Leading 200 institutions in physical sciences from the Big 5 science nations
The leading 200 institutions in physical sciences among the Big 5 science nations, ranked by their article Share in the subject in 2021* (Share 2021*). Also listed are each institution's physical science article count in 2021* (Count 2021*) and the subject Share in relation to its overall Share (Subject contribution %).
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| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) | China | 555.84 | 2,090 | 30.0% |
| 2 | Max Planck Society | Germany | 288.70 | 1,087 | 38.7% |
| 3 | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres | Germany | 218.94 | 967 | 39.5% |
| 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States of America (USA) | 212.64 | 660 | 41.9% |
| 5 | University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) | China | 190.26 | 609 | 42.4% |
| 6 | Harvard University | United States of America (USA) | 179.98 | 584 | 20.9% |
| 7 | Tsinghua University | China | 177.50 | 652 | 41.4% |
| 8 | Stanford University | United States of America (USA) | 176.31 | 510 | 29.6% |
| 9 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | Japan | 173.84 | 553 | 42.7% |
| 10 | Peking University (PKU) | China | 158.25 | 636 | 34.3% |
| 11 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom (UK) | 153.49 | 485 | 36.8% |
| 12 | Zhejiang University (ZJU) | China | 147.02 | 368 | 37.8% |
| 13 | Nanjing University (NJU) | China | 145.34 | 389 | 34.3% |
| 14 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | China | 145.31 | 883 | 31.0% |
| 15 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) | China | 128.49 | 400 | 40.2% |
| 16 | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) | United States of America (USA) | 123.33 | 529 | 33.5% |
| 17 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom (UK) | 112.42 | 466 | 25.9% |
| 18 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States of America (USA) | 105.38 | 343 | 39.9% |
| 19 | Fudan University | China | 105.03 | 335 | 31.8% |
| 20 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States of America (USA) | 103.66 | 306 | 30.1% |
| 21 | Soochow University | China | 96.68 | 214 | 42.9% |
| 22 | University of Michigan (U-M) | United States of America (USA) | 96.21 | 328 | 27.2% |
| 23 | Northwestern University (NU) | United States of America (USA) | 94.70 | 256 | 33.2% |
| 24 | Princeton University | United States of America (USA) | 92.86 | 290 | 36.9% |
| 25 | Cornell University | United States of America (USA) | 90.45 | 251 | 30.9% |
| 26 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | United States of America (USA) | 88.86 | 482 | 52.2% |
| 27 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States of America (USA) | 88.09 | 276 | 52.1% |
| 28 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | United States of America (USA) | 86.08 | 258 | 40.2% |
| 29 | Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) | China | 86.03 | 274 | 36.6% |
| 30 | Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) | China | 85.80 | 268 | 28.7% |
| 31 | Imperial College London (ICL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 85.74 | 357 | 35.0% |
| 32 | University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) | United States of America (USA) | 85.34 | 331 | 57.0% |
| 33 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) | China | 82.14 | 224 | 46.0% |
| 34 | The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) | United States of America (USA) | 78.67 | 240 | 39.3% |
| 35 | The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) | United States of America (USA) | 76.18 | 268 | 32.5% |
| 36 | The University of Chicago (UChicago) | United States of America (USA) | 75.49 | 281 | 31.0% |
| 37 | Nankai University (NKU) | China | 74.46 | 177 | 27.7% |
| 38 | Columbia University in the City of New York (CU) | United States of America (USA) | 74.22 | 244 | 24.8% |
| 39 | Kyoto University | Japan | 72.02 | 242 | 29.2% |
| 40 | National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | Japan | 71.59 | 294 | 78.1% |
| 41 | University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) | United States of America (USA) | 69.70 | 209 | 21.5% |
| 42 | Tianjin University (TJU) | China | 69.01 | 195 | 38.2% |
| 43 | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | Germany | 65.76 | 280 | 40.3% |
| 44 | Wuhan University (WHU) | China | 64.80 | 202 | 27.3% |
| 45 | Sichuan University (SCU) | China | 61.75 | 133 | 25.8% |
| 46 | University of Pennsylvania (Penn) | United States of America (USA) | 60.83 | 176 | 20.1% |
