Leading 200 institutions
The leading 200 institutions ranked by their article Share in 2020 (Share 2020) in materials science. Also listed are each institution's number of materials-science articles in 2020 (Count 2020), 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 | 543.86 | 1,499 | 31.1% | 41.6% |
2 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | China | 156.27 | 394 | 35.5% | 37.3% |
3 | Nanjing University (NJU) | China | 136.57 | 284 | 36.8% | 40.1% |
4 | Max Planck Society | Germany | 128.23 | 316 | 17.3% | 79.1% |
5 | Zhejiang University (ZJU) | China | 125.91 | 262 | 37.6% | 50.0% |
6 | Tsinghua University | China | 119.48 | 284 | 33.0% | 41.9% |
7 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 115.66 | 248 | 41.5% | 81.9% |
8 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | China | 115.00 | 654 | 27.6% | 35.5% |
9 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) | China | 114.73 | 245 | 39.4% | 43.7% |
10 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 114.18 | 230 | 24.2% | 60.0% |
11 | Soochow University | China | 109.57 | 221 | 55.9% | 47.5% |
12 | Fudan University | China | 100.89 | 216 | 35.1% | 42.1% |
13 | Peking University (PKU) | China | 97.90 | 261 | 26.3% | 39.1% |
14 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | 93.31 | 180 | 29.7% | 55.0% |
15 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 92.78 | 214 | 20.1% | 47.7% |
16 | Jilin University (JLU) | China | 92.62 | 205 | 52.2% | 45.4% |
17 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 91.71 | 213 | 44.6% | 84.0% |
18 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | South Korea | 86.82 | 148 | 45.9% | 43.2% |
19 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | 81.74 | 134 | 38.2% | 44.8% |
20 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 80.36 | 180 | 17.9% | 80.0% |
21 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 80.05 | 198 | 12.9% | 65.2% |
22 | Xiamen University (XMU) | China | 78.95 | 159 | 40.8% | 50.3% |
23 | Nankai University (NKU) | China | 78.92 | 164 | 36.4% | 37.8% |
24 | Sichuan University (SCU) | China | 78.66 | 131 | 35.9% | 40.5% |
25 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 77.70 | 147 | 30.2% | 68.0% |
26 | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 76.98 | 160 | 38.5% | 38.1% |
27 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Germany | 74.46 | 237 | 14.7% | 78.5% |
28 | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 74.19 | 201 | 20.1% | 55.2% |
29 | Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) | China | 73.67 | 190 | 33.6% | 46.8% |
30 | Tianjin University (TJU) | China | 72.49 | 194 | 46.6% | 48.5% |
31 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | Switzerland | 72.30 | 173 | 19.6% | 69.9% |
32 | Hunan University (HNU) | China | 72.02 | 133 | 51.2% | 33.8% |
33 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | 70.98 | 140 | 27.3% | 59.3% |
34 | Wuhan University (WHU) | China | 69.76 | 140 | 34.1% | 36.4% |
35 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 64.49 | 137 | 28.5% | 56.2% |
36 | University of Toronto (U of T) | Canada | 62.90 | 110 | 18.4% | 70.9% |
37 | South China University of Technology (SCUT) | China | 60.77 | 172 | 49.7% | 38.4% |
38 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) | China | 60.17 | 136 | 37.0% | 47.1% |
39 | Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) | South Korea | 58.10 | 133 | 64.2% | 49.6% |
40 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | United States of America (USA) | 57.17 | 247 | 35.9% | 66.8% |
41 | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) | Saudi Arabia | 56.89 | 130 | 49.9% | 88.5% |
42 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | China | 56.73 | 135 | 21.5% | 44.4% |
43 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 56.10 | 114 | 18.2% | 53.5% |
44 | Kyoto University | Japan | 56.03 | 117 | 21.2% | 41.0% |
45 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 54.17 | 120 | 16.9% | 63.3% |
46 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 53.90 | 160 | 38.8% | 69.4% |
47 | Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS) | China | 53.77 | 217 | 49.8% | 28.6% |
48 | National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | Japan | 53.46 | 220 | 58.8% | 80.0% |
49 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 52.05 | 87 | 16.1% | 41.4% |
50 | Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | China | 50.99 | 122 | 39.1% | 46.7% |
51 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 50.76 | 110 | 11.3% | 67.3% |
