2016 tables: Institutions - chemistry - academic

The 2016 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015.

Table criteria

# Institution Share 2015 Count 2015
1 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 134.96 247
2 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 115.28 227
3 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 82.22 146
4 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 74.81 149
5 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 50.45 83
6 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 40.67 84
7 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 34.75 97
8 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK) 32.91 101
9 University of Bath, United Kingdom (UK) 30.49 58
10 University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK) 29.56 93
11 The University of Nottingham (UoN), United Kingdom (UK) 29.19 54
12 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 29.12 59
13 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (UK) 27.48 58
14 University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK) 27.12 82
15 University of Leeds, United Kingdom (UK) 26.76 49
16 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK) 24.58 55
17 University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom (UK) 20.90 61
18 University of York, United Kingdom (UK) 19.56 50
19 Queen's University Belfast (QUB), United Kingdom (UK) 19.12 33
20 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 15.53 41
21 King's College London (KCL), United Kingdom (UK) 15.37 53
22 University of Birmingham (UB), United Kingdom (UK) 11.55 30
23 Cardiff University, United Kingdom (UK) 11.08 27
24 University of East Anglia (UEA), United Kingdom (UK) 10.13 19
25 University of Reading, United Kingdom (UK) 10.02 20
26 Newcastle University, United Kingdom (UK) 6.25 16
27 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom (UK) 5.77 18
28 Lancaster University, United Kingdom (UK) 5.72 15
29 University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (UK) 5.68 16
30 University of Sussex, United Kingdom (UK) 5.64 16
31 Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (UK) 5.61 16
32 Loughborough University, United Kingdom (UK) 5.56 10
33 University of Leicester, United Kingdom (UK) 4.48 9
34 University of Exeter, United Kingdom (UK) 3.10 10
35 Swansea University, United Kingdom (UK) 2.97 9
36 University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (UK) 2.93 6
37 Northumbria University, United Kingdom (UK) 2.15 4
38 University of Hull, United Kingdom (UK) 2.07 11
39 Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), United Kingdom (UK) 1.96 5
40 University of Ulster (UU), United Kingdom (UK) 1.75 2
41 Aston University, United Kingdom (UK) 1.55 5
42 University of Kent, United Kingdom (UK) 1.51 6
43 University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK) 1.48 10
44 University of Surrey, United Kingdom (UK) 1.37 5
45 Birkbeck, University of London (BBK), United Kingdom (UK) 1.36 7
46 Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), United Kingdom (UK) 1.33 5
47 Cranfield University, United Kingdom (UK) 1.30 4
48 University of Plymouth, United Kingdom (UK) 1.08 2
49 University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), United Kingdom (UK) 1.00 1
50 Brunel University London, United Kingdom (UK) 0.85 3
51 University of Hertfordshire (UH), United Kingdom (UK) 0.83 2
51 Bangor University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.83 2
52 Keele University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.83 3
53 The Open University (OU), United Kingdom (UK) 0.60 1
54 University of Bolton, United Kingdom (UK) 0.56 1
55 The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), United Kingdom (UK) 0.55 1
56 University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (UK) 0.54 2
57 University of London - Royal Holloway (RHUL), United Kingdom (UK) 0.50 1
57 London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.50 1
58 University of South Wales, United Kingdom (UK) 0.42 1
59 University of Lincoln, United Kingdom (UK) 0.37 3
60 University of Brighton, United Kingdom (UK) 0.20 1
61 Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.19 1
62 University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (UK) 0.19 2
63 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom (UK) 0.18 1
64 University of Essex, United Kingdom (UK) 0.17 1
64 University of Salford, United Kingdom (UK) 0.17 1
65 Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.14 1
65 Tonbridge School, United Kingdom (UK) 0.14 1
66 University of Stirling, United Kingdom (UK) 0.13 2
67 University of Chester, United Kingdom (UK) 0.13 1
68 University of Bradford, United Kingdom (UK) 0.09 1
69 University of Chichester, United Kingdom (UK) 0.08 1
70 University of the West of Scotland (UWS), United Kingdom (UK) 0.06 2
71 Abertay University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.06 2
71 Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom (UK) 0.06 3

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