Top 30 academic institutions under 30

The table shows the top 30 academic institutions established as universities in 1988 or later. Institutions are ranked by change in adjusted fractional count (Adjusted FC*) from 2015 to 2017. Also listed are an institution's FC and total number of articles (AC) in 2017, and percentage change in Adjusted FC from 2015 to 2017.

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1	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)	2009	China	67.60	195	51.90	330.5 %
2	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	2009	Saudi Arabia	109.98	237	21.56	24.4 %
3	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI)	2005	India	50.20	188	20.36	68.2 %
4	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)	2006	India	98.21	246	19.20	24.3 %
5	ShanghaiTech University	2013	China	23.67	129	18.56	363.7 %
6	Central South University (CSU)	2000	China	43.75	114	16.61	61.2 %
7	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	2007	South Korea	77.17	162	15.26	24.7 %
8	Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)	2009	Austria	24.37	53	13.49	124.0 %
9	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	1991	China	106.51	315	9.37	9.6 %
10	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)	2011	Japan	21.17	45	7.70	57.2 %
11	Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)	2004	South Korea	13.99	45	7.26	108.0 %
12	Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC)	2015	Thailand	6.64	15	6.39	2602.3 %
13	Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)	2009	Singapore	11.65	31	5.90	102.7 %
14	University of Luxembourg	2003	Luxembourg	9.61	40	5.36	126.0 %
15	University of Eastern Finland (UEF)	2010	Finland	12.31	59	5.27	74.9 %
16	Grenoble Alpes University (UGA)	2016	France	55.88	563	5.13	10.1 %
17	National Chung Cheng University (CCU)	1989	Taiwan	7.56	10	4.94	188.4 %
18	Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)	1998	Switzerland	9.59	89	4.35	83.1 %
19	University of Miyazaki	2003	Japan	4.77	33	3.77	379.3 %
20	University of Science and Technology (UST)	2003	South Korea	11.66	71	3.71	46.6 %
21	Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M)	1989	Spain	5.55	23	3.61	186.3 %
22	The Kitasato Institute	2008	Japan	10.86	22	3.57	49.1 %
23	Nottingham Trent University	1992	United Kingdom (UK)	3.72	15	3.55	2085.5 %
24	University of Yamanashi	2002	Japan	7.19	22	3.47	93.2 %
25	Medical University of Graz (Med Uni Graz)	2004	Austria	5.26	42	3.46	192.4 %
26	University of Plymouth	1992	United Kingdom (UK)	11.12	32	3.42	44.4 %
27	University of Stavanger (UiS)	2005	Norway	5.38	11	3.33	162.0 %
28	Shiv Nadar University (SNU)	2011	India	4.17	7	3.11	293.5 %
29	Damghan University	1988	Iran	3.27	6	3.08	1596.3 %
30	University of California Merced	2005	United States of America (USA)	11.58	41	3.07	36.0 %

* FC figures are adjusted to 2017 levels.
¹ Formed from 10 research institutions of the Indian Department of Atomic Energy in 2005.
² 2015 output based on FC of three institutions that merged in 2016 to form Grenoble Alpes University.
³ Created in 2008 from the merger of the former Kitasato Institute and Kitasato University.
⁴ Founded as a university from Trent Polytechnic in 1992.
⁵ Gained university status in 1992.

Top 30 academic institutions under 30

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