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World university rankings: explained
22 August 2019
Bec Crew
How the most widely cited global rankings are measured, and which institutions made their top tens for 2019.
Harvard University’s top 5 authors in life sciences
23 July 2019
Bec Crew
These scientists are Harvard’s most prolific authors of high-quality life sciences papers.
The top 10 countries for scientific research in 2018
1 July 2019
Bec Crew
These countries were the year's largest contributors to papers published in the past year in the 82 leading journals tracked by the Nature Index.
The top 10 research institutions for 2018
20 June 2019
Nature Index
These institutions were the largest contributors to papers published in the past year in the 82 leading journals tracked by the Nature Index.
The top 10 institutions for life sciences in 2018
20 June 2019
Nature Index
These institutions were the largest contributors to life-sciences papers published in the 82 leading journals tracked by the Nature Index in 2018.
The top 10 institutions for physical sciences in 2018
20 June 2019
Nature Index
These institutions were the largest contributors to physical-science papers for 2018 published in the 82 leading journals tracked by the Nature Index.The top 10 institutions for chemistry in 2018
20 June 2019
Nature Index
These 10 institutions in the Nature Index were the largest contributors to chemistry papers published in 82 leading journals in 2018.
The top 10 academic institutions in 2018
20 June 2019
Nature Index
Among the world’s academic institutions, these were the largest contributors to articles tracked by the Nature Index.
The top 10 academic institutions in 2018: normalized
20 June 2019
Nature Index
This ranking shows which institutions might be punching above their weight in producing high-quality research.
False news travels fast
28 December 2018
Gemma Conroy
One of the year’s hottest papers shows online
story-tellers are lukewarm when it comes to truth.
Science cities: Discovery central
5 December 2018
Hepeng Jia
A hive of innovation, Wuhan has stormed up the Nature Index, but competition for talent is heating up.
11 up-and-coming researchers in the natural sciences
20 September 2018
Catherine Armitage et al.
These newcomers are making their mark in science across the disciplines.
High-profile journals put to reproducibility test
30 August 2018
Philip Ball
Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature — a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market.
Science career ads are disproportionately seen by men
1 August 2018
Dina Fine Maron
Marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing the advertising, even though it’s illegal to target jobs to one gender.
Annual tables 2018: China and Japan lead in chemistry
19 July 2018
Gemma Conroy
Institutions in China and Japan dominate the chemistry top 10 in the Nature Index.
Nature Index introduces multilateral collaboration score
28 June 2018
Catherine Armitage
A new measure accounts
for research collaboration within and between groups
10 institutions that dominated science in 2017
12 June 2018
Gemma Conroy
These top 10 institutions in the Nature Index were the largest contributors to papers published in 82 leading journals in the past year.
2018 Annual Tables: Tsinghua joins elite group of research universities
7 June 2018
Smriti Mallapaty
Two Beijing-based universities are among the top 10 academic institutions in the Nature Index.
Citation analysis reveals the game changers
29 May 2018
Gemma Conroy
A study identifies papers that stand the test of time.
Japan bets on science diplomacy
16 April 2018
Daniel Hurst
International collaborations are rising, but not enough to put Japan on the global researcher circuit.
The top academic and corporate partners in the Nature Index
8 December 2017
Mark Zastrow
Corporate collaboration boosts buzz on research
1 December 2017
Nature Index
Papers authored by academic and corporate partners are more widely discussed online.
Scramble for US science dollars set to intensify
10 November 2017
Scott Andes and Daniel Correa
Even if the biggest cuts since World War II don't eventuate, alternative funding sources must be found.
Mouse pee, spider poison, and wasps' nests: 2017 Nobel research faces earthly problems
4 October 2017
Katherine Bourzac
Michael Sporn: A legacy of greater knowledge
10 August 2017
Elie Dolgin
For the love of discovery, a biochemist freely shared the research which laid the groundwork for widely-used drugs.
Global universities ranked by a different measure
8 June 2017
Ivy Shih
Find out how the top 20 institutions in the QS University Rankings 2018 measure up in the index.
Top 10 research universities in the US in 2015
17 June 2016
Nicky Phillips
It's a battle between the east and west coast.
Ten institutions that dominated science in 2015
20 April 2016
Sarah O'Meara
The top 10 institutions in the Nature Index are the largest contributors to papers published in 68 leading journals in 2015
