Top 200 institutions in materials science
The table shows leading institutions ranked by their article share (Share) in materials science in 2018. Also listed are each institution's number of materials-science articles (Count) in 2018, proportion of article Share in materials science relative to total Share (Materials science %), and percentage of internationally collaborative articles in materials science (International articles %).
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| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | China | 576.51 | 1,447 | 36.8% | 43.3% |
| 2 | Nanjing University (NJU) | China | 137.23 | 255 | 39.3% | 49.4% |
| 3 | Tsinghua University | China | 122.62 | 283 | 33.8% | 48.8% |
| 4 | Max Planck Society | Germany | 121.28 | 312 | 17.2% | 75.3% |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 119.97 | 224 | 23.6% | 54.0% |
| 6 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | China | 119.83 | 311 | 36.2% | 37.0% |
| 7 | Zhejiang University (ZJU) | China | 117.84 | 225 | 42.3% | 53.3% |
| 8 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | 113.43 | 213 | 34.7% | 54.9% |
| 9 | Peking University (PKU) | China | 107.96 | 268 | 31.2% | 41.4% |
| 10 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 106.51 | 216 | 17.6% | 53.7% |
| 11 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | China | 104.85 | 599 | 33.5% | 36.4% |
| 12 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 103.46 | 202 | 48.0% | 71.8% |
| 13 | Fudan University | China | 103.40 | 200 | 41.2% | 54.0% |
| 14 | Soochow University | China | 101.32 | 183 | 53.4% | 41.5% |
| 15 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 98.62 | 201 | 42.1% | 76.1% |
| 16 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland | 96.66 | 188 | 24.2% | 72.9% |
| 17 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 88.18 | 197 | 20.6% | 46.2% |
| 18 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 79.99 | 185 | 18.5% | 81.1% |
| 19 | Nankai University (NKU) | China | 76.53 | 155 | 43.3% | 38.7% |
| 20 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) | China | 76.27 | 178 | 35.3% | 58.4% |
| 21 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | 73.50 | 124 | 26.8% | 52.4% |
| 22 | Wuhan University (WHU) | China | 72.39 | 120 | 40.5% | 35.0% |
| 23 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 71.54 | 179 | 9.0% | 69.3% |
| 24 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | 69.57 | 123 | 29.0% | 49.6% |
| 25 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea | 68.05 | 127 | 43.9% | 44.9% |
| 26 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Germany | 65.16 | 217 | 15.4% | 77.0% |
| 27 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 62.97 | 138 | 30.2% | 49.3% |
| 28 | Jilin University (JLU) | China | 62.14 | 126 | 57.9% | 36.5% |
| 29 | Hunan University (HNU) | China | 61.82 | 115 | 52.3% | 40.0% |
| 30 | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 60.42 | 182 | 16.5% | 60.4% |
| 31 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 58.64 | 176 | 43.2% | 73.9% |
| 32 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | United States of America (USA) | 58.40 | 235 | 33.9% | 65.1% |
| 33 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 57.94 | 125 | 14.8% | 69.6% |
| 34 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 57.33 | 119 | 34.6% | 42.9% |
| 35 | Sichuan University (SCU) | China | 57.27 | 98 | 32.2% | 36.7% |
| 36 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | Saudi Arabia | 56.94 | 122 | 54.8% | 79.5% |
| 37 | Kyoto University | Japan | 55.93 | 113 | 20.2% | 37.2% |
| 38 | South China University of Technology (SCUT) | China | 55.76 | 126 | 52.3% | 37.3% |
| 39 | Beihang University (BUAA) | China | 54.99 | 129 | 74.7% | 39.5% |
| 40 | East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) | China | 54.32 | 91 | 52.0% | 41.8% |
| 41 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 54.05 | 133 | 25.0% | 78.2% |
| 42 | Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) | China | 53.82 | 208 | 60.5% | 27.4% |
| 43 | Xiamen University (XMU) | China | 53.59 | 95 | 36.0% | 42.1% |
| 44 | Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | China | 53.02 | 110 | 51.3% | 43.6% |
| 45 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 52.57 | 116 | 16.7% | 70.7% |
| 46 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) | China | 51.48 | 116 | 37.3% | 50.0% |
| 47 | Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) | China | 50.77 | 103 | 69.8% | 47.6% |
| 48 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 49.69 | 115 | 18.1% | 47.0% |
| 49 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 48.62 | 92 | 14.5% | 45.7% |
