2017 tables: Countries/territories - chemistry

The 2017 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016.

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# Country/territory Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share* 2015–2016
1 United States of America (USA) 5533.06 5213.87 6574 0.1%
2 China 4405.33 4341.72 5282 4.7%
3 Germany 1695.00 1553.01 2281 -2.6%
4 Japan 1473.60 1268.83 1627 -8.5%
5 United Kingdom (UK) 1096.01 1066.35 1631 3.4%
6 France 689.69 632.58 1095 -2.5%
7 South Korea 652.50 614.70 839 0.1%
8 Spain 488.40 487.84 804 6.1%
9 India 492.07 472.74 566 2.1%
10 Canada 510.95 467.43 659 -2.8%
11 Switzerland 413.17 401.95 640 3.4%
12 Australia 333.49 315.34 543 0.5%
13 Netherlands 262.88 262.41 435 6.1%
14 Singapore 305.15 252.59 405 -12.0%
15 Italy 289.25 240.13 452 -11.8%
16 Taiwan 227.01 178.83 251 -16.3%
17 Israel 168.95 166.01 247 4.4%
18 Sweden 185.67 151.67 291 -13.2%
19 Belgium 116.46 130.17 247 18.8%
20 Russia 93.82 107.11 229 21.3%
21 Denmark 103.92 87.16 166 -10.9%
22 Austria 87.59 84.32 167 2.3%
23 Czech Republic 74.24 74.27 123 6.3%
24 Poland 84.92 73.51 155 -8.0%
25 Saudi Arabia 72.84 72.57 231 5.9%
26 Finland 59.76 49.59 109 -11.8%
27 Ireland 55.94 46.68 80 -11.3%
28 Brazil 50.54 35.74 85 -24.8%
29 Portugal 46.78 35.43 78 -19.5%
30 New Zealand 35.11 33.92 55 2.7%
31 Greece 28.77 24.38 55 -10.0%
32 Turkey 28.99 21.08 47 -22.7%
33 Argentina 17.79 19.07 38 13.9%
34 Hungary 23.90 18.90 47 -16.0%
35 Iran 14.31 18.83 35 39.8%
36 Norway 14.86 17.83 36 27.5%
37 Mexico 20.71 16.54 35 -15.1%
38 Slovenia 11.46 12.86 28 19.2%
39 Ukraine 8.90 10.85 32 29.5%
40 South Africa 15.39 9.98 28 -31.1%
41 Romania 8.64 9.86 28 21.4%
42 Cyprus 6.12 8.78 14 52.4%
43 Thailand 7.82 8.21 21 11.6%
44 United Arab Emirates 5.76 7.46 15 37.6%
45 Croatia 4.39 6.18 16 49.5%
46 Lithuania 3.72 4.99 11 42.4%
47 Egypt 4.73 4.14 24 -6.9%
48 Slovakia 5.11 4.02 15 -16.4%
49 Malaysia 2.37 3.54 9 58.5%
50 Bulgaria 2.71 3.52 14 38.2%

Footnote

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. Users please note:

  1. The data behind the tables are based on a relatively small proportion of total research papers, they cover the natural sciences only and outputs are non-normalized (that is, they don’t reflect the size of the country or institution, or its overall research output).
  2. The Nature Index is one indicator of institutional research performance. The metrics of Count and Share used to order Nature Index listings are based on an institution’s or country’s publication output in 82 natural-science journals through 2022, in 2023 64 health-science journals were added to the Index. The 146 journals in the Nature Index were selected on reputation by an independent panel of leading scientists in their fields.
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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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