2018 tables: Institutions - chemistry

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

2017	Institution	Share 2016	Share 2017	Count 2017	Change in adjusted Share^* 2016–2017 (%)
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	813.86	785.34	1,777	-9.9%
2	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	234.50	241.30	1,081	-4.0%
3	Max Planck Society, Germany	209.72	208.98	498	-7.0%
4	Kyoto University, Japan	139.87	172.54	282	15.1%
5	Peking University (PKU), China	180.00	170.42	488	-11.6%
6	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	150.16	167.16	337	3.9%
7	Tsinghua University, China	138.44	164.09	374	10.6%
8	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	147.06	162.41	302	3.1%
9	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	133.37	159.89	304	11.9%
10	Nanjing University (NJU), China	157.77	157.39	274	-6.9%
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	166.26	152.72	315	-14.3%
12	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	124.27	148.46	331	11.5%
13	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	133.78	134.20	268	-6.4%
14	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	83.58	134.02	647	49.7%
15	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	125.64	133.93	265	-0.5%
16	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	115.04	133.06	245	8.0%
17	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	154.16	131.03	253	-20.7%
18	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	114.30	130.59	427	6.6%
19	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	119.57	128.01	251	-0.1%
20	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	124.68	126.82	243	-5.1%
21	Nankai University (NKU), China	111.75	118.60	326	-0.9%
22	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	109.99	116.64	237	-1.0%
23	Osaka University, Japan	84.36	114.11	210	26.2%
24	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	118.27	111.68	185	-11.9%
25	Soochow University, China	89.70	105.30	173	9.6%
26	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	87.56	105.29	197	12.2%
27	Fudan University, China	82.71	101.47	208	14.5%
28	Xiamen University (XMU), China	93.55	98.51	161	-1.7%
29	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	86.97	94.09	156	1.0%
30	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	78.49	93.72	150	11.4%
31	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	78.40	93.10	170	10.8%
32	Sichuan University (SCU), China	78.24	92.53	142	10.4%
33	Wuhan University (WHU), China	76.60	92.25	150	12.4%
34	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	119.55	91.85	189	-28.3%
35	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	58.60	90.43	162	44.0%
36	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	117.10	87.10	187	-30.6%
37	Leibniz Association, Germany	80.74	87.02	213	0.6%
38	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	91.55	86.73	141	-11.6%
39	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	86.23	85.46	139	-7.5%
40	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	77.76	82.84	318	-0.6%
41	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	80.25	80.27	129	-6.6%
42	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	64.23	77.81	130	13.1%
43	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	78.74	77.46	164	-8.2%
44	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	60.26	77.46	131	20.0%
45	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	71.82	76.38	130	-0.7%
46	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	98.57	76.15	126	-27.9%
47	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	78.22	75.04	128	-10.4%
48	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	50.51	74.49	159	37.7%
49	Jilin University (JLU), China	63.58	73.13	147	7.4%
50	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	55.04	73.07	108	23.9%
51	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	84.70	72.08	120	-20.6%
52	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	71.01	71.56	114	-5.9%
53	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	68.85	70.87	144	-3.9%
54	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	69.14	70.13	152	-5.3%
55	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	69.50	69.80	137	-6.3%
56	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	63.98	69.61	152	1.6%
57	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	55.33	69.51	136	17.2%
58	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	64.25	69.41	151	0.8%
59	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	60.23	68.23	137	5.7%
60	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	55.27	67.20	163	13.5%
61	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	67.16	66.35	129	-7.8%
62	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	87.55	66.07	125	-29.6%
63	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	51.77	65.51	98	18.1%
64	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	63.03	65.51	123	-3.0%
65	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	80.47	64.98	103	-24.6%
66	Hunan University (HNU), China	65.92	64.48	109	-8.7%
67	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	58.95	64.39	132	2.0%
68	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	66.12	64.39	138	-9.1%
69	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	67.96	63.23	167	-13.2%
70	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	55.63	62.89	273	5.5%
71	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	50.55	61.96	97	14.4%
72	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	56.15	61.22	106	1.8%
73	Hokkaido University, Japan	59.93	61.12	130	-4.8%
74	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	61.79	61.09	104	-7.7%
75	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	59.66	60.75	109	-5.0%
76	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	51.44	60.48	117	9.7%
77	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	46.21	60.04	182	21.3%
78	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	60.32	59.71	127	-7.6%
79	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	45.20	59.46	100	22.8%
80	University of Göttingen, Germany	45.85	59.29	108	20.7%
81	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	49.21	58.86	105	11.6%
82	Nagoya University, Japan	53.96	58.44	116	1.1%
83	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	54.43	57.69	124	-1.1%
84	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	52.58	56.05	129	-0.5%
85	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	54.28	55.45	150	-4.6%
86	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	38.25	54.33	88	32.6%
87	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	57.70	52.77	114	-14.6%
88	Tohoku University, Japan	60.53	52.26	118	-19.4%
89	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	64.82	52.19	207	-24.8%
90	Southwest University (SWU), China	36.83	51.51	59	30.5%
91	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	42.90	50.43	134	9.7%
92	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	34.01	49.85	72	36.8%
93	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	48.33	49.36	102	-4.7%
94	University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany	42.37	49.32	85	8.7%
95	Kyushu University, Japan	55.95	49.25	110	-17.8%
96	Tianjin University (TJU), China	46.04	49.14	261	-0.4%
97	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	41.20	48.61	98	10.1%
98	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China	21.88	48.24	112	105.8%
99	Southeast University (SEU), China	39.19	47.46	73	13.0%
100	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	39.71	47.38	90	11.4%

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