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 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 234.17 241.26 1081 -3.8%
2 Max Planck Society, Germany 209.80 209.08 499 -7.0%
3 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 115.04 133.27 246 8.1%
4 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 154.16 131.03 253 -20.7%
5 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 114.54 130.69 428 6.5%
6 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 119.57 128.01 251 -0.1%
7 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 78.40 93.10 170 10.9%
8 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 119.55 91.85 189 -28.3%
9 Leibniz Association, Germany 80.74 86.02 212 -0.5%
10 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 55.04 73.07 108 23.9%
11 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 69.50 69.80 137 -6.2%
12 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 55.27 67.20 163 13.5%
13 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 51.77 65.51 98 18.1%
14 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 67.96 63.23 167 -13.1%
15 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 60.32 59.71 127 -7.6%
16 University of Göttingen, Germany 45.85 59.29 108 20.7%
17 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 49.21 58.86 105 11.6%
18 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 54.43 57.69 124 -1.1%
19 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 57.70 52.77 114 -14.6%
20 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 65.90 52.52 208 -25.6%
21 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 42.37 49.32 85 8.7%
22 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 41.20 48.01 97 8.8%
23 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 34.41 47.06 88 27.7%
24 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 43.78 42.40 91 -9.6%
25 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 38.19 42.02 164 2.7%
26 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 38.53 41.72 72 1.1%
27 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 25.87 41.11 65 48.3%
28 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 26.36 40.53 139 43.6%
29 TU Dresden, Germany 27.16 40.03 107 37.6%
30 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 42.52 39.96 81 -12.3%
31 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 42.49 39.03 77 -14.2%
32 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 38.31 34.79 64 -15.2%
33 Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Czech Republic 34.07 34.63 93 -5.1%
34 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 39.63 33.80 84 -20.4%
35 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 29.36 32.92 86 4.7%
36 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 30.14 32.46 99 0.6%
37 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 30.93 31.94 88 -3.6%
38 Leiden University, Netherlands 21.92 30.94 65 31.7%
39 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 30.74 30.67 64 -6.9%
40 University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain 31.15 30.64 110 -8.2%
41 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 25.85 29.86 71 7.8%
42 University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK) 27.88 29.68 83 -0.6%
43 Lund University (LU), Sweden 24.96 29.09 66 8.8%
44 Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany 26.75 29.05 62 1.4%
45 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 28.48 28.78 187 -5.7%
46 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), United Kingdom (UK) 24.58 28.00 126 6.3%
47 Stockholm University, Sweden 30.96 27.41 89 -17.3%
48 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 24.97 27.38 71 2.4%
49 Aarhus University (AU), Denmark 32.37 27.32 52 -21.2%
50 University of Strasbourg, France 30.68 27.26 149 -17.1%
51 University of Vienna, Austria 23.11 27.00 57 9.1%
52 Leipzig University, Germany 17.91 26.97 49 40.6%
53 University of Barcelona (UB), Spain 25.35 26.86 68 -1.1%
54 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 28.40 26.58 76 -12.6%
55 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 28.29 26.39 61 -12.9%
56 Ghent University (UGent), Belgium 22.51 26.37 57 9.4%
57 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 23.76 26.18 106 2.8%
58 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 30.65 26.08 52 -20.5%
59 TU Dortmund University, Germany 13.91 25.59 50 71.7%
60 University of Konstanz, Germany 26.90 25.44 45 -11.7%
61 The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK) 28.59 24.81 60 -19.0%
62 University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK) 17.86 24.59 57 28.6%
63 Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany 25.03 24.26 59 -9.5%
64 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 38.66 23.58 71 -43.1%
65 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 22.06 23.35 68 -1.2%
66 University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) 20.14 23.19 54 7.5%
67 Sorbonne University, France 19.78 22.77 152 7.5%
68 Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland 18.00 22.77 59 18.1%
69 Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), France 19.25 22.59 150 9.6%
70 University of Stuttgart, Germany 20.00 22.49 48 5.0%
71 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 18.98 22.34 137 9.9%
72 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 27.95 22.29 57 -25.5%
73 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 21.18 22.19 67 -2.2%
74 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 11.59 22.17 44 78.6%
75 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 17.61 21.49 39 13.9%
76 University of York, United Kingdom (UK) 23.62 21.14 60 -16.4%
77 Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia 15.21 21.01 66 29.0%
78 University of Valencia (UV), Spain 26.54 21.01 54 -26.1%
79 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 23.26 20.75 59 -16.7%
80 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 29.46 20.60 48 -34.7%
81 University of Lyon, France 16.74 20.59 98 14.8%
82 University of Toulouse, France 20.05 20.46 122 -4.7%
83 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 18.20 20.25 66 3.9%
84 Technical University Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig), Germany 12.56 20.15 37 49.8%
85 Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK) 16.11 19.45 49 12.7%
86 KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 17.57 19.40 70 3.1%
87 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland 9.17 19.39 54 97.3%
88 University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain 20.10 19.34 46 -10.2%
89 The University of Dublin, Ireland 14.92 19.25 45 20.4%
90 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 18.97 18.87 44 -7.2%
91 Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain 23.80 18.60 55 -27.1%
92 Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark 19.56 18.57 50 -11.4%
93 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 19.73 18.02 40 -14.8%
94 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany 14.17 17.96 36 18.3%
95 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 21.19 17.69 49 -22.1%
96 Université PSL, France 14.81 16.87 126 6.3%
97 Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria 13.02 16.86 38 20.9%
98 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland 15.09 16.85 32 4.2%
99 University of Bordeaux, France 15.36 16.76 94 1.9%
100 Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany 22.05 16.71 39 -29.3%

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