| 47 | Purdue University | United States of America (USA) | 60.27 | 176 | 40.9% |
| 48 | Hunan University (HNU) | China | 60.14 | 141 | 35.7% |
| 49 | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) | United States of America (USA) | 59.08 | 223 | 76.0% |
| 50 | Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) | China | 58.22 | 151 | 49.8% |
| 51 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 57.99 | 203 | 40.0% |
| 52 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) | United States of America (USA) | 57.97 | 215 | 61.1% |
| 53 | Beihang University (BUAA) | China | 57.22 | 242 | 70.7% |
| 54 | RIKEN | Japan | 55.83 | 270 | 39.3% |
| 55 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | China | 55.44 | 210 | 44.2% |
| 56 | Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) | China | 55.39 | 146 | 48.8% |
| 57 | Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) | United States of America (USA) | 55.38 | 346 | 58.6% |
| 58 | Durham University | United Kingdom (UK) | 54.73 | 150 | 69.1% |
| 59 | Shandong University (SDU) | China | 54.19 | 189 | 29.3% |
| 60 | Xiamen University (XMU) | China | 53.43 | 126 | 26.0% |
| 61 | Jilin University (JLU) | China | 52.83 | 127 | 31.3% |
| 62 | University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) | United States of America (USA) | 52.74 | 218 | 32.7% |
| 63 | Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) | China | 52.16 | 122 | 46.6% |
| 64 | Leibniz Association | Germany | 52.13 | 284 | 26.6% |
| 65 | Johns Hopkins University (JHU) | United States of America (USA) | 51.51 | 179 | 18.8% |
| 66 | Tohoku University | Japan | 50.56 | 185 | 35.3% |
| 67 | South China University of Technology (SCUT) | China | 50.23 | 131 | 34.4% |
| 68 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) | United States of America (USA) | 49.48 | 207 | 25.1% |
| 69 | Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) | Germany | 49.33 | 250 | 29.2% |
| 70 | University of Washington (UW) | United States of America (USA) | 47.97 | 237 | 17.6% |
| 71 | Lanzhou University (LZU) | China | 47.83 | 101 | 33.2% |
| 72 | Southeast University (SEU) | China | 47.30 | 128 | 50.9% |
| 73 | Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) | United States of America (USA) | 47.05 | 255 | 66.8% |
| 74 | City University of Hong Kong (CityU) | China | 46.99 | 143 | 51.5% |
| 75 | Yale University | United States of America (USA) | 46.99 | 215 | 14.7% |
| 76 | UCL | United Kingdom (UK) | 46.93 | 277 | 21.4% |
| 77 | Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) | United States of America (USA) | 46.55 | 231 | 49.9% |
| 78 | Rice University | United States of America (USA) | 46.39 | 155 | 42.0% |
| 79 | TU Dresden | Germany | 45.12 | 236 | 46.0% |
| 80 | Nagoya University | Japan | 44.61 | 166 | 34.7% |
| 81 | University of Minnesota (UMN) | United States of America (USA) | 43.57 | 158 | 21.7% |
| 82 | University of Southampton (Soton) | United Kingdom (UK) | 43.24 | 156 | 57.8% |
| 83 | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) | Germany | 42.30 | 203 | 51.6% |
| 84 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | China | 41.21 | 170 | 38.7% |
| 85 | New York University (NYU) | United States of America (USA) | 41.21 | 151 | 19.7% |
| 86 | Shenzhen University (SZU) | China | 40.81 | 135 | 47.3% |
| 87 | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | United States of America (USA) | 40.65 | 107 | 46.6% |
| 88 | Osaka University | Japan | 40.57 | 191 | 21.3% |
| 89 | Tongji University | China | 40.02 | 107 | 26.7% |
| 90 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | Japan | 39.42 | 169 | 30.7% |
| 91 | RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen) | Germany | 38.85 | 226 | 39.7% |
| 92 | University of Würzburg (JMU) | Germany | 38.67 | 185 | 31.6% |
| 93 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) | China | 38.60 | 103 | 67.3% |
| 94 | Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg) | Germany | 38.19 | 214 | 30.4% |
| 95 | University of Southern California (USC) | United States of America (USA) | 37.84 | 90 | 27.6% |
| 96 | The Ohio State University (OSU) | United States of America (USA) | 37.38 | 186 | 27.9% |
| 97 | Zhengzhou University (ZZU) | China | 36.78 | 168 | 29.3% |
| 98 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) | China | 36.76 | 108 | 56.1% |
| 99 | Central South University (CSU) | China | 36.48 | 99 | 33.8% |
| 100 | State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook) | United States of America (USA) | 36.45 | 179 | 47.1% |
