2019 tables: Institutions - physical sciences

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 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan 34.13 30.04 206 -16.8%
2 National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan 30.91 22.10 147 -32.4%
3 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 19.46 19.31 205 -6.2%
4 National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan 16.97 15.09 47 -15.9%
5 National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan 7.28 12.86 47 67.0%
6 National Central University (NCU), Taiwan 5.80 6.79 138 10.7%
7 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan 3.92 5.69 56 37.0%
8 National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan 8.63 4.93 19 -45.9%
9 National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Taiwan 2.31 3.61 23 47.3%
10 Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU), Taiwan 0.27 2.16 4 653.4%
11 National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Taiwan 5.03 1.81 8 -65.9%
12 National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan 2.80 1.73 9 -41.4%
13 Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan 1.14 1.64 7 35.7%
14 Tamkang University (TKU), Taiwan 0.78 1.46 6 76.3%
15 National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taiwan 1.41 1.02 5 -31.3%
16 National Dong Hwa University (NDHU), Taiwan 0.20 0.93 3 341.2%
17 National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), Taiwan 0.37 0.86 2 122.1%
18 Foxconn Technology Group, Taiwan 1.18 0.81 7 -35.1%
19 Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan 3.63 0.80 6 -79.3%
20 National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU), Taiwan 1.48 0.64 3 -58.9%
21 National Chung Cheng University (CCU), Taiwan 0.50 0.63 3 19.8%
22 China Medical University (CMU), Taiwan – 0.56 2 N/A
23 Tunghai University, Taiwan 1.00 0.50 1 -52.7%
24 Taipei Medical University (TMU), Taiwan 0.17 0.50 6 182.4%
25 National Chi Nan University (NCNU), Taiwan 0.17 0.44 1 152.1%
25 Feng Chia University (FCU), Taiwan 0.13 0.44 1 236.2%
26 Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Taiwan – 0.33 1 N/A
27 National Chiayi University, Taiwan 0.38 0.33 2 -19.8%
28 National United University, Taiwan 0.19 0.22 14 8.4%
29 National Chengchi University (CNCCU), Taiwan 0.28 0.20 1 -32.8%
30 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), Taiwan 0.02 0.18 9 627.0%
31 Atomic Energy Council (AEC), Taiwan 0.36 0.14 1 -62.2%
31 Yuan Ze University, Taiwan 0.90 0.14 1 -85.0%
31 National Formosa University (NFU), Taiwan – 0.14 1 N/A
32 Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. (CPT), Taiwan 0.73 0.09 1 -88.2%
33 Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU), Taiwan 0.67 0.08 1 -88.2%
34 National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), Taiwan 0.08 0.07 1 -19.0%
35 National Changhua University of Education (NCUE), Taiwan 1.58 0.06 1 -96.3%
35 Asia University, Taiwan – 0.06 1 N/A
36 National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs), Taiwan 1.37 0.05 1 -96.7%
36 Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan – 0.05 1 N/A
37 Delta Electronics, Inc., Taiwan 0.02 0.04 5 82.9%
37 Chilisin Electronics Corporation, Taiwan 0.02 0.04 5 82.9%
38 National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST), Taiwan 0.01 0.03 4 286.7%
39 National Defense Medical Center (NDMC), Taiwan – 0.03 1 N/A

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.
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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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