2020 tables: Institutions - physical sciences - 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 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 58.72 58.57 254 -1.7%
2 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 60.30 57.42 238 -6.1%
3 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 66.58 50.46 249 -25.3%
4 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 44.71 48.88 254 7.8%
5 TU Dresden, Germany 38.26 43.36 205 11.7%
6 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 40.55 41.53 161 1.0%
7 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 44.33 40.49 208 -10.0%
8 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 41.24 38.79 226 -7.3%
9 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 34.77 33.91 92 -3.9%
10 University of Regensburg (UR), Germany 27.81 31.68 58 12.3%
11 Goethe University Frankfurt (GU), Germany 28.89 30.01 107 2.4%
12 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 30.43 26.51 205 -14.1%
13 University of Cologne (UoC), Germany 22.93 25.67 87 10.4%
14 Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), Germany 25.62 25.44 134 -2.1%
15 University of Bonn (Uni Bonn), Germany 26.46 22.22 139 -17.2%
16 University of Göttingen, Germany 16.33 20.88 117 26.0%
17 Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin), Germany 20.49 19.49 185 -6.2%
18 University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg), Germany 20.52 19.26 102 -7.5%
19 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 15.38 17.69 111 13.3%
20 University of Konstanz, Germany 12.66 17.63 34 37.3%
21 Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany 11.36 17.34 74 50.5%
22 University of Stuttgart, Germany 27.25 16.74 72 -39.4%
23 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 14.96 16.46 44 8.5%
24 Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany 15.42 15.54 63 -0.6%
25 Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany 17.20 13.77 74 -21.1%
26 TU Dortmund University, Germany 13.32 13.54 131 0.2%
27 University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany 10.86 12.95 33 17.5%
28 University of Tübingen (Uni Tübingen), Germany 13.61 12.89 66 -6.6%
29 Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany 12.30 12.86 72 3.1%
30 Ulm University, Germany 15.47 12.72 55 -19.0%
31 University of Siegen, Germany 13.97 10.66 73 -24.8%
32 University of Kiel (CAU), Germany 8.41 9.53 31 11.7%
33 University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany 10.75 9.44 25 -13.4%
34 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany 4.42 7.94 27 77.0%
35 Leipzig University, Germany 10.58 7.41 16 -31.0%
36 University of Potsdam, Germany 5.81 7.27 35 23.5%
37 University of Augsburg, Germany 8.66 6.40 25 -27.2%
38 Saarland University (Saar-Uni), Germany 6.60 6.06 22 -9.5%
39 Philipps University of Marburg (Uni Marburg), Germany 8.67 5.95 20 -32.4%
40 University of Bremen (Uni Bremen), Germany 7.90 5.72 24 -28.6%
41 Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Germany 12.29 5.65 27 -54.7%
42 Chemnitz University of Technology (TU Chemnitz), Germany 4.87 5.50 27 11.5%
43 Bielefeld University, Germany 7.36 5.50 19 -26.3%
44 University of Rostock, Germany 6.52 5.47 57 -17.2%
45 Paderborn University, Germany 8.16 5.10 10 -38.3%
46 University of Kassel, Germany 3.37 5.00 12 46.1%
47 University of Oldenburg, Germany 5.28 4.60 12 -14.2%
48 Technical University Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig), Germany 4.74 4.22 16 -12.2%
49 University of Kaiserslautern (TU Kaiserslautern), Germany 3.45 4.15 24 18.8%
50 Giessen University (JLU), Germany 5.55 4.12 103 -26.9%
51 University of Wuppertal, Germany 3.27 3.99 63 20.2%
52 Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), Germany 2.35 3.44 11 44.3%
53 University of Greifswald, Germany 3.75 2.43 6 -36.2%
54 Ilmenau University of Technology (TU Ilmenau), Germany 5.15 2.21 6 -57.7%
55 University of Osnabrück (Uni Osnabrück), Germany 2.60 1.65 7 -37.5%
56 Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF), Germany 1.61 1.29 5 -21.2%
57 University of Hohenheim, Germany – 1.17 2 N/A
58 Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany 1.69 1.09 7 -36.5%
59 Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany 0.53 0.75 5 38.4%
60 University of Lübeck, Germany 0.07 0.73 6 984.8%
61 Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany 0.56 0.56 1 -1.4%
62 Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Germany – 0.50 1 N/A
63 Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (HSMW), Germany – 0.42 1 N/A
64 Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany – 0.33 1 N/A
65 Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), Germany – 0.20 1 N/A
66 Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK Leipzig), Germany – 0.17 1 N/A
67 Reutlingen University, Germany – 0.14 1 N/A
67 Aalen University, Germany – 0.14 1 N/A
68 Stuttgart Media University (HDM), Germany – 0.14 1 N/A
69 Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg (BTU), Germany 0.11 0.13 37 24.2%
70 Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany – 0.13 1 N/A
71 Bundeswehr University Munich (UniBwM), Germany 0.99 0.10 4 -89.9%
72 Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT), Germany – 0.08 1 N/A
73 Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany – 0.05 1 N/A
74 West Saxon University of Applied Sciences of Zwickau (WHZ), Germany – 0.04 1 N/A
75 Witten/Herdecke University (UW/H), Germany – 0.04 1 N/A
76 Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau (TH Wildau), Germany – 0.04 1 N/A
77 Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Science, Germany – 0.03 1 N/A
78 Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany 0.03 0.03 2 -4.4%
79 University of Applied Sciences Worms, Germany 0.01 0.02 17 10.7%
80 Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany – 0.01 1 N/A

Footnote

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