52 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 50.71 | 139 | 21.1% | 74.8% |
53 | City University of Hong Kong (CityU) | China | 50.14 | 152 | 55.8% | 53.3% |
54 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 47.52 | 149 | 5.6% | 73.2% |
55 | Osaka University | Japan | 47.37 | 90 | 25.9% | 37.8% |
56 | Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) | China | 47.26 | 115 | 60.0% | 47.8% |
57 | Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) | China | 47.03 | 117 | 42.2% | 66.7% |
58 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | 46.77 | 82 | 21.8% | 40.2% |
59 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | 46.76 | 93 | 15.3% | 47.3% |
60 | Shandong University (SDU) | China | 45.96 | 92 | 34.9% | 51.1% |
61 | Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea | 45.08 | 116 | 50.5% | 50.9% |
62 | Dalian University of Technology (DUT) | China | 44.83 | 96 | 49.7% | 47.9% |
63 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia | 44.71 | 120 | 29.7% | 81.7% |
64 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | South Korea | 44.53 | 107 | 62.5% | 48.6% |
65 | Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) | United States of America (USA) | 44.46 | 203 | 42.6% | 60.1% |
66 | East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) | China | 44.31 | 73 | 41.0% | 38.4% |
67 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 44.30 | 85 | 11.1% | 43.5% |
68 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | United States of America (USA) | 42.96 | 149 | 44.9% | 55.7% |
69 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | 42.77 | 75 | 23.6% | 48.0% |
70 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 42.75 | 80 | 13.1% | 60.0% |
71 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | 42.72 | 82 | 17.3% | 42.7% |
72 | Southwest University (SWU) | China | 42.60 | 54 | 59.0% | 7.4% |
73 | Shenzhen University (SZU) | China | 41.26 | 134 | 50.8% | 43.3% |
74 | Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) | China | 40.92 | 107 | 48.4% | 49.5% |
75 | Zhengzhou University (ZZU) | China | 40.70 | 186 | 40.0% | 45.2% |
76 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | 40.31 | 80 | 38.1% | 47.5% |
77 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | 40.21 | 119 | 32.9% | 37.0% |
78 | East China Normal University (ECNU) | China | 39.62 | 98 | 29.0% | 41.8% |
79 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 39.39 | 88 | 29.3% | 47.7% |
80 | Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) | China | 39.25 | 83 | 42.0% | 42.2% |
81 | Yonsei University | South Korea | 39.22 | 104 | 40.8% | 56.7% |
82 | Leibniz Association | Germany | 38.06 | 136 | 20.5% | 76.5% |
83 | Donghua University (DHU) | China | 37.44 | 81 | 80.4% | 51.9% |
84 | Southeast University (SEU) | China | 37.23 | 87 | 44.6% | 44.8% |
85 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 37.12 | 73 | 23.5% | 52.1% |
86 | Beihang University (BUAA) | China | 36.59 | 96 | 48.9% | 50.0% |
87 | Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) | Netherlands | 36.29 | 79 | 56.4% | 70.9% |
88 | Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) | Russia | 36.24 | 124 | 15.4% | 78.2% |
89 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | United States of America (USA) | 36.24 | 66 | 20.5% | 43.9% |
90 | Central South University (CSU) | China | 35.08 | 90 | 39.7% | 57.8% |
91 | The University of Manchester (UoM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 34.78 | 87 | 23.9% | 85.1% |
92 | Fuzhou University (FZU) | China | 33.08 | 56 | 54.9% | 33.9% |
93 | Korea University | South Korea | 33.03 | 95 | 47.4% | 48.4% |
94 | University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) | United States of America (USA) | 32.66 | 65 | 39.7% | 55.4% |
95 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) | China | 32.66 | 86 | 62.6% | 58.1% |
96 | Shandong Normal University (SDNU) | China | 32.50 | 49 | 44.8% | 10.2% |
97 | University of Groningen (RUG) | Netherlands | 32.42 | 64 | 30.5% | 71.9% |
98 | University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) | China | 32.24 | 88 | 50.3% | 44.3% |
99 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) | Israel | 31.96 | 56 | 26.5% | 60.7% |
100 | University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | United States of America (USA) | 30.89 | 86 | 24.7% | 46.5% |
101 | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 30.79 | 71 | 19.6% | 73.2% |
