The Nature Index takes into account the published scientific articles from 1^st February 2016 to 31^th January 2017. This index is elaborated annually based on the affiliations of the authors of scientific articles published in a selection of 68 high-quality journals (http://www.natureindex.com/faq#journals).

CSIC appears as the first Spanish research centre in this ranking and occupies position number 38 in the global ranking of 500 research centres worldwide while ICMAB occupies the first position within the CSIC centres taking into account the corrected index WFC that shares the work between the different co-authoring institutions and corrects for the overrepresentation of some fields. Thus, ICMAB appears in the Nature index with a total of 42 articles out of which 12 have been authored by researchers of NANOMOL showing a significant contribution (26% of the publications contained in this list) to the leadership of ICMAB in excellence in Science.