2017 tables: Institutions - chemistry

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

Table criteria

# Institution Share 2015 Share 2016 Count 2016 Change in Adjusted Share* 2015–2016
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 179.92 165.85 331 -2.0%
2 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 146.08 147.05 272 7.0%
3 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 169.89 133.74 252 -16.3%
4 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 123.68 125.57 254 7.9%
5 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 139.67 124.31 274 -5.4%
6 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 119.40 118.27 165 5.3%
7 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 124.92 117.08 220 -0.4%
8 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 89.22 98.57 152 17.4%
9 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 76.92 91.55 143 26.5%
10 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 100.43 86.96 147 -8.0%
11 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 94.58 80.47 125 -9.6%
12 Scripps Research, United States of America (USA) 70.24 80.25 122 21.4%
13 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 87.90 78.74 145 -4.8%
14 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 84.64 78.49 123 -1.4%
15 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 93.40 77.80 280 -11.5%
16 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 66.41 71.82 117 14.9%
17 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 62.96 69.25 145 16.9%
18 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 92.53 67.88 136 -22.0%
19 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 65.61 66.12 125 7.1%
20 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 55.61 64.25 130 22.8%
21 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 71.30 64.23 99 -4.3%
22 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 82.55 63.98 133 -17.6%
23 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 51.55 61.79 91 27.4%
24 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 73.66 60.32 114 -13.0%
25 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 57.09 59.66 106 11.0%
26 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 47.11 55.59 237 25.4%
27 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 67.23 55.33 97 -12.5%
28 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 43.27 54.26 143 33.3%
29 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 63.18 52.58 126 -11.5%
30 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), United States of America (USA) 44.91 51.43 110 21.7%
31 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 54.82 50.55 73 -2.0%
32 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 44.92 49.90 95 18.0%
33 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 56.91 46.21 140 -13.7%
34 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 32.05 45.84 83 52.0%
35 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 43.56 45.20 79 10.3%
36 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 51.13 41.39 71 -14.0%
37 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 44.87 41.11 104 -2.6%
38 Indiana University (IU), United States of America (USA) 37.23 40.02 66 14.2%
39 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 34.07 39.20 75 22.3%
40 University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA) 41.37 38.29 69 -1.6%
41 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 35.79 38.25 64 13.6%
42 University of Florida (UF), United States of America (USA) 51.38 37.80 92 -21.8%
43 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA) 31.72 35.92 63 20.4%
44 Florida State University (FSU), United States of America (USA) 29.38 35.56 74 28.6%
45 University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA) 40.03 35.50 51 -5.7%
46 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 56.00 35.34 76 -32.9%
47 University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA) 38.60 35.31 57 -2.8%
48 University of Houston (UH), United States of America (USA) 32.14 32.54 63 7.6%
49 Arizona State University (ASU), United States of America (USA) 31.35 31.43 62 6.5%
50 University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), United States of America (USA) 40.98 30.65 56 -20.5%
51 Emory University, United States of America (USA) 18.18 30.17 59 76.4%
52 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 33.98 29.77 63 -6.9%
53 The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA) 29.12 29.66 47 8.2%
54 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 31.03 29.37 65 0.6%
55 University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), United States of America (USA) 26.12 28.98 54 17.9%
56 Vanderbilt University (VU), United States of America (USA) 26.53 28.43 52 13.9%
57 National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America (USA) 36.24 28.43 70 -16.7%
58 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 40.49 27.65 65 -27.4%
59 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA) 28.75 27.60 89 2.0%
60 The University of Georgia (UGA), United States of America (USA) 27.94 27.43 53 4.3%
61 University of Delaware (UD), United States of America (USA) 29.16 26.82 41 -2.3%
62 U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), United States of America (USA) 28.97 26.42 81 -3.1%
63 North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA) 30.60 26.37 68 -8.4%
64 University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), United States of America (USA) 31.92 25.34 58 -15.6%
65 Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA) 17.20 25.09 36 55.0%
66 Iowa State University, United States of America (USA) 34.01 25.02 43 -21.8%
67 Oregon State University, United States of America (USA) 20.64 24.03 36 23.8%
68 Boston University (BU), United States of America (USA) 24.88 23.83 69 1.8%
69 University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA) 22.25 23.75 43 13.4%
70 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 30.65 23.63 87 -18.1%
71 Merck & Co., Inc., United States of America (USA) 16.85 23.35 38 47.2%
72 University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY UB), United States of America (USA) 22.16 23.30 55 11.7%
73 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 30.09 22.88 89 -19.2%
74 Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA) 13.53 21.26 35 67.0%
75 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA) 10.97 20.85 36 101.9%
76 Temple University, United States of America (USA) 13.17 20.59 35 66.2%
77 Wayne State University, United States of America (USA) 29.40 20.36 38 -26.4%
78 University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA) 20.77 20.02 28 2.4%
79 Colorado State University, United States of America (USA) 20.21 19.65 42 3.3%
80 Michigan State University (MSU), United States of America (USA) 16.36 18.85 32 22.4%
81 University of South Carolina - Columbia (SC), United States of America (USA) 26.32 18.64 31 -24.7%
82 The University of Kansas (KU), United States of America (USA) 16.58 18.45 34 18.3%
83 Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States of America (USA) 5.84 18.25 28 232.1%
84 The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), United States of America (USA) 11.22 17.89 27 69.5%
85 The University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), United States of America (USA) 14.25 17.80 53 32.7%
86 Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), United States of America (USA) 26.46 17.52 40 -29.6%
87 State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA) 20.78 16.99 54 -13.1%
88 State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), United States of America (USA) 7.58 16.49 25 131.3%
89 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), United States of America (USA) 18.07 16.17 32 -4.9%
90 University of South Florida (USF), United States of America (USA) 15.55 16.09 35 10.0%
91 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA) 13.27 16.04 45 28.4%
92 IBM Corporation, United States of America (USA) 22.48 15.97 33 -24.5%
93 The University of Arizona (Arizona), United States of America (USA) 18.80 15.63 32 -11.6%
94 The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), United States of America (USA) 12.22 15.60 29 35.7%
95 Georgetown University, United States of America (USA) 4.22 15.49 24 289.7%
96 The City University of New York (CUNY), United States of America (USA) 16.43 14.60 38 -5.6%
97 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States of America (USA) 18.14 14.11 36 -17.3%
98 Pfizer Inc., United States of America (USA) 10.09 13.69 23 44.2%
99 Clemson University, United States of America (USA) 9.90 13.36 17 43.3%
100 Brown University, United States of America (USA) 17.28 13.32 29 -18.1%

Footnote

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