2017 tables: Institutions - chemistry - academic

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

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# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share 2015-2016*
1 Peking University (PKU), China 184.40 180.00 517 3.8%
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 179.95 166.01 330 -1.9%
3 Nanjing University (NJU), China 158.29 157.77 252 6.0%
4 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 134.96 154.16 266 21.4%
5 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 150.18 150.16 291 6.3%
6 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 146.10 147.05 272 7.0%
7 Kyoto University, Japan 168.02 139.87 255 -11.5%
8 Tsinghua University, China 127.15 138.44 293 15.7%
9 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 169.91 133.75 252 -16.3%
10 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 171.22 133.37 233 -17.2%
11 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 159.29 125.24 227 -16.4%
12 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 124.34 124.68 252 6.6%
13 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 139.67 124.27 273 -5.4%
14 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 115.28 119.57 236 10.3%
15 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 108.55 119.55 218 17.1%
16 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 119.40 118.27 165 5.3%
17 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 124.94 117.09 220 -0.4%
18 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 128.63 115.04 198 -4.9%
19 Nankai University (NKU), China 117.73 111.75 306 0.9%
20 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 133.67 109.99 169 -12.5%
21 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 89.22 98.57 152 17.4%
22 Xiamen University (XMU), China 94.40 93.55 150 5.4%
23 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 76.92 91.55 143 26.5%
24 Soochow University, China 78.47 89.70 143 21.5%
25 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 89.08 88.05 137 5.1%
26 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 95.01 87.92 185 -1.6%
27 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 100.45 86.97 147 -8.0%
28 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 83.30 85.34 138 8.9%
29 Osaka University, Japan 110.97 84.36 156 -19.2%
30 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 61.43 83.58 434 44.6%
31 Fudan University, China 111.13 82.71 155 -20.9%
32 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 94.58 80.47 125 -9.6%
33 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 87.90 78.74 145 -4.8%
34 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 84.64 78.49 123 -1.4%
35 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 82.22 78.40 159 1.4%
36 Sichuan University (SCU), China 75.32 78.24 118 10.4%
37 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 86.32 78.22 134 -3.7%
38 Wuhan University (WHU), China 74.29 76.60 125 9.6%
39 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 66.41 71.82 117 15.0%
40 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 69.40 71.01 108 8.8%
41 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 82.98 69.50 117 -11.0%
42 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 62.98 69.26 145 16.9%
43 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 74.81 67.96 146 -3.4%
44 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 92.53 67.88 136 -22.0%
45 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 77.79 67.16 116 -8.2%
46 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 65.61 66.12 125 7.1%
47 Hunan University (HNU), China 91.26 65.92 104 -23.2%
48 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 55.61 64.25 130 22.8%
49 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 71.30 64.23 99 -4.2%
50 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 82.55 63.98 133 -17.6%
51 Jilin University (JLU), China 75.68 63.58 131 -10.7%
52 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 62.17 63.32 137 8.3%
53 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 60.07 63.03 102 11.6%
54 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 51.55 61.79 91 27.4%
55 Tohoku University, Japan 75.11 60.53 119 -14.3%
56 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 59.75 60.32 128 7.3%
57 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 51.37 60.26 106 24.7%
58 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 73.66 60.23 113 -13.1%
59 Hokkaido University, Japan 65.09 59.93 98 -2.1%
60 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 57.09 59.66 106 11.1%
61 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 71.38 58.60 109 -12.7%
62 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 56.35 58.38 117 10.1%
63 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 56.35 56.15 97 5.9%
64 Kyushu University, Japan 51.43 55.95 122 15.7%
65 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 67.23 55.33 97 -12.5%
66 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 62.67 55.04 88 -6.6%
67 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 54.61 54.43 107 6.0%
68 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 43.29 54.27 143 33.3%
69 Nagoya University, Japan 76.82 53.96 92 -25.3%
70 Monash University, Australia 45.55 53.51 128 24.9%
71 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 63.18 52.58 126 -11.5%
72 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 50.45 51.77 93 9.1%
73 Yonsei University, South Korea 48.28 50.69 95 11.6%
74 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 54.82 50.55 73 -2.0%
75 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 48.11 50.51 117 11.6%
76 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 44.92 49.90 95 18.1%
77 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 47.45 49.21 82 10.2%
78 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 55.04 48.33 93 -6.7%
79 Tianjin University (TJU), China 68.56 46.04 258 -28.6%
80 University of Göttingen, Germany 52.06 45.85 90 -6.4%
81 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 32.05 45.84 83 52.1%
82 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 43.56 45.20 79 10.3%
83 Shandong University (SDU), China 44.94 45.16 77 6.8%
84 The University of Warwick (Warwick), United Kingdom (UK) 40.67 43.78 93 14.5%
85 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 40.47 42.90 116 12.7%
86 Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 33.54 42.52 82 34.8%
87 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 44.51 42.49 78 1.5%
88 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 59.65 42.37 71 -24.5%
89 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 53.69 41.92 63 -17.0%
90 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 51.13 41.39 71 -13.9%
91 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 51.70 41.20 83 -15.3%
92 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 44.87 41.11 104 -2.6%
93 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 46.89 40.87 88 -7.3%
94 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel 29.37 40.65 73 47.1%
95 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 37.23 40.02 66 14.3%
96 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea 37.71 39.71 82 12.0%
97 University of Basel (UB), Switzerland 24.45 39.63 90 72.3%
98 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea 38.53 39.26 81 8.3%
99 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 34.07 39.20 75 22.3%
100 Southeast University (SEU), China 20.57 39.19 64 102.5%

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, 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 2021 levels to calculate the percentage change. For more information on the adjustment, please see the Adjusted metric explainer.


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