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	815.36	783.58	1784	-10.1%
2	French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	232.12	239.5	1066	-3.5%
3	Max Planck Society, Germany	209.33	207.74	497	-7.2%
4	Kyoto University, Japan	139.87	172.37	282	15.3%
5	Peking University (PKU), China	179.84	168.84	486	-12.2%
6	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	151.17	165.97	341	2.7%
7	Tsinghua University (TH), China	139.46	165.85	378	11.3%
8	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	147.84	162.21	302	2.6%
9	Nanjing University (NJU), China	157.86	158.39	276	-6.1%
10	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	132.39	157.65	306	11.4%
11	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	165.26	152.28	317	-13.8%
12	University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	125.86	149.73	338	11.3%
13	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	125.71	135.55	265	0.9%
14	Institute of Chemistry (ICCAS), CAS, China	140.33	135.1	425	-9.9%
15	Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India	105.89	134.88	192	19.2%
16	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China	83	133.59	643	50.6%
17	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	133.73	132.75	265	-7.1%
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	115.04	131.23	245	6.7%
19	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	154.16	130.55	254	-20.8%
20	Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany	112.54	128.7	418	7.0%
21	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	125.94	127.37	245	-5.4%
22	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	118.79	127.28	252	0.2%
23	Nankai University (NKU), China	111.75	117.49	325	-1.6%
24	Zhejiang University (ZJU), China	110.99	116.44	236	-1.9%
25	Osaka University, Japan	84.41	114.86	212	27.3%
26	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	118.27	111.53	184	-11.8%
27	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	87.48	105.61	199	12.9%
28	Soochow University, China	88.05	103.31	173	9.8%
29	Fudan University, China	82.99	100.84	209	13.7%
30	Xiamen University (XMU), China	94.55	98.41	165	-2.6%
31	Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), CAS, China	103.69	96.37	218	-13.1%
32	University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA)	77.49	93.72	150	13.1%
33	The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK)	78.49	93.1	170	11.0%
34	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	86.97	93.09	155	0.1%
35	Sichuan University (SCU), China	78.24	92.54	143	10.6%
36	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	119.46	92.39	191	-27.6%
37	Wuhan University (WHU), China	76.63	91.19	148	11.3%
38	Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China	58.6	90.11	161	43.9%
39	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India	103.51	89.89	120	-18.8%
40	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	91.55	87.48	142	-10.6%
41	Leibniz Association, Germany	80.95	87.04	212	0.6%
42	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	117.04	86.97	186	-30.5%
43	University of Toronto (U of T), Canada	86.23	85.47	140	-7.3%
44	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA)	78.52	82.92	320	-1.2%
45	South China University of Technology (SCUT), China	60.26	77.76	131	20.7%
46	Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA)	65.24	77.65	129	11.3%
47	The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), United States of America (USA)	77.33	77.6	127	-6.1%
48	University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA)	99.47	76.07	126	-28.5%
49	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	77.74	76.02	162	-8.5%
50	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	71.82	75.22	130	-2.0%
51	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	78.17	75.05	129	-10.2%
52	Jilin University (JLU), China	63.58	74.64	148	9.8%
53	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China	50.61	74.46	163	37.7%
54	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	55.04	73.4	109	24.8%
55	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	71.01	71.7	114	-5.5%
56	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	69.27	70.93	146	-4.2%
57	Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), CAS, China	74.51	70.46	161	-11.5%
58	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	69.14	70.15	152	-5.1%
59	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), India	70.27	70.03	100	-6.8%
60	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	68.7	69.81	138	-4.9%
61	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	55.33	69.27	136	17.1%
62	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	64.25	68.85	151	0.2%
63	University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	63.98	68.73	150	0.5%
64	The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA)	60.23	68.23	138	6.0%
65	Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia	54.28	66.73	164	15.0%
66	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	67.16	66.53	129	-7.3%
67	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	88.44	66.07	125	-30.1%
68	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	51.64	65.51	98	18.7%
69	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea	63.03	65.51	123	-2.8%
70	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	80.47	64.7	103	-24.8%
71	Hunan University (HNU), China	65.92	64.48	109	-8.5%
72	Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM), CAS, China	71.54	64.46	106	-15.7%
73	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	69.24	64.4	175	-13.0%
74	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	58.95	64.39	132	2.2%
75	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	66.12	63.39	138	-10.3%
76	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), CAS, China	76.67	62.14	124	-24.2%
77	Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA)	54.81	62.04	272	5.9%
78	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	50.55	61.96	97	14.7%
79	Hokkaido University, Japan	59.93	61.19	130	-4.5%
80	University of California Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA)	61.79	60.94	103	-7.7%
81	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA)	51.44	60.73	118	10.4%
82	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	56.21	60.7	105	1.0%
83	Purdue University, United States of America (USA)	59.65	60.12	108	-5.7%
84	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA)	46.23	60.07	182	21.6%
85	University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA)	45.2	59.43	99	23.0%
86	University of Göttingen, Germany	45.85	59.16	108	20.7%
87	University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands	49.21	58.77	105	11.7%
88	Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany	60.05	58.19	130	-9.3%
89	Nagoya University, Japan	53.4	57.96	116	1.6%
90	RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany	54.57	57.84	123	-0.8%
91	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA)	52.58	56.3	129	0.2%
92	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	54.46	55.46	151	-4.7%
93	University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA)	38.39	54.33	88	32.4%
94	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	63.32	54.05	130	-20.1%
95	Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain	57.7	52.77	114	-14.4%
96	Tohoku University, Japan	59.53	52.29	118	-17.8%
97	Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain	64.62	51.81	203	-25.0%
98	Southwest University (SWU), China	36.83	51.31	59	30.3%
99	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	42.92	50.53	135	10.1%
100	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	33.59	49.51	72	37.9%

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. It is important for users to understand that the data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, that they cover the natural sciences only and that outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output). We encourage users to combine the free-to-access Nature Index data with information from other sources.

The tables were last updated on 7 June 2018 with the most recent institution and article corrections.

^*The change in adjusted FC accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. FC values have been adjusted to 2017 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.

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