21 | 136 |
| 196 | ShanghaiTech University | China | Asia Pacific | 0.2383 | 72.05 | 299 |
| 197 | VU Amsterdam | Netherlands | Europe | 0.2375 | 50.70 | 464 |
| 198 | University of Milan (UNIMI) | Italy | Europe | 0.2370 | 29.20 | 266 |
| 199 | Washington State University (WSU) | United States of America (USA) | North America | 0.2366 | 39.66 | 137 |
| 200 | Tohoku University | Japan | Asia Pacific | 0.2357 | 136.45 | 434 |