2019 tables: Institutions - physical sciences - corporate

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 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan 7.11 15.81 38 110.3%
2 Samsung Group, South Korea 10.27 11.72 41 7.9%
3 China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), China 4.64 7.49 63 52.8%
4 FiberHome Technologies Group, China 5.07 7.37 59 37.5%
5 Toyota Group, Japan 3.85 6.52 17 60.1%
6 Toshiba Corporation, Japan 7.91 5.28 8 -36.8%
7 Hitachi, Ltd., Japan 3.19 5.20 19 54.1%
8 China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), China 3.28 5.12 30 47.4%
9 China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), China 1.97 3.06 12 47.0%
10 Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan 1.14 1.64 7 35.8%
11 Panasonic Corporation, Japan 0.64 1.50 2 123.4%
12 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China 0.98 1.43 81 37.8%
13 Sony Corporation, Japan 2.21 1.40 3 -40.3%
14 Mitsubishi Group, Japan 1.74 1.39 8 -24.3%
15 LG Corporation, South Korea 0.87 1.26 6 38.1%
16 JEOL Ltd., Japan 0.85 1.18 10 30.5%
17 Tamura Corporation, Japan 0.49 1.01 6 95.1%
18 NEC Corporation, Japan 0.14 1.00 1 562.0%
18 SCIOCS Co. Ltd., Japan – 1.00 1 N/A
19 Novel Crystal Technology, Inc., Japan 0.13 1.00 5 605.4%
20 State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), China 0.54 0.89 5 56.6%
21 Toray Industries, Inc., Japan 0.32 0.88 4 159.9%
22 Stanley Electric Co., Ltd., Japan – 0.86 1 N/A
23 TCL Corporation, China – 0.84 3 N/A
24 Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), China – 0.83 2 N/A
25 Foxconn Technology Group, Taiwan 1.18 0.81 7 -35.1%
26 Advantest Laboratories Ltd., Japan – 0.80 1 N/A
27 NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories (NHK STRL), Japan – 0.78 1 N/A
28 Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan 0.39 0.69 2 66.4%
29 Shanghai Jiahua Poly Battery Technology Co., Ltd., China 0.05 0.67 2 1,161.0%
30 GNS Science, New Zealand 1.01 0.63 11 -41.4%
31 Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Japan 0.43 0.63 2 39.1%
32 ULVAC, Inc., Japan – 0.62 2 N/A
33 Tata Group, India 0.07 0.60 8 753.8%
34 FEMTOBIOMED Incorporation, South Korea – 0.60 1 N/A
35 China National Tobacco Company (CNTC), China 1.46 0.59 3 -61.9%
36 Toei Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan – 0.58 1 N/A
37 Jinchuan Group Co., Ltd., China 0.74 0.55 3 -29.5%
38 Alibaba Group Holding Limited, China 0.58 0.55 10 -10.4%
39 Takara Bio Inc., Japan – 0.51 2 N/A
40 BGI, China 0.03 0.51 3 1,419.5%
41 ST Engineering, Singapore 0.50 0.50 1 -5.4%
41 Tohoku Steel Co., Ltd., Japan – 0.50 1 N/A
42 Enkris Semiconductor Inc., China – 0.48 2 N/A
43 Konica Minolta, Inc., Japan – 0.47 2 N/A
44 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan 0.37 0.47 5 19.6%
45 FLOSFIA Inc., Japan – 0.43 1 N/A
46 Synfuels China Technology Co., Ltd., China 0.23 0.41 5 67.1%
47 Sinovac Biotech Co., Ltd., China – 0.39 3 N/A
48 Renesas Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Japan – 0.36 1 N/A
49 Shenzhen Guohua Optoelectronic Technology Co. Ltd., China 0.18 0.36 3 85.6%
50 PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC, Japan – 0.33 1 N/A
50 Topcon Corporation, Japan – 0.33 1 N/A
50 Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Japan – 0.33 1 N/A

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.
  3. Nature Index recognizes that many other factors must be taken into account when considering research quality and institutional performance; Nature Index metrics alone should not be used to assess institutions or individuals.
  4. Nature Index data and methods are transparent and available under a creative commons licence at nature.com/nature-index/.

The Nature Index database undergoes regular updating, corrections, adjustment of institutional hierarchies, and removal of retracted papers and thus the live website can differ from the frozen annual tables.

*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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