2017 tables: Institutions - corporate

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 South Australian Water Corporation (SA Water), Australia 1.84 1.26 3 -30.2%
2 Melbourne Water Corporation, Australia 0.36 0.82 20 136.6%
3 Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), Australia 0.34 0.72 3 114.6%
4 CSL Limited, Australia 0.31 0.57 6 93.2%
5 South East Water Corporation, Australia 0.26 0.42 18 69.6%
6 Shamash Australia Pty Ltd., Australia 0.33 1 N/A
6 Independence Group NL (IGO), Australia 0.33 1 N/A
7 BHP Billiton Limited, Australia 0.31 2 N/A
8 Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association (ATLA), Australia 0.29 1 N/A
9 GHD Pty Ltd., Australia 0.17 0.25 2 55.5%
10 Ixom Operations Pty Ltd., Australia 0.25 1 N/A
10 Thinkable.org, Australia 0.25 1 N/A
10 SCT Operations Pty Ltd., Australia 0.25 1 N/A
11 Progen Pharmaceuticals Limited, Australia 0.13 0.23 2 91.8%
12 Cochlear Ltd., Australia 0.01 0.20 3 3338.2%
13 ATC Williams Pty Ltd., Australia 0.20 1 N/A
14 Astron Environmental Services Pty Ltd., Australia 0.17 1 N/A
14 Infrastructure Group, Australia 0.17 1 N/A
14 Water Care and Health Pty Ltd., Australia 0.17 1 N/A
15 Schefe Consulting, Australia 0.14 1 N/A
16 Water Corporation, Australia 0.23 0.13 1 -44.5%
16 Fifth Creek Studio Living Architecture, Australia 0.13 1 N/A
17 Alzhyme Pty Ltd., Australia 0.12 1 N/A
18 Minomic, Australia 0.12 1 N/A
19 AdAlta Limited, Australia 0.11 1 N/A
20 Energy Metals Ltd., Australia 0.10 1 N/A
20 Graphlex Technology Pty Ltd., Australia 0.10 1 N/A
21 MGPalaeo, Australia 0.09 1 N/A
22 Geotrack International Pty. Ltd., Australia 0.08 1 N/A
22 Access Archaeology and Heritage, Australia 0.08 1 N/A
23 Trajan Scientific and Medical, Australia 0.09 0.07 1 -26.2%
24 Metabolomics Australia (MA), Australia 0.06 1 N/A
25 Millennium Science Pty Ltd., Australia 0.04 0.05 1 35.0%
26 Virbac, Australia 0.04 1 N/A
26 Nexvet Biopharma, Australia 0.04 1 N/A
26 Imunexus, Australia 0.04 1 N/A
27 In the Groove Analysis Pty Limited (ITGA), Australia 0.04 1 N/A
28 Cyto Labs Pty Ltd., Australia 0.02 1 N/A
29 Dimerix Limited, Australia 0.01 1 N/A
30 Tissue Therapies Limited, Australia 0.03 0.00 1 -94.0%
30 Ego Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd., Australia 0.03 0.00 1 -94.0%

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.