| 50 | Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) | China | 47.86 | 119 | 48.8% | 67.2% |
| 51 | Tianjin University (TJU) | China | 47.67 | 150 | 52.8% | 42.0% |
| 52 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | 47.34 | 84 | 15.7% | 44.0% |
| 53 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea | 47.23 | 105 | 62.2% | 43.8% |
| 54 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 47.10 | 85 | 15.1% | 49.4% |
| 55 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 47.10 | 106 | 21.9% | 73.6% |
| 56 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | China | 47.08 | 93 | 24.6% | 41.9% |
| 57 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | United States of America (USA) | 46.96 | 149 | 50.2% | 57.0% |
| 58 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | 46.61 | 108 | 54.8% | 51.9% |
| 59 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 46.40 | 79 | 16.3% | 49.4% |
| 60 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | 46.19 | 72 | 19.5% | 37.5% |
| 61 | University of Toronto (U of T) | Canada | 45.13 | 77 | 14.0% | 70.1% |
| 62 | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) | South Korea | 45.08 | 96 | 65.9% | 45.8% |
| 63 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 42.75 | 91 | 28.6% | 54.9% |
| 64 | Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) | Netherlands | 41.48 | 87 | 67.2% | 63.2% |
| 65 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 41.00 | 78 | 33.2% | 33.3% |
| 66 | University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | United States of America (USA) | 40.91 | 75 | 27.8% | 45.3% |
| 67 | Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) | United States of America (USA) | 40.86 | 162 | 42.4% | 55.6% |
| 68 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | 40.57 | 77 | 24.5% | 55.8% |
| 69 | Fuzhou University (FZU) | China | 40.11 | 58 | 63.9% | 27.6% |
| 70 | Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) | China | 40.08 | 88 | 52.4% | 50.0% |
| 71 | Southeast University (SEU) | China | 39.87 | 71 | 53.2% | 39.4% |
| 72 | Leibniz Association | Germany | 39.69 | 128 | 21.0% | 77.3% |
| 73 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | 38.87 | 97 | 37.4% | 40.2% |
| 74 | National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | Japan | 37.37 | 155 | 54.2% | 83.2% |
| 75 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 37.32 | 86 | 19.0% | 55.8% |
| 76 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 36.29 | 87 | 11.8% | 66.7% |
| 77 | Yonsei University | South Korea | 36.07 | 68 | 42.6% | 47.1% |
| 78 | Shandong University (SDU) | China | 35.96 | 65 | 33.3% | 35.4% |
| 79 | Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) | China | 35.80 | 96 | 51.1% | 43.8% |
| 80 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | 35.38 | 84 | 39.3% | 70.2% |
| 81 | Dalian University of Technology (DUT) | China | 35.36 | 65 | 41.7% | 52.3% |
| 82 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | 33.54 | 77 | 24.7% | 71.4% |
| 83 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | 33.27 | 81 | 28.9% | 77.8% |
| 84 | Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) | India | 33.14 | 60 | 15.0% | 55.0% |
| 85 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 32.54 | 72 | 12.6% | 65.3% |
| 86 | U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | United States of America (USA) | 32.45 | 84 | 40.1% | 39.3% |
| 87 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 32.27 | 71 | 16.2% | 54.9% |
| 88 | Osaka University | Japan | 32.27 | 68 | 19.5% | 47.1% |
| 89 | University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) | United States of America (USA) | 31.78 | 65 | 39.4% | 60.0% |
| 90 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | United States of America (USA) | 31.23 | 57 | 21.5% | 63.2% |
| 91 | The University of Manchester (UoM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 31.20 | 70 | 22.6% | 72.9% |
| 92 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | United States of America (USA) | 30.77 | 61 | 41.4% | 50.8% |
| 93 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | 30.46 | 59 | 17.6% | 52.5% |
| 94 | University of California, Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | 30.40 | 61 | 19.6% | 47.5% |
| 95 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 30.35 | 54 | 9.0% | 66.7% |
| 96 | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | United States of America (USA) | 30.17 | 89 | 44.7% | 50.6% |
| 97 | The University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 30.17 | 51 | 24.4% | 60.8% |
| 98 | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | Netherlands | 29.94 | 66 | 33.9% | 78.8% |
| 99 | Tohoku University | Japan | 29.85 | 86 | 19.1% | 57.0% |
