2019 tables: Institutions - physical sciences

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 Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China 516.76 551.68 1951 0.9%
2 Max Planck Society, Germany 311.66 323.65 1135 -1.8%
3 French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France 276.42 254.75 1656 -12.9%
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States of America (USA) 214.14 229.40 722 1.3%
5 Stanford University, United States of America (USA) 210.43 220.19 559 -1.1%
6 The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan 217.70 214.35 628 -6.9%
7 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany 186.99 185.07 914 -6.4%
8 Harvard University, United States of America (USA) 188.11 180.66 587 -9.2%
9 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 145.04 168.78 471 10.0%
10 Tsinghua University, China 145.34 161.99 758 5.4%
11 Peking University (PKU), China 141.25 147.51 665 -1.3%
12 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (UK) 145.72 141.98 497 -7.9%
13 University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China 122.95 136.85 533 5.3%
14 National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy 117.04 133.61 694 7.9%
15 Nanjing University (NJU), China 115.11 127.80 443 5.0%
16 Princeton University, United States of America (USA) 104.42 121.79 408 10.3%
17 National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 99.80 118.39 299 12.2%
18 University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), United States of America (USA) 131.36 118.17 523 -14.9%
19 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China 74.75 117.95 742 49.2%
20 Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russia 90.94 117.69 612 22.4%
21 Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 113.93 113.27 284 -6.0%
22 University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK) 116.49 111.51 431 -9.5%
23 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States of America (USA) 103.24 110.32 419 1.0%
24 Northwestern University (NU), United States of America (USA) 87.55 102.82 325 11.0%
25 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States of America (USA) 112.45 98.63 360 -17.1%
26 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 91.36 97.61 304 1.0%
27 Zhejiang University (ZJU), China 79.25 97.60 312 16.4%
28 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States of America (USA) 108.53 97.10 361 -15.4%
29 Fudan University, China 61.46 95.34 261 46.7%
30 University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), United States of America (USA) 103.74 93.45 438 -14.8%
31 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States of America (USA) 95.99 90.52 498 -10.8%
32 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea 89.26 89.64 182 -5.0%
33 Soochow University, China 75.75 85.93 166 7.3%
34 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China 54.78 84.95 370 46.6%
35 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), United States of America (USA) 83.72 83.74 277 -5.4%
36 Kyoto University, Japan 74.31 83.11 280 5.8%
37 Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain 90.38 83.09 631 -13.1%
38 Imperial College London (ICL), United Kingdom (UK) 76.47 82.54 396 2.0%
39 University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA) 80.79 81.22 311 -4.9%
40 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), United States of America (USA) 77.73 79.46 272 -3.3%
41 The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), United States of America (USA) 74.61 75.38 234 -4.5%
42 Tohoku University, Japan 58.69 73.98 221 19.2%
43 Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), Israel 72.15 73.50 228 -3.7%
44 Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea 71.26 72.99 287 -3.2%
45 University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), United States of America (USA) 78.27 71.73 263 -13.3%
46 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland 55.47 69.39 435 18.3%
47 Cornell University, United States of America (USA) 59.40 69.24 282 10.2%
48 Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), United States of America (USA) 77.79 68.81 345 -16.4%
49 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), United States of America (USA) 62.23 68.63 224 4.3%
50 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States of America (USA) 65.50 68.21 252 -1.5%
51 Leibniz Association, Germany 66.32 67.80 248 -3.3%
52 University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), United States of America (USA) 55.94 67.62 301 14.3%
53 RIKEN, Japan 61.52 67.14 303 3.2%
54 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany 47.36 66.58 267 32.9%
55 The University of Chicago (UChicago), United States of America (USA) 70.36 64.91 274 -12.8%
56 Yale University, United States of America (USA) 52.02 64.29 253 16.8%
57 Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China 52.88 63.53 175 13.6%
58 University of Pennsylvania (Penn), United States of America (USA) 64.78 62.58 190 -8.7%
59 Columbia University in the City of New York (CU), United States of America (USA) 64.47 62.40 252 -8.5%
60 University of Toronto (U of T), Canada 55.36 62.38 202 6.6%
61 Purdue University, United States of America (USA) 58.16 62.32 255 1.3%
62 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States of America (USA) 62.18 61.88 234 -5.9%
63 Beihang University (BUAA), China 36.34 61.65 270 60.4%
64 Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany 54.24 58.72 228 2.4%
65 Wuhan University (WHU), China 39.49 57.66 167 38.1%
66 University of Washington (UW), United States of America (USA) 50.51 57.64 260 7.9%
67 Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China 51.25 56.48 149 4.2%
68 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), United States of America (USA) 59.37 54.91 256 -12.6%
69 University of Southampton (Soton), United Kingdom (UK) 42.82 54.85 215 21.1%
70 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Israel 39.42 54.67 168 31.1%
71 University of Minnesota (UMN), United States of America (USA) 46.78 53.69 241 8.5%
72 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea 45.03 53.67 245 12.7%
73 University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark 45.65 53.20 227 10.2%
74 Rice University, United States of America (USA) 59.03 52.44 244 -16.0%
75 Sorbonne University, France 50.84 52.11 550 -3.1%
76 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan 48.93 51.62 212 -0.3%
77 National Research Council (CNR), Italy 57.20 51.45 270 -15.0%
78 Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands 42.04 51.39 133 15.6%
79 Durham University, United Kingdom (UK) 44.80 50.88 122 7.4%
80 University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison), United States of America (USA) 56.77 48.91 306 -18.6%
81 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China 44.67 48.13 174 1.9%
82 Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Spain 49.69 47.19 196 -10.2%
83 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 43.55 46.40 136 0.7%
84 Utrecht University (UU), Netherlands 36.79 46.20 282 18.7%
85 Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), United States of America (USA) 46.45 45.89 252 -6.6%
86 The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France 48.19 45.47 536 -10.8%
87 Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China 32.94 45.39 156 30.3%
88 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China 34.66 45.05 98 22.9%
89 Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea 42.81 44.96 175 -0.7%
90 Heidelberg University (Uni Heidelberg), Germany 35.67 44.71 275 18.5%
91 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 47.20 44.35 105 -11.2%
92 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany 49.96 44.33 223 -16.1%
93 UCL, United Kingdom (UK) 42.57 44.20 230 -1.8%
94 The Ohio State University (OSU), United States of America (USA) 37.75 43.94 296 10.1%
95 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Canada 50.72 43.18 131 -19.5%
96 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea 42.95 42.78 100 -5.8%
97 Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel 41.72 42.57 162 -3.5%
98 Tianjin University (TJU), China 31.11 42.03 142 27.7%
99 University of Hamburg (UHH), Germany 45.87 41.24 253 -15.0%
100 University of Würzburg (JMU), Germany 47.59 40.55 152 -19.4%

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