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	FC 2016	FC 2017	AC 2017	Change in Adjusted FC 2016-2017 ^*
1	Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China	814.29	786.02	1780	-9.9%
2	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	233.16	240.47	1068	-3.8%
3	Max Planck Society, Germany	209.33	208.81	498	-6.9%
4	Kyoto University, Japan	139.87	172.54	282	15.1%
5	Peking University (PKU), China	179.68	170.42	488	-11.5%
6	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	150.16	166.88	340	3.7%
7	Tsinghua University, China	138.44	165.45	380	11.5%
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)	165.32	152.56	315	-13.9%
12	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	123.51	148.49	331	12.2%
13	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	105.89	134.88	192	18.9%
14	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	133.78	134.2	268	-6.4%
15	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	125.74	133.88	264	-0.6%
16	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	82.67	133.13	644	50.3%
17	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	115.04	133.05	244	7.9%
18	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	154.16	131.03	253	-20.7%
19	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	112.66	128.89	416	6.8%
20	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	119.48	128.01	251	0.0%
21	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	125.94	127.63	244	-5.4%
22	Nankai University (NKU), China	111.75	117.66	325	-1.7%
23	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	109.99	116.61	237	-1.1%
24	Osaka University, Japan	84.45	114.16	210	26.2%
25	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	118.27	111.68	185	-11.9%
26	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	87.56	105.35	197	12.3%
27	Soochow University, China	89.7	105.3	173	9.6%
28	Fudan University, China	82.7	100.87	209	13.8%
29	Xiamen University (XMU), China	93.55	98.47	165	-1.8%
30	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	86.97	94.09	156	1.0%
31	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	77.49	93.72	150	12.9%
32	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	78.4	93.1	170	10.8%
33	Sichuan University (SCU), China	78.24	92.53	142	10.4%
34	Wuhan University (WHU), China	75.94	92.25	150	13.4%
35	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	119.46	91.84	188	-28.3%
36	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	58.6	90.43	162	44.0%
37	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	103.51	89.89	120	-19.0%
38	Leibniz Association, Germany	80.9	87.11	213	0.5%
39	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	117.04	87.1	187	-30.6%
40	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	91.55	86.73	141	-11.6%
41	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	86.23	85.46	139	-7.5%
42	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	78.22	82.82	318	-1.2%
43	Scripps Research, United States of America (USA)	80.23	80.19	129	-6.7%
44	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	60.26	78.24	132	21.2%
45	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	64.24	77.85	130	13.1%
46	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	77.74	77.48	164	-7.0%
47	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	71.82	76.38	130	-0.8%
48	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	98.57	76.16	126	-27.9%
49	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	78.22	75.04	128	-10.5%
50	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	50.59	74.71	159	37.8%
51	Jilin University (JLU), China	63.58	73.13	147	7.3%
52	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	55.04	73.07	108	23.9%
53	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	71.01	71.56	114	-6.0%
54	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	69.27	70.93	146	-4.4%
55	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	69.14	70.15	152	-5.3%
56	Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), India	69.27	70.03	100	-5.6%
57	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	68.7	69.8	137	-5.2%
58	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	63.98	69.61	152	1.5%
59	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	55.33	69.51	136	17.2%
60	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	64.25	69.41	151	0.8%
61	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	60.23	68.23	137	5.7%
62	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	55.27	67.2	163	13.5%
63	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	67.16	66.35	129	-7.8%
64	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	87.55	66.07	125	-29.6%
65	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	51.64	65.51	98	18.4%
66	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	63.03	65.51	123	-3.0%
67	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	80.47	64.98	103	-24.6%
68	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	69.1	64.61	176	-12.7%
69	Hunan University (HNU), China	65.92	64.48	109	-8.7%
70	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	58.95	64.39	132	1.9%
71	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	66.12	64.39	138	-9.1%
72	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	54.77	62.3	273	6.2%
73	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	50.55	61.96	97	14.4%
74	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	56.15	61.2	105	1.7%
75	Hokkaido University, Japan	59.93	61.12	130	-4.8%
76	University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	61.79	61.09	104	-7.7%
77	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	59.66	60.75	109	-5.0%
78	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	51.44	60.73	118	10.2%
79	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	46.21	60.04	182	21.3%
80	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	45.2	59.46	100	22.8%
81	University of Göttingen, Germany	45.85	59.16	107	20.4%
82	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	49.21	58.86	105	11.6%
83	Nagoya University, Japan	53.96	58.44	116	1.1%
84	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	60	58.11	127	-9.6%
85	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	54.57	57.84	122	-1.1%
86	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	52.58	56.55	130	0.4%
87	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	54.28	55.45	150	-4.7%
88	The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	38.25	54.33	88	32.6%
89	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	57.7	52.77	114	-14.7%
90	Tohoku University, Japan	60.53	52.29	118	-19.4%
91	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	64.62	51.87	204	-25.1%
92	Southwest University (SWU), China	36.83	51.51	59	30.5%
93	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	42.92	50.53	135	9.9%
94	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	34.01	49.85	72	36.8%
95	University of Würzburg, Germany	42.37	49.32	85	8.6%
96	Kyushu University, Japan	55.95	49.25	110	-17.9%
97	Tianjin University (TJU), China	46.04	49.07	260	-0.5%
98	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	48.33	48.94	102	-5.5%
99	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany	41.2	48.61	98	10.1%
100	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China	21.82	48.21	111	106.2%

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