2018 tables: Institutions - chemistry

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 Toronto (U of T), Canada 85.34 85.16 137 -6.8%
2 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 30.32 42.57 68 31.1%
3 McGill University, Canada 31.60 35.93 90 6.1%
4 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 31.60 31.12 49 -8.0%
5 University of Waterloo, Canada 32.74 27.23 48 -22.4%
6 University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada 32.83 25.68 50 -27.0%
7 Western University (UWO), Canada 14.24 20.17 31 32.2%
8 McMaster University, Canada 25.55 19.88 35 -27.4%
9 Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada 14.28 16.76 29 9.6%
10 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 16.80 16.56 53 -8.0%
11 University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada 11.12 14.91 47 25.1%
12 Queen's University, Canada 15.83 13.27 26 -21.7%
13 University of Calgary (U of C), Canada 11.75 11.31 19 -10.1%
14 Laval University (UL), Canada 6.41 11.20 34 63.1%
15 University of Victoria (UVic), Canada 8.28 10.59 19 19.4%
16 Dalhousie University, Canada 5.69 8.67 20 42.3%
17 University of Manitoba, Canada 5.23 8.49 17 51.5%
18 University of Windsor (UWin), Canada 2.89 6.62 12 113.9%
19 Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada 4.29 4.74 7 3.2%
20 National Research Council (NRC), Canada 5.69 4.69 21 -23.0%
21 Concordia University, Canada 5.81 4.69 30 -24.6%
22 Brock University, Canada 5.32 4.34 11 -23.7%
23 Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada 4.60 4.31 24 -12.4%
24 University of Guelph, Canada 3.30 4.15 8 17.5%
25 Polytechnique Montréal, Canada 4.95 4.00 23 -24.5%
26 University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada 11.82 3.91 13 -69.1%
27 National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS), Canada 3.82 3.71 18 -9.4%
28 York University, Canada 5.35 3.54 8 -38.3%
29 University of Lethbridge, Canada 2.00 2.53 4 18.0%
30 Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), Canada 1.24 2.33 4 74.6%
31 Canadian Light Source Inc., Canada 1.63 2.09 11 20.3%
32 Carleton University, Canada 2.59 2.06 4 -25.8%
33 Saint Mary's University (SMU), Canada – 2.04 4 N/A
34 Lakehead University, Canada – 1.88 2 N/A
35 Hydro-Québec, Canada 0.58 1.20 2 92.4%
36 Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Canada 0.73 1.12 4 44.5%
37 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 1.09 1.05 2 -10.4%
38 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canada 0.20 1.00 1 366.8%
38 Gouvernement du Québec, Canada – 1.00 1 N/A
38 University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Canada – 1.00 1 N/A
39 Acadia University, Canada 1.00 0.93 3 -13.2%
40 Genome Canada, Canada 0.33 0.77 5 118.4%
41 Cape Breton University (CBU), Canada 0.86 0.76 2 -17.3%
42 University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canada 1.73 0.75 2 -59.6%
43 Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada – 0.72 1 N/A
44 Newborn Screening Ontario (NSO), Canada – 0.70 1 N/A
45 University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres (UQTR), Canada 0.50 0.68 4 27.5%
46 MedMira Inc., Canada – 0.60 1 N/A
47 TRIUMF, Canada – 0.60 2 N/A
48 Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), Canada 0.22 0.60 2 155.5%
49 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada 0.41 0.54 5 22.2%
50 University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada 0.11 0.43 1 260.1%
51 Seroclinix, Canada – 0.40 1 N/A
52 FPInnovations, Canada 1.31 0.33 1 -76.2%
53 Nipissing University, Canada – 0.30 1 N/A
54 Vancouver Island University (VIU), Canada – 0.29 1 N/A
55 University of Quebec, Canada 0.51 0.27 2 -50.8%
56 Génome Québec, Canada 0.23 0.26 3 2.5%
56 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada 0.23 0.26 3 2.5%
57 Unity Health Toronto, Canada 0.89 0.25 3 -73.7%
58 Acuitas Therapeutics, Canada – 0.24 1 N/A
59 Interface Fluidics Limited, Canada – 0.20 1 N/A
60 Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada 0.84 0.18 1 -79.7%
61 Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) - Head Office, Canada 0.22 0.17 1 -30.0%
62 Johnson Matthey Battery Materials Ltd., Canada – 0.14 1 N/A
62 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Canada – 0.14 1 N/A
63 Héma-Québec, Canada 0.21 0.14 2 -38.9%
63 Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon (CLL), Canada 0.21 0.14 2 -38.9%
64 Natural Resources Canada, Canada 0.20 0.13 1 -41.7%
64 Laurentian University, Canada 1.00 0.13 1 -88.3%
65 Scimitar Scientific, Canada – 0.11 1 N/A
65 Mount Allison University, Canada 0.48 0.11 1 -78.2%
66 Health Canada (HC-SC), Canada – 0.10 1 N/A
67 Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Canada – 0.07 1 N/A
68 GasTOPS Ltd., Canada – 0.06 1 N/A
69 Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Canada 0.09 0.05 1 -48.7%
69 St. Francis Xavier University (StFX), Canada – 0.05 1 N/A
70 London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), Canada 0.07 0.04 1 -50.0%
70 St. Joseph's Health Care London, Canada – 0.04 1 N/A
71 SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., Canada 0.29 0.03 2 -90.7%

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.
  3. Nature Index recognizes that many other factors must be taken into account when considering research quality and institutional performance; Nature Index metrics alone should not be used to assess institutions or individuals.
  4. Nature Index data and methods are transparent and available under a creative commons licence at nature.com/nature-index/.

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.


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