2018 tables: Institutions - chemistry - academic

The 2018 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017.

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# Institution Share 2016 Share 2017 Count 2017 Change in Adjusted Share* 2016–2017
1 Kyoto University, Japan 139.87 172.54 282 15.2%
2 Peking University (PKU), China 180.00 170.42 488 -11.6%
3 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 150.16 167.16 337 3.9%
4 Tsinghua University, China 138.44 164.09 374 10.6%
5 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 147.05 162.38 302 3.1%
6 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 134.41 159.89 304 11.0%
7 Nanjing University (NJU), China 157.77 157.39 274 -6.9%
8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 165.85 152.72 315 -14.0%
9 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 124.31 148.46 331 11.5%
10 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 133.74 134.17 268 -6.3%
11 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 125.24 134.11 265 0.0%
12 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 83.58 134.02 647 49.7%
13 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 115.04 133.27 246 8.1%
14 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 154.16 131.03 253 -20.7%
15 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 119.57 128.01 251 -0.1%
16 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 125.57 126.82 243 -5.7%
17 Nankai University (NKU), China 111.75 118.60 326 -0.9%
18 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 109.99 116.64 237 -1.0%
19 Osaka University, Japan 84.40 114.11 210 26.2%
20 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 118.27 111.68 185 -11.9%
21 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 88.76 105.44 197 10.9%
22 Soochow University, China 89.70 105.30 173 9.6%
23 Fudan University, China 82.71 101.53 209 14.6%
24 Xiamen University (XMU), China 93.55 98.51 161 -1.7%
25 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 86.96 94.06 156 1.0%
26 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 78.49 93.72 150 11.5%
27 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 78.40 93.10 170 10.9%
28 Sichuan University (SCU), China 78.24 92.53 142 10.4%
29 Wuhan University (WHU), China 76.60 92.25 150 12.4%
30 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 119.55 91.85 189 -28.3%
31 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 58.60 90.43 162 44.1%
32 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 117.08 87.07 187 -30.6%
33 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 91.55 86.73 141 -11.6%
34 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 85.34 85.16 137 -6.8%
35 Texas A&M University (TAMU), United States of America (USA) 64.23 78.81 131 14.5%
36 South China University of Technology (SCUT), China 60.26 77.46 131 20.0%
37 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 78.74 77.43 163 -8.2%
38 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA) 71.82 76.38 130 -0.7%
39 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 98.57 76.15 126 -27.9%
40 East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China 78.22 75.04 128 -10.4%
41 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 50.51 74.49 159 37.7%
42 Jilin University (JLU), China 63.58 73.13 147 7.4%
43 University of Münster (WWU), Germany 55.04 73.07 108 23.9%
44 Lanzhou University (LZU), China 71.01 71.56 114 -5.9%
45 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 69.25 70.30 159 -5.2%
46 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 67.88 70.00 137 -3.7%
47 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 69.50 69.80 137 -6.2%
48 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 55.33 69.51 136 17.3%
49 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 63.98 69.43 151 1.3%
50 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 64.25 69.41 151 0.8%
51 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 60.32 68.23 137 5.6%
52 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 67.16 66.35 129 -7.8%
53 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 88.05 66.07 125 -29.9%
54 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 80.47 65.68 104 -23.8%
55 University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK) 51.77 65.51 98 18.1%
56 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 63.03 65.51 123 -3.0%
57 Hunan University (HNU), China 65.92 64.48 109 -8.7%
58 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 66.12 64.39 138 -9.1%
59 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 58.38 63.52 124 1.6%
60 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 67.96 63.23 167 -13.1%
61 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 50.55 62.26 98 15.0%
62 East China Normal University (ECNU), China 56.22 61.22 106 1.7%
63 Hokkaido University, Japan 59.93 61.12 130 -4.8%
64 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 61.79 61.09 104 -7.7%
65 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 59.66 60.75 109 -4.9%
66 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 60.32 59.71 127 -7.6%
67 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 45.20 59.46 100 22.8%
68 University of Göttingen, Germany 45.85 59.29 108 20.7%
69 University of Groningen (RUG), Netherlands 49.21 58.86 105 11.6%
70 Nagoya University, Japan 53.96 58.44 116 1.1%
71 RWTH Aachen University (RWTH Aachen), Germany 54.43 57.69 124 -1.1%
72 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 52.58 56.05 129 -0.5%
73 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 54.26 55.42 150 -4.7%
74 The University of Utah (Utah), United States of America (USA) 38.25 54.33 88 32.6%
75 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 63.32 54.12 130 -20.2%
76 Tohoku University, Japan 60.53 52.26 118 -19.4%
77 Southwest University (SWU), China 36.83 51.51 59 30.5%
78 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 42.90 50.43 134 9.7%
79 Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China 34.01 49.85 72 36.8%
80 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 48.33 49.36 102 -4.7%
81 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 42.37 49.32 85 8.7%
82 Kyushu University, Japan 55.95 49.25 110 -17.8%
83 Tianjin University (TJU), China 46.04 49.14 261 -0.4%
84 Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China 21.88 48.24 112 105.8%
85 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany 41.20 48.01 97 8.8%
86 Southeast University (SEU), China 39.19 47.46 73 13.1%
87 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea 39.71 47.38 90 11.4%
88 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany 34.41 47.06 88 27.7%
89 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 40.87 46.20 114 5.5%
90 University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), United States of America (USA) 39.20 46.16 86 9.9%
91 Shandong University (SDU), China 45.16 45.95 91 -5.0%
92 University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA) 38.29 45.64 79 11.3%
93 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 49.90 45.55 89 -14.8%
94 Duke University, United States of America (USA) 29.37 45.46 80 44.5%
95 Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China 29.78 44.57 84 39.7%
96 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 41.11 44.02 97 -0.1%
97 University of California, Davis (UC Davis), United States of America (USA) 35.34 43.53 95 15.0%
98 The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada 30.32 42.57 68 31.1%
99 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 41.92 42.54 69 -5.3%
100 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 41.39 42.48 72 -4.2%

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