Top 25 / Chemistry
The leading institutions for high-quality science in the United States, ordered by weighted fractional count (WFC) for 2016. Also shown are WFC for 2012, the change in WFC between 2012 and 2016, and the 2016 article count (AC). The top 10 states are ranked by summing the WFC for all institutions in each state. The top 10 institutions in each state are shown (see A guide to the Nature Index, page S26).
| Rank | Institution | State | WFC 2012 |
WFC 2016 |
Change in WFC 2012–2016 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Massachusetts | 176.4 | 156.0 | -12% | 317 |
| 2 | Stanford University | California | 149.0 | 142.0 | -5% | 257 |
| 3 | Harvard University | Massachusetts | 171.3 | 123.5 | -28% | 245 |
| 4 | Northwestern University (NU) | Illinois | 176.3 | 119.5 | -32% | 228 |
| 5 | University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | California | 132.1 | 117.1 | -11% | 248 |
| 6 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | Texas | 117.8 | 109.9 | -7% | 151 |
| 7 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | Illinois | 108.0 | 107.0 | -1% | 203 |
| 8 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | California | 89.2 | 88.5 | -1% | 135 |
| 9 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | Minnesota | 62.1 | 78.4 | 26% | 126 |
| 10 | University of Michigan (U-M) | Michigan | 95.7 | 78.0 | -18% | 130 |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | Pennsylvania | 62.1 | 76.3 | 23% | 117 |
| 12 | The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) | California | 111.0 | 75.1 | -32% | 115 |
| 13 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | Wisconsin | 110.4 | 72.0 | -35% | 114 |
| 14 | University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) | California | 106.8 | 71.3 | -33% | 132 |
| 15 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | California | 67.5 | 69.8 | 3% | 249 |
| 16 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | California | 83.0 | 67.2 | -19% | 139 |
| 17 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | North Carolina | 84.0 | 67.1 | -20% | 107 |
| 18 | Yale University | Connecticut | 57.4 | 65.1 | 14% | 120 |
| 19 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | Texas | 62.9 | 58.9 | -6% | 86 |
| 20 | University of California Irvine (UCI) | California | 53.6 | 58.6 | 9% | 84 |
| 21 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | New York | 68.3 | 58.3 | -15% | 115 |
| 22 | Cornell University | New York | 69.2 | 58.1 | -16% | 118 |
| 23 | Purdue University | Indiana | 73.3 | 56.4 | -23% | 99 |
| 24 | University of Washington (UW) | Washington | 77.8 | 55.2 | -29% | 95 |
| 25 | University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) | California | 83.1 | 53.9 | -35% | 109 |
