2016 tables: Institutions - chemistry

The 2016 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015.

Table criteria

# Institution Share 2015 Count 2015
1 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 47.45 87
2 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 35.34 66
3 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 29.86 68
4 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 24.85 57
5 Leiden University, Netherlands 22.65 51
6 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 19.11 64
7 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 18.85 43
8 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 15.08 31
9 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 11.52 32
10 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 10.41 39
11 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 6.67 27
12 Koninklijke DSM N.V. (DSM), Netherlands 3.70 8
13 Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands 2.18 8
14 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 1.83 14
15 Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), Netherlands 1.44 10
16 Maastricht University (UM), Netherlands 1.02 8
17 TI-COAST, Netherlands 0.88 6
18 Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips), Netherlands 0.84 8
19 Akzo Nobel N.V., Netherlands 0.79 3
20 Solenne B.V., Netherlands 0.50 1
21 Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), Netherlands 0.45 3
22 Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), Netherlands 0.42 2
23 Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands 0.37 4
24 Genmab B.V., Netherlands 0.31 1
25 Avantium, Netherlands 0.25 1
26 Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), Netherlands 0.22 1
27 Everest Coatings, Netherlands 0.20 1
28 National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis Museum), Netherlands 0.17 1
28 SyMO-Chem B.V., Netherlands 0.17 1
28 Synthon Holding B.V., Netherlands 0.17 1
29 BioSolar Cells, Netherlands 0.16 2
30 NXP Semiconductors N.V., Netherlands 0.15 2
31 NIZO Food Research B.V., Netherlands 0.14 2
31 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands 0.14 1
32 Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands 0.11 1
33 IBIS Technologies B.V., Netherlands 0.08 1
33 Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), Netherlands 0.08 1
34 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands 0.07 7
35 Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI), Netherlands 0.07 6
36 Materials Innovation Institute (M2i), Netherlands 0.06 1
37 Institute for Translational Vaccinology (Intravacc), Netherlands 0.04 1
38 Batavia Biosciences B.V., Netherlands 0.00 1

Footnote

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