2018 tables: Institutions - Nature & Science - academic

The 2018 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.

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# Institution Share 2016 Share 2017 Count 2017 Change in Adjusted Share* 2016–2017
1 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 19.74 16.47 78 -11.6%
2 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 11.12 14.18 40 35.0%
3 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 15.09 11.17 71 -21.6%
4 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 9.37 7.49 23 -15.3%
5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 8.56 7.48 18 -7.5%
6 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 5.64 6.92 43 30.0%
7 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 7.73 5.94 21 -18.6%
8 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 4.32 5.71 31 40.1%
9 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 1.73 5.57 19 240.4%
10 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 3.66 4.16 33 20.4%
11 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 4.39 3.81 25 -8.0%
12 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 3.87 3.79 14 3.8%
13 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 2.34 3.69 24 66.8%
14 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 0.13 3.47 10 2624.1%
15 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 5.72 3.46 37 -36.0%
16 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 1.32 3.28 16 163.2%
17 Karolinska Institute (KI), Sweden 3.65 3.20 23 -6.9%
18 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 2.35 3.13 19 40.6%
19 Stockholm University, Sweden 1.32 2.94 32 136.5%
20 Lund University (LU), Sweden 0.78 2.92 14 297.0%
21 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 8.83 2.80 18 -66.5%
22 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 1.34 2.79 5 120.9%
23 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 0.52 2.72 9 453.3%
24 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 2.42 2.58 20 13.0%
25 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 1.31 2.52 6 104.1%
26 University of Oslo (UiO), Norway 1.37 2.48 9 92.5%
27 University of Vienna, Austria 1.45 2.47 14 81.4%
28 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 2.25 2.37 13 11.7%
29 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 2.77 2.21 17 -15.6%
30 Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria 2.39 2.16 4 -4.2%
31 University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland 2.27 2.06 8 -4.1%
32 Paris Cité University, France 1.86 2.04 31 16.0%
33 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 4.01 1.97 13 -48.1%
34 Sorbonne University, France 3.42 1.91 37 -40.9%
35 University of Göttingen, Germany 3.42 1.88 12 -41.6%
36 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 2.74 1.84 33 -29.0%
37 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 2.18 1.75 11 -14.8%
38 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 0.54 1.75 25 244.7%
39 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 1.80 1.75 12 2.6%
40 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 0.85 1.73 24 114.9%
41 Université PSL, France 2.69 1.72 30 -32.2%
42 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 1.48 1.71 20 22.6%
43 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 1.74 1.70 13 3.5%
44 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 2.07 1.70 14 -12.7%
45 University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland 2.02 1.67 9 -12.4%
46 University of Konstanz, Germany 0.89 1.65 5 96.1%
47 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 2.05 1.64 31 -15.4%
48 Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK) 1.64 1.55 9 0.0%
49 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 0.84 1.49 7 88.1%
50 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 2.39 1.48 3 -34.3%
51 University of Lyon, France 1.07 1.46 12 44.1%
52 Leiden University, Netherlands 1.90 1.45 21 -18.8%
53 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 3.82 1.42 20 -60.6%
54 Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain 2.22 1.39 17 -33.5%
55 Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain – 1.36 4 N/A
56 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 2.15 1.33 13 -34.3%
57 University of Montpellier, France 1.64 1.32 17 -15.1%
58 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 1.02 1.28 4 33.1%
59 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 3.74 1.24 29 -64.8%
60 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 0.58 1.23 8 123.7%
61 University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK) 2.01 1.22 8 -35.9%
62 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK) 2.35 1.21 6 -45.5%
63 University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany 0.11 1.20 5 1044.9%
64 University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom (UK) 0.86 1.19 12 47.5%
65 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway 0.08 1.15 4 1408.0%
66 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 1.70 1.15 7 -28.6%
67 Ulm University, Germany 1.99 1.11 8 -41.0%
68 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 1.64 1.11 22 -28.4%
69 University of Innsbruck (LFU), Austria 3.06 1.07 6 -62.9%
70 Medical University of Innsbruck (MUI), Austria 0.00 1.06 2 84522.3%
71 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 1.07 1.05 17 4.1%
72 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 0.88 1.04 12 25.6%
73 TU Dortmund University, Germany – 1.04 2 N/A
74 Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany 1.51 1.02 6 -28.4%
75 University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Norway 0.20 1.02 4 446.5%
76 Vilnius University (VU), Lithuania – 1.02 2 N/A
77 University of Warsaw (UW), Poland 1.82 0.98 4 -43.1%
78 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 0.77 0.96 12 31.8%
79 University of Bergen (UIB), Norway 0.72 0.94 8 38.6%
80 Leipzig University, Germany 0.92 0.94 9 8.8%
81 University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) 0.21 0.94 7 365.1%
82 Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain 0.15 0.94 7 556.2%
83 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany 0.08 0.93 5 1077.8%
84 University of Turin (UNITO), Italy 0.07 0.92 6 1382.9%
85 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 2.42 0.91 16 -60.3%
86 Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany 0.12 0.91 8 724.3%
87 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 0.58 0.88 14 61.1%
88 Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium 0.32 0.88 3 187.8%
89 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 1.96 0.88 14 -52.5%
90 University of Kent, United Kingdom (UK) 0.11 0.87 6 720.5%
91 University of Helsinki, Finland 2.47 0.82 11 -64.9%
92 University of Bordeaux, France 1.13 0.81 6 -24.2%
93 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 1.95 0.81 9 -56.0%
94 Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain 0.27 0.81 3 213.0%
95 University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain 0.97 0.80 7 -11.9%
96 Bielefeld University, Germany 0.18 0.80 2 377.5%
97 University of Stuttgart, Germany 1.62 0.80 7 -47.4%
98 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.82 0.80 8 2.6%
99 University of Liège (ULg), Belgium 1.50 0.78 7 -45.0%
100 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 0.68 0.76 5 18.9%

Footnote

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  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 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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