2023 tables: Institutions - chemistry

The 2023 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022.

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# Institution Share 2021 Share 2022 Count 2022 Change in Adjusted Share* 2021–2022
1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 1003.82 991.22 2990 0.5%
2 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 268.93 315.88 767 19.5%
3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 264.07 271.39 1167 4.5%
4 Nanjing University (NJU), China 234.68 265.05 507 14.9%
5 Tsinghua University, China 207.98 235.25 565 15.1%
6 Nankai University (NKU), China 201.53 226.64 487 14.4%
7 Peking University (PKU), China 190.00 210.95 801 12.9%
8 Sichuan University (SCU), China 168.14 210.01 317 27.1%
9 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 193.60 194.50 425 2.2%
10 Max Planck Society, Germany 231.20 191.04 542 -15.9%
11 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 208.29 190.38 950 -7.0%
12 Fudan University, China 197.68 177.98 378 -8.4%
13 Jilin University (JLU), China 138.11 160.28 301 18.1%
14 Xiamen University (XMU), China 139.25 159.60 286 16.6%
15 Soochow University, China 159.21 159.03 286 1.6%
16 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 152.13 158.75 396 6.2%
17 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 134.66 156.59 362 18.3%
18 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 138.76 150.31 272 10.2%
19 Tianjin University (TJU), China 113.34 140.92 411 26.5%
20 Shandong University (SDU), China 108.05 137.07 291 29.1%
21 Wuhan University (WHU), China 122.76 134.82 249 11.7%
22 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 155.92 129.79 502 -15.3%
23 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 110.47 127.03 268 17.0%
24 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 130.91 126.24 302 -1.9%
25 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 153.50 125.38 286 -16.9%
26 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 150.48 123.97 258 -16.2%
27 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 115.19 117.68 254 3.9%
28 Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China 83.82 115.91 203 40.7%
29 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 135.62 114.43 232 -14.2%
30 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 89.11 112.59 193 28.5%
31 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 133.43 110.99 216 -15.4%
32 Kyoto University, Japan 120.33 110.76 222 -6.4%
33 Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China 91.33 108.82 226 21.2%
34 Hunan University (HNU), China 123.73 107.62 183 -11.5%
35 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 131.59 107.00 313 -17.3%
36 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 113.74 103.11 245 -7.8%
37 Zhengzhou University (ZZU), China 92.31 102.51 309 13.0%
38 Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China 65.12 100.32 188 56.7%
39 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 111.93 93.15 262 -15.3%
40 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 106.58 92.26 179 -11.9%
41 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 81.62 91.01 165 13.4%
42 Central South University (CSU), China 69.91 90.93 173 32.3%
43 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 87.98 90.92 163 5.1%
44 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 78.45 88.71 234 15.0%
45 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 118.89 88.21 225 -24.5%
46 Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China 63.85 86.55 211 37.9%
47 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 75.65 84.15 155 13.2%
48 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 120.77 83.29 222 -29.8%
49 Chongqing University (CQU), China 79.01 82.38 160 6.1%
50 Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), China 73.68 81.49 180 12.5%
51 Osaka University, Japan 100.65 81.05 170 -18.1%
52 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 84.90 80.94 183 -3.0%
53 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 69.70 80.54 158 17.6%
54 Leibniz Association, Germany 78.23 78.97 240 2.7%
55 Fuzhou University (FZU), China 86.19 78.86 178 -6.9%
56 Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China 74.69 75.63 117 3.0%
57 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 70.84 73.52 138 5.6%
58 Southwest University (SWU), China 55.17 73.42 90 35.4%
59 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 86.91 73.28 149 -14.2%
60 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 81.47 73.20 181 -8.6%
61 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 80.36 69.09 150 -12.5%
62 City University of Hong Kong (CityU), China 57.27 68.47 194 21.6%
63 Shenzhen University (SZU), China 57.17 68.16 185 21.3%
64 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 58.45 68.08 127 18.5%
65 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 62.63 67.71 110 10.0%
66 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 73.14 66.97 160 -6.8%
67 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 89.32 66.55 173 -24.2%
68 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 67.93 66.18 103 -0.9%
69 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 81.16 64.51 140 -19.1%
70 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 71.79 64.30 187 -8.9%
71 Hokkaido University, Japan 64.83 64.07 125 0.5%
72 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 81.65 63.68 117 -20.7%
73 Southeast University (SEU), China 50.11 62.81 138 27.5%
74 Shaanxi Normal University (SNNU), China 50.83 62.76 96 25.6%
75 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 70.59 62.73 142 -9.6%
76 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 52.33 62.19 110 20.9%
77 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 67.35 61.17 115 -7.6%
78 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 59.16 61.01 128 4.9%
79 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 74.19 60.90 124 -16.5%
80 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 66.29 60.84 143 -6.6%
81 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 90.26 59.64 91 -32.8%
82 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 86.33 59.61 127 -29.8%
83 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 68.14 59.27 129 -11.5%
84 Henan University (HENU), China 39.99 58.65 97 49.2%
85 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 57.80 58.54 109 3.0%
86 University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China 40.32 57.72 126 45.6%
87 Tohoku University, Japan 54.36 57.11 138 6.9%
88 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 65.15 56.71 125 -11.4%
89 Anhui University (AHU), China 38.42 54.35 123 43.9%
90 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 62.67 54.02 125 -12.3%
91 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India 44.36 53.88 122 23.6%
92 Shanghai University (SHU), China 39.13 53.47 127 39.0%
93 Beijing Normal University (BNU), China 52.67 52.99 117 2.4%
94 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 74.37 52.26 246 -28.5%
95 ShanghaiTech University, China 39.49 51.94 171 33.8%
96 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China 62.40 51.73 203 -15.7%
97 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 46.30 50.35 122 10.6%
98 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 64.95 50.06 94 -21.6%
99 Jiangsu University (JSU), China 30.52 50.05 79 66.8%
100 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 51.95 49.32 156 -3.4%

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*The change in adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in Nature Index journals. Share values have been adjusted to 2022 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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