Leading academic institutions (normalized)

The 2019 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018. The normalized ranking is derived by calculating the ratio of Share to the institution’s total article output in natural sciences as tracked by the Dimensions database from Digital Science.

Normalized rank	Share rank	Institution	Normalized Share 2018	Nature Index Share 2018	Dimensions natural science articles 2018	Nature Index Count 2018
1	347	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), United States of America (USA)	0.17250	31.74	184	80
2	56	Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel	0.15298	173.17	1132	390
3	415	Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), Austria	0.15039	23.61	157	55
4	430	Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), United States of America (USA)	0.14305	23.03	161	70
5	289	Brandeis University, United States of America (USA)	0.12787	42.71	334	119
6	155	The Rockefeller University, United States of America (USA)	0.12611	83.36	661	276
7	422	Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India	0.11890	23.42	197	34
8	38	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland	0.11413	219.92	1927	542
9	360	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan	0.10940	29.76	272	65
10	25	Princeton University, United States of America (USA)	0.10903	282.39	2590	712
11	2	Stanford University, United States of America (USA)	0.10852	622.01	5732	1507
12	3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA)	0.10686	560.28	5243	1698
13	7	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland	0.10673	406.52	3809	1017
14	16	Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA)	0.10466	328.94	3143	722
15	88	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern Medical Center), United States of America (USA)	0.10440	120.06	1150	260
16	52	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA)	0.10237	180.38	1762	542
17	23	California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA)	0.09935	285.74	2876	840
18	111	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia	0.09647	104.77	1086	248
19	1	Harvard University, United States of America (USA)	0.09432	874.68	9274	2371
20	106	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel	0.09382	106.95	1140	254
21	193	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea	0.09124	68.88	755	161
22	11	Nanjing University (NJU), China	0.09091	386.91	4256	937
23	101	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China	0.08958	108.39	1210	310
24	97	Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), India	0.08915	111.08	1246	227
25	64	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	0.08903	155.09	1742	319
26	47	Nankai University (NKU), China	0.08672	197.11	2273	535
27	10	University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA)	0.08659	387.04	4470	1195
28	393	International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS), Italy	0.08653	25.61	296	88
29	201	Shandong Normal University (SDNU), China	0.08649	66.43	768	108
30	140	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China	0.08595	89.22	1038	271
31	42	Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), United States of America (USA)	0.08559	209.61	2449	467
32	21	University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA)	0.08399	303.29	3611	744
33	4	University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK)	0.08308	437.83	5270	1283
34	28	The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA)	0.08235	275.31	3343	643
35	221	University of Oregon (UO), United States of America (USA)	0.08158	57.27	702	169
36	12	Yale University, United States of America (USA)	0.08105	344.22	4247	863
37	313	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), United States of America (USA)	0.07894	37.65	477	78
38	354	Boston College (BC), United States of America (USA)	0.07882	30.35	385	64
39	39	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America (USA)	0.07862	215.19	2737	581
40	5	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	0.07742	430.86	5565	1100
41	160	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), United States of America (USA)	0.07723	79.85	1034	245
42	13	University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China	0.07711	343.45	4454	981
43	146	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea	0.07604	85.85	1129	219
44	196	University of Regensburg (UR), Germany	0.07592	67.87	894	161
45	8	University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)	0.07450	403.77	5420	1197
46	34	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore	0.07414	232.51	3136	569
47	207	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands	0.07408	62.82	848	153
48	49	Soochow University, China	0.07337	190.17	2592	350
49	168	Durham University, United Kingdom (UK)	0.07259	76.65	1056	217
50	20	Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA)	0.07220	311.53	4315	922
51	81	University of Münster (WWU), Germany	0.07158	128.06	1789	299
52	98	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel	0.07074	110.78	1566	253
53	17	University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA)	0.07068	328.50	4648	935
54	460	Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea	0.07038	19.99	284	53
55	91	Hunan University (HNU), China	0.06998	118.75	1697	230
56	194	University of Notre Dame (ND), United States of America (USA)	0.06982	68.28	978	221
57	31	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA)	0.06920	242.69	3507	597
58	108	University of California, Riverside (UCR), United States of America (USA)	0.06875	105.67	1537	313
59	46	Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany	0.06754	198.31	2936	616
60	27	Kyoto University, Japan	0.06744	278.59	4131	701
61	66	Xiamen University (XMU), China	0.06732	150.66	2238	287
62	6	Peking University (PKU), China	0.06727	411.85	6122	1427
63	414	Huaqiao University (HQU), China	0.06725	23.67	352	32
64	15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA)	0.06656	330.32	4963	957
65	75	University of Bristol (UoB), United Kingdom (UK)	0.06598	140.54	2130	425
66	30	National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore	0.06583	250.93	3812	675
67	353	The University of Akron (UAkron), United States of America (USA)	0.06530	30.43	466	48
68	120	East China Normal University (ECNU), China	0.06475	99.97	1544	224
69	131	University of Würzburg, Germany	0.06433	93.22	1449	288
70	14	University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)	0.06430	337.66	5251	840
71	260	Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein), United States of America (USA)	0.06410	49.42	771	152
72	77	University of Southern California (USC), United States of America (USA)	0.06405	138.87	2168	319
73	50	University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA)	0.06350	189.61	2986	655
74	208	Fuzhou University (FZU), China	0.06300	62.75	996	103
75	29	Fudan University, China	0.06226	254.84	4093	663
76	51	Wuhan University (WHU), China	0.06183	185.31	2997	364
77	349	Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea	0.06163	31.00	503	67
78	220	University of St Andrews, United Kingdom (UK)	0.06123	57.68	942	196
79	26	Cornell University, United States of America (USA)	0.06109	281.81	4613	876
80	152	University of Rochester (UR), United States of America (USA)	0.06102	84.02	1377	257
81	129	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands	0.06085	95.04	1562	251
82	209	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany	0.06082	61.92	1018	157
83	323	ShanghaiTech University, China	0.06057	36.34	600	164
84	356	University of Dundee, United Kingdom (UK)	0.06040	30.20	500	86
85	22	University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA)	0.05974	287.64	4815	854
86	134	Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)	0.05842	91.66	1569	308
87	43	The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA)	0.05842	205.33	3515	638
88	230	Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), United States of America (USA)	0.05840	55.48	950	151
89	54	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), United States of America (USA)	0.05817	178.30	3065	459
90	92	Lanzhou University (LZU), China	0.05815	114.20	1964	222
91	136	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China	0.05753	90.26	1569	300
92	124	University of Basel (UB), Switzerland	0.05742	97.10	1691	316
93	59	Osaka University, Japan	0.05739	167.47	2918	459
94	32	Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK)	0.05738	240.27	4187	954
95	82	Nagoya University, Japan	0.05736	127.91	2230	387
96	322	University of Bayreuth (UBT), Germany	0.05721	36.39	636	94
97	420	Jiangsu Normal University (JSNU), China	0.05685	23.54	414	34
98	164	Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India	0.05657	77.78	1375	193
99	109	East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST), China	0.05599	105.03	1876	219
100	341	University of Konstanz, Germany	0.05590	32.81	587	85

The original version of this table (published 20 June 2019) used incorrect fractional counts, percentage changes and article counts to derive the rankings, which meant that some institutions were ranked incorrectly. The data and rankings were corrected on 12 August 2019.

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Leading academic institutions (normalized)

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