| 101 | The University of Manchester (UoM) | United Kingdom (UK) | 36.00 | 228 | 25.9% |
| 102 | Arizona State University (ASU) | United States of America (USA) | 35.12 | 135 | 34.3% |
| 103 | The University of Hong Kong (HKU) | China | 34.39 | 192 | 31.2% |
| 104 | University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) | China | 34.04 | 88 | 55.9% |
| 105 | University of Hamburg (UHH) | Germany | 33.54 | 203 | 46.4% |
| 106 | Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) | China | 32.92 | 112 | 58.1% |
| 107 | University of Regensburg (UR) | Germany | 32.68 | 62 | 41.9% |
| 108 | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 31.96 | 156 | 33.2% |
| 109 | Boston University (BU) | United States of America (USA) | 31.89 | 191 | 31.5% |
| 110 | Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) | United Kingdom (UK) | 31.57 | 146 | 51.2% |
| 111 | Chongqing University (CQU) | China | 31.51 | 71 | 29.2% |
| 112 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) | Germany | 31.24 | 111 | 35.0% |
| 113 | University of California, Davis (UC Davis) | United States of America (USA) | 31.19 | 125 | 18.8% |
| 114 | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | Japan | 31.18 | 98 | 46.3% |
| 115 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU) | United States of America (USA) | 30.93 | 152 | 28.8% |
| 116 | The University of Arizona (Arizona) | United States of America (USA) | 30.66 | 172 | 29.4% |
| 117 | Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) | United States of America (USA) | 30.35 | 81 | 96.5% |
| 118 | Donghua University (DHU) | China | 30.29 | 64 | 54.0% |
| 119 | University of California, Riverside (UCR) | United States of America (USA) | 30.24 | 114 | 29.1% |
| 120 | The City University of New York (CUNY) | United States of America (USA) | 30.01 | 120 | 54.5% |
| 121 | Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) | United States of America (USA) | 29.87 | 80 | 14.0% |
| 122 | Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) | China | 29.74 | 72 | 36.2% |
| 123 | Texas A&M University (TAMU) | United States of America (USA) | 29.42 | 136 | 19.9% |
| 124 | East China Normal University (ECNU) | China | 29.12 | 102 | 22.0% |
| 125 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | United States of America (USA) | 29.07 | 186 | 26.8% |
| 126 | University of California, Irvine (UCI) | United States of America (USA) | 28.79 | 146 | 19.1% |
| 127 | Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) | China | 28.60 | 72 | 30.5% |
| 128 | Duke University | United States of America (USA) | 28.52 | 140 | 15.0% |
| 129 | U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) | United States of America (USA) | 28.30 | 114 | 47.8% |
| 130 | Beijing Normal University (BNU) | China | 28.12 | 104 | 24.1% |
| 131 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) | United States of America (USA) | 27.38 | 107 | 53.2% |
| 132 | Brown University | United States of America (USA) | 27.36 | 82 | 31.8% |
| 133 | University of Bonn (Uni Bonn) | Germany | 26.41 | 168 | 35.0% |
| 134 | ShanghaiTech University | China | 25.73 | 98 | 35.3% |
| 135 | South China Normal University (SCNU) | China | 25.68 | 108 | 52.1% |
| 136 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom (UK) | 25.58 | 196 | 18.5% |
| 137 | Dalian University of Technology (DUT) | China | 25.37 | 56 | 22.6% |
| 138 | China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) | China | 25.29 | 93 | 61.1% |
| 139 | University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) | United States of America (USA) | 25.09 | 157 | 17.1% |
| 140 | University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) | United States of America (USA) | 24.63 | 141 | 36.1% |
| 141 | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) | Japan | 24.52 | 51 | 56.4% |
| 142 | Jinan University (JNU) | China | 23.98 | 57 | 30.4% |
| 143 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | United States of America (USA) | 23.86 | 126 | 37.1% |
| 144 | Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) | China | 23.74 | 66 | 62.7% |
| 145 | University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB) | United States of America (USA) | 23.46 | 71 | 40.9% |
| 146 | University of Virginia (UVA) | United States of America (USA) | 22.89 | 113 | 23.0% |
| 147 | UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) | United Kingdom (UK) | 22.88 | 289 | 24.1% |
| 148 | Northeastern University (NEU) | United States of America (USA) | 22.81 | 93 | 50.6% |
| 149 | Shanghai University (SHU) | China | 22.66 | 68 | 38.3% |
