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 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 785.34 891.64 2224 6.8%
2 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 241.26 243.85 1134 -5.0%
3 Max Planck Society, Germany 209.08 229.05 568 3.0%
4 Nanjing University (NJU), China 157.39 209.05 380 24.9%
5 Peking University (PKU), China 170.42 191.09 576 5.4%
6 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 167.16 185.71 437 4.5%
7 Tsinghua University, China 164.09 185.65 473 6.4%
8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 152.72 165.23 351 1.7%
9 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 134.17 160.12 304 12.2%
10 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 162.38 158.90 343 -8.0%
11 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 134.02 148.38 823 4.1%
12 Kyoto University, Japan 172.54 148.36 286 -19.2%
13 Nankai University (NKU), China 118.60 147.50 394 16.9%
14 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 116.64 146.87 298 18.4%
15 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 134.11 142.25 279 -0.3%
16 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 159.89 141.49 302 -16.8%
17 Sichuan University (SCU), China 92.53 136.25 201 38.4%
18 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 131.03 132.81 266 -4.7%
19 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 133.27 129.66 252 -8.5%
20 Fudan University, China 101.53 126.75 253 17.4%
21 Soochow University, China 105.30 124.48 218 11.2%
22 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 126.82 121.68 290 -9.8%
23 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 105.44 119.66 267 6.7%
24 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 128.01 119.36 257 -12.3%
25 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 130.69 116.85 444 -15.9%
26 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 148.46 116.78 312 -26.0%
27 Wuhan University (WHU), China 92.25 110.07 175 12.2%
28 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 87.07 107.27 202 15.8%
29 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 74.49 102.92 248 29.9%
30 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 91.85 102.90 195 5.3%
31 Xiamen University (XMU), China 98.51 102.77 177 -1.9%
32 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 111.68 101.17 170 -14.8%
33 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 85.16 97.66 158 7.8%
34 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 94.06 95.97 165 -4.1%
35 Hunan University (HNU), China 64.48 95.27 166 38.9%
36 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 75.04 92.91 154 16.4%
37 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 76.15 92.05 142 13.7%
38 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 69.80 91.32 176 23.0%
39 Osaka University, Japan 114.11 91.20 166 -24.9%
40 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 77.43 90.04 187 9.3%
41 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 82.81 89.49 348 1.6%
42 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 90.43 86.89 168 -9.7%
43 Jilin University (JLU), China 73.13 86.36 178 11.0%
44 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 77.46 81.74 150 -0.8%
45 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 70.00 80.17 154 7.7%
46 Tianjin University (TJU), China 49.14 79.01 344 51.2%
47 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 65.68 77.88 144 11.5%
48 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 86.73 77.30 140 -16.2%
49 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 73.07 76.30 119 -1.8%
50 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 71.56 75.61 143 -0.6%
51 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 93.10 75.61 154 -23.6%
52 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 66.35 74.34 149 5.4%
53 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 66.07 72.79 127 3.6%
54 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 46.20 72.50 163 47.5%
55 Leibniz Association, Germany 86.02 71.60 189 -21.7%
56 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 62.26 70.54 114 6.5%
57 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 69.51 69.87 121 -5.5%
58 Nagoya University, Japan 58.44 69.34 135 11.6%
59 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 64.39 68.97 143 0.7%
60 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 65.51 68.58 135 -1.6%
61 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 70.30 68.11 161 -8.9%
62 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 61.22 67.81 113 4.2%
63 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 55.42 66.91 170 13.5%
64 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 61.09 66.38 115 2.2%
65 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 78.81 66.34 103 -20.9%
66 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 60.75 66.15 142 2.4%
67 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 63.23 65.37 169 -2.8%
68 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 59.71 65.31 150 2.8%
69 Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China 49.85 65.27 100 23.1%
70 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 69.43 65.25 152 -11.6%
71 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 57.69 65.10 144 6.1%
72 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 80.27 64.88 104 -24.0%
73 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 93.72 64.27 117 -35.5%
74 Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China 41.14 63.34 145 44.8%
75 Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China 37.53 63.01 134 57.9%
76 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 68.23 62.71 144 -13.6%
77 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 52.52 62.51 240 11.9%
78 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 62.86 62.42 278 -6.6%
79 Hokkaido University, Japan 61.12 60.92 126 -6.3%
80 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 76.38 59.95 104 -26.2%
81 Tohoku University, Japan 52.26 59.39 134 6.9%
82 Shandong University (SDU), China 45.95 58.71 127 20.1%
83 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 65.51 58.26 96 -16.4%
84 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 63.52 58.26 127 -13.8%
85 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 48.24 57.94 135 12.9%
86 Fuzhou University (FZU), China 36.98 56.83 91 44.5%
87 Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China 44.57 56.66 105 19.5%
88 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 52.77 55.58 124 -1.0%
89 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 67.20 54.75 148 -23.4%
90 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 56.05 54.74 135 -8.2%
91 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 72.08 53.95 105 -29.6%
92 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 69.41 53.21 125 -27.9%
93 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 32.28 52.07 113 51.7%
94 University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA) 45.64 50.05 94 3.1%
95 RIKEN, Japan 45.53 48.55 162 0.3%
96 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 42.48 48.37 86 7.1%
97 University of Göttingen, Germany 59.29 48.06 88 -23.8%
98 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 49.36 47.64 120 -9.2%
99 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 48.01 46.91 104 -8.1%
100 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 54.33 46.83 78 -19.0%

Footnote

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  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.
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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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