2020 tables: Institutions - chemistry

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 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 97.66 91.31 150 -12.8%
2 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 36.50 46.07 82 17.7%
3 McGill University, Canada 36.80 37.76 96 -4.3%
4 University of Waterloo, Canada 28.42 32.87 74 7.9%
5 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 29.87 29.80 63 -6.9%
6 University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada 26.33 25.24 55 -10.6%
7 McMaster University, Canada 19.84 20.03 41 -5.9%
8 University of Calgary (U of C), Canada 15.23 16.83 33 3.1%
9 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 17.58 16.14 53 -14.3%
10 Western University (UWO), Canada 23.27 13.71 30 -45.0%
11 Queen's University, Canada 18.41 11.61 25 -41.2%
12 Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada 12.71 9.33 15 -31.5%
13 University of Victoria (UVic), Canada 11.28 8.35 26 -31.0%
14 Dalhousie University, Canada 4.38 8.21 22 74.7%
15 University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada 9.06 7.83 38 -19.4%
16 Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada 2.97 7.45 9 134.1%
17 Laval University (UL), Canada 10.84 6.98 31 -39.9%
18 York University, Canada 3.88 5.46 10 31.3%
19 University of Manitoba, Canada 2.95 5.38 14 70.2%
20 University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada 6.35 5.04 17 -26.0%
21 University of Guelph, Canada 1.30 4.84 12 246.7%
22 Concordia University, Canada 4.68 4.37 28 -12.9%
23 National Research Council (NRC), Canada 6.41 4.25 18 -38.2%
24 University of Lethbridge, Canada 0.17 4.00 4 2138.4%
25 Brock University, Canada 4.36 3.67 13 -21.4%
26 University of Windsor (UWin), Canada 3.71 3.52 13 -11.6%
27 National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS), Canada 5.05 3.50 16 -35.3%
28 Polytechnique Montréal, Canada 4.49 3.01 25 -37.4%
29 Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), Canada – 2.85 6 N/A
30 Canadian Light Source Inc., Canada 2.35 2.30 15 -9.0%
31 Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada 2.38 1.94 22 -23.9%
32 Health Canada (HC-SC), Canada 0.11 1.59 2 1235.4%
33 Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Canada 0.71 1.21 5 59.7%
34 FPInnovations, Canada 0.33 1.20 5 235.8%
35 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 0.20 1.10 2 414.8%
36 Acadia University, Canada 0.96 0.97 2 -5.4%
37 University of Regina, Canada – 0.93 4 N/A
38 Trent University, Canada – 0.80 1 N/A
39 University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Canada 2.00 0.73 1 -65.8%
40 University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres (UQTR), Canada 0.49 0.65 6 24.0%
41 University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canada 0.37 0.58 3 46.8%
42 Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT), Canada – 0.50 1 N/A
42 Cape Breton University (CBU), Canada – 0.50 1 N/A
43 Laurentian University, Canada – 0.47 3 N/A
44 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada 0.98 0.46 10 -56.5%
45 University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada – 0.39 1 N/A
46 Epimeron Inc., Canada 0.18 0.38 1 95.9%
47 Mount Allison University, Canada 0.13 0.37 2 173.6%
48 Alberta Health Services (AHS), Canada 1.18 0.34 3 -73.0%
49 OTI Lumionics Inc., Canada – 0.33 1 N/A
50 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Canada 0.11 0.29 2 152.1%
51 TRIUMF, Canada 0.92 0.29 2 -70.8%
52 InnovoGene Biosciences Inc., Canada – 0.29 1 N/A
53 Nautilus Biosciences Canada Inc., Canada – 0.27 1 N/A
54 Iridian Spectral Technologies Inc., Canada – 0.25 1 N/A
55 Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon (CLL), Canada 0.18 0.24 4 21.2%
55 Héma-Québec, Canada 0.18 0.24 4 21.2%
56 Vancouver Island University (VIU), Canada 0.56 0.23 1 -62.7%
57 PolyAnalytik Inc., Canada – 0.22 1 N/A
58 Lakehead University, Canada 0.10 0.21 2 97.8%
59 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada 0.05 0.21 2 310.4%
60 Carleton University, Canada 1.20 0.20 1 -84.5%
60 Adapsyn Biosciences, Canada – 0.20 1 N/A
61 Stantec Inc., Canada – 0.17 1 N/A
62 Glabat Solid‐State Battery Inc. (GLABAT), Canada – 0.15 2 N/A
63 Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada – 0.15 1 N/A
64 Hydro-Québec, Canada 0.95 0.13 1 -87.8%
64 Saint Mary's University (SMU), Canada 1.33 0.13 1 -91.3%
65 University of the Fraser Valley, Canada – 0.10 1 N/A
66 Holy Heart of Mary High School, Canada – 0.09 1 N/A
66 St. Kevin's High School, Canada – 0.09 1 N/A
67 Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Canada 0.08 0.07 2 -25.4%
68 Royal Tyrrell Museum, Canada – 0.06 1 N/A
69 Genome Canada, Canada 0.44 0.04 2 -90.6%
70 Vector Institute, Canada 0.34 0.04 1 -90.2%
71 IWK Health Centre, Canada – 0.02 1 N/A
72 University of Quebec, Canada 1.05 0.02 1 -98.1%
73 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada – 0.00 1 N/A

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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