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#	Institution	Country	Papers	vs 7-day avg
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	CN	249	▲ 2.3%
2	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	FR	166	▼ 2.8%
3	University of London	GB	156	▲ 18.4%
4	Harvard University	US	111	▲ 36.8%
5	Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes	EC	88
6	State Council of the People's Republic of China	CN	88	▲ 18.7%
7	Inserm	FR	80	▲ 47.0%
8	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres	DE	78	▲ 15.9%
9	Russian Academy of Sciences	RU	78	▼ 0.5%
10	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	CN	77	▼ 7.7%
11	Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico	IT	75	▲ 50.4%
12	Zhejiang University	CN	70	▼ 14.9%
13	Tsinghua University	CN	69	▼ 0.4%
14	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CN	68	▼ 16.9%
15	United States Department of Energy	US	66	▲ 42.6%
16	University College London	GB	66	▲ 28.7%
17	Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies	RU	64
18	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	ES	63	▲ 37.8%
19	University of Oxford	GB	63	▲ 39.6%
20	Mass General Brigham	US	61	▲ 61.1%
21	Universitat Politècnica de València	ES	60
22	Peking University	CN	57	▼ 5.7%
23	Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs	CN	57	▲ 22.0%
24	Fudan University	CN	56	▲ 5.9%
25	Sorbonne Université	FR	54	▲ 49.4%
26	Max Planck Society	DE	53	▲ 34.4%
27	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US	51	▲ 46.9%
28	Universidade de São Paulo	BR	51	▲ 8.5%
29	Politeknik Piksi Ganesha	ID	51
30	University of Toronto	CA	50	▼ 11.8%
31	Government of India	IN	49	▼ 1.2%
32	Sun Yat-sen University	CN	48	▲ 3.1%
33	University of Cambridge	GB	48	▲ 9.4%
34	Sana'a University	YE	47
35	University of Washington	US	47	▲ 10.0%
36	University of Pennsylvania	US	47	▲ 39.4%
37	University of Copenhagen	DK	46	▲ 81.9%
38	Sichuan University	CN	46	▲ 11.0%
39	Stanford University	US	46	▼ 9.6%
40	The University of Sydney	AU	45	▲ 40.6%
41	The University of Melbourne	AU	45	▲ 37.0%
42	Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology	CH	45	▲ 5.7%
43	Yale University	US	45	▲ 43.2%
44	Johns Hopkins University	US	44	▼ 8.1%
45	University of California, San Francisco	US	44	▲ 44.6%
46	Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo	BR	44
47	Technical University of Munich	DE	44	▲ 19.4%
48	University of Michigan	US	43	▲ 2.7%
49	Office of Science	US	43	▲ 33.8%
50	Leibniz Association	DE	42	▲ 49.2%

#	Institution	Country	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	CN	1,640
2	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	FR	1,151
3	University of London	GB	923
4	Harvard University	US	566
5	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	CN	555
6	Russian Academy of Sciences	RU	545
7	Zhejiang University	CN	540
8	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CN	537
9	State Council of the People's Republic of China	CN	512
10	Tsinghua University	CN	466
11	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres	DE	453
12	Inserm	FR	404
13	Peking University	CN	381
14	University of Toronto	CA	378
15	Fudan University	CN	367
16	Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico	IT	365
17	Government of India	IN	347
18	University College London	GB	343
19	University of British Columbia	CA	335
20	Universidade de São Paulo	BR	331
21	Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities	DE	331
22	Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs	CN	328
23	Stanford University	US	327
24	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	ES	312
25	Johns Hopkins University	US	310
26	Sun Yat-sen University	CN	308
27	United States Department of Energy	US	308
28	University of Science and Technology of China	CN	302
29	University of Oxford	GB	301
30	University of Cambridge	GB	294
31	University of Washington	US	292
32	Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology	CH	291
33	National University of Singapore	SG	284
34	Sichuan University	CN	283
35	Xi'an Jiaotong University	CN	275
36	Mass General Brigham	US	272
37	Max Planck Society	DE	268
38	University of Michigan	US	266
39	Harbin Institute of Technology	CN	266
40	Technical University of Munich	DE	262
41	Sorbonne Université	FR	262
42	Shandong University	CN	259
43	Tongji University	CN	259
44	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US	257
45	Nanjing University	CN	256
46	Central South University	CN	251
47	Seoul National University	KR	244
48	University of Pennsylvania	US	242
49	Cornell University	US	239
50	New York University	US	239

#	Institution	Country	Papers
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences	CN	8,268
2	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	FR	6,163
3	University of London	GB	4,216
4	Harvard University	US	3,122
5	Russian Academy of Sciences	RU	3,060
6	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	CN	2,792
7	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CN	2,695
8	Zhejiang University	CN	2,654
9	Tsinghua University	CN	2,465
10	State Council of the People's Republic of China	CN	2,395
11	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres	DE	2,236
12	Peking University	CN	2,008
13	Inserm	FR	1,926
14	Stanford University	US	1,746
15	University College London	GB	1,351
16	United States Department of Energy	US	1,320
17	University of Toronto	CA	1,312
18	Fudan University	CN	1,250
19	Government of India	IN	1,187
20	University of Oxford	GB	1,122
21	Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico	IT	1,099
22	Universidade de São Paulo	BR	1,097
23	Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology	CH	1,066
24	Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs	CN	1,052
25	Sun Yat-sen University	CN	1,033
26	University of British Columbia	CA	988
27	Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes	EC	911
28	Max Planck Society	DE	825
29	Johns Hopkins University	US	790
30	University of Cambridge	GB	755
31	Mass General Brigham	US	712
32	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	ES	711
33	University of Science and Technology of China	CN	668
34	Sichuan University	CN	649
35	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US	647
36	National University of Singapore	SG	627
37	University of Michigan	US	603
38	University of Washington	US	592
39	Mayo Clinic	US	575
40	Université Paris-Saclay	FR	523
41	Harbin Institute of Technology	CN	486
42	Office of Science	US	480
43	Nanjing University	CN	477
44	Seoul National University	KR	463
45	Sorbonne Université	FR	455
46	Xi'an Jiaotong University	CN	451
47	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	CN	442
48	The University of Tokyo	JP	439
49	Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris	FR	437
50	Tongji University	CN	402

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