102 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) | United States of America (USA) | 30.75 | 67 | 31.1% | 46.3% |
103 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 30.71 | 73 | 11.6% | 60.3% |
104 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 30.15 | 63 | 14.6% | 50.8% |
105 | Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) | Germany | 30.08 | 106 | 36.7% | 84.9% |
106 | Institute for Basic Science (IBS) | South Korea | 29.91 | 122 | 35.0% | 52.5% |
107 | RIKEN | Japan | 29.82 | 100 | 19.5% | 56.0% |
108 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 29.80 | 52 | 11.1% | 65.4% |
109 | Tohoku University | Japan | 29.38 | 85 | 18.4% | 62.4% |
110 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) | Germany | 29.12 | 65 | 29.2% | 72.3% |
111 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 28.79 | 53 | 18.2% | 39.6% |
112 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 28.04 | 54 | 8.0% | 57.4% |
113 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) | China | 27.88 | 90 | 49.3% | 36.7% |
114 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 27.67 | 55 | 10.6% | 45.5% |
115 | Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) | Singapore | 27.37 | 96 | 41.3% | 78.1% |
116 | Kyushu University | Japan | 26.89 | 61 | 24.4% | 50.8% |
117 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 26.62 | 75 | 27.3% | 60.0% |
118 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 26.49 | 55 | 12.5% | 43.6% |
119 | National Research Council (CNR) | Italy | 26.14 | 115 | 27.6% | 87.8% |
120 | Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) | China | 26.10 | 59 | 59.9% | 59.3% |
121 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 26.08 | 55 | 23.2% | 60.0% |
122 | National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) | Taiwan | 25.60 | 58 | 57.4% | 58.6% |
123 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 25.54 | 46 | 32.1% | 37.0% |
124 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | 25.47 | 44 | 14.7% | 52.3% |
125 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 25.38 | 62 | 9.2% | 58.1% |
126 | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) | Netherlands | 25.19 | 52 | 29.6% | 76.9% |
127 | Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) | Spain | 25.09 | 84 | 21.9% | 85.7% |
128 | Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) | Spain | 25.08 | 85 | 25.3% | 81.2% |
129 | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | United States of America (USA) | 24.86 | 95 | 38.1% | 54.7% |
130 | Tongji University | China | 24.76 | 71 | 31.0% | 35.2% |
131 | Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) | Israel | 24.58 | 54 | 14.2% | 74.1% |
132 | Nagoya University | Japan | 24.43 | 51 | 16.7% | 35.3% |
133 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 24.19 | 51 | 34.2% | 74.5% |
134 | Shanghai University (SHU) | China | 24.05 | 66 | 44.0% | 63.6% |
135 | Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) | China | 24.00 | 96 | 50.5% | 60.4% |
136 | Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) | United States of America (USA) | 23.84 | 106 | 33.1% | 65.1% |
137 | ShanghaiTech University | China | 23.56 | 86 | 33.5% | 50.0% |
138 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | 23.45 | 70 | 15.4% | 78.6% |
139 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | United States of America (USA) | 23.35 | 56 | 35.4% | 55.4% |
140 | Chongqing University (CQU) | China | 23.25 | 52 | 33.1% | 44.2% |
141 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) | China | 23.18 | 51 | 52.0% | 37.3% |
142 | Beijing Normal University (BNU) | China | 22.97 | 53 | 20.5% | 47.2% |
143 | The University of British Columbia (UBC) | Canada | 22.79 | 53 | 18.2% | 77.4% |
144 | University of California, Riverside (UCR) | United States of America (USA) | 22.65 | 49 | 22.2% | 59.2% |
145 | UCL | United Kingdom (UK) | 22.56 | 77 | 11.5% | 80.5% |
146 | The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) | United States of America (USA) | 22.32 | 81 | 43.6% | 56.8% |
147 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | China | 22.29 | 68 | 29.3% | 50.0% |
148 | U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | United States of America (USA) | 21.95 | 77 | 28.4% | 50.6% |
149 | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Japan | 21.70 | 71 | 30.2% | 57.7% |
150 | Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) | Switzerland | 21.60 | 67 | 71.9% | 77.6% |
151 | Iowa State University | United States of America (USA) | 21.52 | 31 | 29.1% | 29.0% |
