Top 50 young universities in chemistry

The table shows the top 50 young universities* in chemistry ranked by their fractional count in 2018 (FC 2018). Also listed are each university's article count of the year (AC 2018) in the subject.

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Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Year established	FC 2018	AC 2018
1	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)	China	1978	146.74	814
2	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	1991	140.80	277
3	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	1969	102.82	193
4	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea	1971	74.34	149
5	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	Saudi Arabia	2009	57.88	135
6	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)	China	2012	57.12	132
7	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	1986	47.04	117
8	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	China	1991	46.53	115
9	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea	2009	36.07	83
10	City University of Hong Kong (CityU)	China	1994	31.34	109
11	Shenzhen University (SZU)	China	1983	29.69	94
12	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal)	India	2008	28.61	35
13	University of Paris-Sud (UPSud)	France	1970	26.44	125
14	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune (IISER Pune)	India	2006	23.70	32
15	ShanghaiTech University	China	2013	22.48	75
16	Changzhou University (CZU)	China	1978	21.69	34
17	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR)	India	1989	20.82	28
18	The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)	United States of America (USA)	1969	18.47	33
19	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)	South Korea	1993	18.45	28
20	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati)	India	1994	17.30	19
21	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	1989	17.24	46
22	Tianjin University of Technology (TUT)	China	1979	15.41	47
23	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)	China	1994	15.36	53
24	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU)	Israel	1969	15.05	28
25	University of Bayreuth (UBT)	Germany	1975	14.91	38
26	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)	Australia	1992	13.82	45
27	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata)	India	2006	13.65	22
28	Linköping University (LiU)	Sweden	1975	13.42	40
29	The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas)	United States of America (USA)	1969	12.75	30
30	Yangzhou University (YZU)	China	1992	11.84	26
31	Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)	South Korea	2004	11.15	25
32	University of Macau (UM)	China	1981	11.14	36
33	University of Hyderabad (UoH)	India	1974	10.55	12
34	Bielefeld University	Germany	1969	10.28	22
35	University of Technology Sydney (UTS)	Australia	1988	10.17	22
36	University of Limerick (UL)	Ireland	1972	9.78	19
37	University of Wollongong (UOW)	Australia	1975	9.45	40
38	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram (IISER TVM)	India	2008	9.00	10
39	Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI)	India	2005	8.78	19
40	Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU)	Japan	2005	8.77	24
41	University of Bremen (Uni Bremen)	Germany	1971	8.75	23
42	University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)	Italy	1998	8.65	21
43	University of Girona (UdG)	Spain	1991	8.63	23
44	University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM)	Spain	1982	8.31	33
45	University of Rennes 1	France	1970	8.26	75
46	Tarbiat Modares University (TMU)	Iran	1982	8.21	12
47	Deakin University	Australia	1974	8.19	28
48	Curtin University	Australia	1986	8.14	21
49	Wenzhou University (WZU)	China	1984	8.12	16
50	Huaibei Normal University	China	2010	7.97	11

* Universities, including graduate universities, were selected as being young and under 50 if they were founded as an independent university in 1969 or later and were not formed by the merger or re-merger and/or re-naming of a university or universities older than 50.