| 150 | Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin) | Germany | 22.65 | 130 | 23.3% |
| 151 | Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) | Germany | 22.51 | 172 | 33.1% |
| 152 | University of Göttingen | Germany | 22.50 | 124 | 21.1% |
| 153 | IBM Corporation | United States of America (USA) | 22.45 | 57 | 67.5% |
| 154 | University of Florida (UF) | United States of America (USA) | 21.85 | 168 | 20.4% |
| 155 | Iowa State University | United States of America (USA) | 21.56 | 116 | 40.2% |
| 156 | Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) | China | 21.56 | 52 | 42.9% |
| 157 | University of Nebraska System | United States of America (USA) | 21.39 | 80 | 47.5% |
| 158 | Indiana University (IU) | United States of America (USA) | 21.21 | 127 | 18.2% |
| 159 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) | United States of America (USA) | 21.21 | 77 | 28.1% |
| 160 | Michigan State University (MSU) | United States of America (USA) | 20.96 | 157 | 23.9% |
| 161 | University of Bristol (UoB) | United Kingdom (UK) | 20.40 | 136 | 17.3% |
| 162 | University of Münster (WWU) | Germany | 20.09 | 92 | 13.2% |
| 163 | University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) | United States of America (USA) | 20.08 | 89 | 31.4% |
| 164 | University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) | United States of America (USA) | 20.06 | 112 | 31.8% |
| 165 | Sandia National Laboratories | United States of America (USA) | 19.99 | 67 | 54.4% |
| 166 | Central China Normal University (CCNU) | China | 19.81 | 99 | 35.0% |
| 167 | University of Stuttgart | Germany | 19.80 | 69 | 54.1% |
| 168 | Hokkaido University | Japan | 19.79 | 60 | 19.0% |
| 169 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) | United States of America (USA) | 19.64 | 68 | 13.0% |
| 170 | The University of Nottingham (UoN) | United Kingdom (UK) | 19.63 | 64 | 43.3% |
| 171 | The University of Utah (Utah) | United States of America (USA) | 19.20 | 54 | 18.1% |
| 172 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom (UK) | 19.09 | 125 | 31.6% |
| 173 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | Germany | 18.74 | 53 | 33.3% |
| 174 | University of Freiburg (Uni Freiburg) | Germany | 18.73 | 103 | 19.5% |
| 175 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | United States of America (USA) | 18.71 | 45 | 4.6% |
| 176 | Fuzhou University (FZU) | China | 18.61 | 47 | 22.0% |
| 177 | Goethe University Frankfurt (GU) | Germany | 18.02 | 96 | 23.0% |
| 178 | High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) | Japan | 18.00 | 165 | 81.3% |
| 179 | Hunan Normal University (HUNNU) | China | 17.97 | 44 | 48.9% |
| 180 | Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) | Germany | 17.81 | 66 | 39.1% |
| 181 | Henan University (HENU) | China | 17.79 | 42 | 29.2% |
| 182 | Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) | Germany | 17.47 | 53 | 44.8% |
| 183 | The University of Warwick (Warwick) | United Kingdom (UK) | 17.36 | 154 | 24.9% |
| 184 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom (UK) | 17.07 | 176 | 25.7% |
| 185 | Anhui University (AHU) | China | 16.94 | 64 | 32.9% |
| 186 | Kyushu University | Japan | 16.92 | 92 | 18.7% |
| 187 | University of Central Florida (UCF) | United States of America (USA) | 16.61 | 39 | 57.8% |
| 188 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom (UK) | 16.57 | 64 | 22.7% |
| 189 | Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) | China | 16.33 | 45 | 38.1% |
| 190 | East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) | China | 16.33 | 41 | 15.0% |
| 191 | The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) | United States of America (USA) | 16.31 | 155 | 34.4% |
| 192 | University of Delaware (UD) | United States of America (USA) | 16.27 | 48 | 23.6% |
| 193 | University of Rochester (UR) | United States of America (USA) | 16.24 | 88 | 22.3% |
| 194 | Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU) | China | 16.19 | 36 | 26.4% |
| 195 | Nanjing Normal University (NNU) | China | 16.08 | 70 | 26.5% |
| 196 | University of Houston (UH) | United States of America (USA) | 15.96 | 73 | 27.5% |
| 197 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom (UK) | 15.90 | 152 | 22.8% |
| 198 | TU Dortmund University | Germany | 15.88 | 117 | 37.2% |
| 199 | Yangzhou University (YZU) | China | 15.77 | 47 | 31.5% |
| 200 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) | United States of America (USA) | 15.66 | 83 | 16.0% |
Footnote
*Data for 2021 represents the period October 2020–September 2021.