152 | Hanyang University (HYU) | South Korea | 21.30 | 60 | 49.7% | 45.0% |
153 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 21.21 | 44 | 16.1% | 61.4% |
154 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) | Germany | 21.15 | 62 | 28.3% | 79.0% |
155 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) | Israel | 21.07 | 33 | 16.7% | 51.5% |
156 | Monash University | Australia | 21.03 | 68 | 17.2% | 76.5% |
157 | University of California, Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | 21.02 | 52 | 13.6% | 63.5% |
158 | Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) | Belgium | 20.93 | 57 | 18.6% | 82.5% |
159 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 20.90 | 42 | 15.8% | 52.4% |
160 | Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) | South Korea | 20.82 | 83 | 57.7% | 43.4% |
161 | The University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 20.76 | 46 | 15.9% | 58.7% |
162 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 20.57 | 59 | 13.1% | 76.3% |
163 | Arizona State University (ASU) | United States of America (USA) | 20.37 | 52 | 17.4% | 67.3% |
164 | Anhui University (AHU) | China | 20.36 | 55 | 46.7% | 41.8% |
165 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) | India | 20.22 | 37 | 26.3% | 62.2% |
166 | Jinan University (JNU) | China | 20.20 | 49 | 27.4% | 44.9% |
167 | Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) | China | 20.11 | 53 | 43.9% | 41.5% |
168 | Northeast Normal University (NENU) | China | 19.82 | 35 | 40.7% | 34.3% |
169 | Tel Aviv University (TAU) | Israel | 19.80 | 44 | 21.8% | 65.9% |
170 | Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers) | Sweden | 19.57 | 43 | 32.0% | 76.7% |
171 | Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) | India | 19.52 | 26 | 52.3% | 34.6% |
172 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | 19.31 | 41 | 13.4% | 56.1% |
173 | University of Delaware (UD) | United States of America (USA) | 19.19 | 35 | 30.0% | 31.4% |
174 | University of California, Davis (UC Davis) | United States of America (USA) | 19.16 | 36 | 10.1% | 61.1% |
175 | Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) | China | 19.13 | 49 | 53.1% | 51.0% |
176 | The University of Melbourne (UniMelb) | Australia | 19.12 | 55 | 19.4% | 65.5% |
177 | The University of Warwick (Warwick) | United Kingdom (UK) | 19.07 | 48 | 26.1% | 60.4% |
178 | Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) | China | 19.01 | 34 | 63.2% | 35.3% |
179 | Ghent University (UGent) | Belgium | 18.90 | 37 | 23.7% | 73.0% |
180 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) | United States of America (USA) | 18.66 | 53 | 22.8% | 47.2% |
181 | Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU) | China | 18.63 | 39 | 31.4% | 51.3% |
182 | Northeastern University (NEU) | China | 18.31 | 32 | 51.4% | 31.3% |
183 | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | United States of America (USA) | 18.21 | 59 | 22.4% | 57.6% |
184 | Aalto University | Finland | 18.18 | 47 | 56.7% | 85.1% |
185 | University of Wollongong (UOW) | Australia | 17.85 | 58 | 49.6% | 96.6% |
186 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom (UK) | 17.79 | 35 | 27.8% | 65.7% |
187 | Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) | Italy | 17.39 | 53 | 49.1% | 84.9% |
188 | Aarhus University (AU) | Denmark | 17.02 | 38 | 18.7% | 73.7% |
189 | Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) | Switzerland | 16.99 | 62 | 29.6% | 90.3% |
190 | Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT) | China | 16.91 | 41 | 29.0% | 53.7% |
191 | The City University of New York (CUNY) | United States of America (USA) | 16.80 | 42 | 29.0% | 54.8% |
192 | University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) | United States of America (USA) | 16.76 | 45 | 10.8% | 42.2% |
193 | Linköping University (LiU) | Sweden | 16.66 | 42 | 47.6% | 90.5% |
194 | Uppsala University (UU) | Sweden | 16.62 | 40 | 15.4% | 77.5% |
195 | California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) | United States of America (USA) | 16.53 | 57 | 61.3% | 68.4% |
196 | University of Basel (UB) | Switzerland | 16.50 | 39 | 19.0% | 76.9% |
197 | Lanzhou University (LZU) | China | 16.41 | 58 | 13.4% | 31.0% |
198 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | 16.35 | 34 | 7.4% | 35.3% |
199 | The University of Nottingham (UoN) | United Kingdom (UK) | 16.29 | 43 | 26.4% | 74.4% |
200 | RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen) | Germany | 16.24 | 58 | 18.5% | 75.9% |