2021 tables: Institutions - chemistry

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 New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia 54.50 51.37 157 -6.0%
2 Monash University, Australia 45.25 42.78 124 -5.7%
3 The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia 31.68 34.21 111 7.7%
4 The University of Melbourne (UniMelb), Australia 24.07 32.78 86 35.8%
5 The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia 23.98 27.76 85 15.4%
6 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 37.13 23.44 64 -37.0%
7 University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia 23.11 19.81 72 -14.5%
8 The University of Adelaide (Adelaide Uni), Australia 18.91 19.18 46 1.1%
9 University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia 6.10 17.23 44 181.7%
10 Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia 16.13 16.98 51 4.9%
11 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), Australia 9.54 13.70 51 43.2%
12 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 7.27 9.69 54 32.9%
13 Griffith University, Australia 9.10 9.30 28 1.9%
14 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia 9.32 8.04 57 -14.0%
15 Deakin University, Australia 7.63 7.82 23 2.2%
16 Macquarie University, Australia 7.26 7.68 29 5.5%
17 Curtin University, Australia 10.27 6.36 23 -38.3%
18 The University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia 12.88 5.23 31 -59.5%
19 La Trobe University, Australia 6.38 4.89 17 -23.6%
20 Swinburne University of Technology, Australia 2.31 3.95 17 70.6%
21 University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia 4.34 3.87 13 -10.9%
22 The University of South Australia (UniSA), Australia 3.22 2.53 15 -21.7%
23 Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Australia 0.84 2.52 9 199.0%
24 Flinders University, Australia 1.50 1.83 5 21.3%
25 Western Sydney University, Australia 0.78 1.55 12 97.0%
26 The University of Newcastle (UON), Australia 3.60 1.26 8 -65.1%
27 University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Australia 0.81 1.02 4 24.8%
28 Melbourne Health, Australia 0.14 0.93 7 548.5%
29 Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia 0.32 0.89 4 178.4%
30 Microbial Screening Technologies, Australia 0.48 0.83 3 71.2%
31 QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia 0.79 0.78 4 -1.9%
32 James Cook University (JCU), Australia 0.67 0.71 3 6.4%
33 Murdoch University, Australia 0.10 0.68 4 600.0%
34 Bioresource Processing Institute of Australia (BioPRIA), Australia – 0.67 1 N/A
35 CSL Limited, Australia 0.04 0.64 2 1481.2%
36 Charles Darwin University (CDU), Australia 0.78 0.62 4 -20.6%
37 Trajan Scientific and Medical, Australia 0.36 0.61 2 72.4%
38 Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI), Australia 0.74 0.53 3 -28.3%
39 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac), Australia 1.59 0.39 3 -75.6%
40 Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia 0.04 0.38 3 895.6%
41 Silicon Quantum Computing Pty Ltd., Australia – 0.36 1 N/A
42 TGR BioSciences Pty Ltd, Australia – 0.25 1 N/A
43 The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne (RCH), Australia – 0.25 1 N/A
44 The Heart Research Institute (HRI), Australia 0.16 0.24 3 55.4%
45 Geoscience Australia, Australia 0.08 0.20 1 139.3%
45 Department of Defence, Australia, Australia – 0.20 1 N/A
45 Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Australia – 0.20 1 N/A
46 Charles Sturt University (CSU), Australia – 0.20 2 N/A
47 AviPep Pty Ltd., Australia – 0.18 1 N/A
48 St Vincent's Health Australia, Australia 0.15 0.17 1 13.8%
49 New South Wales Wine Industry Association (NSWWIA), Australia – 0.15 1 N/A
50 Ferronova Pty Ltd., Australia – 0.12 1 N/A
51 Government of Western Australia, Australia 0.60 0.11 1 -81.7%
52 Microscopy Solutions Pty., Australia – 0.09 1 N/A
53 Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia – 0.08 2 N/A
54 Alfred Health, Australia 0.07 0.08 2 25.9%
55 Sydney Water Corporation, Australia – 0.08 1 N/A
56 Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Australia 0.09 0.06 2 -32.7%
57 Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia 0.78 0.06 1 -92.9%
57 Western Health, Australia – 0.06 1 N/A
58 University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia 0.94 0.05 1 -95.2%
59 Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Australia 0.05 0.02 1 -57.0%
59 Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Australia – 0.02 1 N/A
60 NSW Department of Industry, Australia – 0.01 1 N/A
61 Global Carbon Project, Australia – 0.01 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.
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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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