2017 tables: Institutions - physical sciences

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

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# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share* 2015–2016
1 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 139.00 124.32 331 -8.5%
2 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 103.42 101.08 270 0.0%
3 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 63.17 53.18 345 -13.8%
4 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 43.44 43.50 198 2.5%
5 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 30.01 29.60 161 0.9%
6 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 28.21 28.47 198 3.3%
7 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 23.90 27.87 64 19.4%
8 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 19.85 19.98 165 3.0%
9 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Switzerland 11.02 9.50 29 -11.8%
10 University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland 8.59 5.54 39 -34.0%
11 Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique SA (CSEM SA), Switzerland 3.08 2.13 4 -29.5%
12 Firmenich International SA, Switzerland – 1.50 2 N/A
13 Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno (IRSOL), Switzerland – 1.33 3 N/A
14 University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland – 1.00 1 N/A
15 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 0.45 0.59 5 36.2%
16 Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland 2.04 0.58 2 -70.8%
17 ABB Ltd., Switzerland – 0.38 1 N/A
18 Attolight AG, Switzerland 0.25 0.36 2 47.8%
19 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Switzerland – 0.29 1 N/A
20 Supercomputing Systems AG, Switzerland – 0.25 1 N/A
20 Nestlé S.A., Switzerland – 0.25 1 N/A
21 Novartis International AG, Switzerland 0.22 0.24 3 11.5%
22 Versantis AG, Switzerland – 0.22 1 N/A
23 International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Switzerland 0.07 0.22 8 226.9%
24 STMicroelectronics N.V., Switzerland 1.73 0.22 14 -87.2%
25 Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Switzerland – 0.20 1 N/A
25 SWISSto12 SA, Switzerland – 0.20 1 N/A
25 Mettler-Toledo International Inc., Switzerland – 0.20 1 N/A
26 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland 0.44 0.14 1 -66.9%
27 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland 0.29 0.13 1 -56.1%
27 Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering (Wyss Center), Switzerland – 0.13 1 N/A
27 Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie (HE-ARC), Switzerland – 0.13 1 N/A
28 Nanograde AG, Switzerland – 0.11 1 N/A
29 ID Quantique SA, Switzerland – 0.10 1 N/A
30 University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Switzerland 0.86 0.10 2 -88.2%
31 Kantonsschule Trogen (KST), Switzerland – 0.09 1 N/A
32 Sources, Interaction with Matter, Detection and Analysis of Low Energy Electrons 2 (SIMDALEE2 ), Switzerland – 0.08 1 N/A
32 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland – 0.08 1 N/A
32 Facoltà Indipendente di Gandria, Switzerland – 0.08 1 N/A
33 Alemnis GmbH, Switzerland – 0.06 1 N/A
34 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland – 0.01 1 N/A
35 IPPOX Foundation, Switzerland 0.00 0.00 1 24.9%
35 Mymetics S.A., Switzerland 0.00 0.00 1 24.9%
35 World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland 0.00 0.00 1 24.9%

Footnote

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. Users please note:

  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals through 2022, in 2023 64 health-science journals were added to the Index. The 146 journals in the Nature Index were selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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The Nature Index database undergoes regular updating, corrections, adjustment of institutional hierarchies, and removal of retracted papers and thus the live website can differ from the frozen annual tables.

*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.


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