2019 tables: Institutions - chemistry

The 2019 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.

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# Institution Share 2017 Share 2018 Count 2018 Change in Adjusted Share* 2017–2018
1 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 58.86 43.46 79 -30.6%
2 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 41.72 37.02 77 -16.6%
3 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 23.58 31.72 85 26.5%
4 Leiden University, Netherlands 30.94 26.62 54 -19.1%
5 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 20.75 24.23 50 9.8%
6 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 23.35 23.79 61 -4.2%
7 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 20.25 21.09 71 -2.1%
8 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 3.30 19.43 52 453.8%
9 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 10.18 16.72 31 54.4%
10 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 7.86 7.28 25 -13.0%
11 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 9.73 6.84 34 -33.9%
12 Maastricht University (UM), Netherlands 4.49 5.04 10 5.5%
13 Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands 1.89 2.46 14 22.5%
14 Oncode Institute, Netherlands – 1.54 7 N/A
15 Lumileds Holding B.V., Netherlands – 0.99 4 N/A
16 Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands 0.80 0.83 7 -2.6%
17 TI-COAST, Netherlands 0.77 0.75 4 -8.0%
17 Rijksmuseum, Netherlands – 0.75 2 N/A
18 Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), Netherlands 0.68 0.63 2 -13.1%
19 CNH Industrial N.V., Netherlands – 0.50 2 N/A
19 Symeres, Netherlands – 0.50 2 N/A
20 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 0.20 0.47 8 123.3%
21 Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), Netherlands 0.09 0.45 2 370.1%
22 DENSsolutions B.V., Netherlands – 0.45 3 N/A
23 Genmab B.V., Netherlands 1.28 0.41 1 -69.9%
24 Synvina C.V., Netherlands – 0.38 1 N/A
25 SyMO-Chem B.V., Netherlands 0.57 0.33 1 -45.2%
25 Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC), Netherlands – 0.33 1 N/A
25 Tagworks Pharmaceuticals, Netherlands – 0.33 1 N/A
26 Akzo Nobel N.V., Netherlands 0.38 0.30 1 -24.8%
27 Syngaschem B.V., Netherlands 0.20 0.29 2 37.1%
28 BYK Netherlands B.V., Netherlands – 0.25 1 N/A
28 Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), Netherlands – 0.25 1 N/A
29 ASML, Netherlands 0.04 0.23 1 407.7%
30 Centre for Analytical Science Amsterdam (CASA), Netherlands – 0.22 1 N/A
31 Pepscan Holding NV, Netherlands 0.50 0.20 1 -62.4%
31 Bio-Prodict BV, Netherlands – 0.20 1 N/A
32 Biolegio B.V., Netherlands – 0.18 1 N/A
33 InnoSyn B.V., Netherlands – 0.17 1 N/A
34 Koninklijke DSM N.V. (DSM), Netherlands 1.81 0.14 1 -92.6%
34 BV Cyclotron VU, Netherlands – 0.14 1 N/A
35 Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), Netherlands – 0.13 1 N/A
35 To-BBB technologies B.V., Netherlands – 0.13 1 N/A
36 RheaVita NL, Netherlands – 0.10 1 N/A
37 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands 0.46 0.10 4 -80.1%
38 Feyecon, Netherlands – 0.09 1 N/A
39 DELMIC B.V., Netherlands – 0.08 1 N/A
40 Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips), Netherlands 0.38 0.08 2 -79.9%
41 Zuyderland Medical Center, Netherlands – 0.08 1 N/A
42 NovioSense B.V., Netherlands – 0.08 1 N/A
43 Materials Innovation Institute (M2i), Netherlands 0.06 0.07 1 7.5%
44 Airbus SE, Netherlands 0.61 0.06 2 -90.7%
45 Dispoltec BV, Netherlands – 0.05 1 N/A
46 SupraPolix B.V., Netherlands 0.20 0.04 1 -80.3%
47 Sanquin Blood Supply, Netherlands – 0.03 1 N/A
48 NXP Semiconductors N.V., Netherlands 0.02 0.03 4 46.1%
49 2-BBB Medicines BV, Netherlands – 0.03 1 N/A
50 Snijder Bioscience B.V., Netherlands – 0.02 1 N/A
51 Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI), Netherlands 0.19 0.02 2 -90.9%
52 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands 0.23 0.00 1 -98.8%

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