Top 50 Research & Development Insititutions in the World

Source: http://www.webometrics.info/top1000_r&d.asp (for more, please see the entire list)

			POSITION
WORLD RANK	INSTITUTE	COUNTRY	SIZE	VISIBILITY	RICH FILES	SCHOLAR
1	National Institutes of Health		1	2	20	1
2	National Aeronautics and Space Administration		4	6	1	12
3	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration		5	4	4	33
4	US Geological Survey		11	10	11	29
5	Max Planck Gesellschaft		8	17	14	26
6	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique		20	14	27	13
7	US Environmental Protection Agency		7	11	26	57
8	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center		13	12	2	70
9	Jet Propulsion Laboratory		16	18	36	17
10	European Organization for Nuclear Research		14	28	5	34
11	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention		76	9	16	16
12	Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique		19	34	23	21
13	National Institute of Standards and Technology		54	23	9	31
14	World Wide Web Consortium		6	1	38	148
15	National Library of Medicine		2	3	186	3
16	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche		17	40	17	46
17	Academia Sinica		29	36	22	45
18	European Space Agency		69	26	31	71
19	Oak Ridge National Laboratory		36	49	24	47
20	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center		25	70	7	23
21	Fraunhofer Gesellschaft		12	29	63	122
22	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory		35	54	8	67
23	Los Alamos National Laboratory		73	39	35	75
24	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research		28	66	13	98
25	Smithsonian Institution		21	16	159	146
26	Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique		33	74	37	61
27	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization		38	90	34	10
28	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas		32	97	32	19
29	Library of Congress		9	7	104	283
30	Argonne National Laboratory		30	91	21	82
31	Agricultural Research Service		43	80	136	9
32	ERNET India		37	119	12	42
33	US National Agricultural Library		45	30	329	27
34	Statistics Canada		46	53	235	58
35	National Cancer Institute		112	32	124	152
36	Universities Space Research Association		96	71	120	72
37	Rediris Red Española de I+D		40	94	85	107
38	Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale		79	84	90	84
39	Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt		82	83	72	113
40	Space Telescope Science Institute		147	27	47	240
41	Japan Science & Technology Agency		39	105	170	6
42	Gesellschaft fur Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Gottingen		23	134	43	60
43	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (cas.cz)		50	136	25	41
44	Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques		51	20	267	185
45	Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare		31	145	6	64
46	NASA Ames Research Center		197	57	39	112
47	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory		24	168	3	35
48	Information Science Institute University of Southern California		145	79	56	124
48	International Development Research Centre		47	93	109	155
50	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory		67	96	87	163