2018 tables: Institutions - physical sciences - corporate

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 Thales S.A., France 6.08 3.81 27 -38.1%
2 Airbus SE, Netherlands 0.58 2.15 6 264.0%
3 Infineon Technologies AG, Germany 0.06 2.13 4 3690.0%
4 Merck KGaA, Germany 1.01 1.86 3 80.9%
5 Nokia Corporation, Finland 1.15 1.75 9 49.9%
6 Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips), Netherlands 0.80 1.67 7 105.9%
7 Oxford Instruments, United Kingdom (UK) 0.20 1.48 4 645.1%
8 QuantumWise A/S, Denmark – 1.48 5 N/A
9 STMicroelectronics N.V., Switzerland 0.22 1.45 10 562.2%
10 Center for Nanotechnology GmbH (CeNTech GmbH), Germany 2.56 1.30 6 -49.9%
11 Graphenea SA, Spain 0.85 1.29 4 50.8%
12 Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), Sweden 0.05 1.21 7 2556.4%
13 Emberion Oy, Finland – 1.09 2 N/A
14 Saint-Gobain SA, France 0.87 1.08 4 23.2%
15 Firmenich International SA, Switzerland 1.50 1.00 1 -34.1%
15 SwissScientific SA, Switzerland – 1.00 1 N/A
16 Johnson Matthey (JM), United Kingdom (UK) 0.17 0.96 8 470.0%
17 Novartis International AG, Switzerland 0.24 0.90 2 275.6%
18 Carinthian Tech Research AG (CTR), Austria – 0.90 2 N/A
19 ELI-HU Nonprofit Ltd., Hungary 0.12 0.84 9 609.5%
20 Vmicro SAS, France – 0.83 1 N/A
21 Haldor Topsøe A/S, Denmark 0.91 0.80 1 -13.2%
22 BASF SE, Germany 2.93 0.73 11 -75.4%
23 BAE Systems, United Kingdom (UK) 0.53 0.68 2 26.3%
24 Total S.A., France 0.71 0.66 4 -7.6%
25 Unilever, United Kingdom (UK) 0.37 0.65 3 76.0%
26 Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH (RECENDT), Austria 0.13 0.64 2 408.2%
26 LFoundry S.r.l. (LF), Italy – 0.64 1 N/A
26 Abberior Instruments GmbH, Germany – 0.64 2 N/A
27 PragmatIC Semiconductor Ltd., United Kingdom (UK) – 0.63 1 N/A
28 Sol Voltaics AB, Sweden 0.17 0.61 2 262.4%
29 Anglo American plc, United Kingdom (UK) 2.52 0.60 3 -76.7%
30 F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland 0.14 0.59 2 306.8%
31 Kromek Group plc, United Kingdom (UK) – 0.56 1 N/A
32 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria 0.77 0.55 6 -28.9%
33 AstraZeneca plc, United Kingdom (UK) 0.27 0.52 2 88.0%
34 Cambridge Display Technology Ltd., United Kingdom (UK) 0.18 0.50 1 171.8%
34 Trumpf Laser GmbH, Germany 0.44 0.50 1 11.2%
34 Ferrx AS, Norway – 0.50 1 N/A
34 Protemics GmbH, Germany – 0.50 1 N/A
34 Bruker BioSpin GmbH, Germany – 0.50 1 N/A
35 Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH, Austria – 0.47 2 N/A
36 Siemens AG, Germany 0.40 0.45 7 10.4%
37 Sanofi, France 0.00 0.43 2 31485.8%
38 National Metrology and Testing (LNE), France 2.26 0.42 5 -81.5%
39 ams-OSRAM AG, Austria 1.02 0.42 1 -59.5%
40 Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), Netherlands 0.39 0.40 2 1.8%
41 FlexEnable Ltd., United Kingdom (UK) 0.13 0.40 1 216.2%
42 BP plc, United Kingdom (UK) 0.25 0.39 2 49.9%
43 Portugal Telecom Inovação, S.A. (PTIn), Portugal 0.13 0.38 6 187.1%
44 M Squared Lasers, United Kingdom (UK) – 0.38 1 N/A
45 IQE plc, United Kingdom (UK) 0.44 0.37 2 -18.8%
46 NIL Technology ApS, Denmark – 0.35 2 N/A
47 Air Liquide, France – 0.34 2 N/A
48 ez SQUID, Germany – 0.33 1 N/A
48 Giotto Biotech S.r.l., Italy – 0.33 1 N/A
48 CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd., Finland – 0.33 1 N/A
48 Nanoforce Technology Limited, United Kingdom (UK) – 0.33 1 N/A
48 Kivion MTÜ, Estonia – 0.33 1 N/A
48 Soitec S.A., France 0.39 0.33 1 -16.1%
48 Plansee SE, Austria – 0.33 1 N/A
48 UAB Altechna, Lithuania – 0.33 1 N/A
49 Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark 0.36 0.32 1 -12.6%
50 Carl Zeiss AG, Germany 0.14 0.31 2 115.2%

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*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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