2020 tables: Institutions - physical sciences

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 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 51.39 41.23 94 -20.9%
2 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 40.14 37.72 289 -7.4%
3 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 46.20 37.58 272 -19.8%
4 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands 34.63 35.24 80 0.3%
5 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 28.93 31.37 166 6.9%
6 Leiden University, Netherlands 33.26 28.24 127 -16.3%
7 Radboud University Nijmegen (RU), Netherlands 19.32 25.87 258 32.0%
8 University of Twente (UTwente), Netherlands 19.77 19.14 54 -4.6%
9 NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NWO, Netherlands 18.10 16.40 240 -10.6%
10 VU Amsterdam, Netherlands 10.88 10.56 192 -4.3%
11 Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands 6.41 8.26 35 27.0%
12 Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands 4.08 4.39 16 6.2%
13 ASML, Netherlands 0.61 1.51 8 142.4%
14 Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE), Netherlands 0.36 1.35 10 272.3%
15 Simbeyond B.V., Netherlands 0.14 0.80 2 452.1%
16 Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena (DIEP), Netherlands 0.08 0.73 4 757.7%
17 Airbus SE, Netherlands – 0.65 8 N/A
18 Single Quantum B.V., Netherlands – 0.59 2 N/A
19 Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips), Netherlands 0.08 0.58 3 605.6%
20 Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Netherlands 0.04 0.55 4 1253.1%
21 Oncode Institute, Netherlands – 0.41 1 N/A
22 Wetsus Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology, Netherlands – 0.36 1 N/A
23 Genmab B.V., Netherlands – 0.33 1 N/A
23 SyMO-Chem B.V., Netherlands – 0.33 1 N/A
24 Deltares, Netherlands – 0.30 2 N/A
25 Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), Netherlands 1.02 0.23 4 -77.5%
26 DENSsolutions B.V., Netherlands 0.63 0.20 1 -68.9%
26 Smit Thermal Solutions B.V., Netherlands – 0.20 1 N/A
27 Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell), Netherlands 1.87 0.18 2 -90.7%
28 Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), Netherlands 0.17 0.17 1 -1.4%
29 Eurofins Materials Science Netherlands B.V., Netherlands – 0.16 3 N/A
30 Koninklijke DSM N.V. (DSM), Netherlands 0.14 0.16 2 9.5%
31 Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC), Netherlands – 0.09 1 N/A
32 NanoPhab B.V., Netherlands 0.11 0.08 1 -26.1%
32 Océ Technologies B.V., Netherlands 0.15 0.08 1 -46.9%
32 Triskelion B.V., Netherlands – 0.08 1 N/A
32 Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity (CARMABI), Netherlands – 0.08 1 N/A
32 Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands – 0.08 1 N/A
33 Maastricht University (UM), Netherlands 0.30 0.07 9 -76.4%
34 Lava Therapeutics, Netherlands – 0.06 1 N/A
34 UbiQ Bio B.V., Netherlands – 0.06 1 N/A
34 InProcess-LSP, Netherlands – 0.06 1 N/A
35 Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute), Netherlands 0.03 0.05 1 72.5%
36 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands 0.05 0.05 9 0.3%
37 Bartiméus, Netherlands – 0.04 1 N/A
38 FutureWater, Netherlands – 0.03 1 N/A
39 NXP Semiconductors N.V., Netherlands 0.04 0.03 6 -34.8%
40 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Netherlands 0.16 0.02 2 -84.3%
41 Team Liquid, Netherlands – 0.02 1 N/A
42 Deventer Hospital, Netherlands – 0.02 1 N/A
43 Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS), Netherlands – 0.01 1 N/A
44 Science and Technology Corporation, Netherlands – 0.01 1 N/A
44 SmarterVision B.V., Netherlands – 0.01 1 N/A
45 Princess Maxima Centre for Pediatric Oncology (PMC), Netherlands 0.05 0.01 1 -87.3%
46 Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Netherlands 0.04 0.01 2 -86.2%
47 Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI), Netherlands 0.02 0.00 1 -83.5%
48 Batavia Biosciences B.V., Netherlands – 0.00 1 N/A

Footnote

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