2021 tables: Institutions - Nature & Science

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 Toronto (U of T), Canada 11.74 15.62 54 20.7%
2 McGill University, Canada 5.77 7.62 42 20.0%
3 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 4.68 4.18 30 -18.9%
4 University of Montreal (UdeM), Canada 1.44 3.25 30 105.0%
5 University of Alberta (U of A), Canada 0.79 2.72 10 212.6%
6 Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada 0.22 1.87 10 655.6%
7 University of Calgary (U of C), Canada 0.54 1.31 9 120.5%
8 University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Canada 0.16 0.90 12 406.1%
9 McMaster University, Canada 0.81 0.81 4 -9.5%
10 University of Waterloo, Canada 0.10 0.78 5 606.2%
11 Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Canada 0.00 0.53 5 10440.6%
12 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Canada 0.32 0.49 4 39.6%
13 National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS), Canada – 0.45 5 N/A
14 Western University (UWO), Canada 0.16 0.37 2 112.7%
15 Laval University (UL), Canada 0.13 0.34 8 133.8%
16 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Canada 0.32 0.32 10 -8.7%
17 Carleton University, Canada 0.28 0.31 4 1.2%
18 National Research Council (NRC), Canada 0.55 0.30 8 -49.6%
19 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Canada 0.28 0.30 11 0.3%
20 University of Sherbrooke (USherbrooke), Canada 1.46 0.27 4 -83.1%
21 Concordia University, Canada 0.07 0.27 7 233.6%
22 Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada 0.00 0.26 6 5020.3%
23 TRIUMF, Canada 0.06 0.19 2 185.8%
24 York University, Canada 1.22 0.19 8 -86.0%
25 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada 0.33 0.18 4 -50.4%
26 University of Victoria (UVic), Canada 1.09 0.18 6 -85.3%
27 University of Saskatchewan (U of S), Canada 0.71 0.17 4 -78.4%
28 University of Winnipeg, Canada 0.02 0.16 3 517.1%
29 University of Windsor (UWin), Canada 0.02 0.16 2 546.7%
30 Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada – 0.15 3 N/A
31 Polytechnique Montréal, Canada 0.57 0.14 1 -77.3%
31 University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canada – 0.14 1 N/A
32 University of Manitoba, Canada 0.18 0.12 5 -37.2%
33 Alberta Health Services (AHS), Canada 0.26 0.12 3 -57.9%
34 Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Canada 0.36 0.11 2 -72.1%
35 Vancouver Island University (VIU), Canada – 0.10 1 N/A
35 Outer Shores Expeditions, Canada – 0.10 1 N/A
36 Dalhousie University, Canada 0.07 0.09 7 19.2%
37 Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Canada 0.14 0.08 4 -49.9%
38 University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres (UQTR), Canada – 0.08 1 N/A
39 Hakai Institute, Canada – 0.07 1 N/A
40 Queen's University, Canada 0.07 0.06 3 -15.7%
41 Few-cycle Inc., Canada – 0.06 1 N/A
42 Unity Health Toronto, Canada 0.05 0.06 1 10.0%
42 Acuitas Therapeutics, Canada – 0.06 1 N/A
43 SciTech Environmental Consulting, Canada – 0.05 1 N/A
44 St. Francis Xavier University (StFX), Canada – 0.05 1 N/A
45 Montreal Cancer Institute (ICM), Canada 0.07 0.04 1 -47.6%
46 Vector Institute, Canada – 0.04 2 N/A
47 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canada 0.01 0.04 1 241.2%
48 Government of Northwest Territories, Canada – 0.03 1 N/A
49 University of Moncton, Canada – 0.03 1 N/A
50 Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada 0.12 0.03 1 -80.5%
51 Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Canada 0.21 0.02 2 -90.8%
52 Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), Canada 0.00 0.02 3 7106.4%
53 Bishop's University, Canada 0.00 0.02 1 226.2%
54 Canadian Grain Commission, Canada – 0.02 1 N/A
55 IWK Health Centre, Canada – 0.01 3 N/A
56 Marianopolis College, Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
56 University of Quebec, Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
57 High Arctic Gull Research Group, Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
58 Genome Canada, Canada 0.01 0.01 3 9.5%
59 CancerCare Manitoba (CCMB), Canada 0.04 0.01 1 -72.1%
60 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada 0.01 0.01 2 2.9%
60 Génome Québec, Canada 0.01 0.01 2 2.9%
61 Providence Health Care, Canada 0.00 0.01 1 3282.8%
62 Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), Canada 0.05 0.01 1 -80.7%
63 PotashCorp, Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
64 Fleming College (Sutherland Campus), Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
65 Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Canada 0.04 0.01 3 -79.0%
66 Thoth Technology Inc., Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
67 Yukon Department of Environment, Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
67 Acadia University, Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
67 Polar Knowledge Canada, Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
67 British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, Canada – 0.01 1 N/A
68 University of Guelph, Canada 0.13 0.01 1 -96.4%
69 Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), Canada 0.00 0.00 2 135.8%
70 Statistics Canada, Canada 0.00 0.00 1 18.1%
71 Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Canada 0.00 0.00 2 -14.2%
72 Government of Nunavut, Canada – 0.00 1 N/A
73 Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada 0.00 0.00 1 1200.1%
73 TÉLUQ University, Canada 0.00 0.00 1 1200.1%
74 University of Regina, Canada – 0.00 1 N/A
75 Laurentian University, Canada 0.20 0.00 1 -99.3%
76 Health Canada (HC-SC), Canada – 0.00 1 N/A
77 Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC), Canada – 0.00 2 N/A
78 Argmix Consulting, Canada – 0.00 1 N/A
79 Spatio-Temporal Targeting and Amplification of Radiation Response Program (STTARR), Canada – 0.00 1 N/A
80 Canadian Center for Computational Genomics (C3G), Canada – 0.00 1 N/A
81 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada – 0.00 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.
  3. Nature Index recognizes that many other factors must be taken into account when considering research quality and institutional performance; Nature Index metrics alone should not be used to assess institutions or individuals.
  4. Nature Index data and methods are transparent and available under a creative commons licence at nature.com/nature-index/.

The Nature Index database undergoes regular updating, corrections, adjustment of institutional hierarchies, and removal of retracted papers and thus the live website can differ from the frozen annual tables.

*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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