| 100 | University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) | China | 29.51 | 76 | 63.9% | 46.1% |
| 101 | Institute for Basic Science (IBS) | South Korea | 29.18 | 115 | 33.9% | 49.6% |
| 102 | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Spain | 29.16 | 88 | 27.2% | 78.4% |
| 103 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 29.07 | 51 | 44.7% | 64.7% |
| 104 | Central South University (CSU) | China | 28.87 | 64 | 49.8% | 50.0% |
| 105 | East China Normal University (ECNU) | China | 28.39 | 59 | 28.7% | 40.7% |
| 106 | Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) | Russia | 28.27 | 98 | 15.0% | 83.7% |
| 107 | Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) | China | 28.23 | 86 | 31.9% | 54.7% |
| 108 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) | Israel | 28.19 | 54 | 26.5% | 66.7% |
| 109 | Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) | Spain | 28.15 | 79 | 25.2% | 82.3% |
| 110 | Southwest University (SWU) | China | 28.12 | 35 | 52.2% | 17.1% |
| 111 | Kyushu University | Japan | 28.09 | 55 | 32.6% | 52.7% |
| 112 | Shenzhen University (SZU) | China | 28.01 | 81 | 55.2% | 42.0% |
| 113 | Monash University | Australia | 27.94 | 75 | 23.4% | 84.0% |
| 114 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 27.93 | 53 | 10.0% | 56.6% |
| 115 | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 27.92 | 57 | 19.1% | 61.4% |
| 116 | National Research Council (CNR) | Italy | 27.84 | 126 | 30.2% | 77.8% |
| 117 | Shandong Normal University (SDNU) | China | 27.62 | 47 | 41.6% | 25.5% |
| 118 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | 27.56 | 55 | 16.8% | 52.7% |
| 119 | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Japan | 27.21 | 70 | 42.2% | 52.9% |
| 120 | Nagoya University | Japan | 27.15 | 53 | 21.4% | 47.2% |
| 121 | University of California, Riverside (UCR) | United States of America (USA) | 26.70 | 56 | 25.5% | 64.3% |
| 122 | City University of Hong Kong (CityU) | China | 26.51 | 84 | 52.4% | 45.2% |
| 123 | Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) | China | 26.45 | 61 | 64.0% | 65.6% |
| 124 | Iowa State University | United States of America (USA) | 26.32 | 52 | 35.9% | 53.8% |
| 125 | McGill University | Canada | 26.26 | 49 | 19.1% | 57.1% |
| 126 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) | Germany | 26.24 | 51 | 28.4% | 54.9% |
| 127 | Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU) | China | 25.83 | 44 | 55.8% | 36.4% |
| 128 | RIKEN | Japan | 25.70 | 89 | 17.8% | 50.6% |
| 129 | Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) | Germany | 25.42 | 85 | 32.7% | 70.6% |
| 130 | Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) | United States of America (USA) | 25.02 | 100 | 40.0% | 61.0% |
| 131 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | 24.81 | 43 | 14.3% | 72.1% |
| 132 | Utrecht University (UU) | Netherlands | 24.63 | 49 | 19.5% | 65.3% |
| 133 | Korea University (KU) | South Korea | 24.55 | 53 | 49.9% | 39.6% |
| 134 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | China | 24.49 | 65 | 30.7% | 47.7% |
| 135 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | 24.45 | 46 | 12.9% | 34.8% |
| 136 | The University of Akron (UAkron) | United States of America (USA) | 24.35 | 34 | 80.0% | 23.5% |
| 137 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) | United States of America (USA) | 23.91 | 53 | 39.3% | 62.3% |
| 138 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | United States of America (USA) | 23.71 | 48 | 6.2% | 72.9% |
| 139 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) | China | 23.59 | 88 | 61.6% | 63.6% |
| 140 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) | Germany | 23.55 | 62 | 27.1% | 72.6% |
| 141 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 23.39 | 53 | 21.8% | 66.0% |
| 142 | University of Notre Dame (ND) | United States of America (USA) | 22.96 | 36 | 34.0% | 30.6% |
| 143 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 22.92 | 41 | 15.3% | 39.0% |
| 144 | University of Groningen (RUG) | Netherlands | 22.64 | 45 | 26.6% | 80.0% |
| 145 | Arizona State University (ASU) | United States of America (USA) | 22.32 | 45 | 23.0% | 53.3% |
| 146 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | 22.31 | 40 | 20.2% | 62.5% |
| 147 | Ghent University (UGent) | Belgium | 22.30 | 39 | 27.4% | 66.7% |
| 148 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 22.20 | 37 | 16.0% | 48.6% |
| 149 | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) | Singapore | 21.99 | 80 | 31.6% | 67.5% |
| 150 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) | India | 21.98 | 33 | 28.4% | 48.5% |
| 151 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 21.88 | 66 | 31.4% | 66.7% |
