2017 tables: Institutions - academic

The 2017 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

Table criteria

# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share* 2015–2016
1 University of Warsaw (UW), Poland 37.18 33.61 172 -7.3%
2 Jagiellonian University (UJ), Poland 31.30 25.76 147 -15.6%
3 University of Wrocław (UWr), Poland 19.22 22.03 59 17.6%
4 Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU), Poland 10.18 6.53 23 -34.2%
5 Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WRUT), Poland 6.25 6.31 16 3.5%
6 Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (NCU), Poland 5.64 6.04 24 9.9%
7 AGH University of Science and Technology (AGH UST), Poland 9.21 5.80 133 -35.4%
8 Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), Poland 3.22 5.63 13 79.2%
9 University of Gdańsk (UG), Poland 5.05 4.79 18 -2.7%
10 Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland 9.52 4.28 69 -53.9%
11 University of Silesia (US), Poland 5.98 3.52 19 -39.6%
12 Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), Poland 3.15 3.28 13 6.5%
13 Lodz University of Technology (TUL), Poland 2.91 3.20 15 13.0%
14 University of Lodz (UL), Poland 3.53 2.97 17 -13.8%
15 Medical University of Gdańsk (MUG), Poland 2.64 1.78 6 -30.9%
16 Silesian University of Technology (SUT), Poland 1.91 1.50 4 -19.3%
17 University of Białystok (UWB), Poland 0.60 1.13 17 91.9%
18 University of Szczecin (USZ), Poland 0.60 1.04 9 77.3%
19 University of Zielona Góra (UZ), Poland 0.08 0.79 19 872.2%
20 Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland 0.02 0.78 3 4599.0%
21 Medical University of Warsaw (MUW), Poland 0.38 0.68 7 83.5%
22 Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology (CUT), Poland 0.56 0.68 3 24.6%
23 Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland 0.56 3 N/A
24 Military University of Technology, Poland 0.88 0.50 1 -41.4%
25 University of Rzeszów, Poland 2.00 0.47 5 -76.0%
26 Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Poland 0.28 0.45 4 67.0%
27 Medical University of Białystok (UMB), Poland 0.01 0.44 4 3170.8%
28 Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland 1.23 0.40 4 -66.9%
29 West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT), Poland 0.36 1 N/A
30 Wroclaw Medical University, Poland 0.23 0.35 3 58.6%
31 Czestochowa University of Technology (CUT), Poland 0.35 2 N/A
32 University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland 0.10 0.31 5 216.6%
33 Rzeszów University of Technology, Poland 1.23 0.30 1 -74.9%
34 University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland 0.29 1 N/A
35 The Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (UJK), Poland 1.95 0.28 7 -85.2%
36 Poznań University of Economics and Business (PUEB), Poland 0.02 0.25 1 1404.3%
37 Medical University of Silesia (SUM), Poland 0.16 0.20 2 27.1%
38 Medical University of Lodz (MUL), Poland 2.44 0.20 5 -91.8%
39 Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland 0.14 1 N/A
40 Special Educational Centre for Blind and Partially Sighted Children, Poland 0.11 1 N/A
40 Maria Grzegorzewska University (APS), Poland 0.11 1 N/A
41 Jan Długosz University, Poland 0.10 1 N/A
42 Pomeranian Medical University (PMU), Poland 0.95 0.10 7 -89.7%
43 Poznan University of Medical Sciences (PUMS), Poland 0.05 0.08 2 61.2%
44 Pedagogical University of Krakow (UP), Poland 0.09 0.04 1 -55.3%
45 Poznań University of Life Sciences (PULS), Poland 0.04 0.02 2 -45.3%
46 Opole University, Poland 0.07 0.01 1 -89.6%

Footnote

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*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2022 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.