Top 50 rising science cities in SDG research**

The top 50 rising science cities and metropolitan areas ranked by change in SDG Share between 2015 and 2020 (change in SDG Share 2015–20). Also listed are each city's SDG Share and Count in both years, and percentage change in SDG Share over the same period.

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Rank	City/metropolitan area	Location	SDG Share 2020	SDG Count 2020	Change in SDG Share 2015–2020	Change in SDG Share 2015–2020 (%)
1	Beijing	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	415.85	901	258.70	164.6%
2	Nanjing	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	124.64	281	89.64	256.1%
3	Shanghai	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	136.01	320	85.53	169.4%
4	Guangzhou	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	82.70	214	62.29	305.1%
5	New York metropolitan area	United States of America (USA)	170.87	470	56.51	49.4%
6	Tianjin	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	77.03	163	56.30	271.6%
7	Hong Kong	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	65.36	189	47.45	264.9%
8	Wuhan	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	74.49	167	44.88	151.6%
9	Seoul metropolitan area	South Korea	89.60	173	44.40	98.2%
10	Hangzhou	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	60.05	146	44.33	282.0%
11	Shenzhen	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	43.22	180	41.94	3279.1%
12	Hefei	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	62.14	153	40.31	184.7%
13	Xi’an	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	47.73	120	38.38	410.5%
14	Suzhou	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	50.25	96	37.80	303.7%
15	Chengdu	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	37.28	85	32.65	705.4%
16	Sydney	Australia	55.75	157	32.21	136.8%
17	Qingdao	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	36.03	97	32.07	810.0%
18	Singapore*	Singapore	86.66	180	32.05	58.7%
19	Dalian	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	44.37	102	31.30	239.3%
20	Boston metropolitan area	United States of America (USA)	130.82	356	30.37	30.2%
21	Los Angeles metropolitan area	United States of America (USA)	78.62	216	28.20	55.9%
22	San Francisco Bay Area	United States of America (USA)	159.78	420	27.91	21.2%
23	Xiamen	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	34.55	80	27.73	406.6%
24	Paris metropolitan area	France	62.37	210	27.38	78.2%
25	Cambridge	United Kingdom (UK)	51.31	178	27.01	111.2%
26	Changsha	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	36.20	95	25.29	231.9%
27	London metropolitan area	United Kingdom (UK)	59.05	221	25.28	74.9%
28	Baltimore - Washington	United States of America (USA)	141.65	434	24.34	20.7%
29	Harbin	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	34.38	67	23.58	218.5%
30	Melbourne	Australia	50.72	158	23.34	85.2%
31	San Diego metropolitan area	United States of America (USA)	59.40	174	23.04	63.4%
32	Fuzhou	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	30.60	58	22.51	278.3%
33	Austin	United States of America (USA)	38.57	88	22.09	134.1%
34	Chicago metropolitan area	United States of America (USA)	62.39	166	21.93	54.2%
35	Changchun	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	44.64	95	21.89	96.2%
36	Chongqing	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	27.53	55	21.73	374.7%
37	Toronto metropolitan area	Canada	32.59	95	19.07	141.0%
38	Ulsan	South Korea	24.24	44	18.33	310.3%
39	Jinan	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	21.96	53	18.23	489.1%
40	Zhengzhou	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	16.64	95	16.27	4350.2%
41	Tokyo metropolitan area	Japan	54.98	155	16.21	41.8%
42	Seattle metropolitan area	United States of America (USA)	49.46	162	15.92	47.5%
43	Nanchang	China mainland, Hong Kong, Macau	15.46	29	15.11	4265.2%
44	Boulder	United States of America (USA)	46.76	158	14.77	46.2%
45	Oxford	United Kingdom (UK)	38.88	133	14.06	56.6%
46	Daejeon	South Korea	30.03	70	13.71	84.0%
47	Ann Arbor	United States of America (USA)	37.89	93	13.61	56.0%
48	Philadelphia metropolitan area	United States of America (USA)	35.65	118	13.59	61.6%
49	Stockholm	Sweden	26.19	86	13.52	106.7%
50	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	25.79	68	13.41	108.4%

Footnote

^**Singapore is a city-state.

^**Based on NI articles filtered using Sustainable Development Goals classifiers available via Digital Science Dimensions database.