| 152 | Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) | China | 21.87 | 54 | 53.4% | 48.1% |
| 153 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) | United States of America (USA) | 21.40 | 50 | 24.8% | 50.0% |
| 154 | Aalto University | Finland | 21.19 | 49 | 52.8% | 87.8% |
| 155 | Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) | Italy | 21.16 | 49 | 63.7% | 65.3% |
| 156 | Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers) | Sweden | 20.87 | 39 | 38.7% | 76.9% |
| 157 | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | United States of America (USA) | 20.71 | 50 | 27.3% | 50.0% |
| 158 | Zhengzhou University (ZZU) | China | 20.39 | 58 | 44.4% | 63.8% |
| 159 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) | China | 20.25 | 60 | 59.0% | 46.7% |
| 160 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 20.20 | 54 | 10.3% | 42.6% |
| 161 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 20.03 | 46 | 16.1% | 63.0% |
| 162 | University of Houston (UH) | United States of America (USA) | 20.01 | 34 | 33.1% | 38.2% |
| 163 | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) | South Korea | 19.84 | 38 | 64.1% | 55.3% |
| 164 | The University of Warwick (Warwick) | United Kingdom (UK) | 19.59 | 43 | 29.2% | 37.2% |
| 165 | Lanzhou University (LZU) | China | 19.40 | 49 | 18.0% | 40.8% |
| 166 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 19.37 | 51 | 9.0% | 56.9% |
| 167 | Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) | India | 19.24 | 33 | 17.3% | 39.4% |
| 168 | Beijing Normal University (BNU) | China | 19.13 | 48 | 21.0% | 47.9% |
| 169 | Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) | Belgium | 19.12 | 43 | 19.1% | 79.1% |
| 170 | IBM Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 19.02 | 44 | 47.9% | 68.2% |
| 171 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) | China | 18.87 | 44 | 51.6% | 50.0% |
| 172 | University of Würzburg (JMU) | Germany | 18.81 | 37 | 20.7% | 64.9% |
| 173 | Tongji University | China | 18.76 | 49 | 28.7% | 44.9% |
| 174 | Queensland University of Technology (QUT) | Australia | 17.97 | 45 | 66.3% | 84.4% |
| 175 | Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin) | China | 17.74 | 121 | 44.4% | 20.7% |
| 176 | University of Bristol (UoB) | United Kingdom (UK) | 17.73 | 36 | 12.7% | 63.9% |
| 177 | Lund University (LU) | Sweden | 17.55 | 43 | 22.8% | 83.7% |
| 178 | The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) | United States of America (USA) | 17.47 | 65 | 36.9% | 53.8% |
| 179 | University of Twente (UTwente) | Netherlands | 17.41 | 34 | 51.3% | 64.7% |
| 180 | Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) | China | 17.29 | 30 | 53.4% | 26.7% |
| 181 | Technical University of Denmark (DTU) | Denmark | 17.27 | 48 | 24.1% | 72.9% |
| 182 | University College London (UCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 17.00 | 47 | 9.2% | 68.1% |
| 183 | Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) | South Korea | 16.67 | 60 | 54.6% | 46.7% |
| 184 | University of Jinan (UJN) | China | 16.52 | 28 | 71.3% | 17.9% |
| 185 | Hanyang University (HYU) | South Korea | 16.48 | 43 | 45.3% | 58.1% |
| 186 | University of California, Davis (UC Davis) | United States of America (USA) | 16.33 | 38 | 9.5% | 57.9% |
| 187 | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) | Switzerland | 16.32 | 51 | 64.7% | 78.4% |
| 188 | National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) | Taiwan | 16.31 | 47 | 36.9% | 63.8% |
| 189 | Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) | United States of America (USA) | 16.12 | 48 | 21.0% | 68.8% |
| 190 | Nanjing Normal University (NNU) | China | 15.97 | 30 | 40.2% | 26.7% |
| 191 | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) | Australia | 15.86 | 38 | 59.8% | 63.2% |
| 192 | RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen) | Germany | 15.83 | 53 | 19.0% | 71.7% |
| 193 | Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) | Germany | 15.74 | 47 | 21.7% | 74.5% |
| 194 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) | Israel | 15.45 | 31 | 18.2% | 58.1% |
| 195 | University of Fribourg (UNIFR) | Switzerland | 15.26 | 27 | 55.5% | 63.0% |
| 196 | The University of British Columbia (UBC) | Canada | 15.24 | 31 | 12.4% | 71.0% |
| 197 | Uppsala University (UU) | Sweden | 15.07 | 34 | 16.5% | 73.5% |
| 198 | Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) | Switzerland | 15.06 | 61 | 33.3% | 86.9% |
| 199 | The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) | United States of America (USA) | 15.05 | 38 | 36.6% | 57.9% |
| 200 | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) | India | 15.02 | 25 | 16.4% | 32.0% |