2021 tables: Institutions - chemistry - academic

The 2021 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020.

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# Institution Share 2019 Share 2020 Count 2020 Change in Adjusted Share 2019-2020*
1 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 260.67 246.63 562 -5.6%
2 Nanjing University (NJU), China 230.51 215.50 410 -6.7%
3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 202.25 195.34 1,066 -3.6%
4 Peking University (PKU), China 195.34 180.04 619 -8.0%
5 Tsinghua University, China 197.89 173.64 453 -12.4%
6 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 170.98 169.29 354 -1.2%
7 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 148.05 162.21 343 9.3%
8 Nankai University (NKU), China 184.59 155.54 357 -15.9%
9 Sichuan University (SCU), China 172.75 153.90 222 -11.1%
10 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 153.89 145.66 275 -5.5%
11 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 156.88 145.49 337 -7.5%
12 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 122.38 142.49 311 16.2%
13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 146.04 142.34 308 -2.7%
14 Jilin University (JLU), China 123.90 138.78 289 11.8%
15 Fudan University, China 131.88 138.23 295 4.6%
16 Soochow University, China 159.53 138.12 259 -13.6%
17 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 118.08 136.90 345 15.7%
18 Kyoto University, Japan 135.81 134.75 277 -1.0%
19 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 126.51 128.72 334 1.5%
20 Xiamen University (XMU), China 143.42 128.09 243 -10.9%
21 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 116.02 125.07 287 7.6%
22 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 79.10 124.46 279 57.0%
23 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 129.69 120.87 261 -7.0%
24 Wuhan University (WHU), China 128.80 120.79 207 -6.4%
25 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 134.50 120.63 269 -10.5%
26 Tianjin University (TJU), China 101.37 117.80 362 16.0%
27 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 138.33 114.41 209 -17.5%
28 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 132.96 114.03 232 -14.4%
29 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 131.55 112.50 250 -14.7%
30 Osaka University, Japan 101.31 107.51 204 5.9%
31 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 105.01 104.16 260 -1.0%
32 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 91.33 103.33 185 12.9%
33 Hunan University (HNU), China 109.79 101.74 188 -7.5%
34 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 67.57 97.40 187 43.8%
35 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 91.94 96.90 214 5.2%
36 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 100.20 96.79 163 -3.6%
37 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 86.25 96.01 190 11.1%
38 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 94.50 92.46 174 -2.4%
39 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 87.88 90.75 190 3.1%
40 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 59.61 89.67 152 50.1%
41 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 66.81 87.53 161 30.7%
42 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 81.09 85.68 181 5.4%
43 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 97.92 83.75 161 -14.7%
44 Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China 93.33 82.56 156 -11.7%
45 Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China 61.36 79.91 273 30.0%
46 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 81.35 79.18 133 -2.9%
47 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 76.57 78.94 186 2.9%
48 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 92.00 77.63 153 -15.8%
49 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 65.86 75.97 151 15.1%
50 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 86.26 75.96 193 -12.1%
51 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 54.84 75.65 140 37.7%
52 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 85.19 75.30 151 -11.8%
53 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 64.02 74.95 114 16.8%
54 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 65.59 73.45 218 11.8%
55 Shandong University (SDU), China 73.94 71.57 182 -3.4%
56 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 89.62 70.86 183 -21.1%
57 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 69.50 70.86 149 1.7%
58 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 77.32 70.67 150 -8.8%
59 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 59.83 70.55 150 17.7%
60 Nagoya University, Japan 56.19 67.19 128 19.3%
61 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 58.45 66.14 140 12.9%
62 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 62.16 65.65 101 5.4%
63 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 81.10 65.03 122 -20.0%
64 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 78.84 64.39 128 -18.5%
65 Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China 61.88 63.96 100 3.1%
66 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 62.88 63.58 138 0.9%
67 Tohoku University, Japan 56.56 62.35 141 10.0%
68 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 55.10 61.69 147 11.7%
69 Hokkaido University, Japan 68.19 61.54 133 -9.9%
70 Kyushu University, Japan 58.03 60.49 129 4.0%
71 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 56.86 60.28 100 5.8%
72 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 62.25 59.62 115 -4.4%
73 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 56.06 59.52 104 6.0%
74 Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China 67.22 59.41 139 -11.8%
75 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 65.51 59.05 151 -10.1%
76 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 73.23 58.95 136 -19.7%
77 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 58.72 58.78 121 -0.1%
78 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 69.40 58.59 135 -15.7%
79 City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China 35.49 57.73 174 62.3%
80 Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China 62.59 57.49 135 -8.3%
81 University of Göttingen, Germany 53.82 56.93 113 5.6%
82 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 55.64 56.31 93 1.0%
83 Southwest University (SWU), China 63.38 55.60 69 -12.5%
84 Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China 73.59 55.45 130 -24.8%
85 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea 49.48 53.74 114 8.4%
86 Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China 61.22 53.61 129 -12.6%
87 Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), China 44.62 53.06 89 18.7%
88 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 59.19 52.20 144 -12.0%
89 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 52.33 52.15 106 -0.5%
90 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 45.79 52.01 143 13.4%
91 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 39.74 51.28 123 28.8%
92 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 70.42 51.14 135 -27.5%
93 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 41.75 50.97 104 21.8%
94 University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 54.32 50.94 156 -6.4%
95 Fuzhou University (FZU), China 79.92 50.38 97 -37.1%
96 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 37.28 49.89 127 33.5%
97 Southeast University (SEU), China 47.37 48.79 94 2.8%
98 Shenzhen University (SZU), China 42.62 48.40 153 13.3%
99 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 42.95 48.09 102 11.8%
100 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 54.51 47.88 86 -12.4%

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, 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 2020 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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