2020 tables: Institutions - Nature & Science - academic

The 2020 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.

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# Institution Share 2018 Share 2019 Count 2019 Change in Adjusted Share* 2018–2019
1 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 2.91 3.23 22 11.4%
2 Monash University, Australia 3.77 3.22 24 -14.3%
3 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 2.34 2.64 22 13.4%
4 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 1.07 2.37 11 122.2%
5 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 5.04 1.65 15 -67.2%
6 James Cook University (JCU), Australia 2.39 1.27 8 -46.8%
7 University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 0.50 1.24 9 151.4%
8 The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia 1.38 1.21 16 -11.8%
9 Griffith University, Australia 0.66 1.19 11 80.0%
10 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 1.30 0.91 20 -30.2%
11 Macquarie University, Australia 0.13 0.68 9 427.8%
12 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia 0.76 0.64 4 -14.4%
13 Curtin University, Australia 0.29 0.33 9 11.2%
14 Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 0.18 0.30 3 63.4%
15 University of New England (UNE), Australia 0.01 0.24 4 3126.7%
16 Flinders University, Australia 0.86 0.24 7 -72.5%
17 University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia 1.17 0.20 5 -82.8%
18 Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia 0.17 0.19 2 16.7%
19 Deakin University, Australia 0.01 0.18 5 2206.5%
20 The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia 0.26 0.15 10 -40.8%
21 The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia 0.01 0.07 4 685.5%
22 La Trobe University, Australia 0.11 0.07 8 -37.7%
23 Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 0.10 0.04 3 -58.8%
24 The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA), Australia – 0.04 1 N/A
25 Western Sydney University, Australia 0.34 0.04 5 -88.9%
26 Federation University Australia, Australia – 0.01 1 N/A
27 Bond University, Australia 0.00 0.01 1 1322.7%
28 University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia – 0.01 1 N/A
29 Australian Catholic University (ACU), Australia – 0.01 2 N/A
30 Murdoch University, Australia 0.01 0.00 2 -53.4%
31 The University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia 0.01 0.00 1 -75.1%
32 Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australia 0.14 0.00 1 -98.8%
33 University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia 0.05 0.00 1 -97.0%
34 University of Canberra, Australia – 0.00 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.
  3. Nature Index recognizes that many other factors must be taken into account when considering research quality and institutional performance; Nature Index metrics alone should not be used to assess institutions or individuals.
  4. Nature Index data and methods are transparent and available under a creative commons licence at nature.com/nature-index/.

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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