2019 tables: Institutions - physical sciences - academic

The 2019 tables are based on Nature Index data from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018.

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# Institution Share 2017 Share 2018 Count 2018 Change in Adjusted Share 2017-2018*
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 214.16 229.52 721 1.4%
2 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 210.44 220.19 559 -1.0%
3 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 217.70 214.35 628 -6.9%
4 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 188.11 180.66 587 -9.2%
5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 144.79 168.10 469 9.8%
6 Tsinghua University, China 145.34 161.99 757 5.4%
7 Peking University (PKU), China 141.24 147.50 664 -1.2%
8 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 145.72 141.98 497 -7.9%
9 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 122.95 136.85 533 5.3%
10 Nanjing University (NJU), China 115.11 127.80 443 5.0%
11 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 104.40 121.78 407 10.3%
12 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 99.86 118.39 299 12.1%
13 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 131.36 118.17 523 -14.9%
14 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 74.75 117.95 742 49.2%
15 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 113.93 113.27 284 -6.0%
16 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 116.49 111.51 431 -9.5%
17 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 103.22 110.31 418 1.1%
18 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 87.54 102.82 324 11.1%
19 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 112.47 98.63 359 -17.1%
20 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 91.36 97.61 304 1.0%
21 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 79.25 97.60 312 16.5%
22 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 108.69 97.09 360 -15.5%
23 Fudan University, China 61.46 95.34 261 46.7%
24 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 103.72 93.44 437 -14.8%
25 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 89.26 89.64 182 -5.0%
26 Soochow University, China 75.75 85.93 166 7.3%
27 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 54.78 84.98 370 46.7%
28 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 83.73 83.74 277 -5.4%
29 Kyoto University, Japan 74.31 83.11 280 5.8%
30 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 76.44 82.49 395 2.1%
31 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 80.80 81.22 311 -4.9%
32 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 77.73 79.46 272 -3.3%
33 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 74.61 75.38 234 -4.5%
34 Tohoku University, Japan 58.69 73.98 221 19.2%
35 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 72.15 73.50 228 -3.7%
36 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 71.25 72.98 286 -3.1%
37 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 78.25 71.72 262 -13.3%
38 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 59.40 69.23 281 10.2%
39 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 62.23 68.63 224 4.3%
40 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 55.93 67.45 299 14.0%
41 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 47.34 66.58 267 33.0%
42 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 70.37 64.91 274 -12.8%
43 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 52.02 64.29 253 16.9%
44 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 52.88 63.53 175 13.6%
45 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 64.78 62.58 190 -8.6%
46 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 64.47 62.40 252 -8.5%
47 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 55.36 62.38 202 6.6%
48 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 58.15 62.32 254 1.4%
49 Beihang University (BUAA), China 36.34 61.65 269 60.4%
50 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany 58.44 60.29 266 -2.4%
51 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 54.22 58.72 228 2.4%
52 Wuhan University (WHU), China 39.49 57.66 167 38.1%
53 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 50.51 57.64 260 7.9%
54 Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China 51.19 55.93 148 3.3%
55 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 42.82 54.85 214 21.2%
56 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel 39.42 54.67 168 31.2%
57 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 46.77 53.68 240 8.6%
58 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea 45.02 53.67 244 12.7%
59 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 45.67 53.20 227 10.2%
60 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 59.02 52.43 243 -16.0%
61 Sorbonne University, France 50.84 52.11 550 -3.1%
62 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 42.30 51.39 133 14.9%
63 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 44.80 50.88 122 7.4%
64 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 56.75 48.90 305 -18.5%
65 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 44.67 48.13 174 1.9%
66 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 43.55 46.40 136 0.8%
67 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 36.79 46.20 282 18.7%
68 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 32.94 45.39 156 30.3%
69 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 34.66 45.05 98 22.9%
70 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 35.67 44.71 275 18.5%
71 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 47.20 44.35 105 -11.1%
72 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 49.96 44.33 223 -16.1%
73 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 42.57 44.20 230 -1.8%
74 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 37.74 43.94 295 10.1%
75 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea 42.95 42.78 100 -5.8%
76 Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel 41.72 42.57 162 -3.5%
77 Tianjin University (TJU), China 31.11 42.03 142 27.8%
78 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 45.83 41.22 252 -14.9%
79 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 47.59 40.55 152 -19.4%
80 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan 43.89 40.08 185 -13.6%
81 University of Amsterdam (UvA), Netherlands 37.35 40.04 300 1.4%
82 Uppsala University (UU), Sweden 30.71 39.94 203 23.0%
83 Jilin University (JLU), China 36.01 39.82 104 4.6%
84 Osaka University, Japan 37.65 39.80 198 0.0%
85 The University of Manchester (UoM), United Kingdom (UK) 39.72 39.48 243 -6.0%
86 Nankai University (NKU), China 32.78 39.22 143 13.2%
87 University of California, Irvine (UCI), United States of America (USA) 32.18 38.85 165 14.2%
88 New York University (NYU), United States of America (USA) 20.78 38.82 156 76.7%
89 Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India 52.45 38.81 192 -30.0%
90 TU Dresden, Germany 43.05 38.26 204 -16.0%
91 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (RU), United States of America (USA) 30.73 38.06 215 17.1%
92 Australian National University (ANU), Australia 28.86 38.03 142 24.6%
93 University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland 29.42 37.55 279 20.7%
94 Shandong University (SDU), China 26.02 37.36 155 35.8%
95 Johns Hopkins University (JHU), United States of America (USA) 36.15 37.31 244 -2.4%
96 State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY Stony Brook), United States of America (USA) 39.03 36.53 185 -11.5%
97 University of Paris-Sud (UPSud), France 35.20 36.29 391 -2.5%
98 North Carolina State University (NCSU), United States of America (USA) 41.59 36.04 106 -18.0%
99 University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland 40.72 35.69 187 -17.1%
100 Monash University, Australia 24.39 35.61 155 38.1%

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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