Top 10 Institutions in Chemistry

Saudi Arabia’s leading institutions for high-quality science, ordered by weighted fractional count (WFC) for 2016. Also shown are WFC from 2012, the change in WFC between 2012 and 2016 and the article count (Count) for 2016. Subject area tables draw from institutions of the wider Middle East region. Articles are from the 68 journals that comprise the Nature Index.

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Rank 2016	Institution	WFC 2012	WFC 2016	Change in WFC 2012–2016*	Count 2016
1	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	18.96	50.88	168.4%	112
2	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	31.82	40.40	27.0%	72
3	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	33.43	37.87	13.3%	57
4	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	14.41	30.99	115.1%	59
5	Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel	21.07	20.02	-5.0%	39
6	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel	16.65	12.84	-22.9%	28
7	Bar-Ilan University (BIU), Israel	5.99	9.77	63.2%	17
8	King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia	3.40	7.37	116.8%	68
9	University of Cyprus	2.51	6.89	174.5%	12
10	Bilkent University, Turkey	7.55	5.08	-32.7%	10

Footnote

* Percentage change is only shown for institutions with a 2016 WFC of more than 1.