Rank;Global Rank;Institution;Country;Sector;Best Country Quartile 1;36;National Center for Biotechnology Information;USA;Government;1 2;66;United States Department of Agriculture;USA;Government;1 3;108;National Aeronautics and Space Administration *;USA;Government;1 4;131;National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration;USA;Government;1 5;151;United States Geological Survey;USA;Government;1 6;227;Jet Propulsion Laboratory;USA;Government;1 7;228;US Food and Drug Administration;USA;Government;1 8;252;Smithsonian Institution *;USA;Government;1 9;301;US Environmental Protection Agency;USA;Government;1 10;304;Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics;USA;Government;1 11;323;NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies;USA;Government;1 12;401;Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History;USA;Government;1 13;418;SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory;USA;Government;1 14;419;U.S. Department of Energy *;USA;Government;1 15;438;Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute;USA;Government;1 16;442;Smithsonian Environmental Research Center;USA;Government;1 17;513;National Institute of Standards and Technology *;USA;Government;1 18;692;American Museum of Natural History;USA;Government;1 19;708;National Center for Atmospheric Research;USA;Government;1 20;722;United States Fish and Wildlife Service;USA;Government;1 21;742;Federal Reserve System;USA;Government;1 22;770;National Renewable Energy Laboratory;USA;Government;1 23;772;Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *;USA;Government;1 24;811;Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics;USA;Government;1 25;874;HealthPartners Research Foundation;USA;Government;2 26;906;Infrared Processing and Analysis Center;USA;Government;1 27;908;Joint Quantum Institute;USA;Government;1 28;1032;U.S. Air Force;USA;Government;2 29;1315;US National Science Foundation *;USA;Government;2 30;1386;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory *;USA;Government;1 31;1414;Oak Ridge National Laboratory;USA;Government;1 32;1435;Missouri Botanical Garden;USA;Government;2 33;1531;Los Alamos National Laboratory *;USA;Government;1 34;1586;Argonne National Laboratory *;USA;Government;1 35;1728;Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition;USA;Government;2 36;1900;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *;USA;Government;1 37;2155;Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education;USA;Government;2 38;2442;Doe Joint Genome Institute;USA;Government;1 39;2476;Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico;USA;Government;1 40;2525;Field Museum Natural History;USA;Government;2 41;2566;National Energy Technology Laboratory;USA;Government;2 42;2612;New York Botanical Garden;USA;Government;3 43;2620;Natural History Museum of los Angeles County;USA;Government;3 44;2700;Savannah River National Laboratory;USA;Government;3 45;2727;Molecular Foundry;USA;Government;1 46;2847;Nemours Children's Health System;USA;Government;3 47;2880;Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies;USA;Government;2 48;3035;Brookhaven National Laboratory *;USA;Government;1 49;3285;American Institutes for Research;USA;Government;3 50;3373;Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory;USA;Government;1 51;3529;Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility;USA;Government;2 52;3703;US Naval Research Laboratory;USA;Government;1 53;3750;Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory;USA;Government;1 54;3769;National High Magnetic Field Laboratory;USA;Government;2 55;3959;Idaho National Laboratory;USA;Government;3 56;4501;National Radio Astronomy Observatory Charlottesville;USA;Government;1 57;4551;National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro;USA;Government;1 58;4654;Space Telescope Science Institute;USA;Government;1 59;4834;NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;USA;Government;1 60;4984;University of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science;USA;Government;2 61;5563;Westat Corp;USA;Government;3 62;5594;Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory;USA;Government;2 63;6271;Ames Laboratory;USA;Government;2 64;6585;Center for Drug Evaluation & Research;USA;Government;1 65;6680;NASA Ames Research Center;USA;Government;1 66;6839;United States Agency for International Development United States;USA;Government;2 67;6901;NASA Langley Research Center;USA;Government;2 67;6901;Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research;USA;Government;1 69;7153;National Center for Toxicological Research;USA;Government;2 70;7161;NASA Marshall Space Flight Center;USA;Government;2 71;7168;Sandia National Laboratories, California;USA;Government;1 72;7190;NASA Johnson Space Center;USA;Government;3 73;7230;Center for Devices and Radiological Health;USA;Government;1 74;7328;Glenn Research Center;USA;Government;2 75;7378;National Research Council of the National Academies;USA;Government;1 76;7424;Center for Nanoscale Materials;USA;Government;1 77;7452;NASA Stennis Space Center;USA;Government;3 78;7706;U.S. Army *;USA;Government;1 79;7818;Joint BioEnergy Institute;USA;Government;1 80;8071;Steadman Philippon Research Institute;USA;Government;3 81;8178;Research Institute for Fragrance Materials;USA;Government;4